The Washington times., 1920-08-04

lOnk uuFatlOn Ot hhet
sultan Mohammed ii In l+55 led his
Turkish hordes forth out OF Asia on
campaign OF conquest, and. ap-
preaching the Golden Horn, entered
through the Romsnos Gate into the
,apitsl OF Oriental Christendom, into
that ByIantium which had been re-
"hTistened with the more personal and
lmperialiHtic name OF Constanti-
iopolis. and whose far-famed cathe-
'rsl, the sacred Sophia, had now to
Iuffer transformation into a mosque.
TURK Contributions NIL.
To civilization and economic deyel-
)pmcnt TO art and the discrement
world relations those 900 years OF
turkish rule have contributed moth
ng.
The hordes remained hordes. main
aiming for a long time their military
, trength but lacking the constructive
'tatesmanship that would have en-
ttled them TO build a nation.
The red sickle OF their crescent
noon moved down venerable AMI
noble civilizations like blades of
srass. and under their standards the
ARREST lands rotted and the Richest
'ecayed.
Even today Europe would not o. 50
impoverished. so humilistingly de-
,endent upon the markets OF foreign
continents, had not it's entire south
EASTERN part from the Adriatic to the
Black sea- as we'll as it's Asiatic pro-
ongaton down to the Persian gulf.
seen excluded from all economic and
technical development and con-
iemned to a stagnation OF which the
only softening element, az in the
case of all tyranny, was It's corrup-
ton.
Greeks, Serbs, Daco-Wallachians,
Mongoiian Bulgarians, all these peo-
ples were allowed to be merely
'rajan," on-Mohammedan serfs, the
Ierd destined to be milked by the
turk.
OUTRAGES UPON ARMENIANs.
And there is surely no need today
to tell the story of his outrages
against the Armenian Christians and
f the way in which the bestially
cruel extirpation of an entire people
VAS begun and finished before the
very eyes OF Europe.
In that soil, fertilized with the
blood OF countless innocent victims.
was also to be found the gigantic
dung heap in which every sort Of
dynastic and diplomatic intrigue grew
empire. pieced together az it was out
Of lands acquired either by conquest
or by marriage. the Hapsburgs found
themselves under the necessity OF
openly or secretly condoning, IL not
encouraging. Turkish misrule: ana
this brought them into long conflict
with Russia, which was bound not
only to assist its Slavic brethren. :he
Christians OF it's orthodox church, but
also to seek for itself on the Bos-
phorus the only possible outlet into
the open ice-free sea.
France had inherited from the time
Of the Bourbans the till. and orfi6e
of protestor OF Christians in tn"
Orient. and did not wish, even as IN
atheistic republic. to lose that prort-
able prestige: for had not the great
patriot Gambetta warned against nS-
ing atheism as an article OF export:
CONTROL EGYrT AND INDIA.
And no matter how loudly England
might declaim against atrocities. the
scene Of which was almost invariably
Turkey, she nevertheless had TO
guard against a serious break with
he sultan.
Still more nauseating did TINS
poisonous brew become when william
II. began to fawn upon the TURKS
and when beside the grave OF Salaoin
he proclaimed himself the FRIEND ot
all Mohsmmedans. and interlarden
all Turkey with his military, man.
cial, and technical instructors.
To the construction of the Bs gdAn
railway he gave the sensational coi"T,
ing of national and political
achievement, and so forced even upon
complacent Rritons the convictoh
that he really intended to snatch fr"rn
,is mothers home the supremacy ~
the seas and pre-eminence IN tho
world of Islam. and to secure for MIN
! self an overland route by way "l trC
Bsgdad railway for the conquest 81
India.
II a prize had been given for the
| most successful way OF bringing
,bout an alliance Of France, Britain
and Russia against Germany, our
seosation-seeking Imperator ReN'
! with his Samese twin compinauon
| Of the "old German god with Ailah
and his prophets, would surely nave
won the prize.
Because Germany made her noisy
demonstration in the Moroccan har-
Dor Of Agadir. although merely for
the acoustic effect, Italy thought she
could no longer place implicit conn
dence in the secret treaty which gave
to her Tripolitania and the CNrmaika'
and Morocco to France. and therefore
she began the war which gained Tor
her the possession of Libya.
But because in this Tripolis war
the weakness Of the young Turks
was so plainly evident, the Balkan
peoples ventured upon their united
uprising against the Ottoman op-
pressor.
And because in two Balkan wars