Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-10 | Page 4 | The Turk and America

THE TURK AND h AMERICA. B I A missionary, who has returned lrom Syria, addressing an Ogden audi M nee. told of the massacres cotumilled H by the Turks. He also related that. for four rears, the Turks respected the ; American flag protecting 10,000 reft H gSMi until a. year ago when the i H pulled down old Olorj and made an at B tack on the helpless people who had j H sought its protecting folds. B Our government should never cease B to make the most distant people rea B j llzc the ability of the 1'nlted States B to enforce respect for the flag Our B lorelgn office should persist In de B mandtng that the leaders of the Turks B who violated the rights of asylum un B der the American flag and who dese- B crated ihe flag be punished, and tba B ihe same group of Turks be required B to return to where they pulled down B Old Glory and there, with proper cere H monlals. lift the flag on high. H Among a brutalized body of maraud H an such aa the Turks, (here Is need H i of driving home a lesson so lmprs- au Uui. uacs thai bav- 'against the L'nlted State?, they will be slow to repeat The Turk bows down to nothing short of force. He must be taught In igorous manner the danger of df Ing America He is an untamed predatory animal with a well det eloped desire lo plunder. He Is regardful of the rights 'of others only when he hears the crack ol the lash and tears a scourg lag.