The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-06

the thousands for the last four years. But
the only protection the poor unfortunate
Christians receive is from EngliSh-speaking
men.
AN ANGLo-AMERIcAN ALLIANCE.
Il grieve to say it, 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
Weakened up and are now spending scores
of thousands 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 difficulties. People speak as if the
Anglo-American alliance was a peaceful
dream to be realized in the remote future.
Ii they lived in Asia Minor they would dis
cover that it is a very practical working
factor in the daily life of millions of men.
How 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 dis
treSSful land the seed of American prin-
ciples The Russians know it, and regard
the fact with anything but complacency.
When General Mosselotr, the director of the
foreign faiths within the Russian empire,
visited Etichmeiadzin, on the confines OF
TurkiSh-Armenia, the Armenian patriarch
spread before him map of Asia Minor
which was marked all over with American
teaching preaching, begetting new life in
these Asiatic races. No one hears of them
Bible and their spelling book, but every
year an increasing number of ArmenianS
can schools familiar with the principles OF
the Declaration of Independence and the
fundamental doctrines of the American Con-
Stitution. And so the leaVen is spreading
throughout the whole land.
"Of course such heady new wine cannot
be poured into the very old bottles of Turk
icI1 uyifh aaly fCllf q
The ArmenianS, vain and clever race, soon
became sWell-headed. What BulgarianS had
done they thought Armenians could do. AS
the Robert ColIege men had created an in
dependent Bulgaria, they in their turn
would show they could create an independ-
ent Armenia. So they set to work. but,
alas, although they dld their part of the
work bravey enough, Russia, 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 bashibazouk
ana the kurd What followed is written in
letters of blood and fire across the recent
but the end is not yet. The American
missionaries who took no part in the abor-
tive Instruction were not as whole much
moiested. They are working on, teaching,
preaching, sowing the seed day by day,
creating the forces which will in time over
turn the Turkish empire and regenerate the
East. The Turk knows it and crashes his
teeth, longing for the time to come when he
may have it out with the cursed giaour
from beyond the sea. But behind the Amer
ican missionary stands the British consul
and the Sultan fears to give the signal for
extirpatiOn. Even as it is the American
missionaries have not come off scot free.
Oscar Straus, the United States minister,
has to collect some 100000 due as compen-
sation for the destruction of American prop
erty during the recent troubles. The money
is yet to be paid 1t cost the Sultan 5000
90 to entertain his friend, the Kaiser. How
can he spare 100000 to compensate the pesti-
lent American?
II shall never forget the intense convic-
ton with which fanatical friend of the
Sultan once declared to me that there would
never be a solution of the Eastern question
until an American missionary was impaled
and his wife and daughters were flung into
the pasha's harem He spoke more truly
than he knew Because within one month
of such an outrage becoming known to the
American people the war ships which swept
the fleets of Spain from the sea would have
forced the Dardanelles and eXacted repara-
ton at the lannon's mouth from the as
sassin of STEAMBOAT. And perhaps in the
possibility of such contingency happening
any day lies the highest hope that humanity
has for the extinction of the devastating
deSpOtiSm of the Turkish horde"