Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-16

remarked In this connection that $780,
600 was a very big sum to pay pour
des Allemands endOmages" (for dam
aged Germans). But when a Major
Bostwick. who held an appointment In
the Turkish gendarmerie, called upon
the British embassy to ransom his Wife
and children. who had been carried on
by bfigands, the British foreign Office
called a halt In the matter, realizing
that, In view OF the fact that the major
was In the employ Of the Turkish gov
eminent, ii would have difficulty In re-
covering from the latter the repayment
Of the money expended In the liberation
Of his family, so the major was in
fromed that, while the embassy would
use It's friendly offices In his behalf
with the Turkish government II would
neither itself pay the ransom nor exact
the latter from the porte, since, as a
police official he must have known bet
ter than any one else the risk to which
he was exposing his wife and children
when he brought them out TO live In
that particular part Of Turkey where
the outrage took place.
This Is undoubtedly the only logical
course % adopt, not only In Turkey
but in all other civilized half-civill2ed
ana barbarous countries. where law and
order are al discount. Thus while It IL
perfectly right and proper 20 demand
pecurlary lndemnlties for outrages to
which tourists missionaries and mer-
chants have been subjected say in Chi
ma, when Il can be shown that the local
authorities have either participated In
the affair or have declined TO interfere,
yet there IL no ground for any demand
by The injured parties either upon their
own governments or upon that Of the
country IN which the crime has taken
place when the latter has been per-
petruted BE- outlaws or even by the
popuiace. People who venture into such
countries do so at their own risk and
cannot expect to enjoy there the same
security as at home or 10 be furnished
free OF cost with that armed escort
which alone could insure their safety
from brlgands.
In Japan during the first ten or ff-
teen years that followed the revolution
OF 1857 the mikado's government was
blamed for prohibiting foreigners from
travelling In the interior. Yet II was
thoroughly justified In so doing II was
not through any prejudice that II en-
tertalhed against white people. but
merely because It could not guarntee
the safety Of Europeans and Americans
from attacks on the part Of fanatics
who had grown up In the belief that
the foreigners were fees Of the Japan
ese race, and who, unaccustomed to
western ways, often construed as NOR
tai insults many things that we con-
slider part and parcel OF our social in
tercourse and life. Prior to 1887 the
japanese government had been re-
peaielly called upon 60 pay heavy in
IDENTITIES for murderous attackH upon
foreigners. so II made ~ its mind TO
diminish the opportunities for out
rarcs Of this character by preventing
foreigners from travelling In the interior
and from coming into contact with any
OF the natives save those already ac-
custcmed TO their ways.
In conclusion, Il may be said that the
missionary society by which Miss Stone
is employed Is acting wisely In declln-
ne to pay the money demanded by the
brigands for her ransom. For II the
ransom were paid, the native belief In
the wealth Of the missionary societies
would be confirmed and the Kidnapping