New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-30
STRONG AND ELOQUENT LANGUAGE
FROM DR. T.. J. DILLON.

FROM DIR. f. J. DILLON
FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS CIVILIZED EUROPE HAS
LOOKED pAsslvELY on WHILE CHRISTIANS
HAVE FALLEN MARTYRS TO THEIR FIRE
SIDES AND THEIR RELIGION-EXTER-
IMITATION THE ONLY OBVIOUS
sOLUTION-"AND ENGLAND.
CHRISTIAN. MORAL ENG
LAND APPARENrLi
INDORsEs THIS
VIEW"
London. Dec. 29.--The next Issue Of THE Con-
temporary Review" will contain a long article en-
titled Armenia An Appeal" by DR.. f. J. Dillon.
of which the following Is a synopsis:
The time has come for every reasoning person to
accept repudiate his share Of the joint ind-
OF the hugest and foulest crimes that have ever
stained the pages Of human history. The Armenian
people in Anatolia are being exterminated by Turks
and Kurds, by such hendish methods as may well
cause the most sluggish blood to boil with shame
The Armenians are not lawlsss barb, barbari ian or
credited torchbearers Of civilization but If it be
pedient that Armenians should be exterminated,
est, hard-workng man be forced to witness the VIC.
lation Of his daughter and then have his hand cut
being preached to him on the text II your God 9
5nS WY qUs ae o his ess torn off ss n
feet severed with Ratchet Surely, roasting alive.
Christians. however deeply absorbed in politics.
ment in AnatoiIa Christians they are and from
the middle of the NTH century scarcely year has
elapsed In which Armenian men and women nave
not unhesitatingy laid down t.elr lives for their
religious belief. The murdered of ssssoon, of Van.
OF trzeroum. were Christian martyrs and any or
all Of those whose eyes were gonged out. whose
SaVe obane fe by embrScns Islam and abr
ing Christ But, Instead, they died Ike Christian
our our fellow men has not yet assumed the form OF
effective help? For reasons of higher politics
ExPoUNDING HIGHER POLITICS
The condition Of Armenian Christians, when we
first nterfercd Os7S). deporable. Laws existed
only on paper Mahometan crimes were punishable
only in theory Russia willing to substitute
law order for crime and chaos. and to guarantee
to Christians the atrnent due to human beings.
But we then denied her right to do this as she
refused to admit claim to undertake IT single
handed. We said. in effect. Though our political
see 10 1t that they are not subversive Of the ee
mentary principles Of human justice and the inn
Yet never took any effcacous step to fulfil that
solemn promise. our consuls forwarded exhaustive
reports the press published heartrendinS details.
Armenian sites presented pteous appeals But
'pigconholed" the consular reports. poOh-poohed
the particulars published by the press and ignored
the petitions of the priests. We pressed KNOB, rs
IL were in London and thereby opened hels portals
in Asia Minor. letting loose lecions of hends In
human shape who set about tOrturing ana eXterml-
mating the Christians there. And lest IT should be
urged that our Government was ignorant OF the VIDE
reaching effects OF its il-advised action. 1t is
record that for seventeen years IT continued 10 watch
the narrowing results of that action without once
during ali those seventeen years written law,
traditional custom. the fundamental maXims OF
human and divine justice were suspended In faVSr
OF Mahometan saturnaia me Chrlsua Dy
whose toll and thrift the Empire was held togelher'
ished or butchered. Thousands of ArInerians were
thrown into prison ard tortured and terrorzed III
tHey wer IKE few Years the Prov
nces were decimated Aoghkerd, for Instance be
twenty thousand woe-stricken wretches fed to Rus.
STA or 10 Persia on the way they were seized
who deprived them Of their little money and
clothes. OUTRAGED the women and girls. and then
Those who remained for time behind were 70 bet
ter off Turkish tax-gatherers followed these
noegng their male victims dishoporing their wives
and defowering their daughters
THE STORIES OF OUTRAGEs TRUE.
Stories Of this kind in connection with Turkish
misrule In Armenia have grown ia niar 10 English
OF late. IT should be remembered that these
statements neither rumors nor exaggeratons
concerning which we are justified in suspending
our judgment. History has set it's seal upon them
The Turks have admitted these and worse acts Of
savagery; the Kurds glory in them trustworthy
Almenians nave groaned over them I'm blank despair
Oiicers ana MOBILES In sultans own cavalry Iegi-
series OF Iapes and murders which marked their
IN accordance with the pan OF determination
which has been carried out with such success dur.ne
these .Ong years OF Turkish vigor and English slug
gishness, all Arinenians who possessed money or
moneys worth for time allowed 10 buy
immunity from prison. But, coon as terror and
conilscation took the place of cxtortion the dun
geOns of EIzcroum. Birmingham. Marsovan, IIassan-
kaleh ana van were hlied TIL there scarcely
standing room" Educated schoolmasters. mission
ares, priests and physicians immured In these
nosome hoibcds Of infection, and forced TO sleep
night after night standing their feet leaning
against the foul, rocking corner the wall Hum
ger thirst ard SHINY water rendered ~ cir agony
macdening. Yet these were not criminals nor NJ
legged criminals, but upright Christian men. who
were never even accused of an infTafpion Of The
Those among them who refused 10 denounce their