The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22
with hardly an exception, corroborate

with hardly an exception, corroborate
| the above statement.
Among the Turks you find no drunk
ards and no strumpets-you must look
| to the Armenians and Greeks for these
and the fact that the sultan has
from ten to fifteen million contented
Christian subjects does not eVince
| much intolerance He has, for exam
| ple more Greek subjects than the king
| of Greece, and they are all Christians.
This talk of the fierce Moslem" is
| largely fancy. The Moslem does not
worship Mohammed-does not look
upon him as God as the Christian
| does upon Christ. Mohammed was
| merely prophet, and they recognize
| Christ was one, but that His teach
| ings have been dethroned. by the later
revelations. If Christians want speci-
mems of intolerance, look at the eX-
pulsion of the Moors and the Jews
from Spain, at the Inquisition. Alva in
| the Low countries and the piouS flames
| of Good Queen BeSS' times"
And the bug-a-boo polygamyi l am
| told that there are not 300 plural fam
lilies in Turkey. How many are there
| in New York? The Moslem religion
permits polygamy, but poverty. empty
| pockets, prevents it.
You will naturally ask: If all this
| is true, why the frequent turmoils in
| Turkey? The answer is:
| 1. The exceptional geographical posi-
| ton of Constantinople and the possessions
and the Dardanelles by Turkey is prize
| that Russia has fought, and will again
| fight for. and which other nations Will.
If possible. prevent her winning The
result is the corrupt use of money In
Turkey by all parties, which accounts In
part for the turmoil that often exists.
g. The Vaccinations of Bulgaria and
t troubles are not the outcome Of turkish
outrages upon Christians" Every person
here knows it is entirely q. political move
intended to weaken and dismember Tur-
key, with the Interior thought or eventual
ly inducing the powers to erect Bulgaria
into a kingdom, with Constantinople as
its capital But the powers-excepting
Russia, perhaps-are shy of the idea and
| hold aloof SO far from interfering. The
pious missionaries are known to be mixed
up in the intrigue. and Miss Missionary
Stone was cats paw In the hands OF
| the conspirators. The ransom paid by
| Americans for her release was used to
| purchase arms and ammunition for the
| present insurgents.
3. The Armenans and the mission
| aries. The Turk could handle the Rus
| slams and the Bulgarians. but when he
| has to fight for his life among the Ar
menians and missionaries it becomes
more serious thing. They are the curse
| of the country-surei In Turkey no at
! tempt at converting or PROSECUTING
| Moslem is ever made: The record for
| over lUU years SHOWS just one SUCH COH-
| vert. and the business has been given up
as a failure What, then, do the mis-
| sionaries do? Work" among the Ar
| menians-the shrewdest and most cor
J rupt the most plausible, and the most
| false people on earth! A missionary does
| about as much good among them as he
| would working among the lost souls In
| DanteS Inferno.
| 1t is pitiable to see the sleek Armen-
| ian bambooZling the witless mission
| airy! You know the current saying
| here: One Armenian in circumVention
equals four Greeks; one Greek equals
| three Jews, and one Jew equals three
| Levantines. The ArmenianS are men,
| bers of the Armenian church-with a
| few Roman Catholic and few Protest
ants among them. The missionary
| thinks he is doing something to convert
| these people to his particular sect. His
| great weapon to accomplish this Is the
missionary schools, of which there are
some 800 In Turkey being supported
| by certain soft-headed missionary So
| cieties in the United States. And the
| Armenian students and graduates Of
these schools gradually Undue them
| selves with the idea that they are no
| longer Turkish subjects, but a privi-
legged class under the protection of the
| United States government. They con-
! sequently, WREN opportunity occurs, To-
ment political disturbances, and are
| generally at the bottom of the internal
! intrigues of the country. The mission
| aries ask the United States to protect
| these schools, to urge the Porte to rec
| ognize this protection. to have United
! States consuls appointed at certain
| points where these schools are numer-
! Gus, etc. And the United States Is
doing their bidding-in violation OF
| treaties, of laws. of common decency
| and common sense.
| These Armenian schools are not at
| tended by a single American student!
\ What have we to do with them? Is
| it for Armenian schools our consular
| service was inaugurated? / say 1t Is
corruption of the service and that con-
| suls should be Withdrawn from places
| where there are no Americans or Amer
| lean trade to justify their presence.
| The truth Is well known to our govern
| ment. but the powers that be" have
| always bent their heads to the bigotry.
| the narrowness, the persistence and
| the ignorance Of the board OF foreign
missions of our great and foolish coun-
| try. If the auditing officers OF the
treasury will submit statement of the
/ direct and indirect expense these
schools and useless consuls-including
1 the item OF cablegrams-have been 10
! the government It will perhaps open
| the eyes of the taxpayers OF our coun-
! try Gen George p YAllanA