The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-06
Gospel of Liberty Preached Through
out the Sultan's Domain.
MISSION OF AMERICANS
ASTONISHING RESULTS AcHIEv-
ED BY ROBERT COLLEGE.
American Institution That Has Been
Sending Thousands of Graduates
Throughout the Ottoman Empire
For Thirty Years-Government
Scored By Liberty Propaganda.

London, Nov. 24.-Writing under date
of Nov. IA from Constantinople, Mr..
William T. Stead says:
Thirty years ago a couple Of Ameri-
cans, Christian men, with heads on
their shoulders, settled in Turkey, and
set about teaching on American meth
DDS the rising youth of the east, in an
institution called the Robert college.
They have never, from that day to this,
had at their command greater in
come than thirty to forty thousand dol
lars year. They have taken no hand
in politics. They have abStained from
Identifying themselves 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 within their walls
shall be thoroughly trained on the
American principles, which, since they
were imported by the men of the May
flower, have well nigh made the tone of
the world. They taught all these stu
dents five languages, but they never
hesitated to proclaim that, though they
spoke with all the tongues under
heaven, it was but foolishness, unless
the moral and spiritual character of
the student was trained and moulded
by religious men. Moral development,
spiritual discipline, is the most essen
tial part of education. The true object
of college education is the Develop
ment 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 today the chief hope of the
future of the millions who inhabit the
| sultans dominions They have two
CT, ~,
but they have trained and sent out
| into the world thousands of bright,
brainy young fellows, who have car
ried the leaven of the American town
meeting into all the provinces of the
! Ottoman empire.
| Robert college men are turning up
everywhere. If the good work goes on
the alumni of this American institution
will be able to supply the personnel of
the civilized administration which must
some day supercede the barbaric horror
| that is at present miSnamed the gov
eminent of Turkey,
LIBERATED BULGARIA.
1.-THE one great thing done in the
making of states in the last quarter of
the century was the creation of the
Bulgarian principality. But Ahe Bull
garian principality, the resurrection of
| the Bulgarian nationality, although
materially achieved by the sword of
the liberating and avenging hordes of
Russia, was due primarily to the Rob-
ert college. 1t was the Americans who
sowed the seed. 1t was the men of
Robert college who took into Bulgaria
the glad news of a good time coming,
when Bulgaria would be free. When
the Turks, scared by the propaganda
of liberty, descended in savage wrath
upon the helpless people, with sword
| and flame and worse than bestial lusts,
| to eradicate the newborn national as
| pirations, it was the Americans who
brought the whole horrible truth to
| the light of day. Mr.. Disraeli, then
premier of England, lied about it in his
place in parliament, not even scrupling
to falsify dispatches and betray the
| confidence of his country in order to
shield the Turk. All was in vain. Rob-
ert college men were on the spot. Their
chief was in constant communication
with the ambassadors and journalists
of Constantinople. They found in Mr.
Pears, an English barrister of high
standing, a correspondent of the Daily
News, a man fearless and capable
enough to stand the brunt of making
the awful exposure. What followed is
a matter of history. The revelation of
the truth about the Bulgarian massa-
cres shattered as by dynamite the ira
ditional policy of England Mr.. Glad
stone sprang into the field. The Rus
sian people, moved to it's depth by the
stories of the Sufferings of their breth-
rem, could not be restrained. The car
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 out on the astral plane by
the students of the American college.
RUSSIANS CHEERED.
when the Russian army Of liberia
ton returned home after the peace was
signed, they passed down the Bos-
phorus, and as each huge transport
crowded with the war-worn veterans OF
the Balkan battlefelds, steamed past
the picturesque crag of Roumelisusai
on which the Robert college sits en-.
throned, they one and all did homage
to the institution which had made Bull.
garia possible, by cheering Justify ant
causing the military bands to play
American airs. 1t was the tribute OF
the artificer in blood and iron to The
architects on whose designs they haC
builded the Bulgarian state.
But the influence of the American
college did not stop there. When the
constitutional assembly met at Tier
new born state. it was a Robert col
lege graduate who succeeded in giving
the new constitution it's extreme
democratic character and when, after
the Russians left, the Bulgarians be-
gan to do their own governing, it was
again the American trained men who
displayed the spirit of independence
which baffled and angered the Russian
generals. From that time to this day
when one Robert college man is prime
minister of Bulgaria and another is
Bulgarian minister at ConstantinOple
while a third, one of the ablest of them
is Bulgarian minister at Athens, the
Robert college has been a nursery fol
Bulgarian statesmen. So marked, in
died. has been the influence of this one
institution that there are some who
say that of all the results of the
Crimean war, nothing was of such
permanent Importance as the fact thai
attracted to Constantinople a pIair
American citizen from New York
; oTHE INSTITUTIONS.
The influence of the United State.
in the east is by no means confined t.
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 az
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 n
Constantinople are at work. They ar,
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