Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-01-18


make their children orphans and deiile
their bodies, cause their feet to slip,
give them and their families, their
households and their women, their chill
dren aud their relatives by marriage,
their brothers and their friends, their
possessions and the race, their wealth
and their lands as booty to the Mos
lens, @ Lord of all creatures!" The
life of an Armenian in the presence of
those who make that prayer is of no
more value than the life of summer
insect.
Statistics OF Slaughter.
Tie sultan Of Turkey sits on q throne
impersonating that brigandage and as
sassination. At this time all civilized
nations arc in horror at the attempts of
that Mohammedan government to de-
strov all the Christians of Armenia. l
hear somebody talking as though some
new thing were happening, and that the
Turkish government had taken a new
role of tragedy on the stage Of nations
No. no! She is at the same old business
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turtles, we come down to our century
to find that in 1922 the Turkish gov
eminent slew 90, 900 auti-Moslems, and
in 1850 she slew 10000. and in 1850
she slew l /, 900 and in 1876 She slew
10, 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 quatfing
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
hemisphere 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 ma
lions off the track and then resume the
work Of Death.
In 1920 Turkey in treaty with Russia
promised to alleviate the condition OF
Christians, but the promise was broken.
In 1899 the then sultan promised pro-
lection Of life and property without ref
erence to religion, and the promise was
broken. In 1914, at the demand of an
English minister plenipotentiary, the
sultan declared after the public execu-
ton of an Armenian at Constantinople
that no such death penalty should again
be inflicted, and the promise was broken
In 1880 at the demand of foreign ma
lions, the Turkish government promised
protection to Protestants, but TO this
day the Protestants at STEAMBOAT arc not
allowed to build church, although
they have the funds ready, and the
Greek Protestants, who have church,
are not permitted to worship in it. In
1856, after the Crimean war, Turkey
promised that no one should be hindered
iii 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
turies has the Turkish government kept
her promise of mercy. So far from any
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
a gaining of time by which she is max
ing preparation for the complete exter-
mination Of Christianity from her Dor
ders.
The Nuisance OF the Ages.
Why, after all the national and con-
tinental and hemisphere lying on the
part of the Turkish government, do not
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 the
eternal God, let the nuisance of the
ages be wiped off the face of the earth
Down to the perdition from which it
smoked up sink Mohammedanism Be-
tween these outbreaks Of massacre the
Armenians suffer in silence wrongs that
are seldom if ever reported. They are
taxed heavily for the mere privilege of
living, and the tax is called "the hu-
initiation tax. They are compelled to
give three days entertainment to any
Mohammedan tramp who may be pass
ing that way. They must pay blackmail
to the assessor, lest he report the value
of their property too highly. Their evil
dence in court is of no worth, and if so
Armepians saw a wrong committed and
one Mohammedan was present the tes-
timony of the one Mohammedan would
be taken and the testimony of the 90
Armenians rejected-in other words, the
solemn oath of thousand Armenians
would not be strong enough to overthrow
the perjury of one Mohammedan. A pro-
lessor was condemned to death for trans
lating the English "BQok of Common