New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-30

friends or consent to some ntrocious crime. weIc
subjected TO tortures indescribable often occupying
days. while their tormontors lnughed anu hoMi ,
in gee Nights were passed IN ssc on n nennr
the old Some OF them cannot be described hor
In the homes Of these wretched people the hendlsh
fanatics equally active and successful Hapc
ana aiinGmor w.n ma and woman in the coun.
try. Children were often married at the age OF
danger But the protection OF a husband proved I'M,
avaiing It merely meant one murder nobe a ae
throughout this long siclening story Of shame and
crime is the religious faith OF the sufferers ,,,
Such in broad outline has been the norman cohui-
ton of Armenia ever since the treaty Of Berlin. ow-
ing at first to the disastrous action ana suDs ,
British Government The above sketch contains
but few Isolated instances OF the daily common.
Turks. encouraged by the seventeen years connlv,,
ance of the only Power which possessed any formal
lied a wholesale massacre OF the Christians OF
Sassoon The preparations were elaborate and
open. The project was known to and caAvassed ny
all. a long report was addressed by the AbDot OF
Meush to The British representative at ErTeroum,
tional comfy forbade US TO medale WIN IN! thc 10
nestle affairs of friendly Power ara the mas mas
cnoked up with corpses; the streams ran req win
human blood: the forest glades and rocky caves
We're peopIed with the dead and the dying; among
the ruins of once prosperous villages Jay Toastcu
infants by their manged moheis JofLses' Ss Sem
many OF whom. flung in while but lightly Wo',hneui;
valnly wrestled with death and the dead. who shut
them out from light and life forever. Il was then
that our present Ambassador Constantinople took
action and displayed those remarkabie gutS Oh
energy and industry to which the Irims aliiis, er
lately alluded with pride. The British Ambassador
did his best and last carried the appointment or
a commission Of investiga lion. Yet while the Com
mission OF inquiry was still sitting at Moush the
deeds OF a;rocious cruelty, which II was assembled
to investigate. were ou;done under the eyes % me
delegates. Threats were openly uttered that on
theii withdrawal massacTes' IL was sad' IN com com
over the country massacres. II was sa!. IN CON-
parison with which the Sassoon butchefy w9ulI
compare but dust in the balance In due time
they began. over sixty thousand Nmenans nave
been butchered and the massacrcs are not quite
ended yet. In Trebzond. Eringhan, ilassankaleh
and numberless other places the Christians were
crushed like grapes during the vintage The French
mob during the Terror were men-nay. angels Of
mercy--compared with these Turks
HISTORY AFFORDS NO PARALLEL.
And these are the Turks. whom unanimous Eu-
rope has judged worthy OF continuing to govern
and guide the Christians of Asia Minor. The Sui
tan undertakes. IL a reasonable time be given him.
to re-establish the normal state of things in TURK
ish Armenia; and we know that the normal condi-
ton implies the denial to Christians of the funda-
mental rights of human beings, the abolition OK
the rape OF tender children-in "A word, system of
government for which the history Of the world al
Yet unanimous Europe. are told, entertains
doubt that the true Interests OF Christenidon I
Ii cannot be clearly stated that what Is asked
for is not the establishment Of an Armenian an KID.
dom or principally. not buffer state. NOT eVrii
Christian autonomy in any sense that might render
IL offensive or dangerous to any OF the POWERS OF
Europe, but only that by some e1lcacious HeihS
human beings who profess the CHRISTIAN rehSioh
In Anaoa and VINO professed and practlsed IL there
for centuries before the Turks or i>urGs were
heard of, shall be enabled to i've ana dle as huInin
beings, and that the unpafalie!cd cTfht3 OF "i'C'
silent victims shall speedily and once for ali he put
WAT serious hope is there that the lot OF the
Arn1en mans will be bcttered In the future
Continental jur.sconsults nave just sven II az
their conscientious opinion that any spec.a r.
forms for the Armen.ans would necessarily Hi'0Nc
. grave violation OF the rights OF man ana thr iaW
O. God. and the jurlscOnsuIts ought 10 know. !.
Tbs be so. the sensitive Sultan VIII haiuViiN
sarnk from such ldUlessnass am sod!esshesS' anu
ri5usly shclve tie REFORMS. T.ey would strongly
recommend the Introduction OF Wde-rrafh.i$ -
forms for all Turl n subjects were - hot ihdt IL
s,lDcrabe objections reuICr even SucA course a.
so!utey impossible: for first, the Powers nave no
ctin subjects: second the TURKS and kurds
the.ns ives desire such reforms. ana are ~ iact
oppC ID 10 them. and, finally. general REFORMS ivI
all WCud necessarily prove as Gl5aSliOu' az ~
Armenians. as the most intelligent ana ony sell
disciplined element OF the population would pioht
by the improvements to Obtain pOAtCal preppili'r-
nee for themselves. Things would better therefore,
left out: that is to say. the normal condition OF
things must be re-establlshed Which IN very rev
years Will solve the Armenian question by exter-
minating the Armenians.
And England Christian. moral England, appar-
II there still be a spark OF Divinity In our souls.
n trace of healthy human sentiment IN our
hearts we shall not hesitate 70 record our We
pollute one of the fairest portions of Gods earth.
and our strong condemnation OF any ana every me
OF policy that may tend directly or indirectly 10
perpetuate or condone them.