The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-08-10

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porte feared TO give the Boer a foothold
ID Asia Minor. and the project was dis
missed
AZ laei Germany succeeded in dolag
what all Of the other powers had failed
10 accomplish. In October. lSSS. the
German bank concluded an arrange
ment with the Turkish minister OF in
ternal affairs, by which Il undertook to
build a railway from a port opposite
Constantinople. first to Angora. and
later 70 Koniah On Nov "a. 1882,
four years later than the signing Of
the agreement, the FIRST train was run
from Ismid to Angora, and the An
tollan railroad was an established In
stilutlon. Kaiser Wilhelm has not
shown himself a frlend Of the porte for
nothing. He desired an outlet for Ger
man industry and capital. and he has
found an excellent one. How excellent
the world IS just beginning 70 find out
The extension Of this railway from
Koniah, FIRST to Bagdad. about 1000
miles. and thence % BaEsora on the
Persian gulf. another 400 miles, has
been a pet scheme OF the enterprising
young monarch. The move BY which
England nov undertakes this work ls
but one result of the entente cordiale
lately sealed between him and his
grandmother. Il means much for both
Great Britain and Germany. To Great
Britain Il means a new and short route
to India. a saving Of at least i've days
over the suez canal route. to Germany
It means q new field for colonization
and a good feeder for her road already
ID operation.
The value 0f the country through
which these roads viii pass has been
little considered. perhaps because Of
the degeneration from which it has So
long suffered A glance az the past Of
this land of wealth Is necessary to an
understanding o. lts future
Asia Minor. every schoolboy knows.
was the seat Of The worlds earliest and
highest civilization. Here we've As
syria and Babylonia. enjoying the
sciences and arts hve thousand years
B. C. We know from the Tel-Ambarna
letters that Egypt anxiously sought an
alliance with Assyrla 1900 B. G. Less
than thousand years later Palestine
was 0verrun BY her warriors and the
Jews we're taken captive 10 Assyria.
Phoenicia. with her ships plying en-
ever the then known world. was situst-
- On the western border of this land
Cr0esns. The richest man known 10 his-
tory. was king ia Asia Minor The
fourIshinr settlements Of the Greeks
were situated on the northwestern
shores. and there too. stood ancient
Mycenae Do vas the battlefield oi the
nations. where Greeks. parihisns. Ro-
mans fought for supremacy. Here
we're the realms cf Cyrus ard Alexan-
der the Great The degeneraticn OF 4
this fertile land began hrsi BY The de-
cline Of iis ruling dynasiies. and then T
when it became q part Of the world I
embracing Byzantine empire IN The /
seventh century.
In the fhirfeert century 81 vas
orerun IS tbs NonFoiian hordes ln +
their western emigration. Is Sc eter- I
naily doomed by fhe conquest ~ sutan
6eiim IN the sixteenth l-Fer since +
then b has been The property Of the
Turkish empire
What was once D. now ssain made
possible This country vas tie gram
arv d the rofd ils mines provided Iis
rulers with untold wealth rs fruits
Htre the deiiEs.fal food Of countless
iarHr Af ftr rfs wear rreasf7r ~