Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-08

the pathetic appeal of the Armenian women 10 their Christian sisters in the west signed sealed and delivered to pr. Dillon:
 We suffered in patience when our corn, butter and honey were seized and We were left poor and hungry; we bowed our heads in Sorrowful resignation when our kith and kin were cut down by the KoordS and the Turks Ara we also to be silent and submissive now that our e's being poisoned at its source? Now that child mothers and baby daughters are being deffled and brutaliZed by say ages? Say, Christian sisters, is there i'll truth no remedy? Although we
 For the love of God, then Whom we wor- ship in common, help us, Christian sis ters, before it is too late"
 And the women of America, as they read the appalling tale of the unutter- bale woe of Armenia as told by MT. Dill | Ion, may again ask, as they did last No | vember: "Is It true? Is 1t all true? Who | is this Dr. Dillon?" Let me take the | reader once more to the assembly room | of the town hall at Chester, where MT. | Gladstone in the course of his speech is | speaking concerning witnesses: "I will | refer to the last of these witnesses; one | whom l must say I am disposed to | name with honor; his name is Dr. Dillon, l whose name has appeared within the | last three or four days at the foot of an Ol unuSudl leDStn-dn! ana t5OOu l were the reasons for extending 1t to an | unusual length-in the Contemporary | Review. Perhaps you will ask, as 1 | asked, Who is Dr. Dillon?' and I am able 1 to describe him, to his honor. Dr. Dill | lon is a man who as the special com | missioner of the Daily Telegraph news paper, some months ago, with care and | labor, and with the hazard of his life | went into Turkey, laudably making use | of a disguise for the purpose. and went | into Armenia, so that he might make | himself thorough master of the facts. | He published his results before any pub | lie authority had given utterance to it's 1 Judgments, and these results which he, l rather think was the first to give to l the world in connected shape-at any | rate he was very clearly in the field | those results have been completely con l firmed and established by the inquiries of l the delegates appointed by the three powers-England, France and Russia" And here is the summary of this wor | thy witness at the end of his unparalel- | ed catalogue of internal outrages "The | massacre of Sassoun sends a shudder to l the heart of the most calouS. But the | butchery was a divine mercy compared | with the helish deeds that are being | done every week and every day of the | year. The piteous groans of famishinS | children; the groans of old men who have | lived to see what can never be embodied
 in words; the piercing cries of violated | maidenhood-nay, of tender childhood; | the shrieks of mothers made childess | by crimes compared with which murder | would be a blessing; the screams. scarce l ly human of women writhing under the l lash, and all the vain voices of blood and | agony that die away in the dreary desert | without having found a responsive echo | on earth or in heaven, combine to throw | Sassoun and all its horrors into the 1 shade"
 l hat ipfr 1 who ventured among the murderous | Kurds and Circassians and defied the no 1 less bloodthrsty officials of the sultan,
 now haunted by grisly visions of the hu-
 man shambles he has left behind, drags l his pen as one under the spell of low | ering cloud of despair. He may have | heard the echoes of the immortal | query: Frederick Douglas, is God | dead?" for he answers "The Arme- | nans are Christians and they look up to | God for protection, seeing that they have
 no one else to look to. But Baal on Mount
 Carmel was no more indifferent to the 1 fate of his worshippers than He seems
 to be-" But the Armenians are still hop
 ing in God alone.
 Upon this scene comes now once more
 the noble Canon of Ripon. Canon Mac | Coll, who, in 1877, with Gladstone and the l Duke of Argyll, lifted up his voice for
 the deliverance of dying Bulgaria, and
 had since been studying with greater zeal l the DfODleIl Ol l uTkiSU over | Christians, on the occasion of the great | indignation meeting at St. James hall, l on May 2, last, isued most vigorous | pamphlet embodying the results of his l studies and observations, "a formidable l indictment of Turkish misrule," that has
 had wide circulation and most palpable | influence in shaping public opinion. | French and German translations of 1t are
 now being published In Paris and Berlin,
 with a preface by Gladstone, and 10000 | copies of a third and cheaper edition are l to be issued this week In London. From | an advance copy which has reached me
 by the kindness of Canon MacCQll, l | quote (with the kind permission of the | publishers, Messrs. Longmans, Green x | Co) the special preface, wherein the rev- | erend author makes a most startling rev.
 elation of the real Armenian situation, and points out above the vast horror and l desola tion of Armenia, already revealed, l the hgh-water mark of the most internal | cruelty that has ever blackened the pages | of human history. By his unabated de-
 yotion to the cause of Armenia, culmi-
 hating in this rousing and courageous | appeal to Engla nds honor and manhood
 for justice, Canon MacColl has won the
 eternal gratitude of all Armenians and | a high place for himself among the i'm
 mortal defenders of the oppressed; and,
 though we still wait for the church of
 England and the Protestant Episcopal
 church to speak, as she has right to
 speak, in defense of the martyr church
 of Armenia Canon MacColl has left no
 more room for the charge that the priest
 "passed by on the other side" Here Is
 the remarhab ble preface:
 Now that the excitement of the gen.
 eral election is over, it is to be hoped that
 the British nation will find time to real
 ize the critical condition of the Armenian
 people. The immunity which the porte
 has enjoyed since the horrors of Sassodn has encouraged the sultan and his ad-