The age-herald., 1898-12-06
CAMPAIGN IN
 OTTOMAN EMPIRE. Two Americans Patiently and Silently ReYOlutiOnizing Degenerate Turkey. THE SEED OF CHRISTIANITY Being SOWn in the Realm Oi the AS-
 SaSSin of StambOul.
HOPE OF REDEEMING BYZANTIUM
Lies in the Hands of American Mission aries or American Cannonneers, and Either Are Capable of
 Performing the Duty.

Judged by results the Spanish war has made mighty little return for a prodigious expenditure compared with the returns al- ready realized and to be realized from the peaceful campaign which America IS wag- ing in the Ottoman empire. By an expenal- ture of hundreds of millions of dollars and the sacrifice of over 1000 men the United States has succeeded in busting the mori- bund sovereignty of Spain from a couple of islands near her own shores and of raising a question as to her continued dominion In the Philippines. The results achieved by the infliction of hideous suffering upon the unfortunate islanders whose relief was the main object of the war, small though they be, represent probably the best and quick est dividend over earned by modern war.
 Compare this result with those achieved by the Americans who for the last thirty years have been patiently, silently laboring for the regeneratin of that vast compost or wrecked kingdoms, principalities and na- tionalities called the Ottoman empire. Thirty years ago a couple of Americans, Christian men, with heads on their should CTS. settled in Turkey and set about teach ing on American methods the rising youth
  Robert college.
 OnAmerican Principles
 "They have never from that day to this had at their command greater income than $50 00O or $40O0O year. They have taken no hand in politics. They apstalheo from identifying themselves with any sect nationality or party. They have stuck 10 their appointed task and they are stili sticking to it. They have insisted that every student within their walls snail De. thoroughly trained on the American prin- ciples, which, since they were imported by the men of the Mayfiower, have well nlSn made the tone of the world. They taught all these students five languages but they never hesitated to proclaim that, though they spoke with all the tongues under heaven it was but foolish, unless the moral and spiritual character of the student was trained and moulded by religious men. h Moral development, spiritual discipline, is F the more essential part of education. The. r true object of college education is the de- velopment of the faculties and the forma- tion of character. That was their line and they have stuck to 1t now for thirty-four years.
 With what result that American college. is today the chief hope of the future of the millions who inhabit the sultans domin- ions. They have 200 students in the college today, but they have trained and sent out
 into the world thousands of bright, brainy young fellows, who have carried the leaven of the American town meeting in all the provinces of the Ottoman empire. Robert college men are turning up everywhere. If the good work goes on the alumni of this American institution will be able to supply the personnel of the civilized administra- tion which must some day succeed the bar baric horror that is at present misnamed the government of Turkey.
 Achieved by the Sword
 "The one great thing done in the making of states in the last quarter of the century was the creation of the Bulgarian princi- pality. But the Bulgarian princpality-th resurrection of the Bulgarian nationality although materially achieved by the sword of liberating and averaging hordes of Rus sia was due primarily to the Robert col | lege. It was the Americans who sowed the seed. It was the men of Robert college who | took into Bulgaria the glad news. of good time coming when Bulgaria would be free. | When the Turks, scared by the propaganda | of liberty, descended in to spend their | wrath upon the helpless people with sword
 and flame, and, worse than bestial lusts | to eradicate the newborn national aspira- | tions, it was the Americans who brought | the whole horrible truth to the light of | day. MT. Dsraeli, then premier of Eng | land. lied about it in his place in parlia- ment, not even scrupling to falsify dis 1 patches and betray the confidence of his own country in order to shield the Turk. | All was in vain. Robert college men were | on the spot. Their chief was in constant communication with the ambassadors and | journalists of Constantnople They found | in MT. Pears, an English barrfster of high l standing, a correspondent of the London | News a man fearless and capable enough | to stand the brunt of making the awful ex-
 posture. What followed is a matter of his-
 tory The revelation of truth about the l Bulgarian massacres shattered, as by dyna- | mite, that irrational policy of England MT. | Gladstone sprang into the field. The Rus sian people moved to its depth by the sto- | rfes of the sufferings of their brethren, I could not be restrained. The sa"libcrator I carried the Russian arms in triumph to | the very gates of Stamboul. Nor did they return until by the treaty of San Stefano I they had created that Bulgarian prncipality which had been dreamed out on the astral II plane by the students of the American col Il lege
 T Homage to Robert College
 ,I .sWhen the Russian army of liberation I returned home after the peace was signed ,i they passed down the Bosphorus, and as each huge transport, crowded with the war I worn veterans of the Balkan battleteids iI steamed by the picturesque crag of Roumel Housai on which the Robert college sits en- I throned, they one and all did homage to
 the institution which had made Bulgaria {, possible by cheering lusty and causing the
 military bands to play American airs It
 was the tribute of the artificer in blood and
 iron to the architect on whose designs they
 had bulded the Bulgarian state.
 "But the influence of the American col
 lege did not stop there. When the consti. | tutional assembly met at Tirnova to frame
 the constitution for the new born state, il I was the Robert college graduate who sue
 ceedeo in giving the new constitution it's .l,a | the Russians left, the Bulgarians began to
 do their own governing. it was again the
 American trained men who displayed the | spirit of independence which bafi1ed and I angered the Russian generals. From that I time to this day, when one Robert college | man is prime minister of Bulgaria and an- other is Bulgarian minister at Constants neple, while a third. one of the ablest ot