The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-01-09
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The terror of darkest Africa, tearing
the infant from its frantic mothers
breast without sufficient pity to beat its
brains out before tossing it into the fire
of the burning hamlet or throwing its
helpless form into the jungle thicket, to
become n tender morself for some prowl-
ing beast of prey.
Theirs is the same loving kindness that
forces the broken hearted mother with
bleeding feet, lettering on as long as she
can be driven by cruel blows, or dragged
alive by the chains that bind the slave
gang together, till they are separated to
be sold or slain.
Theirs is the same holy passion that
today ravishes the purest, tenderest and
truest, while it reeks and revels in the in
nOccnt blood of their outraged victims till
death delivers the defenseless who have
been betrayed by the powers pledged to
protect them, while these powers delay
dangerously longer in doing their duty
to which they are bound by the most pow
erful inviolate sacred treaty obligations,
permitting isolated millions of Islam to
hear the call to n religious war, in which
to win is victory with booty and unbridled
rapine. and to die is eternal triumph in
paradise of debauchery, and delight!
Every moment spent in political plot
ting and contemplating by the diplomats
inviting dire disasters, as it inflames the
awful passions of these fiends incarnate
ficrcer and farther, to finish the fearful
work of vengeance they have already be-
gun with such sickening horrors in Ar
menia. by the horrible outrage and butch
cry of over 100000 helpless human be
ings.
The fearful fate of over five hundred
thousand Christian women and children,
Il Il .l,.,,,
ed, naked and homeless, freezing and
starving, hunted like wild beasts to perish
in the blood stained snow, the bitter cold,
the killing blasts of wild mountain win
ter, is being sealed in death while Europe
waits, and the heart of humanity shud-
ders, as it should shudder, till the earth
shakes with the shock of an avcnging and
defending fury.
The whole world watches in horror, as
well it may, while in sight from the decks
of our great war ships lying along those
shores, the smoke of their burning homes
and devastated villages rises to heaven
mingled with groans of murdered men.
prayers and shrieks of outraged women,
the pitiful walls of helpless children and
tho death cries of agonized beings, whom
the powers of Europe voluntarily pledged
themselves to protect. What is the mat
ter with the grand manhood of Europe?
i this is its standard, well may the wom-
en- weep!
THE VENEZUELAN QUESTION
Is not worthy to be mentioned in this con-
ncctiOn, and it should cause bushes of
shame to burn into the very hearts of
Britons and Americans to think that it
threatens war between them, but in the
light of international injustice and in
trigue, it looms up like the cloud, though
no larger than II mans hand, that may
yet prove to be n cyclone of divine wrath
to wreck nations for wrongs upheld, and
rights doWntrodden.
The heart of America aches for Ar
menia, and the outburst of overwhelming
enthusiasm over the Venezuelan war cry
comes from the evaporation of the
American people at the British policy of
bluff and blunder, from San Stefano to
Venezuela, till they will no longer tolerate
that game of blood and thunder in the
new world, and are ready to wash this
wrong away if need be in the blood of
the bravcst and the best.
They can not forget that England for
greed or for glory or for territorial ag-
grandizcment thwarted the ear ut the
very moment when he might have freed
Armenia forever from the oppression of
the Turk, and they stand ready to strike
the death blow today to such treacherous
greed in the new world, though it might
seem like stab1ing mothers breast to
war with Britain, sadder even than that
battle between brothers of the North and
South, in the death struggle of slavery on
American soil, for we are bound to the
motherland by all the tendcrest, truest
strongest ties of blood and faith and des-
tiny. But covering before the cannon of
all christendom on the mightiest arma-
ment ever ailoat, ready to thunder again
ut its very gates. cringcs still in Constan-
tinoplc the head center and controlling
power of that unSpcakable system of in
EQUITY, which has not only been upheld
by the common consent of the great pow
ers of Europe for centuries, but which for
bonds and blood money by the millions,
has been fostered by the tnanciers, and
bOlsterod up by the batteships and batal-
lions of the very powers who have bound
themselves before the world to enforce
faithfully the very treaties they permit to
be violated with impunity.
The powers which have forced this fear
full state of affairs upon the world should
face the consequences of their political
crimes or blunders, and right these
wrongs at once, or they will invite the
wrath of the All Avenging God to grind
them to pieces against each other, like
t, the persisted nations of the past, in the all
devouring mills of their own insatate
greed for gold ana glory and greater en-
pire.
Not the people, but diplomats of Europe
are to blame. They voluntarily bound
themselves to defend those whom they
rendered defcnceesS, as the price of an in
famous peace which was purchased by
pertidy. and is perpctuated still by the be-
trayal of those whom they plighted theil
| faith to the whole world to protect ut any
cost, and they are accordingly responsible
before God and man for the massacre, out
rage and death of every man, woman and
child thus sacrificed i'll Armenia.
For the sake of Il few blood-stained
| bonds and securities. for few leagues OF
polluted territory. delugcd deep with gore
again and again. for Il few Statcgeti,
points upon which to plant new batteries
! from which to bclch out their broadsides
| for further conquests, they still hesitate
| to act, though their waiting violates the
| faith of the whole world while helpless
women and children are the victims OF
! their betrayal to the most remorseless anC
merciless of prosecutors who have black
ened the closing pages of the record OF
| this Nineteenth century with deeds toe
damnably dark for time or eternity t
| eradicate.
| With all the powers of Christendon
| back of them. with the united conscience
| of mankind commanding them, with tn,
piteous pleadngs of the betrayed beseech
/ ing them. what possible excuse can thu
statesmen of today offer to their peoples
I for any further failure to demand and en-
force full justice for all concerned accord
ing to the treaty of Berlin, or failing t.
! nttnmnt this what bur cOntemDt and exc