SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER 



religion, itself sunk from lofty heights of philosophy 

 into something little better than demon and lust 

 worship, burdened with a host of sensuous priests, 

 who spend their time between debauch and futile 

 prayer, scourged by loathsome diseases, cheated 

 and robbed by the emissaries and traders of a 

 grasping neighbour on the south, and threatened, 

 though they know it not, by a slavery worse 

 than that of the Israelites in Egypt by an equally 

 greedy neighbour on the north ? ^ And yet it 

 was this same people that under the famous Genghis 

 Khan swept Asia and Eastern Europe in a stu- 

 pendous conquest such as the world has never 

 seen before or since. One may safely say that 

 under a morally and socially sound government, 

 freed from their superstitions and the burden of 

 priestcraft, the Mongols would once more rise to 

 be a great nation, filling a special place — the 

 conquerors of the deserts — in the world's economy. 

 One cannot help wondering whether they are 

 destined to fill that place, or, like their blood 

 relations on the American Continent, are doomed 

 to be exterminated by the onward march of 

 civilization. 



A call comes ringing over the deserts of Central 

 Asia from the dwellers in the tents of Mongolia 

 to the enlightened and humanitarian Powers of 

 the West to help them in this their hour of need. 

 Will those Powers answer the call and see that 

 ^ This menace no longer exists. 



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