The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-23
SHUSTER CALLS
HIS SUCCESSOR
COMMON THIEF
Young American Arrives in
New York With His Family
After a Strenuous Time
in Persia.
ANCIENT EMPIRE
AT MERCY OF CAR
Contemplate Part Played by
Great Britain Sin the Inter
est of Civilization and
the Cross"
Bv Internationa, News Service.


| VI sine contemplates the supposed
| J. designs of Germany" said W.
Morgan Shuster on his arrival to-
day aboard the North German Lloyd liner
George Washington. Mr. Shuster had
come directly from London on his return
| home from Tcheran. where since last July
he had been fighting with his back to
The wall, ITO mako good as he put 1t.
against the combined power Of Russia
| and Great Britain in his position as treas
| urer general of Persia.
| The young American, typical in
physique and viewpoint of the men in the
| United States who are in the forefront OF
| affairs discussed his experiences and
| trials In Persia with the utmost freedom.
| His mission to the capital Of the ancient
| empire was not O. diplomatic one He had
| been employed by the Persian authori-
| ties TO leave his home at Washington
| for the gigantic task OF undertaking the
| thousand year old revenue system OF Per-
| sia He entered upon the undertaking
with characteristic American energy and
! Idirectness. He did his work so well that
he soon fell afou OF both Russia and
Great Britain.
Partition the Object.
| He discov cred at the outset that two
powers smugly felt that any revision OF
| the age old Persian system Of taxation
and expenditure must be made only in ac-
| cordance with their matured purpose ul-
| tirately TO partition Persia between
themselves lin the interest OF civilization
and the cross" He says that from the
| inception of his work he encountered at
| every turn the combined opposition OF
ST. Petersburg and London. Mr.. Shus-
| ter npslly had TO yield TO this influence
and resign,
| Accompanied by Mrs. shuster and their
two little daughters, aged z and ., Mr..
Shustcr went from tho Hobollen pier
10 the Pennsylvania railroad station,
where the family embarked from their
old home In Washington,
| Without England's support" declared
| Mr., Shuster. Russia could not havo
| bulldozed its way through the Persian
| tangle and suppanted me with the pill
ant Belgian, Monard, who Is nothing less
| than secret agent OF the cars gov
ernmcnt While In Persia ] realized as
never before the hysterica state upon
which Great Britain is bordering because
| of the palsying dread Ia the foreign Of
| rjce under Sir Edwards Grey's admin
istrat ton that Germany will make some
| sudden move on the ehessoosrd OF Euro
pean politics that will put Britain far
among the tailendeTs in the game
England's Secret Aid.
"air Edward IL playing along helpless
| ~ and desperately with Russia In Persia
Hest England lose a point thai would dis-
rupt her hopeful policy in the far east.
Russja's tactics toward me and my work
we're so coarse and brutal that I prob
ably could have enlisted the active sup
mort OF the world had 1t not been for
E,nclanda secret aid Of Russia
"The upshot of it all is, added Mr.,
Shnster. THAT Persia Is now more at
the mercy OF the cars determined and
headIong policy of ruthless aggression
than before the Auglo-Russlan alliance
there was exposed by the sheer force OF
| circumstances
Shuster's keen eyes and heavy laws
that click out the emphasis OF his words
hespcak the moral and physical courage
he displayed all through the trying days
of the latter part OF his service at 1eher-
en His frame is knit rs closely as an
| atbeIete trained for a championship CON
| test Although for weeks subjected 10
| the rravest dangers. he moved about the
streets Of the Persian capital as though
no menace lurked, His muscular develop
ment seems TO proclaim his conhdent be-
lief that nad he been attacked by enc
mics witt, hludgeons or guns he could
have vanuuiohed them with his bare
hands.
Contempt for Monard.
For Monard, the Belgian with whom
he wes supplanted by the cars cos
sacks. Shuster expressed the most pro-
found contempt
THAT man is tnief,' he said calmly
when speaking OF Monard. Nothing but
the plainest kind Of American Eaik can
describe him. and being an American, i
am accustomed 10 calling q man q thief
I when know he Is. England and Russia
are only too willing for Monard to Elut
his greed on the Persian revenues so
long as he obeys their joint behest."
| Mrs. Shuster stood by her husbands
| side as he discussed ais experience In
| Teheran. So thoroughly did her husband
| infect her with his contempt of the dam
ger that daily threatened him that she
4 permitted the nurse to escort the Children
/ on their daily walks through tina city
| evon at the very height OF the excite
! ment