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

IdEIR INFLUENCE.
| Correspondence of the Associated Press
London, December 5.-Writing I'M
der Date of November IA. from Con-
stantinople, Mr.. VIM. T. Stead says:
Judged by results, the Spanish war
has made mighty little return for a
prodigious expenditure compared with
The returns already realized and to be
| realized from the peaceful campaign
which America is waging in the Otto
man empire. By an expenditure of
hundreds of millions Of dollars and the
sacrifice of over 1000 men, the United
States has succeeded in ousting the
moribund sovereignty of Spain from a
couple of islands near her own shores,
and of raising question as to her con-
tinued dominion in the Philippines
The results achieved by the infliction
of hideous suffering upon the unfortun-
ate islanders. whose relief was the
main object Of the war, small though
they be, represent probably the best
and quickest dividend ever earned by
modern war
Compare this result with those
achieved by the Americans who, for
the last thirty years have been patient
ly, silently laboring for the regenera-
ton of that vast compost of wrecked
kingdoms, municipalities and nationali-
ties called the Ottoman empire Thirty
years ago a couple of Americans, Chris
tian men, with heads on their shout
ders, settled in Turkey and set about
teaching on American methods the ris-
ing youth of the East in an institution
hn pnIN
never from that day to this had at their
command greater income than thirty
or forty thousand dollars a year. They
have taken no hand in politics. They
have abstained from identifying them
selves with any sect, nationality or
party. They have stuck to
THEIR APPOINTED TASK
and they are still sticking to it, They
have insisted that every student with
in their walls shall be thoroughly
trained on the American principles,
which, since they were imported by the
men of the Mayflower, have well nigh
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 fool
character of the student was trained
and moulded by religious men. More
development, spiritual discipline in
the more essential part of education.
The true object of college education
is the development Of the faculties and
the formation of character. That was
their line and they have stuck to it
now for thirty-four years.
with what result? That American
college is to-day the chief hope of the
future of the millions who inhabit the
Sultan's dominions. They have two
hundred students in the college to-day
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
into all the provinces of the Ottoman
empire. Robert College men are turn
ing 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-
ton which must some day supersede
the barbaric horror that is at present
misnamed the government of Turkey.
"The one great thing done III the
making of States in the last quarter Oh
a century was the creation Of the
BULGARIAN PRINCIPALlTY.
Bat the Bulgarian principally, the
resurrection OF the Bulgarian nation
ality, although materially achieved by
the sword of the liberating and avenG-
ing hordes of Russia, was due primal
lily to the Robert College. 1t was the
Americans who sowed the seed. H.
was the men of Robert College wno
took into Bulgaria the glad news oi
good time coming, when Bulgaria
scared by the propaganda of liberty.
descended in savage wrath upon the
helpless people, with sword and flame
and worse than bestial lusts, TO eradi-
cate the new born national aspiration,
it was the Americans who brought the
whole horrible truth to the light of
day. Mr.. Disraeli, then premier or
England, lied about it in his place
in parliament, not even scrupling to
falsify dispatches and betray the con-
fidence OF mis- own country IN order to
shield the Turk All was in vain.
Robert College men were on the spot.
Their chief was in constant communl-
cation with the ambassadors and jour-
nalists OF Constantinople. They found
in Mr.. Pears, an English barrister of
high standing, a correspondent of the
Daily News, a man fearless and capa-
BILE enough TO stand the brunt of max
ing the awful exposure. What fol-
lowed is a matter of history. The rev.
citation of the truth about the Bulgarian
massacres, shattertnss by dynamite,
the traditional policy Of England. Mr..
Gladstone sprang into the field. The
Russian people. moved to its depth
by the stories OF the sufferings of their
brethren, could not be restrained. The
ar-Liberator carried the Russian
arms in triumph TO the very gates of
STEAMBOAT Nor did they return till. by
the treaty OF San Stefano, they had
created that Bulgarian principality
which had been dreamed of On the
Astral plane by the students of the
American college.
When the Russian army OF liberia
ton returned home after the peace was
signed, they passed down the Bosphor-
us; and as each huge transport. crowd
ed with the war-worn veterans of the
Balkan battlefelds, steamed past the
picturesque Crag OF Roumeli Husai, on
which the Robert College sits enthron-
ed. they one and all did homage to the |
institution which had made Bulgaria