Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-03-27

to say that the PARTITION OF turkey as
it is now planned, will, with
Russias recently acquired Persian
territory, give her a considerable
Mediterranean sea board.
To lose a prize SO great was not at
all to the liking Of the government
at Saint Petersburg and the solution
of the problem was to get Mr.. Shuster
out of Persia and some tool of the
Russian government into his chair.
The seizure Of the property of Sam
sam -es- Sultareh gave Russia her op
portunity and she demanded the i'm
mediate release Of the property on the
grounds that the property was
mortgaged to a Russian bank.
Careful investigation proved to Mr..
Shuster that his move had been a
sound one, as regards Legality, and he
stood to his guns and fatty refused to
cater to the demands of the Russian
consul, and it is to this incident that
people Willingly or unwittingly refer
when they remark on Morgan Shuster' S
deplorsble lack of Diplomacy.
Russia now tried to block Mr..
Shuster's every move, making false
charges against him, such as the one
regarding the publishing of Mr.
Shuster' s letter to the London Times,
in Persia. and trying to bluff him out
of his position.
An ultimatum demanding his in
slant dismissal was sent by Russia to
the Persian medjliss, which was
unanimously rejected by the Persian
representatives. and fourteen thousand
Cossacks we're rushed over the border
into the cities of Tabriz, Resht and
Kazoin.
Twenty days these troops lay idle
and then began the massacres in the
three cities before mentioned
The Backtiari. one of the tribes Of
Teheran, we're hired by Russians to
close the medjliss. which they did,
and then a commission of six Persians
was appointed to act on the Russian
ultimatum. and they accepted.
On the ninth of January Mr.
Snuster left. and his leaving was the
funeral procession of Persian in
dependence. Mr. Shuster in leaving
had taken advantage of his rights
under the Persian law. and turned
over his Office to his first assistant.
Mr.. E. S. Cairns.
On the fourteenth of January Mr..
Monard, the newly appointed treasurer
general, brought Mr.. Cairns note.
saying that he would take the Office of
TIE treasurer general. without any
authority therefor. Mr.. Cairns of
course did not relinquish the records,
and the next morning Mr.. Monard
reappeared with an authoritative
order to take over the Office, and a
threat of Imprisonment for the as
sistants of Mr.. Shuster.
The Office was turned over and
Persian council notified that the
Americans we're waiting for the army
that would be necessary to throw them
into one of the filthy Persian jails,
and the matter was called to the De-
partment Of State at Washington.
whose officials we're too busy wonder
ing whether they would retain their
positions unuer the next administra-
tion to help the men they themselves
had sent to Persia
1t was in reference to this cable
gram that one of the brainy editors of
one of the magnificent exponents of
American journalism wrote his
pusilanimous and insulting article
headed Americans Shrek for help
A day or so following this incident
was fruitful with the attempted as
sassination of Major Preuss. of the
gendarmerie, and the apology of the
Persian government for suggesting
Imprisonment as a reward for duties
they themselves admitted we'll done.
On the seventh of February a set
Element was arrived at and the
Americans were given permission TO
leave Persia.
The wild cat stories of Amer.
leans being held up at the border,
due to Irregularities in Mr.. Shuster's
accounts, were more absurd even than
they seemed.
Mr. Shuster handled no money.
All of his business was done through
the one standard institution of Persia,
the English bank.
Such stories could only originate in
the mind of scavanger of the earth.
Such as Mr.. Josef Monard, and later
developments show them to have
come from just that place.
The unwarranted partition of
Persia, with England's sanctimonious
acquiescence, was merely a shuttle of
the political cards. but it speaks
volumes for Morgan Shuster, when