Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-28

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he sMyp)/I\I,Ge o .Tneed support
5o % VGf(NN\ 90 Tor eight or ten
o Y Z .N,i,.ga'...-7 months. She
does not think a relief expedition should
be undertaken at all without ssoo,o Is
contributed at the start, and she says
that effective work will require an ex'
pendture Of millions. The Red Cross
society has no funds Of It's own. 1t has
not appealed to the people for money,
but al the request OF the religious
bodies OF the United States, has merely
announced It's Willingness TO distribute
such funds as the people may raise Tor
the purpose. The amounts required
Tor such relief are enormous. was in
Russia during the last famine, and the
people there ate up between two and
.hree million dollars worth Of food
,yey day. This was kept up for
months. and was told that the famine
rad cost very nearly hall a billion dol
.ars. The private gifts OF the Russians
amounted TO $3.50, ooo,o 900. The govern
ment gave nearly as much, and the pre-
sent car, who was then the crown
ptince. was at the head Of the relief
fund. our gifts to Russia in food and
money amounted to less than a million
dollars. They were merely a drop in
the bucket in comparison to what was
given by the Russians themselves. In
Russia il was estimated that one per-
son could be fed for FIVE cents day.
1t will probably cost more than that in
Armenia, as all OF the food will have to
be brought in from Europe. But even
at five cents a person II will require
filSoo a day, or more than half a mil.
lion dollars a month for the food alone
OF those who are now starving. In
addition money will be needed for
clothes and shelter during the winter.
Inc farmers will have to be aided IN
planting their crops, and 1t Is hard to
see how the people can be kept from
now until harvest for less than 5000
600. In this relief every cent will have
to come from the outside, and II the
other nations OF Europe do not unite
with US Il is doubtful whether enough
funds can be raised to doeliectiye work.
The Rich Armenians living outside Of
Turkey will probably help, and consider
able aid may be expected from them.
THE yASREEs'oP THE ORIENT.
The Armenians are the Yankees oil
the orient. They are the brightest,
brainitst and smariest oil all the people
OF Asia Minor They are superior IL
the Jews or Greeks in business. The
Turks say twist a Yankee and you
make lew, twist a lev and you make
an Armenian" The Greeks say that
zone Greek is equal TO two Jews, hui
that one Armenian Is equal to two
Creeks Another proyerb current In
Turkey Is "From the Greeks OF Athens
from the Jews Of Salonika, and from the
Armenisns everywhere, good Lord de
liver us" / met the Armenians every.
where during my travels In Asia Minor
and found them acting at the heads o.
all kinds OF businesses, There are
many rich Armenians in India.
travelled with one coming from Singa
pore to Calcutta, who told me he wa,
VI ilh way baAh NUN Alhlk NONk
where he had gone to sell pearls to the
Chinese. found the conductors OF
the Egyptian railroads to be Arme
mans, and when travelled over III,
transcontinental railway to Paris the
guards on the train and the men who
took up my ticket were Armenians who
spoke English and French. There ar,
hundreds Of thousands OF Armenians IL
Europe. There are large number II
Persia, and those VINO live ia dliieren
parts OF Turkey are said to mum
Der about one million. There are Z
number in Constantinople. They man
age most Of the banking business o
the Turkish capital and the large mer
camille establishments there belong L
them. When the riots occurred II
Stamboul few week ago nearly all tn,
stores were closed, their Armenian own
efs tearing they would be looted by tn
mob. When | visited the government
departments OF the sultan / iound that
though the chief officers were Turks
the clerks were In most cases, Arme
mans, and the brightest men whom
met IN Turkey was one Of the sultan
secretaries, who was OF Armenian birth
lie spoke hall dozen different Ian
guages and was man Of great inllu
ence. There are Armenian engineers
architects and doctors IN Constantine
pie, and when got money ON my lette
OF credit It was an Armenian clerk VIII
figured up the exchange, and an Al
menlan cashier who handed cut IN
money. The Armenians OF Ameni
proper are almost all farmers, aud ia
eNoIbitant taxes Of the sultan nav
made the most Of them poor.
TIlE ARMENIANs AND THEIR PATRIARc
saw large number OF Armenia
pilgrims during one Easter that | sper
al Jerusalem. They mad come from a
parts OF Asia Minor to pray at III
Church OF the Holy Sepulchre. The
have patriarch at jerusalem who lead
them in these celebrations. He Is
tai, thin man with a long gray bearc
and lace not unlike that OF a typic,
Georgia cracker. He usually wears
long gown, and has little skull cap o
the crown OF his head, During III
Easter celebration his head was cover
ed with "A tiara ,uhirh hiayaA ,tdth d,u