Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-10-08
TIE NEAR EAST.

TUE NEAR EAST.
Events are Transporting and movements
passing Kaleidoscope rapidity In the
Near East. No man knows what a day
may bring forth. 1t takes mail from this
raft Of the Orient 80 many weeks TO reach
Ellsworth. that one runs a risk OF triteness
in attempting TO "tuFnish news from the
Holy Land or TO write up political
matters" in which American readers ars
interceted. Our friends In Hancock,
Warrington and pcnobscot counties are so
lnsisseni in inviting Us 70 tell "what is
happening over there, that we venture to
send ie~ comments touching some ORR
entail matters Of interest.
THE gxsPEAKABIg TURK.
The Christian diplomat and social re-
former reioices because he thinks the I'M
sreakable Turk Ia driven out OF Europe,
and predicts an uprising shared by the
Lebanon, Armenia, Nesopoiamia,
Kurdissan, Irak and Palestine, which will
end Turkish misrule and oppression, bn,
do these men really know what they are
taking and writing about?
There is agitation. unrest, dissatIs-
faction, and here and there vilayet dis
tarbauec in Turkey In Asia, but who can
tell what viii be the outcome OF these
things ana of the confusion in the
BAikansr After peace Ii declared, Turkey
retakes Adrianople and Bulgaria is har-
rassed on every side Roumania to the
n go nA
Greece to the south and Turkey TO the
east. Is Bulgaria to be ctfsced from the
msp9 Dare Russia make mover How
long before all Europe may be one vast
army marching to war?
In all probability better counsel will
prevail, and when these lines are read some
semblance of order may be evolving out
Of the chaos. God grant II. Tourists
from America write the home papers, in
dalslng in the most vehement and denun-
eialory language calling, the Ottoman
government aii the bad names our rich
mother tongue supplies in this particular
tusn OF English expression, bat does 1t
breathe forth the spirit OF the MasterG
Let us remember that the leaders among
the Turks read these deliveranees, and
tina, they are Moslems; and let us re-
member also that the individual Turk one
meets every day on the street is as hne a
type OF man as Is found In Asia Minor and
Syria, and | doubt not in the entire
Lsyans.
The fact is thar Turkey, in the assassi-
nations, humiliations, dishonor and de-
feat OF few months ago, did not present
TO the world the abominabie spectacle
which is now presented by the 80
called Christian Balkan states, throw
ing themselves, like angry dogs, at
each others threats for the few bones
that are left, and at the connivance, some
think, II not the actual instigation OF GER
tain Christian nations.
The Ottoman empire-this large part OF
the Moslem world-appeals TO the great
Christian nations for sympathy and
friendship, and at this hour Of untold
opportunity and tremendous response
hility, when the supremacy OF the religion
Of Mohsmmed and the religion of the
Christ is in the balance in the Near East,
what are the Christian nations thinking
and doing? Oh, Christendom, listenl
Even ministers OF the Gospel, calling the
Turks vile names, Christian churches
hear,lessly rejoicing at Turkish suffering,
and Christian nations watching with
cunning diplomacy a chance to add TO
their own prestige and power at the dis
eomforture Of weaker governments. Have
Christian people no tears for widows and
orphans, no kind words for other human
beings, simply because they are Turksf
What Asia Minor, Syria, the I.esant, the
entire Turkish empire needs, and what
Bulgaria needs; in fact, what all this
bleeding and suffering part of the world
needs, is love and sympathy, prayers and
sacrifices bestowed with lavish hand and
generous heart by the followers OF the
Christ.
EseLASp's SHARE OF THE sroIIs.
The Arabs of Oman have revolted
against their sovereign and priestly head,
'he Imam, Sayed Faisal bin Turk, AND
CHOSEN new soverelg ign and Imam, an ARAB
otthe Kharusi tribe, Salem bin Rashid.
aayed Faisal's troops are unable to subdue
me revolutionists, and Sizwah, Rustak,
1aki, Awabi, and other places, have fallen.
Even while / write, my friend, fusuf
stephan. receives news direct from Oman
uom his friend, Ssyed Mohammed DIN
said, whose father was vixier to the sultan,