Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-13
DEMOCRATIC IDEALS
SPREAD THROUGHOUT
ALL GREAT nations
November Proves Fatal Period for War Lords;
Democracy Claimed Key to Present Turmoil in
Europe; Republics Established by Revolt to
Get Severe Tests From Former Royalists.

crusade has ended. making The Turks
a great power with equal rights. Will
the Goth century find Christians suf-
fering even more tragically than III the
10Th! Kemal. the bold and brave pa
triot who was outlawed hy tie sultan
created a great national assembly with
q government apparently many sided
but really subjected only to himself
and with Frances strategic and flnan-
cial help drove the Greeks from Asia
Minor. Europe permits Greece. from
whence continental culture came. and
for whose liberation from the Turkish
yoke thousands. including Lord Byron,
shed noble blood, to sink in an abyss
while the powers vie with ono another
TO flatter the Mussulman %victors, as,
after Russia's disastrous Manchurlan
defeat they flattered the japanese to
the detriment of white prestige.
Regain Thrace
To regain Thrace for a European
foothold and abolish the capitulations
designed to safeguard the rights of
foreigners kemal is pretending that
Turkey is to be a democratic republic
deposes the sultan and proclaims that
the calipse must be elected.
Turkey a democracy. Since 1t got
Co~nstantinople in 1853 it has always
been a nation of warlike hordes. The
fertilest lands in Europe and Asia
Minor have withered under Islamic
militarism mixed with corruption. 1t
has done nothing for civilization Gull
ture, increasing prosperity or higher
morals but, with the most cunning
cruelty has prosecuted all Christians
within reach, enslaved and tried to ex-
terminate them. Turkey cannot do
otherwise for its belief orders it TO
despise all other creeds, and fight
against the Christian dogs who can be
tolerated only when converted to Is
lam. The spirit of Mohammed will
never make an honest peace with the
gentle gospel of Jesus Christ. A peo-
pie who for centuries were reduced
to servitude by the moods Of a sultan
and whose highest dignitaries are gem
erals, only yesterday were obliged to
run like dogs behind the P~adlshads
carriage, are supposed to have become
over night ready for self government.
The national assembly will elect the
most easily influenced Ottoman prince,
thus obtaining performance over the
pan-Islam movement which threaten
three continents. and combined with
lTepuCLl HUN bCuSCuUlu dIudSC4 y.
Wherein. it may be observed, they
nave nothing at all on the desire of the
other half of the so-called human race.
The yellow fanatics and imperialists
of east Asia may soon threaten Amer
lea and Australia. Doesn't England
which forced Lloyd George to resign
on account of his Near East policy,
see what danger threatens Arabia,
Mesopotamia. Persis, Afghanistan,
Bellochistan, Punjab, Burma, India. if
it allows Mussulman unity to subject
to Turkish cimitar? Has petroleum
spoiled John Bulls nose 50 that for
the first time he fails to scent where
his interests lie.
Democratic ideals are racing
through the world in a Ford car, but
with Trotzky. Renal, Mussolini or
high Tories as chauffeurs, the best
tires won't prevent a serious blow out.
Only the echo of the ~crusading spirit
from the ca { carehidnahelp
from the cathedral can help.