The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1912-11-21
The unspeakable Turk has been for

many years a disgrace to clvll1Za-
ton, the most cruel and bloodthirsty
in the world, hated and dreaded alike
by all the nations of Europe, now at
the time of his downfall his frantic
appeal is unheaded. Keen Joy is
expressed on every hand that he is
finally being subdued. The following
from an exchange is so very good
that We feel justified in reproducing
it.
The hand of Nemesis may be seen
in the Balkan war. The Turks have
perishing by the sword. Their rem
nant is being forced back across the
Bosphorus toward the grand steppes
of Aisa, whence they came with their
nomadic cant to assail and afflict
European civilization by ceaseless
or at least frequent, intermittant de-
bauch of blood. The instincts of the
Chinese in protecting themselves from
these savage Mongols by the building
OF great wall against them may we'll
have been emulated by the European
powers. But alas, centuries have
been wasted in human torture, murder
and unutterable crime only to prove
that the leopard cannot change his
spots" Whatever spirit of docility
may lie dormant in the native Turkish
heart, Islamism with the bloody sword
which it invokes, is not amenable to
civilization. But the Turk, comprising
as he does a mixture of the blood of
the Dyaggatais and Seldjuks, branches
of the inner Asiatic Mongol tribe, is
historically and additionally repre-
sentative of type of most incorri-
gible barbarism. And though he has
been privileged to occupy the border
line of western civilization for hun
dreds of years, he has proven true
only to the instincts of his primeval
ferocity
Not a half century previous to the
year in which America was discovered
the Byzantium, or Constantinople, fell
into the hands of the Turks, and the
peaceful ensign of christianity was
torn from the dome of St. Sophia, and
supplanted by the star and crescent of
the moon rovers.
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Towering out as the civic center of a
wonderful civilization growing from
the ruins of the Roman empire. The
glory of classic Greece and Rome, in
the arts, crafts, philosophy and es-
thetic cults was reflected and reincar-
mated in the people and their affairs.
Had this civilization been continued in
it's natural growth down to the pres
ent day, it might have put to shame
our Wanted twentieth century civili-
cation. But no, the blight of carnage,
Of blood and servility was put upon it,
and allowed to eat its way to the
root, like cankerous poison, to the ut
ter destruction of this new civilization.
Brave and gallant peoples were en-
shaved and outraged, and have so con-
tinued to be until this year, in full
view of the so-called powers-wink-
ing with Interior motives or blinking
in their moral obliQuity.
Montenegro, Servia, bulgaria and
Greece, surrounding dependencies,
have risen as one power, and with re-
markable spontaneity against the "un-
speakable Turk All the pent-up am
billions, dreams and fortitude, general
ed through centuries Of servility, have
burst forth with torrential power. A
ransom for their slain sires, their dis
honored women, their insulted reli-
gion, their disparaged patriotism, and
the abortion Of their civilization, is
demanded, not only of the Turk him
self, but of the selfish and timorons
powers These little municipalities
and powers have hurled themselves
like an army of Titians upon the
walls of Constantinople, crushing
them down like paper she'll, while
the Turkish ruler sinks away into the
regions Of Asia like his nomad sires.
Now that justice deferred by cen
turtles is available to the Bulgarians,
the Servians, the Montenegrins and
the Greeks, bought and paid for by
their own blood, it is uncomfortable
that they will not receive it.
The wiseacrist talk Of the powers
Of preserving the status quo" OF the
Mos1em rule in the face of history and
Of recent events is travesty indeed
upon civilization. The conquest Of
the Turkish realm by the Balkan al
lies is an inherited right which no in
ternational treaty or diplomatic casu-