Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-04-26

tI&e Month of May.
\ London, April ia correspondent
writing from Armenia, under date of
March II, says:
II have travelled many hundreds of
miles in Russia and Persia, and have
visited Armenian colonies as far east
as the Caspians, and as far south as
the city of Teheran, and have learned
after most careful investigation and
notification of the facts, that the Ar
menian question will soon reach the
acute and painful crisis. In fact, Ar
menia is preparing for war. The revo-
lutionary party has now both money
and guns. During the past eight weeks
money has poured into the revolution
airy treasury in steady stream from
the Armenian colonies in Batoum, I'll
fiis, Baku, Erivan, Etchmiadin and
other places in Russia, and from
Resent, Kazvin, Teheran, Tebriz, Khoia
and other cities of Persia. The central
idea of the plan Of campaign is gen.
eral uprising of Armenians throughout
the Turkish empire some time during
the month of May The leaders prom
Use the people in the eastern part of Ar
menia that the chief attack will be
made in the city of Constantinople it
self, and the brunt of the fighting will
be done by the Armenian residents
therein, but this may be only subter-
fuge to encourage the faint-hearted at
Van, Bitlis and Moosh.
1.-THE Armenians have at least 4, 900
Martini Henry rifles hidden in secret
places in the mountains not great dis
lance from Lake Van. For a handful
of unframed Armenians to deliberately
begin fight with the 800, 1000 regular
troops of the Turkish empire would
seem to be folly too colossal for human
conception; yet the purpose is not to
bring Turkey to terms in fair fight, but
to settle the quarrel by Intervention of
the European powers. Before the rev.
olution is three months cid, the pow
ers, it is believed, would be compelled
to take hand in the conflict, for the
cruelty, atrocity, the outrage, the lust
and butchery of the struggle will be SC
unthinkably horrible that Christian
humanity will interfere. Armenia, il
is then hoped, may get her freedom.
For the most part, the revolutions
airy leaders are of the younger genera
ton of Armenians, who argue that il
is no worse that few thousand Ar
menians should be killed at one time
than that they should be killed sep
arately during period of a few
months or years. To what extent the
plans of the revolutionary leaders are
approved by the Armenian people al
large, it is difficult to tell. seriously
doubt if those plans are known in de-
tail to more than per cent of the Ar.
menians. Still, there are genuine pa
triots who believe that to free Armenis
from the dreadful depth to which she
is sunk they must surrender some OF
their fellow countrymen to torture
outrage and death.
''There is belief in Europe thai
Russia desires to make the Armenians
Russian subjects by annexing the east
ern end of Turkey. Curiously enough
this belief is not shared by the Rus
slams of the Caucasian region. Th'
Georgians certainly would resent any
further increase in the Armenian popu
lation. The business methods of thu
Armenians are not generally approved
by Georgians and Russians. 1t il
therefore believed likely that Russi,
wants the Armenians, but whether O.
not she wants the Turkish territor,
which the Armenians inhabit, is quit,
another meter. For the most part tn,
average Armenian is anxious to hav,
some other man fight his battles, ant
he is willing to believe England an,
Russia are only waiting for a chanc
to come in and dismember the Turkisl
empire. The Armenian newspaper
in Russia and Persia contain no hint
however remote, of their preparations
but contain only denunciations of Tur
kish tyranny and demands for the en-
forcement of the 61st article of the Der
lin treaty. The lower classes are les
discreet. In Tifiis, especially, they fiji
themselves up with vodkas, and g
about the streets clamoring for an Ar
menian king. AS the time for the rev
dictionary uprising approaches, tn
words of the Armenian Catholics hav
an added significance. They are:
Armenia is in sore distress, blu
her sufferings will soon be at al
end. -
RavaRes of a Pest,