Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-08-26

/ semblins mighty army. he threw
himself on the Monaghan hordes
fought them, defeated them. and sent
them flying back from Chinese terri
| tory.
But 1t was not enough to have
downed the enemy. The Mongols al
ways came back. They had a per
tinacity that made them the most dan
gerous Of foes. Therefore. 1t became
necessary to construct barrier that
would unfailingly perform its duty.
Everything had to be done by hand
for the great engineering devices that
today accomplish the work Of 60t
men had not then been invented. But
fortunately labor was plenty in thit
most thickly populated country in thu
world, and swiftly the great wall
moved into its place, grim and power
full and able to Withstand any assault
that Mongols might make.
It's battlemented walls are SO feet
high, and at every few hundred feet
they bristle with towers where In day.
of yore Chinese warriors stood even
ready to repel the invader.
OF Mortared Brick and Stone.
The wall is rs feet wide and Il
built for the greater part Of its way
of mortared brick and stone.
When the Ming dynasty had come
into power It duplicated for consid
cradle extent Shi-Hoangti's wall. and
thus for large part Of the distance
there Ia double barrier
The most powerful part of the wall
is that at Pa-ta-ling, for this gate wai
only go miles from Pekin. and here II
was that any charges directed agains,
the greatest and richest city of the ma
ton would have to be repulsed. One
great battle was fought here, for al
the top OF the Nankou pass the gate
was the scene Of the last stand against
the noted Monaghan warrior, Genghia
Khan, and when he OVERRIDE the de.
tenders 1t was down the pass and
through the gate that the conqueror
led his forces. He took the Mongols
into China and conquered country
against which his people had been
fighting for 1900 years
Kubla Khan also entered by this
pass when he completed the conquest
of China and made his realm the
greatest the world had ever known.
Genghis Khan and kubla Khan
we're differently dispositioned Genghis
burned all the literature OF China. but
Kubla protected the literature and
helped along the people by wise meas
ures that gave prosperity in agricuL
ture and commerce. Kubla fixed
places in the wall that had been raw
aged by the wars OF the centuries and
undertook to restore tranquility In
the country
Some historians have said that the
great wall accounted for the sloth in
to which China fell. The huge bar
rier. which even today shows itself
to be stoutly built. gave the people
sense OF security and made them feel
that no nation could overwhelm them
Centuries passed In this foolish de-
fusion. and when the war with Japan
came China discovered that she had
been sleeping for centuries.
Since the humiliation of that defeat
by the Mikado determination has
grown up among the younger element
of the people to earn place among
the great nations OF the world
The old dowager empress and the
weakling emperor stood In the way
Now they are gone. and the country
looks with hope to the strong man
who Is now at the helm. II Is prob.
able that before long China will feel,
no matter how the remainder OF the
world may regret the passing OF a
famous relic. that q new era has