Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-08-28
lGoSIEM FANATICS THREATEN
 PEACE or THE WORLD

The trouble m Morocco is s'rlous International complication and one that is not going to bs ended as soon as some people have expected. The natives of that somewhat uncivilizcd country are . people raised on war-tribal and oth' svwisc- who believe that to die fighting b the only sure passport to heaven, and, when pittcd against Christian osldicrs, wno, while they may not fear dsath, certainly are not getting in front 0f bullet just for the opportunity 1t will afford them of getting into n place wherc there is no fighting, they com. dssd and one that is not easily sub. ed.
 N would not be surprising to hear of . sumber of additional massccrcs in Morocco before the French and Spanish ssnpicte their joint difficult task of Daking good Moors of people who have 1nswn nothing but to steal and kin, specially if the killing was of n Christ. iss and the stealing was from n Christ ian or somebody near kin to n Christian. Iii Moroccan question is only ona of tAs many similar matters now haunt. iag the world powers that stand spon. 0sS, and responsible for various sections 'sf this troubled old sphere where peo. ple of non Christian belief make their AaAitat.
 Tho dread of a revival of Moslem fa. nnaicism haunts the French in Algeria. = English in Egypt and in India anI - Russians in Central Asia. The world Aas seen very lately in the eastern Sou. Ca what religious frenzy could accom-. p1isA. Tho rnw levies, inspired with fssy by the Mahdi and his successor Abdullahi, destroyed one Anglo. Egypt. iaa army after another and cost the ,ly. aasty of Mchcmet Ali the whole of the vss2 dominion which it had painfully acquired along tho upper Nile to the 0Duth of the second cataract. IL Is trus that the territory was recovered in ssh end by General Kitchener, but only after many years had been spent in training competent force and at a tine when the original ardor of the Mahdists had been qucnchei by fright. ful opposition. It was repeatedly oh. ssrvsd while the uprising was success. fol that even the immense superiority of European weapons was impotont to cope with multitudcs excited by a dcs. pcrate desire to die and kill.
 The collapse of Islam in large part of the lands which it subdued was due largely to an innate tendency to disin. texration, tine outcome, no doubt, of the tribal discord among the natives of Arabia, which gave the prophet him self much trouble, which broke out m. der his fourth successor and has never ceased to render permanent cooperation out of the question. Not many years passed after generals of the caliphs had occupied north Africa from Alexandria
 
 split up into several independent king. doms, some of which soon followed the example of the Moslcm conqucrcrs of Spain, adjured the caliphatc of Cordova and set up sovcreigns of their own in. vested with spiritual as well as tom. poral supremacy. An instance of such . scnism is afforded by the dynasty which is supposed to have descended from tho daughter of Mohammcd and which is now represented by Abdul Axix, the present nominal ruler of Mo. rocco. Among his subjects tho tribal hatred and the seemingly incurable i'm. patience of authority which are char acteristic of Arabs and their Moorish kinsmen has long been intensified. Hitherto 1t has been counted on to avert . universal and implacablc uprising of