The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-12-07
4 Holy War

from the christian Science Monitor
The news hat the Sheik ul-lslam,
az the i%ustigation Of the caJiph On
the Rosphorls. has proclaimed a holy.
war would. if the solidarity OF Islam
were a fact, mean one thing and one
thing only ~ would mean that
Christians ne matter what their MAJ
tlonality. would sopn he fighting. M
an Mohammedau lands, aRainst over.
whvlmidg numbers. tor their lives.
II would mean. IL success attended
the Crescent. tho rcpet ton. ON "a
huge scale. of the u-nspeakable hor-
rors summed up in me incident 81
the well OF kanpur' u would mean
an avalanche of fannticism and de-
struction LEI loose To- thunder from
the mountain sides - lslamic feroc-
ity into the valleys Of the christian
civilization o. would mcan the Arab
and the kurd engaged in perpetrat-
iuR more Armenian m%assacres than
those OF The past o. would mean the
hour of every mad mullah" OF the
dark continent with his mission of
murdcry and slavery u would mean
the fertility ct Egypt reduced once
more to the level 81 the deserts Of
Arabia. and the Indus and The Gan
ges wandering to- the sea through a
country as dcsolate aud that through
which tho %Euphratcs aud the Tigfir
now
Turkey. of course. is an enctr pow
or AdmiuietrnttVciy corrupt beyond
any power ot cxaggeratiou. socially
dcpeueratc through an oppression
which reduces women to q position
more degrading than that which they
occupied Boo the Europe CT the dark
ages and The feudal system. aud de-
void COT an initiative of enterprise,
save that connected with the PROBES
sion Of arms. the maintenance ct ~
empire iu Europe has long been de-
pendent on the selfishuess and ieal
ousy of the great powers or hate u
has been manifest that even this
measure eft security was cbbing away
A. % consequence there grew up @
party al the sublime Porte. mainly
dominated by FaNer paSha. cou-
WINGED that salvation las solely .n the
sword. with AN exhausted treasury,
however. Uld with q d~isorgan'~ed
military system H was uhNiuus that
the ottoman army would hardly hope
Co eclipse thp memory OF Its deeds
under SULLIVAN the MAGNIFICENT or
even Sos suttos d cstime when under
Oman pasha. ~ f1rcd Russin ln
such circuustuuycS recourse us q lts,
effort. has had % Doe made to the
grocu flue
Fortunately Tor humanity The dam
Rcf AZ the green pcril' may bc said
60 have been reduced Go y minimum.
The great dohammcdau princes OFT
India have Wed with each other iu
re%pudiatiug the commands OF the
p|adishah i'm STEAMBOAT The Zona'e
aBd the Turpo show mo- disposition 60
desert the @tricolor iur the crescent
IN The sudan Fuzzy has not Nct
turned against the salt Whilst the
/ Shrik-ul- Islam mo longer the reli-
gIous voice col Islam but thr political
tool uf 70 nominal culIph whpse terF
title b. disputed. Is understood to
hup. protested vigorously before he
was compelled to obey the dictates ~
Ism irresponsible and fnnaticai soidirr
Tho fortunate truth IL that 10 b.
ono thing Go proclaim "a huly war
and altogether another thing Geo o
, islam today to the requisite pitch OFT
ftuati,Jl insanity ~. however. the
can should goo out from The walls
and command Of The mu"zyiu Joe
obo,rd. civilization would ho called
upou Zoo protect itself against the
ercrt test aauRer 10 has faced since th"
l0r.Ia4.t 4tru.rIe al thaIprs