The Washington herald., 1912-12-01
G. u. Orator in '97
FOreSaw Balkan War
Daniel w. O'Donoghue Describing Then Existent
Relations of Allies to Turkey Prophesied
the Present Conditions.

| ambition. became viceroy OF Spain for the
Caliph of Bagdad.
Yearning in his fanaticism to subju-
gate all Europe to the yoke of Islam
ism, he crossed the Pyrenees into France
! in the year 732 with an army Of 400 900
men. Terror went before them; fire and
devastation in their train; tower and
town opened their gates or were taken
| by storm.
They encamped on the plain of Tours.
But Christianity had her hero in Charles
Martel. He had but 5000 gallant
Franks; the hosts Of Abd-er-Rahman
were countless.
Christians Rout Enemies.
An October morning saw the conflict
begun, and an October night saw It end
gloriously for the Christians. The Sara
Gems were routed and their general
killed. They left thousands of their dead
upon the field and fed across the noun
tains into Spain, and the shadows Of
the Pyrenees never fell again on the
standards of the crescent.
But the Saracenic empire had not in
it the elements of stability. 1t had
reached the pinnacle of its power and
fame, and as early as the ninth CEN
fury was beginning to decline.
Meanwhile the Turks, who had just
retreats into Sogdiana, when Mahomet
was teaching his creed, continued % pour
down from the North. They spread over
the whole Saracenic empire, and from
slaves became masters, and held the
highest positions in the State. They
adopted the teachings of Mahomet; and
Islamism, with its sternness and fatal
ism, changed the excitable and impet-
uous Tartar into the dull, cold, apathetic
Turk
As the power OF the Saracens was
tottering into decay revolutions began to
occur throughout the empire.
On the wrecks OF the Saracenic States
were built many Turkish dynasties, the
last and most important Of which was
the SelJukian. Unfortunately for Eu-
rope, the SelJukian Turks were led by
the circumstances OF the times to oppose
themselves, not to Paganism in the East
as the preceding power of the Gaznevides
had done, but TO Christianity in the
West.
Crescent Moves Westward.
The year 1o4s Of our era dates the rise
of the Turkish power. 1t was then that
they steadily began to move westward
1t determined their destiny. It WAS then
that they set their faces against Chris
tianity, and for eight hundred long years
they have been its remorseless and re-
lentIess Toes
Chronicles are rich in the stories of
the three great Sultans of the Seljukian
Turks. They went East and West, took
Jerusalem, and threatened not only Con-
stantinople, but the whole of Europe
To stem this mighty torrent to avenge
the injuries inflicted on pilgrims Jour
neying to the tomb of Christ, to rescue
from the hands of infldels the Holy
Land, the Crusades were undertaken.
The Seljulxian Turks were hurled back
upon the East and then broken by the
hosts OF Crusaders.
1t was shortly after that lengths Khan
and his mighty horde of Monguls from
Northern Asia providentially finished the
work of the Crusades by totally destroy
ing the remnant of the House, of Sell !
julk.
most auspiciously for Christianity. The
contest seemed over; the barbarians of |
the North destroyed and Europe freed. |
But in the latter part of this century a |
tribe of four hundred families Of Turk
ish shepherds crossed the Oxus going
southwark These Turks were destined /
under Gilman to found an empire which |
should surpass in duration of time and
equal, If not Guido, its predecessors in
its intense and unmitigated hatred of |
Christianity and civilization. Gilman, or
Ottoman. from whom the empire takes
its name, came to power in the year
1901. He Immediately proclaimed "gazi,"
or holy war, against Christianity. His
son and successor, Orkan, successfully
continued his fathers policy of subjuga-
ton and persecution. 1t was during hts
reign that the Turks, through the perhdyl