The Topeka state journal., 1905-10-08
THE ORIENT IN AFRICA.

THE ORIENT IN AFRICA.
Throughout all that continent, the
bearers of the triumphing Moham1ne-
dan religion are traders of the Orient.
The AIOslem does not spread the ereed
through missionaries. The trader, the
traveller, the merchantmen from the
Far East; these are the teachers ana
the priests. And when the Emperor
of Germany rode through the streets
of Morocco, he obeyed no mere imper-
ial whim, lover of poses though ne
may be. He was making bid, and
a successful one, for the good viii OF
the AIussulmans of the whole world.
That the good will of the Moslem
will be of more than mere sentimental
value is not to be ignored Those same
Senussf are working InySteriouSly,
vastly. There are arms piling up IN
Africa, there is treasure being gath
eredA there are cities and forts being
built in unknown places; men say that
a great MOSlem war IS being planned
war not of mad A1ullaEs "A "a other
fanatics, but a war of conquest, IN
which the MosleTn hopes to. gain Africa
and Arabia for mighty Moslem en-
pire.
In Arabia today the fight is breaking
in the open. The supreme committee
of the National Arab party, a party
with Arabian Kings behind it whose
very names and kingdoms are un-
known to western peoples, has ac-
claimed in writing throughout Arabia
that there is to be an Arab empire,
which shall include all the Arab coun-
tries of Asia from The valley or the
Tigris and Euphrates to the Isthmus
of Suez and from the Mediterranean
Sea to the Gulf Of Oman.
And out of the Persian Gulf through
that Gulf of Oman must go the freight
and traffic to be borne by tho German
railroad of the Syrian peninsula That
way lies Germany's road to tlc Pa
So, as Russia has been striving to
reach the Ara bian Sea through At
ghanistan- and Beluchistan, Germany S
way leads her there too-into the wa
ters of Slnbad the Sailor. through the
waterways of the commerce of Haroun
AL Raschid.
THOSE SAME OLD BALKANS.
And frst and foremost in the criti-
cal part of the way stands the ancient
storm center of Europe the Balkans.
They seem fated to remain the battle
ground for all old world politics, even
when the stake is the Pacific ocean.
And again it looks as if destiny were
surely with Germany Despite all IN
trigueS of Russia, England " nj 'luf-
key, Austria's influence in the Bal
kans remains a mighty one When
Kaiser Franz Joseph dies what VIII
become Of the misnated monarchy of
Austria Hungary? Already the two
have split on every question down to
the very matter of the language in
which commands should be given to
the soldiers. The proud Hungarian de-
MES even the shadow of allegiance to
the Emperor of Austria as such, and
will acknowledge him only as an elect
ed King of Hungary. When the crash
comes, German-Speaking Austria viii
go ultimately where she belongs, back
to the German federation. And then
in one stride Germany will plant one
foot on the Mediterranean, owning the
naval port of Trieste, while the other
will be in the Balkans, on the way to
the goal of the beckoning Pacific.
Move after move, Germany has pre-
pared for that day. Go to Turkish Sa-
lonica today and you will find German
influence in it; for part of the German
dream of empire is to have that an
cient city for a port on the Aegean
Sea. Go to Jaffa- on the coast of Pales-
tine, an6 you will be able to make your
way better with German than with
any other language except Turkish.
GERMANY'S FAITHFUL COLONIES.
Everywhere Germany has planted
her people-the most faithful people
on earth-just as she planted and is
planting them in Brazil under the law
passed by the ReichStag in 1899, part
of which was literally; mot only viii
the German preserve his nationality,
but he will find all the conditions fav-
orable to a prosperous existence. He
will moreover, become a consumer of
the products of German industry, and
consequently a commercial and politi-
cal intermediary DCLWEEll ms uEW
country and his mother country
IN the light Of this policy, look at
Germany's ''pick-ups" in the Pacific
each of them by itself an Unconsidered
triffe From her Chinese colony of
Kiao Chau, the northeastern passage
across the Pacific, is marked by her
holdings of the Marshall, Brown and
Providence Islands. In another direc-
ton lies a German chain made of Ger
man New Guinea, the Caroline, the
Palaos and the Mariana groups of is
lands; farther east lie the Solomon and
Bismarck archipelagoes, all hers; and
then come her holdings in Samoa.
Petty in themselves, taken together,
they form what an international
authority lately termed "a kind of arch
which commands the great ocean
roads to Australia and the roads be-
tween New Zealand and Hawaii
Already she. has taken Australia's
trade with the Marshall Islands, Eng
lands trade with Shan Tung, much of
Americas trade with Samoa, and prac-
tically all the worlds trade with the
Solomon and Bismarck Islands. In
Zanzibar, the kameruns, Angra-Pe-
GUIANA and the coast of Guinea she has
taken the great part of African trade;
and Africa is a stake in the fight for
the Pacific, for that fight is not a fight
for a sea, but a fight for new and un-
exploited continents
If it is indeed true that it is Ger
nany's destiny, as more than one Eur
opean statesman believes to grow into