The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-30
cOWARDICE UNDER THE CROSS
CHRIsTIANITY's INACTION IN AR
MENIA CENSURED.

The British Lion Playing the Cur Re-
fore the Dogs of COnstantinopIe.
The Editorials of the Turkish
Press Inserted Under Censorship
From the PaIace-The Story of the
Capture of ZeitOun FaIse-Armen-
ian Enjoys TreacherOusIy Seized
by the Turks.
London, Dec. 29.-Dr. Henry S. Iunn,
editor Of the Review of the Churches, and
Percy w. Bunting, editor of the Contem-
porary Review, have addressed the follow
ing communication to "All Editors, Eng
lish and American"
We inclose extracts from a letter from
a private friend who spent several
months Of this year in Armenia, and who
is one of the first authorities on the
question, as indeed you would admit. were
we at liberty to publish his name. May
we beg you TO insert these in the next
issue of your paper. Yours faithfully,
Henry 5. Lunn,
Editor of the Review of the Churches.
Percy w. Bunting,
Editor of the Contemporary Review.
"Any allusion to Armenia upsets me. I
am ashamed, excited, indignant when 1
think of what l saw in that country, and
Of the confidence with which I consoled
quailng women, weeping men, with hopes
that England would see them through
their difficulties. and the words of heart
felt thanks they uttered, often upon their
knees in the fields or on the hillsides, and
the childlike messages of anticipatory
gratitude, which they asked me to deliver
10 the English people, now burn and
rankle within me like an envenomed
wound.
'The European powers are playing
farcial representation round the graves
of a Christian people. If conduct similar
10 theirs were to be pursued by an in
dividual in private life, it would be visi-
ted with social ostracism and would brand
him with an indelible Gains mark of in
fanny. Fancy mans neighbor parading
about the doors Of his house while he and
his children rush frantically from room
to room and from window TO window,
implring them to save them from the de-
vOuring flames. We have pity on rat.
If we hear of its protracted and hopeless
efforts to escape from burning but men
and women, boys and girls who are KILL
ed piecemeal, are laughed at-that Is
what it has come to.
THE governments of Europe are
spectacle to make angels weep. They
guard the gates of Turkey, so to say,
solemnly declaring that whatever may
bolically they may be tortured 70 death,
nothing shall happen to the Turks-they
at any rate must and viii be preserved
from harm. is it a wonder then that the
Turks should set about fulfilling their
threat of wiping out Armenia in Armen-
ian blood? Every one knew that the
threat would be fulhned Consuls re-
ported to their governments that the de-
parture of the European delegates from
Moush would mark the beginning of the
blood bath, and newspapers gave the pro-
phesy publicity. Appeals to the public
TO insist on precautionary measures were
multiplied, and at last mere verbal warn
ing gave place to unmistakable signs and
preparations, but diplomacy turned deaf
ear Qhe Armenians are nobody kith and
kim. Were they Greeks or Bulgarians,
Magymars or Serbs, they would have high
and powerful protectors who tellingly talk
of the primary duty of protecting brothers
and Christians Even Abyssinians are
brethren and orthodox when political cal
culations come in. But Armenians and
so none of these governments insisted on
the explanation or even dismissal of Seek
kl Pasha and the authors of the Sassoun
sayagery. Nay, they were decorated and
honored by the sultan, as an encourage
ment to others to go and do likewise. And
now others have gone out and have out
Ieroded Herod. and none seems shocked.
People are only interested to get the
latest news of SiVaS or Trebizond, or
wherever the latest massacre has oc-
Cured, at their breakfast table early. Few
persons take even a remote interest in the
Armenian question on the continent, and
those few are the advocates of Turkey.
The Mustrian press, said to be paid by
The Turkish government impudently de-
nies the Sassoun massacre and accuses
the Armenans of having attempted to
butcher the Kurds and Turks. The Ger
man press is the bearer of the same kind
of culture to its readers, and in both these
countries the public knows positively
nothing about the Armenian question. The
Russian papers, beginning with the NO
voya Vremya, cracks jokes at the Armen-
ians and in the last numbers which L
have read, ask: Why should we Rus
a single
sake Of Armenian bankers and million
aires who are much better of than we are
ourselves to say nothing of British and
American agitators, who nave so cleVerly
Got up the Armenian comedy
"a couple of regiments of British sol
diers or Cossacks is what is wanted. Ihey
would set matters right in few days.
But even if the whole English speaking
people should arise and demand TINS,
would it be accepted?"
The next issue of the Contemporary Re
view will contain long article entltled; :;
armenia; An Appeal, by DR.. e. }. Dill
Ion, Of which the following is a synopsis:
The time has come for every reason
ing person to accept or repudiate his snare
of the joint indirect responsi bility or the
British nation for a series or the hugeSt
and foulest crimes that have ever stained
the pages of human history. The Armenian
people in Anatoa are being eXtefnllnated
by Turks and kurdS, Dy Such HeHulsn
methods as may well cause the most slug
gish blood to boil with shame and lndlg-
nation.
ans or brigands nor are the Turks ana
Kurds the accredited torch-bearers OF CIV
ilization but if it be eXpedient that the
Armenians should be exterminated, why
chop them up piecemeal? Why must an
honest, hard working man be forced 70
witness the violation of his daughter and
then have his hand cut off and stuffed into
his mouth, while a sermon is being
preached to him on the text: II your COO
he God. why does he not succor you?
Then the other hand is hacked OF, ms
cars torn off and his feet severed with
Ratchet Surely roasting alive, naylng'
oisemboweling, impaling and other nor
rors have nothing that can excuse them
in the eyes of Christians, however, deep-
ly absorbed on politics Christians
they are, and from the middle of the hfth
century scarcely a year has elapsed IN
which Armenian men and women nave
Iot unhesitatingly laid down their lives
Tor their religious belief. The murdered
of Sassoun. OF Van, OF ErZeroum, Were
Christian martyrs; and any or al OF those
M1ose eyes were gouged out, whose qulN-
'ilhg flesh was torn from their bodies.
might have obtained life by embracing
fiam and nhiurlng Christ But, instead,
ihey died li'te Christian martyrs Why
n mat our compassion for these, our
tiIM men. has not yet assumed the form