St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-26
ARMENIA,S WRONGS.
An Appeal to Christian Nations to
Redress Them.

heOfeSS Ihem.
To the Editor of the Globe.
Nearly q year has elapsed since the
massacre of the Christians in Armenia
and it seems as if this direful calamity
has already passed away from the
minds of the civilized nations. The
poor people of Armenia are on the
brink of another butchery as threat
ening as that of last year, and despite
their appeals and petitions, it looks as
If the scenes of q, year ago are to be re-
enacted in all their horror, without aid
or succor from any brother Christian
nation.
The Kurds and Turks are all Moham-
medans, while the Armenians are
Christians. The deepest religious ha-
tired exists between them, and as Ar
menia is a Turkish province, governed
by the Turks, the Christians are terri
bly, oppressed. This land has been for
centuries bathed in Christian blood, and
it seems as if God had chosen this an
cient home of man to endure the
scourge of pagan atrocities. 1t stands
as the contending ground Of Turkey,
Persia and Russia, and for ages the
Turks and Persians have scourged the
tons imaginable.
The Armenians belong to the great
Caucasian family of mankind, and are
of the same blood as the Circassians,
who are renowned the world over for
the beauty and grace of their women,
while the Turks and Kurds belong to
the Monaghan branch, inheriting an
intense hatred and contempt for their
free-hearted, generous, liberty-loving
people, and are scattering in all parts
of the world, rather than endure the
tyranny of their rulers. 1t was one of
their kings, Artaxias, during their
once glorious independence, who shell
tered the great Hannibal, who was
wandering in exile to escape the VEN
geance of Rome after ravaging the
fields Of Italy with fire and sword for
sixteen years and nearly conquering
the Roman empire.
The heaviest system of taxes is im-
posed upon them, and they are treated
like slaves by their rulers, while many
of their daughters are transported to
Constantinople and there sold on the
slave market of Tophana to adorn the
harems of wealthy Turks.
At one time the massacre of last
year was doubted but since then the
fact has been we'll established, and the
story Of the horrible butchery has
been repeated by many eye witnesses.
Over fifteen thousand men, women and
children have found their doom at the
hands of fanatic Mohammedan SOL
diers.
Troops are now concentrating around
the city of Vau, and grave fears are
entertained of an approaching massa-
ere within a very short time. Is it pos
sible that such a thing can happen
unnoticed and unmolested, while al
the eyes of Christendom are staring il
full in the face?
Figure to yourself for moment q
country overrun with marauding bands
of lawless murderers, plundering. burn.
ing and killing men, women and chill
dren in the most fiendish and bruta
manner; people frightened with the
horrors of death on all sides and fee
ing to starve by the wayside, or per
haps be run down like wild beasts
women and children captured and solo
as slaves-such being the woeful scene:
witnessed last year in Armenia.
Yet in the face of all these fact:
nothing seems to be done to help then
out the least, and perhaps very soor
our great journals will be teemine
with glowing accounts of another mas
sacre in Armenia,
The Armenians want to free them
! selves from the, Mohammedan yoke O.
| Turkey, and would sacrifice anything
! to be under the protection of some O.
the mighty civilized powers of Europe
We can easily figure to ourselves the
sincerity of their desire when we come
to realize that the crushing power O.
Turkey, brutalized by the fanaticisn
Of Mchammedanism, is doing all within
| its power to chastise and annihilatt
| the few and feeble followers of the
Christian faith in that far-away land
Can it be possible that the enlightened
age of the nineteenth century will per
NIT events like this to be repeated ant
stay content with such bloody inscrip
lions upon its history? We trust not
ERNEST BEAUDETTE.