The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-14
AN INVESTIGATION asked
Strong Resolutions Adopted at Ar
menian Meeting.
GOVERNMENT URGED TO ACT
Ask That Speedy Redress Be Demanded
for the Unspeakablc Wrongs Already
Observation-Disclosures That We're
Made by Well known Citizens.


preciate the efforts of the gentlemen
who promoted THE indignation meeting
ON Saturday night If the attendance at
Elm Park church ON that occasion
formed any criterion. Rev. Dr. Grif-
fin, of Binghamton, opened the meeting
by prayer and Mayor Connell, chair
man, was then introduced by Rev. w.
Fl. Pearce in appropriate terms
Rev. James Mcleod who has acted
as secretary of the committee, eX-
planned the object of the meeting and
Rev. ID. c. Hughes read report of the
work done by the committee and sub
mitted the following resolution:
Resolved, That we as citizens of Scrun-
ton, Pennsylvania, representing the Chris
tian sentiment of our city and thousands
of our fellow citizens of the outlying dis
| tricts, appeal to the president of the
United States as well as the branches of
| congress that measures be Immediately
| adopted to prevent any further infringe
ment of the rights of our fellow Chris
| tians wherever found under the flag of
Turkey; and that speedy redress be de-
manded for the unspeakable wrongs al
ready perpetrated. Pertinent are the
words of our own Lowell in this connec-
| ton:
lies true to God who is true to man,
Wherever wrong is done
Meath the beholdng sun:
| That wrong is also done to us
| And they are slaves most base,
Whose love of right is for themselves
And not for all their race
Remarks by Mayor Conncll.
Mayor Connell then addressed the
meeting and remarked that the Ar
menlan atrocities were unparalleled in
| the history of the human race and
| caused strong men to ahudder and wo-
men to turn to them for protection. The
! people of Armenia were not prosecuted
! because they We're not a law w-abidinS
! people, but because they claimed the
same privileges that We're already in
our possession, liberty of conscience,
/ liberty to worship God in the manner
they choose. He trusted that the peo-
| pie of Scranton would be aroused by
the meeting and that it would awaken
the government to a sense Of its duty
under the circumstances.
Judge Hand made an admirable ad-
dress in which he said that this coun-
try could not understand how in the
nineteenth century any ruler could be
so arbitrary to attempt to weaken his
'"h DpWtl VI SONcl ny ttSllOy-
ing portion of those committed to his
care. 1t was impossible for a true
American to hear of crueltes without
his sympaIthies being aroused and that
spirit of sympathy was responsible for
the meeting and for the feeling of horror
which swept over the land when the
Armenian atrocities We're first reported.
Judge Hand then spoke of the right of
the American government to interfere
In such circumstances, and hoped that
from such meetings there would pro-
ceed an influence, not of revenge, but
of righteous Indignation, to warn the
Turk, so that atrocities of that
kind would be unheard of. A bill was
before congress giving this country con-
Sular representation in the region they
were discussing and he trusted that the
| Influence of the meeting would prevail
on senators and congressman in passing
the bill
Experience of +. b. Sturgcs.
f.. B. Sturges related his experience
on Turkish soil and urged that the Sui
tan, probably, was not aware of the
atrocities. He supported the sugges-
tion that this country should send a
delegation to investigate the atrocities
and that they should be accompanied
with a file Of soldiers for protection.
Rev. p. j. McManus, in an eloquent
speech, supported the objects of the
meeting. He held that by the right of
Christianity and the brotherhood of
men we We're justified i'm attacking the
internal policy of another nation. An
example should be made of the Turk
as we had shown by previous wars,
that it was the policy of this country
to protect man; ithe protection of men
was the question now at issue, and
wherever an American could be found,
the government should be there to pro-
tect him.
City Solicitor James II. Torrey en-
phaszed the point that when England
and America neglected to prevent fur
ther atrocities they became in a meas
ure responsible for the atrocities. A
display of power would thoroughly
overawe the Turk.
Rev. James Mcleod read letters of
sympathy with the objects OF the meet
ing from William Connell, w. w. Wat
SON and Rev. Rogers Israel after which
he made powerful speech condemning
the atrocities. The following amend
ment, offered by E. b. Sturges, was in
corporated in the resolutions:
Resolved, That the united govern
ment be urged to insist upon the prlvi-
lege of making an Independent or un-
hampered investigation of the alleged
atrocities.
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