The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-06

and host has been massacreinx by the
tnousands for the last four years But the
only protection the poor unfortunate CHRIS
tia1s receive is from English speaking men.
giiets TO say IL. but II Is for the most
part quite true that until tho other day
Lng.ana did TO good 10 any one IN Asla
Minor. OF late the English people have
Makened up and arc now spending scores
OK thousands OF pounds in charity in that
wv. ounely. but the Only real good which ii
ma zone IN this region for iIlany Years vya /.
tonfined to this Our British cons,,ls hetnc,
the american missionaries when they nor
ihto uiiliculties. People speak az II Tho
.Ansio-American alliance WINS n roa,.s,,tl
dream 70 be realized in the remote fufnra
u tney lived In Asia Minor they wouh al
eoNer mat II is very practical working
i"osor III ,he daily life OF millions OF men.
NOW many American citizens, | won
Wa ,a'e aware thai from the slopes of
mount Ararat, ali the way ~ the sborss
OF une blue Aegean sea, American mis-
sioharies have scattered broadcast ovpr
an the uistresssful land the seed of Anari-
can principles. The Russians know n ana
Tesaid the fact with anything nut com,
p.acency When Geneful Alosselog. The
director of the foreign faiths within ,6s
Russian empire, visited EtchmIadzin n,,
the confines OF Turkish Armenia, the Ar-
.nenlah pNtriarch spread hefore ham a man
OF Aae Minor which was marked all over
vain American colleges, American
cnurches and American schools ANA mis-
SONS They arc bus. everywhere teach
a al,s, preaching, and 10 one hears of them.
IEey eschew politics They sticl, ia thptr
Bible and their spelling boSlr but every
year an Increasing number OF Armemans
eliS other Oficntals issue from the AMER
iean schools. familiar with The lrineipies
W tn9 Declaration OF independence ana tae
luuiaaihental doctrines of the American
constitution. And so the leayen is preau-
ing Throughout the whole land
ct course such heavy wine can no. ho
poured into the new bottles of Tlrklsh
provinces without making itself felt The
arlnenlans, vain and clever race. es,an
become swell headed. What Bulgarlans
naa uone they thought Armenians could
AS the Roberts college men had created
al independent bulgaria, they In their turn
would SHOW they could create an lndepend
ent Armenia. So they set 10 work. but.
aias, although they did their part of the
WORK bravery enough, Russia this t.n,e WAS
III mo MOOD 10 come to their rescue So The
sultan tell upon them in his wrath and de-
llvered them over TO the bashi bazouk and
the kurd. What followed Is written Ia let
tets OF pIood and fire across the recent his
tory OF the East.
But tine end is nigh. The missionaries
which took no part in the aboruive !nsur-
rection were not as a whole much molested
They are working on, teaching. preaching
sowing the seed-day by day crea ing for IS
which in time Will stir up the fires OF the
Armenian TO return the. fire OF the regen-
crate East The Turk knows it and
gnashes his teeth, longing for the time to
come when he may have it out with the
cursed Giour from beyond the seas. Blu
beyond the American missionary stands the
British, and the sultan fears 80 give the
signal for extrpat!on.
Even as Il is, the American missionaries
have not come off scot free. Oscar Strauss,
the United States minister. has 10 collect
100000 due as compensation for tho de-
struction OF American property during the
recent troubles. The money Is yet TO be
paid 1t cost the sultan 5000 600 10 enter
tain his friend. the kaisF. How can he
spare 800, 900 TO compensate the pestlen-
t.3l American?
Il shall never forget the Intense convic-
tion with which fanatical friend OF tho
sultan once declared TO me that there would
never be a solution Of the Eastern question
until an American missionary was pIled
and his wife and daughters were flung into
ihe pasha's harem. He spoke more truth
than he knew. Because within one month
of such an outrage becoming known 10 the
American people the American warshlps
which swept the Spanish fleet from The sea
would have forced the Dardanelles and ex-
acted reparation az the lannon's mouth
from the asaasAn OF Stamboui.
And perhaps in the possibility Of such
q CONT urgency happening any day lies the
highest hope that humi has for the ex-
tnction OF the devastating despoiisrn OF the
Turkish horde"