Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-06

the artlf1cer in blood and iron TO the
architects on whose designs they had
builded the Bulgarian state.
But the influence of the American
college did not stop there. When the
constitutional assembly met at Tir-
nova to frame the constitution for the
newborn state, it was the Robert Col
lege graduate who succeeded in giving
the new constitution its extreme DEM
ocratic character, and when after the
Russians left and the Bulgarians began
TO do their own governing, it was again
the American trained men who dis
played the spirit of independence
which baffied and angered the Rus
sian generals. From that time TO this
day, when one Robert College man is
prime minister of Bulgaria and another
is Bulgarian minister at Constantine
ople, while a third one of the ablest
of them, is Bulgarian minister at Ath-
ems, the Robert College has been nur-
sery for Bulgarian statesmen. So
marked indeed, has been the influence
of this one institution. there are some
who say that of all the results of the
Crimean war, nothing was of such per-
manent Importance as the fact that 1t
attracted to Constantinople a plain
American citizen from New York.
The influence of the United States
in the East is by no means confined TO
Robert College. There are other insti-
buttons founded by Americans at Con-
stantinople which are working quite as
we'll as the Robert College but as they
educate girls instead of boys, they will
not make
THEIR POLITICAL INFLUENCE
felt until the sons of the students come
to mans estate. But it is not only at
Constantinople that the Americans are
at work. They are at the present mo-
ment almost the only people who are
doing any good for humanity in Asiatic
Turkey. The German Kaiser has ira
ternized with the assassin and arm in
arm with the infidel, has proclaimed
his divine mission to protect the Chris
tians of the East, whom his friend and
host has been maSsacreing by the thou
sands for the last four years. But the
only protection the poor unfortunate
Christians receive is from English
speaking men. | grieve to say II, but
it is for the most part quite true that
until the other day England did no
good to any one in Asia Minor. OF late
the English people have wakened up
and are now spending scores of thou
sands of pounds in charity in that
country. But the only real good which
the English did in these regions for
many years was confined to this; Our
British consuls helped the American
missionaries when they got into Diff
ficulties. People speak as if the Anglo
American alliance was peaceful
dream to be realized to the remote flu
ture If they lived in Asia Minor they
would discover that it is very prac-
tical working factor in the daily life OF
millions of men.
Glow many American citizens !
wonder, are aware that from the
slopes of Mount Ararat all the way to
the shores of the Blue Aegean sea,
American missionaries have scattered
broadcast over all the distressful land
the seed of American principles. The
Russians know 1t, and regard the fact
with anything but complacency. When
Gen. Mosseloff, the director of the for
eign faiths within the Russian en-
pire, visited Etchmiadzin, on the con-
fines of Turkish Armenia, the Armen-
ian pariarchs spread before him map
of Asia Minor which was marked all
over with American colleges, American
churches, American schools and Amer
lean missions. They are busy every
where, teaching, preaching,
BEGETTING NEW LIFE
in these Asiatic races. No one hears
of them. They escnew politics. They
stick to their Bible and their spelling
book, but every year an increased
number of Armenians and other 0rien-
tails issue from the American school
familiar with the principles of the
Declaration of ln2-ySndence and the
fundamental doctrines of the American
constitution. And SO the leaven is
spreading throughout the whole land.
"Of course such heavy new wine can
not be poured into the very old bot
ties of Turkish provinces without max
ing itself felt. The Armenians.
clever race, soon become swell-headed.
What Bulgarians had done they
thought Armenians could do. AS the
Robert College had created an indie
pendent Bulgaria, they in their turn
would show they could create an in
dependent Armenia. So they set to
work. but, alas, although they did their
part of the work bravely enough, Rus
STA, this time, was in no mood to come
to their rescue. So the Sultan fell
upon them in his wrath and delivered
them over to the Bashi-Basouk and
the Kurd. What followed is written
in letters of blood and fire across the
recent history of the East.
But the end is not yet. The Amer
lean missionaries who took no part in
the abortive instruction were not. as
a whole. much mole.ted. They are
working on. teaching. preaching, SOW
ing the seed day by day, creating the
forces which will in time overturn the
Turkish empire and regenerate the
East. The Turk knows ii and gnashes
his teeth, longing for the time to come
when he may have 1t out with the ours
ed Giaour from beyond the sea. But
behind the American missionary stands
the British consul and the Sultan fears
to give the signal for extirpation.
Even as 1t is. the American missionar-
les have not come of scot free. Oscar
Straus. the Y. s. minister. has to col
lect some 800 900 due as compensation
for the destruction Of American proper
ty during the recent troubles. The
money is yet to be paid. It cost the
Sultan SO ,000. 900 to entertain
HIS FRIEND THE KAISER.