The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-06

at the present moment almost the only
people who are doing any good for hu-
mainly in Asiatic Turkey The Ger
man kaiser has fratsrnized with the
assassin, and. arm in arm with the
infidel, has proclaimed his divine mis-
sion to protect the Christians of the
east whom his friend and host has
been massacreing by thousands for the
last four years. But the only protec-
ton the poor unfortunates receive is
from English-speaking men. 1 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 peo-
pie have Weakened up and are now
spending thousands of pounds in char
'ity 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 If they had lived in
Asia Minor they would discover that
it is a very practical working factor
in the daily life, of millions of men.
How many American citizens, / Won
der, are aware that from the slopes of
Mount Arrarat 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?
RUSSIANS ARE UNEASY.
The Russians know it and regard the
fact with anything but compTacency.
When General Mousselloff, the director
of the foreign faiths within the Rus
sian empire, visited Etchmiadzin, on
the confines of Turkish Armenia, the
Armenian patriarch spread before him
a map of Asia Minor, which was
marked all over with American col
leges, American churches, American
schools and American missions. They
are busy everywhere, teaching, preach
ing, begetting new life in these Asiatic
races. No one hears of them. They
eschew politics. They stick to their
Bible and their spelling books, but
every year an increasing number Of
ArmenianS and other orientals issue
from the American schools familiar
with the principles of the declaration
of independence and the fundamental
doctrines of the American constitution.
And so the leaven is spreading through
out the whole land.
OF course, such heavy new wine can
not be poured into the very old bottles
of Turkish provinces without making
ieself felt. The Aremnians, a vain and
clever race, soon became swell-headed
What Burgarians had done they
thought Aremenians could do. As the
Robert college had created an indie
pendent Bulgaria, they in turn would
show that they could create an indie
pendent Aremnia. So they set to work,
but, alas, although they did their part
of the work bravely 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 Bashi Bazouks and Kurds. What
followed is written in letters of blood
and fire across the recent history of the
east.
But the end is not yet The American
missionaries who took no part in the
abortiVe instruction were not as a whole
much molested. The yare working on,
teachlng, preaching. sowing the seed day
by day, creating the forces which will in
time oVerturn the Turkish empire and
regenerate the east.
But the American missionaries have
not come off Scott free. Oscar Straus,
the United States minister. has to collect
some SlOO.000 due as compensation for the
destruction of American property during
the recent troubles. The money is yet to
be paid. It cost the sultan 100000 to
entertain his friend, the kaiser. How can
he spare 100000 to compensate the pesti-
lent American?
II shall never forget the intense con-
viction with which a 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 imDaled 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 be-
coming known to the American people the
warshipS which swept the fleets of Spain
from the sea would have forced the Oar
danelles and exacted reDaration at the
cannon's. mouth from the assassin of
STEAMBOAT.
And perhaps In the possibility of such
a contingency happening any dav lies the
highest hope that humanity has for the
extinction of the devastating despotism of
the Turkish horde