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Show THE ARGUS. sides, will be in the interest of the great unappreciated empire which lies west of the Mississippi river. It would certainly be a grand occasion if President McKinley and his brilliant, courageous, young opponent could meet on a pleasure excursion by the inland sea, together to enjoy the picture of the lake and mountains, the beauty and grandeur of the locality, the holiday happiness of the people, the pageantry, the signs of progress and development on every hand, the local problems, the scheme of irrigation and the novelty of the experience they would surely enjoy it. They ought to come. . . g Salt Lake doctors have been again over ethics and gfonal conduct. For some reason or other, the dissensions among physicians of different schools and the jealousy between graduates of the same school are greater than in all other professions put together. Lawyers quarrel and fight, but they take a drink together and go home arm in arm after the trial is over. Journalists attack and villify contemporaries even tell the truth about each other and get over it. Politicians loathe, denounce and even smite one another in thie heat of a campaign, but when the smoke of battle clears away the wrath is gone. Not so with doctors. In a miff, one refers to a brother physician as a quack.1 The offence is never forgiven. Allopaths and homeopaths and electics are constantly at swords points. To all appearances they are courteous and dignified, but it is the courtesy of war, the dignity of disdain, the solemn, hollow punctilio of generals of contending armies. To advertise is in other words, to pay for legitimate newspaper advertising is in violation of medical ethics ; free puffs are eagerly sought without enof the beneficiary. There dangering the standing ' is a great deal more humbuggery, and consequently more jealousy, among physicians than among surgeons. Knowledge and skill are more essential to the successful practice of surgery than to the giving of pills and powders. The surgeon must be scientific ; the physician is necessarily empirical. When they call each other quacks, it stings, and they never get over it. quar-relin- profes-Quarraiia- g. i t non-profession- al; unable to carry. And this is proud Spain whose mailed and mounted knights once rode through unknown wilds and planted the cross and colors of their king in savage lands ; whose conquests were the marvels of history, and whose possessions covered the greater and richest part of the new world. One after another of her colonial victims has been shaking itself loose ; the wolf is being driven back to its lair. ' , If one would be a diplomat let him study the Turk. Who could more skillfully carry on a work of revenge and murder, and pacify and satisfy at the same time guardians of the peace? Every civilized power of Europe is rendered helpless by a few hypnotic passes of the Sultan, who whispers to one of danger, to another of debt, to some he makes a promise of reform, at others hurls a threat, and all the while his paid assassins are carrying out his policy of exterminating Christians in the East. More than a million human beings have been sacrificed already upon the altars of brutal lust and superstition. Christian blood is the beverage of the Turk ; Christian property his lawful plunder ; Christian women his reward. Armenia, the home of Asiatic Christianity, has been the slaughter ground of Macedonian, Persian, Roman and Ottoman butchers since the deluge. The persecutions carried on by Belus, by Timur and by Abbas were more frequent, but not more fiendish than the persecutions of Musselmen still read the Koran by the light of human bonfires. The Kurds descend from their mountain homes just as they did in the days of Cyrus. The Ishmael-ite- s of the desert dart across the border on missions of murder with the same crude weapons that they turned against Moses. Humanity is just beginning to be appalled, just awakening to a realization of the horrors. Civilization is shocked but there is more for it to do than grieve or protest. It must act. It should no longer permit cruelty and imbecility to sit upon a tottering throne, refusing to note the approach of progress, defying with dotard craft the impending judgment of mankind. ideal Diplomat. horror-stricke- to-da- y. p--- a- Barbarism in warfare is no longer regarded with indifference; nor is cruelty looked upon as an element of leadership. Spain and Turkey were once great nations. Both are now in a state of decay. They are trembling on the verge of utter collapse. Morally depraved, financially bankrupt and internationally despised, their power is departing from them. To the cupidity of creditors and the jealousy of prospective heirs they owe their existence Turkey has been preserved in order to save her national securities, to avoid a clash in the distribution of her territory, to prevent an outbreak of Mohammedan fanaticism or a general war for the possession of Constantinople the key of Oriental commerce. And it is shameful that jealousy, greed or fear should compel the powers of civilization to sustain this national vulture or withold their hands from its destruction. Spain is not so well supplied with mediators and the end of Spanish domination outside her own borders, is rapidly approaching. Her cruelty has driven friends away and her wanton destruction of Cuba deprives her of the only profitable source of revenue she has had for a long time. With a hard name, a bankrupt treasury, an impoverished and discontented people her future is far from promising. The long expensive war with Cuba, the Fhillipine insurrection and domestic troubles with her Ministry have added to the burdens of a debt, the interest ef which she has long been to-da- y. n In all Armenia, it is said, there not one home but has been de- - An(i is Figures. Hied, by the brutal soldiers of the Sultan, not one maiden whose honor has escaped the lustful Turk. From century to century murder and outrage have gone forth from the Bosphorus on their mission of destruction and debauchery. The present century has witnessed a decline, but its record is nevertheless appalling. In 1822 not less than 50,000 Greeks were massacred in the islands of the Aegean sea ; in 1853 10,000 Nestorians were butchered around the head waters of the Tigris ; in 1860 11,000 Maro-nite- s and Syrians perished in Mount Lebanon and Damascus ; in 1876 upward of 15,000 were slaughtered in Bulgaria. Within four years not less than 100,000 people have been foully assassinated by order of the Sultan ; 8,750 men, women and. little children cut down in the streets of Constantinople. Turkish soldiers are said to carry with them the dried ears of their Armenian victims. This is a horrible story, but not more so than hundreds of others which go to make up the real history of Mohammedan rule. No wonder, then, that Greece responded to the cry of the Christian fer help. The wonder is that other civilized nations would not. But the odds have been too great for the little nation which has had to face not only Turkey, but the powerful, avaricious creditors of Turkey as well. It is no surprise if Greece is beaten with such odds against her. But the triumph of Turkey offers the pow ers of Europe little consolation, after all, and presents another problem for diplomats to solve. Turkish success may mean the downfall of the Greek monarchy in Problem. fact. The Athenians of today are not only brave, but impulsive and turbulent. Those who fear no danger are frequently so. In their rage and mortification at the victories of Turkey, they have turned upon King George. If the royal family of Danes is driven from Greece and the government overthrown, what will become of the people? The logical sequence would be the establishment of a republic, but that experiment has already been tried in Greece, and it proved a failure. The lack of and stability among the masses, as marked today as it was in the time of Aristides, is inimical to the trust which the democratic idea reposes in the people. The overthrow of the government will doubtless mean a reign of anarchy at Athens. The powers assuredly would not welcome such a turn. While unwilling to permit the destruction of the Ottoman empire, they do not care to see Greece over-ruby the Mohammedan or the crescent again raised over the Acropolis. The greed and jealousy of the European powers may therefore reassert themselves this time in a better cause to prevent the spoliation of plucky, headstrong, but none the less courageous little The Qreek self-contr- ol n Greece. A well known correspondent from the Orient accounts for the success of Turkey in this way : From the beginning of the struggle the Greeks havt been handicapped by the lack of men, of money and of real leaders. The want of the latter has been the most fatal of all. A single general of commanding ability might have accomplished much, even against the odds on the Turkish side. It is only just to say that the Greek soldiers have shown themselves brave, patient and persevering. Their dashing charges upon strong positions, their endurance of the enemys destructive fire and their courage in standing up under the keenest hardships have aroused the admiration of all beholders. But the Greeks have been wretchedly led. Grown Prince Constantine, their nominal field commander, has not shown the slightest gleam of military capacity. The operations of the second Greek army in Epirus have been easily foiled by the Turkish troops. The Provo Enquirer which, all Foo! the through the last campaign, was a Enquirer. consistent champion of Republican principles, which is today one of the stanchest supporters of the administration in the State of Utah, is not deceived by the sly maneuvers of those who claim to be Republicans yet fought the party in the last campaign ; it is not misled by the roundabout manner in which undeserving men are seeking to control the local apportionment of the spoils of party victory ; it is not idly or blindly calling attention to the significance of the mooted alliance between George Q. Cannon and Pat. H. Lannan, between the News and the Tribune ; and it directs the attention of President McKinley to a few points worth considering in connection with the gentlemen named. The EnIt may have seemed to the Presiquirer says : dent, from the delegation present, that Democrats and bolters were the main friends of the jubilee, but then he was, of course, mistaken. And it drives a spike in the great gun as follows : The people of Utah would have felt a little more assurance in extending an invitation to President McKinley to attend their Pioneer Jubilee had not their church publications es |