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, fillmg 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 
1 This menace no longer exists. 
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