The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-01-18
THE BLOODY O r
Or. Talmage on the Late Atrocities
in Armenia
The UnchrIstian Ruler of a Vicious People
WILDLY Portrayed-The Civilized
World Looks Calmly on Scenes
of Shocking Barbarian.

Inc SuUlGCt III TIC IdlCSL ulSCOuTSS
at Washington by Rev. Il. Dewitt Tai
mage was the late Armenian outrages
and the text wa from II. King:
xix:S7: 'They escaped into the lane
of Armenia" DIR. Talnage said:
In Bible geography this Is the first
time that Armenia appears, called
then by TIE same name as now. Ar
menia is chiefly a Ia bleland, 1000 feet
above the level of the sea, and on one OF
it's peaks Noah's ark landed, with it:
human family and fauna that were &c
I'll the earth. That religion was the
birthplace of the rivers which fer.
tilted 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 a superior type of the eau.
casian race. Their religion is founded
on the Bible. Their Saviour is our
Christ. Their crime is that they will
not become followers of Mahomet, that
Jupiter of sensuality. To drive them
from the face of the earth is the am
bition of all Mohammedans. To ac-
complish this, murder is no crime. and
Wholesale massacre is a matter of en-
thusiastic appreciation and govern
mental reward. The prayer sanctioned
by highest Mohammedan authority,
and recited every day throughout Tur-
key and Egypt, while styling all those
Mohammedans as infidels, is as follows:
80 Lord of all creaturesl o Allah
Destroy the infidels and ~polytheists,
thine enemies, the enemies Of thy re-
ligionI o Allah Make their children
orphans and deile their bodies; cause
their feet to slip; give them and their
families, their households and their
women, their children, and their rela-
tives by marriage, their brothers and
their friends, their possessions and the
race. their wealth and their lands, as
booty to the Moslems, o Lord of all
creaturesI"
The life of an Armenian IN the pres
ence of those who make that prayer is
of no more value than the life of a
summer insect. The sultan of Turkey
sits on q throne impersonating that
brigandage and assassination. At this
time all civilized nations are in horror
at the attempts of that Mohammedan
government to destroy all the Chris
tians of Armenia. I 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,
mol She is at the same old business.
Overlooking her diabolism of other
centuries, we come down to our CEN
tury to find hat in 1922 the Turkish
government slew So 600 -Moslems,
and in 1880 she slew 10000, and in 1860
she slew 1000. and in 1876 h slew
10, 900. Anything short of the siaugh-
ter of thousands Of human beings does
not put enough red wine into her cup
Of abomination to make It worth
quafing. Nor is this the only time she
has promised reform. In the presence
of the warships at the mouth of the
Dardanelles she has promised the civ
ilized nations of the earth hat she
would stop her butcheries, and the in
ternational 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 atroci-
ties to put nations off 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
reference to religion, and the promise
broken. In 1914, at he demand of
an English minister plenipotentiary,
the sultan declared. after the public
of an Armenian at Constan-
tinople, that no such death penalty
should again be inflicted, and the
---- -. H-olrA- IN 1G<0 of thn
demand of foreign nations, the Turkish
government promised protection to
but to this day the Prot
at STEAMBOAT are not allowed
to build a church, although they
have the funds ready, and the Greek
Protestants. who have q church, are
permitted to worship in it In
1856, after the crimean war, Turkey
promised that no one should be him
dered In the exercise of the religion
professed, and that promise has
been broken. In 1878. at the
BILE treaty of Berlin, Turkey promised
religious liberty to all of her subjects
in every part of the Ottoman empire,
and the promise vas broken. Not
once in all the centuries has the Turk
ish government kept her promise of
mercy. So far from any Improvement,
the condition of tbs Armenians has be-
worse and worse year by year,
and all the promises the Turkish gov
ernment now makes are only q gain
of time by which b is making
preparation for the complete exter-
mination of Christianity from her bor-
ders.
Why, after all the national and con.
tinenal 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 C~onstanti-
nople and blow that ~accursed govern
to atoms? In the name of the
Eternal God, let the nuisance of the
be wiped off the face of the earthl
Down to the perdition from which IT
smoked up, sink Mohammedanismi
Between these outbreaks of massacre
the Armenians suffer in silence wrongs
that are seldom, il ever. reported
They are taxed heavily for the mere
privileges of living. and that tax is
"the humiliation tax" They
are compelled 10 give three days
entertainment to any Mohammedan
tramp who may be passing that
way. They must pay blaciSmail to the
lest he report the value
of their property too highly. Their
evidence in court is of no worth,
and If so Armenians saw a wrong
and one Mohnmmedan was
present, the testimony of the one Mo-
.ammedan would be taken and the tes-
mony of the so Armenians rejected; in
other words, the solemn oath of a
Armenians wonld not be
enough to overthrow the per-
jury of one Mohammedan. profess
sor was condemned to death for trans
the English book of Common
Prayer into Turkish. Seventeen Ar
nenians were sentenced to IS years inn
for rescuing a Christian
bride from the bandits. This is the
way the Turkish government u
tself in time of peace. These are the
of Turkish civilization, But
the days of massacre come, then
are done which may not be un-
relied in any refined assemblage, and
I one speaks of the horrors he must do
% in well poised and cautious vocabu-
airy. Hundreds of villages Destroyed
Young men put in piles of bFnshwood,
which are then saturated with kero-
enc aud set on fire! Mothers, in the
most solemn hour hat ever comes in a
voman's life. hurled out and bayonet-
ID Eyes gouged out, and dead and
lying hurled into the same pitt The