The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-11-13
sWATTING THE TURK.

Swatting the Turk is a popular.
worldwide pastime. The Turk is
practically f~riendless. His acts Of par
barity through the centuries since his
invasion Of Europe have been con-
tinuous chambers OF horrors. Fiendish
n cruel to the superlative degree, he
has estranged all other nations. Now.
in the time of his greatest need-he
stands alone-despised and hated by
the civilized world. The following
from The Brooklyn Times is not a bad
summary:
The hand or Nemesis may be seen
IN the Balkan war. The Turks have
hVed by the sword, and they are now
Perlsnlng by the sword. Their mnan
is being forced back across he Ros-
pnorus toward the grand steppes Of
Asia, whence they came with their no
nadlc cant to assail and affIict Euro
pean civilization by a ceaseiess or at
least a frequent, intermittant ebauc
OF blood. The instincts of the Chinese
IN protecting themselves from these
savage Mongols by the building of a.
great wall against them may well have
Deen emulated by the European powers.
but alas; centuries have been wasted
In human torture, murder and unut-
teraole crime only to prove that the
leopard cannot change his spots.'
Whatever spirit of docility may lie dor
mant in the native Turkish heart.
lsIamism with the bloody sword which
u lnVokes is not amenable to civiIiza-
Ion' But the turk, comprising as he
does a mixture Of the blood OF the
Dyaggatais n Seldjuks, branches Of
the inner Asiatic Mongol tribe. is his
tor1cally and additionally representa-
tive of a type of a most incorrfsibIe
narbarism. And though he has been
privileged to occupy the border line of
western civilization for hundreds of
years, he has proven true only to the
instincts of his primeval ferocity.
NOT a half country 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 wa
torn from the dome of st. Sophia and
supplanted by the star and crescent of
the moon royerS.
At that time the Byzantium wa
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
h arts. crafts, philosophy and es-
thetic cults was reflected and reincar-
nated IN the people and their affairs.
~ ~0 - sDCSll COuIlnuGO- IN
its natural growth down to the pres
ent day, it might have put to shame
our yaunted twentieth century civiii-
cation. But no. the blight OF arnage,
OF blood and servilfty 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
shaved and outraged, and have SO con-
tinued to be until his yea, in Fun
view of the so-called powers-winking
with Interior motives or blinking "a
their moral obliquity.
Montenegro, Servia. Bulgaria ana
Greece, surrounding dependencies.
risen as one power, and with re-
markable spontanefty against the .sun-
EpeakabIe Turk, All the pent-up
ambitious. dreams and fortitude, gem
through centuries of servlIity.
have burst forth with torrential power.
Al raxaom Tor their stain Sires, their