Connecticut western news., 1896-01-16
ARMENIAN HORRORS.
REV. OR. TALMAGE TELLS THE STORY
 OF MohAMMEDAN CRUELTY.

yA Cowardiy Sultan Exooriated--Has Amer lea the Right to Be Heard9-Clara Ear ton and the Red Cross. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Tt was appro- priate that in the presence of the chief men of this nation and other nations Dr. Talmage should tell the story of Ar menian massacre What will be the ex- tent for good of such discourse none can tell The text was II Kings xix, 87, "They escaped into the land of Ar menia.
 In Bible geography this is the first time that Armenia appears, called then by the same name as now. Armenia is chiefly tableland, 1000 feet above the level of the sea, and on one of it's peaks Noah's ark landed. with its human family and fauna that were to fill the earth. That region was the birthplace of the rivers which fortilized the garden of Eden when Adam and Eve lived there, their only roof the crystal skies and their carpet the emerald of rich grass. Its inhabitants. the ethnologists tell us. are superior type of the Cau- casian race Their religion is founded on the Bible Their Saviour is our Christ. Their crime is that they will not become followers of Mohammed, that Ju- piter of sensuality. To drive them from the face of the earth is the ambition of all Mohammedans. To accomplish this, murder Is no crime, and wholesale mas- sacre is matter of enthusiastic appro- bation and governmental reward.
 The prayer sanctioned by highest Mo hammedan authority and recited every day throughout Turkey and Egypt, while styling all those not Mohamme- dans as infidels, is as follows: 70 Lord of all creaturesl o Allah Destroy the infidels and polytheists, thine enemies, the enemies of the religion. o Allah. make their children orphans and defile their bodies, cause their feet to slip, give them and their families, their households andStheir women, their chil- dren and their relatives by marriage, their brothers and their friends, their possessions and the race. their wealth and their lands as booty to the Mos lems, O Lord of all creaturesP The life of an Armenian in the presence of those who make that prayer is of no more value than the life of a summer insect.
 statistics of Slaughter.
 The sultan of Turkey sits on throne impersonating that brigandage and as- sassination. At this time all civilized nations are in horror at the attempts of that Mohammedan government to de- stroy all the Christians of Armenia I hear somebody talking as though some new thing were happening, and that the Turkish government had taken new role of tragedy on the stage of nations. No, no She is at the same old business. Overlooking her diabolism of other cen turies, we come down to our century to find that in 1929 the Turkish gov ernment slew 90, ,000 anti Moslems, and in 1850 she slew 1000, and in 1860 she slew II, 900 and in 1876 she slew 10000. Anything short of the slaughter of thousands of human beings does not put enough red wine into her cup of abomination to make it worth quaffing. Nor is this the only time she has prom ised reform. In the presence of the war ships at the mouth of the Dardanelles she has promised the civilized nations of the earth that she would stop her butcheries and the international and hemispheric farce has been enacted of believing what she says, when all the past ought to persuade us that she is only pausing in her atrocities to put na- tions of the track and then resume the work of death.
 In 1890 Turkey in treaty with Russia promised to alleviate the condition of Christians, but the promise was broken. In 1889 the then sultan promised pro. lection of life and property without ref erence to religion, and the promise was broken. In 1844, at the demand of an English minister plenipotentiary. the sultan declared after the public execu- tion of an Armenian at Constantinople that no such death penalty should again be inflicted, and the promise was broken. In 1850, at the demand of foreign na- protection to Protestants, but 10 this day the Protestants at Stamboul are not allowed to build church, although they have the funds ready, and the 1. Greek Protestants, who have a church, are not permitted to worship in it. In 1858, after the Crimean war, Turkey promised that no one should be hindered in the exercise of the religion he pro- fessed ,and that promise has been broken. In 1878, at the memorable treaty of Berlin, Turkey promised religious lib erty to all her subjects in every part of the Ottoman empire, and the promise was broken. Not once in all the cen tnries has the Turkish government kept hor co pf CO qo, ur,x Improvement, the condition of the Ar menians has become worse and worse year by year, and all the promises the Turkish government now makes are only againing of time by which she is mak. ing preparation for the complete exter. imitation of Christianity from her bor. ders.
 Tho Nuisance of the Ages.
 WhySafter all the national and con tinental and hemispherio lying on the part of the Turkish government, do no' the warships of Europe ride up as close as is possible to the palaces of Constan tinople and blow that accursed govern ment to atoms? In the name of tn, eternal God. let the nuisance of tn, ages be wiped off the face of the earth Down to the perdition from which i smoked up sink Mohammedanism Be tween these outbreaks of massacre tn, Armenians suffer in silence wrongs tha are seldom if ever reported. They ar' taxed heavily for the mere privilege O living, and the tax is called "tbe hu initiation tax" They are compelled t, give three days entertainment to an. Mohammedan tramp who may be pass ing that way. They must pay blackmai
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 to the assessor, lest he report the valu' of dheir property too highly. Their evi dence in court is of no worth, and if 8 Armenians saw wrong committed an, one Mohammedan was present the tes timony of the one Mohammedan woul' be taken and the testimony of the 6' Armenians rejected-in other words, th solemn oath of @ thousand Armenian would not be strong enough to overthrow l- nEzI- IL