The record-union., 1895-12-30

LONDON, Dec. 29.-Dr. Henry >.
Lunn, editor of the Review Of the
Churches" and Percy w. Bunting, ed
itor of the Contemporary Review"
have addressed the following communi-
ca ton to "All Editors in America and
England"
I'VE inclose extracts from private
letter from a personal friend who spent
six months of this year in Armenia.
May we beg to insert these in the next
issue of your paper? Yours faithfully,
"HENRY S. LUNN,
PERCY w. BUNTING.
"Any allusion to Armenia upsets me.
am ashamed, excited, indignant when
I think of what 1 saw in that country,
and of the confidence with which con-
soled quailing women and weeping men
with hopes that England would see
them through their difficulties, and the
words of heartfelt thanks they uttered,
often upon their knees in the fields or
on the hillsides and the childlike mes
sages of anticipatory gratitude which
they asked me to deliver to the English
people. now burn and rankle within me
Jike an envenomed wound
1.-The European Powers are playing a
farcical representation round the
graves of a Christian people. If con-
duct similar to theirs were to be pur-
sued by an individual in private life, it
would be visited with social ostracism
and would brand him with an indelible
Gains mark of infamy. Fancy a mans
neighboTs parading about the doors Of
his house, while he and his children
rush frantically from room to room,
and window to window, imploring them
to save them from the devouring flames.
We have pity on a rat if we hear of its
protracted and hopeless efforts to es-
cape from burning, but men and
women boys and girls, who are killed
piecemeal are laughed at-that is what
il has come to.
''The Governments of Europe are
spectacle to make angels weep. They
guard the gates to Turkey, so to say,
solemnly declaring that whatever may
happen to the Christians, however dia-
bolically they may be tortured to death,
nothing shall happen to the Turks
they al any rate must and will be pre-
served from harm. Is it a wonder, then,
that the Turks should set about fulfill
ing their threat of wiping out Armenia
in Armenian blood?
Everyone knows that the threat
would be fulfilled Consuls reported to
their Government that the departure OF
the European delegates from Moush
would mark the beginning of the blood
bath, and newspapers gave the proph-
ecy publicity. Appeals to the public TO
insist on precautionary measures were
multiplied, and at last mere verbal
warning gave place to unmiStakable
signs and preparations. But diplo
macy turned a deaf ear (the Armenians
are nobody's kith and kim. Were they
Greeks or Bulgarians Magyars or Serb,
they would have high and powerful
protectors who talk of the primary
duty of protecting brothers and Christ
ians Even Abyssinians are brethren
and orthodox when political calcula-
tions come in. But they are Armeni-
ans; and so none of these Govern
ments insisted on the execution or even
dismissal of Zeekki Pasha, and the au-
thors of the Sassoun savagery- Nay,
they were decorated and honored by
the Sultan as an encouragement to
others to go and do likewise. And now
others have gone out and have out
pointed Herod, ande no one seems
shocked
latest news Of Sivas and Trebizond at
their breakfast table early. Few per
sons take even a remote interest in the
Armenian question on the continent,
and those few are the advocates of Tur-
key. The Austrian press, said to be
paid by the Turkish Government i'm
pudently denies the Sassoun massacre,
and accuses the Armenians of having
Turks. The German press is the bearer
Of the same kind of culture to its read
ers, and in both these countries the
public knows positively nothing about
the Armenian question. The Russian
papers. beginning with the "Novoe
Vremya," cracks jokes at the Armenians
and in the last numbers which I have
read. ask: Why should we Russians
sacrifice a single soldier for the sake
OF Armenian bankers and millionaires,
who are much better off than we are
ourselves, to say nothing of British and
American agitators, who have so clev-
erly gotten up the Armenian comedy"
"A couple of regiments of British SOL
diers or Cossacks is what is wanted.
They would set matters right in a few
days. But even if the whole English
speaking world would arise and de-
mand it, would 1t be accepted?"
ANOTHER NARROWING STORY.
LONDON, Dec 29.-The next issue of
the Contemporary Review" will con-
tain long article entitled Armenia:
An Appeal" by DR.. f. ]. Dillon, of
which the following is a synopsis:
THE time has come for every reason
ing person to accept or repudiate his
share of the joint indirect responsibility
of the British nation for a series of the
hugest and fOulest crimes that have
ever stained the pages of human his
tory. The Armenian, people in Anatolia
are being exterminated by Turks and
Kurds by such fiendish methods as may
well cause the most sluggish blood to
boil with shame and Indignation
THE Armenians are neither lawless
barbarians nor brigands, nor are the
Turks and Kurds the accredited torch
bearers of civilization, but if it be ex-
pedient that Armenians should be ex-
terminated, why chop them up piece
meal?
why must an honest, hard-worlzing
man be forced to witness the violation
of his daughter and then have his hand
cut off and stuffed into his mouth, while
a sermon is being preached to him on
the text, If your God be God, why does