St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-20
THOMAS COCHRAN's SUGGESTION
FOR RELIEVING THE DISTRESS
OF ARMENIA.
WANTED-A JAMES MONROE.
MISS HARTWELL, A MISSIONARY
TO CHINA, SAYS HE COULD
HELP.
LET THE SWORD END THE RULE
Of the Religion Which Has Always
Urged lt-SO Says Judge
Kelly.

The "Unspeakable Turk" and in
cidentally Great Britain, came in for
some scathing criticisms and strong
invectives at the mass meeting held
at the Park Congregational church last
evening, to protest against the Ar
menian atrocities which have shocked
the civilized world with recurring fire.
quency during the past few months.
| The church was crowded to the doors
with an audience which enthusiastical-
| ly applauded the remarks of the speak
ers, particularly when reference was
made to immediate action on the part
Of the United States. The speakers OF
the evening were: Miss Emily Hart
well, Rev. j. F. Stout, Thomas Cochran
and Judge William Louis Kelly. The
chair was occupied by Judge H. r.
Brill, while II. H. Hart performed the
| duties of secretary. In calling the
meeting to order Judge Brill reviewed
some Of the more recent Turkish out
RACES and stated that while it would
take considerable time to arouse a
| government to action in matters in
Volving such great interests as the one
under consideration, it was time for
the civilized countries to take a decided
stand
The most potent means of bringing
the governments of the world, particu-
| larly the United States, to such a de-
cisi0n was by arousing public senti-
| ment against the depredations of the
Turk, such as no power could with
stand. To be a factor in such a move
| ment was the object and desire Of last
| evenings meeting. Miss Hartwell, the
| first speaker to address the audience,
was particularly emphatic in her de-
nunciation of the. Turk and his meth
DDS, and also of England and the United
States for remaining passive SO long.
| She had been a missionary in China
| during the recent outbreaks against
! Christians in the Flowery Kingdom,
| and knew what it was to be in the
midst of an instruction, surrounded
| by rapine and murder, and hourly eX-
| pecting her own death at the hands Of
| the incensed natives. If things were
at this pass in China, the speaker great
| ly feared the murder Of missionaries
in Turkey, to say nothing of the horri-
! bic persecution, to which the Armeni-
ans were subjected. The civilized pow
ers were too dilatory in treating with
the Turk, and Miss Hartwell bemoaned
the absence of a Monroe in the White
house and a Webster in the halls of
congress to enforce protection for
American citizens in Turkey as we'll as
defend the oppressed Armenians. Moral
suasion, in the opinion of the speaker,
was Of no avail, applied to uncivilized
barbarians. Within the past few
months the Turks had Wantonly muir
dered 100000 innocent people, and
should be temporized with no longer.
Prompt and vigorous methods should
be employed to enforce the payment Of
indemnity for outrages perpetrated up
on Americans, and to cause an imme-
date and permanent cessation of the
barbarous treatment accorded the Ar
menians.isz ut 4-Gsrat.f,
Rev. J. F. Stout stated, at the open
ing of his remarks, that he did not pro-
pose to speak as clergyman, but as
layman and citizen. He had read
Tolstoi's criticism of '"The Sermon on
the Mount" in which the author char
acteriZed Christianity as a religion of
non-resistance, but he did not argue
with the Writer1in any respect On the
| contrary, there We're times when reli-
gion demanded both force and resist
ance. In cases of self-defense and pro-
lection Christianity justified aggressive
action. Bringing to his aid the scrip
tural story of. the lamb, the wolves,
the hirelings and the shepherd, the
| speaker illustrated the various char
acters being played by the parties con-
IleCleu Will Tic dIIOClIleSr Ol Tie IuIKS.
| While, in his opinion, the Armenians
were not the best people that ever lived,
| they were in this instance the pitiful
| lambs at whose threats the savage wolf
was tearing with vicious and bloody
| fangs. England, fearful in her selfish
ness and greed of putting a stop to
| the slaughter, was portrayed as the
despicable hireling. 1t was in her
| power to bring the Turk to justice and
| h 70 0eo h ic Of in
nocent human beings, but dread of
shifting the so-called balance of power
| and selfish state considerations, allowed
her to stand idly by amid such terrible
| crimes. In the speakers illustration
| the United States appeared as the pro-
tecting shepherd. 1t was for this Wig
orous young republic to stop the out
RACES. Patience had ceased to be a
virtue. The United States should send
for the Armenians and indemnity fol
Americans. This should, in the opinion
| of the speaker, not be done as a mere
demonstration, but with an immovable
determination to subject the Turk tt
! the consequences Of his own act should
| he refuse the demands of this country
Thomas Cochran, the following
| speaker, was even more emphatic ir
his denunciations of the Ottoman thar
was his predecessor. The Armenians
had been murdered in the midst OF
| civilization as ruthlessly and with as
] much seeming immunity as had the
children of Israel in the days of Herod
If any one had predicted such horrible
events years ago he would have beer
called false prophet, and yet worse
| had happened than any prophet haG
dared foretell. 81 would" said Mr.
| Cochran, have our gunboats prepare
| for war, sail through the Bosphorus
anchor in front of ConstantinopIe, an6
upon the refusal Of the Turks to ac
coed to our demands, lombard thei,
city and rae their palaces, their mos
CUES and their harems, teaching then
a lesson they should have learned Ions
ago.
Judge Kelly. the last to address the
meeting. briefly reviewed the situa tior
in Turkey and dwelt upon the potency
of public opinion to accomplish the
desired reformation. Public opinion
| would be thrown away on the Ottoman
but it could eventually move the Euro.
pean powers to action. If this could be
done the Turk could be brought into
| submission and his barbarities ended.
Should this means fail, there was but
one recourse open to the United States
| The Ottoman empire had been founded
| by the sword, maintained by the
sword and all other means exhausted
should fall by the sword. Quoting
| from the Boston Pilot, denunciations
of the acts Of the Turk and the opinion
that an American fleet should be sen
to the Dardanelles. which would fire
shot that should be heard from tht
Hellespont to TIades," the speaker sale
the time had come when ali held the
same views. He would teach The
Turks that there was one nation, cour
ageous enough to champion the OPP
pressed and prosecuted He would
carry the stars and stripes to his cita
del and there say to the perfidious OF