The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-01
THE BREWING STORM.

policy and strategy of Russia in Man
churia represent the Muscovite cam
paign, of Tartar origin, against eau
casian civilization and power, the i'm
mediate point being dominance in Asia.
British control in India and the COM
mercial ascendancy of the United
States, Great Britain and other civil
lied powers in China, are thus at
tackled The other line of assault,
within the settled purposes of the
Muscoyite for centuries, has for its
starting point the Dardanelles, the Sea
of Marmora and the Bosporus, and,
within its primary object, the dismem-
berment of Turkey.
The most superficial reader and OBJ
server can now discern the prescience
of Great Britain, when it acquired the
SueZ Canal. The wisdom which re-
timentalists, and refused to precipitate
war for rhe benefit of the Armenian
Christians who themselves committed
atrocities against the Turks, has also
been fully INDICATED.
The preservation of peace, in the sense
of averting or postponing the most
disastrous war in human history, has
been mainly attributable to the MAIN
tenance of Turkey in Europe as a buff
fer state. If Russia acquires Con-
stantinople, that phase of the contest
will be shifted and the Black Sea, the
ghanistan, may be the scenes of bat
ties, military and naval, for which
there are no presidents, while the con-
tending powers with their localized al
lies, are pounding away in Manchuria
and the adjacent seas.
But there is another element to be
considered. Turkey, both in Europe
and Asia, is chiefly important on ac-
count of it's situation. Probably it's
population does not exceed fifteen mil
lions, of whom considerable proper
ton is not Mohammedan. 1t is also
hopelessly bankrupt But, on the
globe, there are over a hundred and
fifty millions of Mohammedans-in At
RIGA sixty-six millions, in Asia fifty
millions, of whom forty are in Hindo-
stan. In China, in Japan, in Korea,
and even in our Philippine acquisitions,
there are numerous millions of this
faith, which is not absolutely unknown
in America or in the chief states of
Europe. The center of Mohammedan-
ism is Constantinopte, with Mecca and
Medina as its shrines. 1t is an or
ganized system of fatalism. There
are probably nearly 400,000,000 of pro-
Tossing Christians in the world, but,
among them, there are few who would
sacrifice their families, their wealth,
and their individual lives for their
religion. The Moslem, however, is
an indurated fanatic, of the most rad
ical type, to whom his wives, his chill
dren, his property and his life are
nothing in comparison with Allah and
the Koran. He is under complete
control and discipline, and is fight
ing animal of the most ferocious ma
ture.
The news from the seat of the rapid
ly augmenting belligerency in Roume-
liza is that: THE Turks are massacring
the Christians and the Federal Gov
eminent has been advised that Amer
lean Christians in all parts of the
Turkish Empire and it's dependencies
or tributaries are in danger, which
signifies that all Christians, of every
nationality, are threatened. If, as
seems possible, the Sultan and his gov
eminent should fail in suppressing the
local disturbances, if the fanatical
Mussulmans should get the upper
hand, and should enter into war for
the determination of the Christian pop
ulation, and especially if the Black
Flag should be raised from it's rest of
centuries, there would be a confagra-
ton such as even the Nineteenth Cen
fury never witnessed, in the midst of
which the ancient Muscovite designs
for supremacy and the fatalistic arro-
gance of the followers of Mohammed
would be stopped and the final triumph
of the Caucasian blood and of Chris
tan civilization assured
The signs are ominous and the por-
tents dark, but it is to be hoped that
| the entente cordiale between the Uni
! ted States and the British Empire,
aided by Germany and by other great
powers, may result in a combination
that will avert a catastrophe that, in
tellectually and morally, as well as
physically, would furnish more thar
an analogy to the destructive eartf
commissions of the Twentieth Century
The final contest between darkness
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