The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-01-10
THE TURKS SLiUGHTERiXG THE ARME.
MINIS.

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The Associated Press sends from
Chicago, under date Of Jan. 5, a long
document, written by II. II. Van Me-
ter, treating of the outrages perpe-
trated upon the Armcnians by the
Turks, and the responsibilities the
European powers have incurred in not
having prevented these atrocities.
The document is a very remarkable
one in many respects, and touches upon
many points OF absorbing interest in
connection with the recent Armenian
complications.
After reviewing the responsible ties
undertaken by the powers by the
treaty OF Berlin, which followed the
Turco-R Russian war Of 1873, and the
part played by Great Britain in the
settlement of that trouble, Mr.. Van
Meter says:
Every moment spent in political
plotting and contemplating by the
diplomats OF Europe is increasing this
danger and inviting dire disasters, as
it intlames the awful passions of these
tends incarnate ticrcer and farther, to
finish the fearful work of vengeance
they have already begun with snch
s%ickening horrors In Armenia, by the
horrible outrage and butchery of over
l00, 900 helpless human beings.
The fearful fate OF over 500,0 600
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ragged, ravislicd, widowed and Orphar-
cd naked and homeless, freezing and
starving. hunted like wild beasts to
perish in the blo0dStained snow, the
bitter cold, the killing blasts Of a wild
mountain winter, Is being sealed in
death while Europe waits. and the
heart of humanity shudders, as it
should shudder, TIL the earth shakes
with the shock of an ~avcnging and de-
Tending fury.
The whole world watches in horror,
AS well it may, while in sight from the
deckS0f our great warShips lying along
those shores, the smoke Of their burn
ing homes ard devastated villages
rises to heaven mingled with groans
Of murdered men, prayers and shrlcks
of outraged women, the pitiful walls
Of helpless children and the death
cries Of agonizcd beings, whom the
powers of Europe voluntarily pledged
themselves to protect. What Is the
matter with the grand manhood of
Europe? If this is its standard, well
may the women weep!
The Venezuelan question is not
worthy to be mentioned in this cOn-
nection, and it should cause bushes
of shame to burn into the very hearts
OF Britons and Americans to think
that it threatened war between them,
but in the light OF international in
justice and intrigue it looms up like IA
cloud, though no larger than Il mans
hand, that may yet prove TO be a cy-
clone Of divine wrath to wreck nations
for wrongs upheld and rights down
trnddcn.
The heart Of America aches for
Armenia, and the Outburst of over.
whelming enthusiasm owe the NcnC-
zuela war cry comes from the exaSper-
alton of the American people at the
British policy of bluff and blundcr,
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, II need be, in the blood
Of the brayest and the best.
They cannot forget that England,
for greed or for glory or for territorial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, thwarted the car at
the very moment when he might have
freed Armenia forever FROM the op-
preston Of the Turk. and they stand
ready to strike the death blow to-day
to such t%rcaclierous greed in the new
world, though it might seem like
stabbing a 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 mother land by all the
tendereSt, trucSt, strongest tics Of
blood and faith and destiny. But
covering before the cannon Of all
Christcndom on the mightiest arma-
mcnt ever atl0at, ready to thunder
again at its very gates, crlngcs still in
C0nstantinOple the head center and
controlling power Of that unspeakaDlc
system Of iniquity, which has not only
been upheld by the common consent
Of the great powers Of Europe for cen
turleS, but which for bonds and blood
money by the millions, has been
foStered by the fnanciers, and bolster
ed IN by the lattle-shiDs and bat.
talions of the YER" mowers who have
honnd themselves before thu wnrld
70 enforce faithfully the ycrv trentjrs
they hermit to be Violated with inn.