The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-12-12
THE NEAR EAST MENACE.

The editorial published below fro
The Pend d'Oreille Review, while
may overestimate the danger to til
white races of the earth, nevertheless
furnishs food for thought, in so ia
as the immienent danger Of anothe
great war is concerned. We hesitat
to blieve however, that the great lea
der whom the Christian nations fol
low, and who instructed His follower
to spread His teachings thought tn
world was authorizing somethin
which would eventually place tn
Christian nations of the world at tn
mercy of the non-Christian and in
ferior peoples,
The able editor of The Review
writes:
REV. DR.. Divine, pastor Of the FRS
Presbyterian church of Spokane, who
spoke at the chamber of commerce
dinner Tuesday evening, upon the sit
uation in the Near East, gave no com
fort and assurance that the great
world struggle is over. Unless condi-
lions change in that part Of the world
the Spokane divine gives utterance to
the thought that there will be another
world war within a decade. There is
no great discount to be placed upon
DR.; Divine's estimate of the situation
since he has learned the true nature
of affairs from his own study upon
the ground. Students of world affairs
are not minimizing the danger that
threatens the white race
One of the sins of the German mill
tary oligarchy responsible for the re-
cent world war will eventually be the
division made between the nations
which must stand together when the
hordes from the east shall sweep
down upon the white races of the
earth. Only a nation magnified in
It's own conceit could have bro tglt
into the equation it's own small Ger
sonality as compared to the big game
of the Near East situation, the pres
ent Turkish move is but the merest |
suggestion. A Christian nation itself,
Germany helped to destroy vast
wealth which will mean much to the
white race if it shall eventually have
to combine against the Mohammedan.
And what shall be said of France,
which for commercial selfishness, can
the Turk and, to outmaneuver
its recent ally, England, has signi-
fled a willingness if not an intention
against the cross?
" The white races, by their kindness
10 the worlds distress, in answer to
he missionary spirit of the sacrifice
taught by the Great Leader Of the
white mans religion, have borne to
he yellow races the very means per-
laps of their own destruction. They
ave taught these dirty peoples the
worth of cleanliness, of quarantine, OF
accinations, reducing among them the
weeping power Of great plaques
Il
cached them, destroyed the natural
reater race increases of the darker
aces over the white. With the yell
wv races increasing at the rate Of
tx generations to the white races
Tree generations, what Providence did
18th the scourge, Christians have de-
,royed with the greater talents given
lem. What peculiar perversity, if =
lie followers of the Christian religion
shall be destroyed upon
lie earth because they followed the
aching Of their Great Leader to heal
le sick.
Out of the present situation per-
APPS will come the league of white
ices forced upon them not to patrol
lie possessions of peoples proud of
cir temporal power but combined to-
ether in the supreme struggle for
TRIVIAL
(" More even than the Balkan states
ere the powder magazines of the
lst are today those countries COM
Using the Near East and over which
q Turks, with Mohamet as their
ophet, hold sway in this vital hour
the worlds extremity
"a M "a
-PHOLD ENFORCEMENT OF LAW.
Announcement from the White
,use that the president is deter
ned that the prohibition laws shall
effectively enforced will be greeted
tn hearty approval throughout the /
ton. The national prohibition !!
endment was adopted after a large h
,portion OF the states had individu- |
= gone "dry." The question had