The San Francisco call., 1895-12-30
le within me like an envenomed

rankle within me like an envenomed
wound.
THE European powers are playing q
farcical representation around the graves
OF Christian people. If conduct similar
to theirs were to be pursued bv an indi-
vidual in private life it would be visited
by social ostracism, and would brand him
with an indelible Gains mark of infamy
Fancy mans neighbors parading about
the doors of his house while he and his
children rush frantically from room to
room and from window to window implor-
ing them TO save them from the devouring
flames. We have pity on rat il we hear
OF its protracted and hopeless efforts to
escape from burning, but men and women,
boys and girls who are killed piecemeal
are laughed at-that is what it has come to-
1.-The Governments OF Europe are spec
tacle to make angels weep. They guard
the gates OF Turkey, so to say, solemnly
declaring that whatever may happen to
the Christians, however diabolically they
may be tortured to death, nothing shall
happen to the Turks-they, at any rate,
must and Will be preserved from harm. Is
1T wonder then that the Turks should
set about fulfilling their threat of wiping
out Armenia in Armenian blood? Every
one knew that the threat would be full
filled. Consuls reported to their Govern
ment that the departure of the European
delegates from Moush would mark the be-
ginning of the blood path, and newspapers
gave the prophecy publicity. Appeals to
the pubic to insist upon precautionary
measures were multiplied, and at last
mere verbal warning gave place to unmis-
taxable signs and preparations.
But diplomacy turned deaf ear (the
Armenians are nobody's kith and kim
Were they Greeks or Bulgarians, Magyars
or Serb, they would have high and power
ful protectors who talk OF the primary
duty of protecting brothers and Chris
tians. Even Abyssinians are brethren
and orthodox when political calculations
come in. But they are Armenians, and so
none of these Governments insisted on tine
execution or even dismissal OF Zekki
Pasha and the authors of the Sassoun
savagery. Nay; they were decorated and
honored by the Sultan as an encourage
ment to others to 60 and do likewise.
And now others have gone out and have
out-Heroded Herod, and no one seems
shocked. People are only interested to
get the latest news of Sivas or Trebizond,
or wherever the latest massacres have oc-
CURED, at their breakfast table early.
Few persons take even remote interest in
the Armenian question on the Continent,
and those few are the advocates of Turkey.
1.-THE Austrian press. said to be paid bv
the Turkish Government, impudently de-
nies the Sassoun massacre and accuses the
Armenians of having attempted to butcher
the Kurds and Turks. The German press
is the bearer of the same kind of culture to
its readers, and in this country the public
knows positively nothing about the Ar
menian question. The Russian papers,
beginning with the Novoya Vremya, cracks
jokes at the Arm enians, and in the last
mum bers which / have read asks, why
should we Russians sacrifice a single
soldier for the sake of Armenian bankers
and millionaires, who are much better off
than we are ourselves, to say nothing of
British and American agitators, who have
so cleverly got up the Armenian comedy?'
GA couple of regiments OF British soldiers
or Cossacks is what is wanted. They
would set matters right in a few days.
But even if the whole English-speaking
people should arise and demand this,
would il be accepted ?"