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Show Premonitions. I The statement that the sultan is preparing 1 to contest a point with Great Britain, even to 1 war, if necessary, may be but a rumor, but if so I it is only anticipating what is to be. 1 The Moslem power is growing restless. Its 1 faith Is that it will yet subdue the world. Its 1 idea of conversion is by the sword and the prom- I ise that those who die under the green flag stick- I ing for Allah will at once be transferred to a 1 heaven of sensual delights. Then they are all I fatalists; if they are to die in battle it is because Allah wills it. This makes them as indifferent indiffer-ent to death as are the Japanese. Moreover, the victory of Japan has stirred all the brown and yellow races to the depths. And the Sultan could by unfurling the black flag and calling on the faithful, muster 15,000,000 fighting fight-ing men. That is another Asiatic hive that will begin to swarm one of these days and It is liable to comet at any time. That fact ought to be a stern notice served upon Europe and Great Britain Brit-ain to heal their differences without war, for sometime, maybe within the next decade, all their fighting lua will be) needed and all their resources re-sources be strained to meet and turn back the Asian horde, which will be in far better condition condi-tion than it was when it took and held the holy sepulchre. The white races have ruled the world through the centuries. There are people who believe be-lieve that rule is about to be wrested from the Caucasian. |