The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
GEORGE HALL CRITICISED,
An Armenian Takes to Task the
San Francisco Representative
of the Sultan.
SOCIETIES.
The Turk Prays Every Evening for
the Death of All the I'm
believers.

A. Ananoun, well-known Armenian of
this City, sends the following communica-
ton concerning the recent article of Mr.
Hall on the Armenian question:
SAN FRANCISCO Jan. IS.
Editor OF The Gail: In Fridays Chronicle
there was an article about the Armenian ques-
ton written by G. Hall.
The article clearly shows that it was written
by a Turkish Consul TO please his august Sui
tan for some favors.
We understand Mr.. Halls unfortunate posi-
ton as Turkish Consul, and feel sorry for him
that his position makes it impossible for him
to use his a BILE pen otherwise. And we most
sincerely advise him not to stain the noble
character OF citizen of America the land
which is patron of the oppressed. 1t Is better
for him to keep silent in these critical times,
when thousands of innocent lives are in
danger, rather than to write about question
OF which he seems to have imperfect knowl-
edge.
seen the soil of Armenia; nor have his curious
searching eyes ever caught glimpses of the
glazing domes of the Turkish mosques, nor his
sharp ears-so quick to hear of Armenian Of
lenses to report 10 the Sultan for some reward
heard the prayers of the faithful under the
skyward towering domes, repeated five times q
day, that "Oh, Allah, make the children of the
unbelievers orphans, and give them, their
wives and their possessions, to the faithful
Nor has he seen the Armenians. except a few
in this City, ana we beg to remind him that
few Armenians may be, yet they do not make a
nation nor give fair idea of its people.
Judge Nye, in his address in the Oakland
mass-meeting, said: ri know some of the Ar
menians in the city, especially with one l am
very well acquainted. There has not been one
born in America, nor has one stepped on the
soil OF this country, any better American than
that Armenian" And again, Mr.. Glad
stone, Mr. Stevenson, James Price of the
English Parliament and DR.. Cyrus Hamlin,
Rev. DR.. Green, DR.. Bliss and many American
missionaries md froxr alarC nd xurito hovr
said that the Armenians are an industrious,
intelligent, faithful, peace-bking people.
But what difference would it make, whatso-
ever KIND OF people they may be: it is enough
that they are of the human family. Let us
look into the question from a Christian and
human point.
1t has been proved by able and trustwor thy
persons that over 90 900 ArmenIans have been
Killed, that many are still being killed, and
that half a million are left destitute and at the
point OF starvation. 1t is almost foolish to
stop and inquire into the cause l am sure
when Mr.. Halls house was on fire he did not
stop and inquire into the cause, but escaped
ana rendered help to his mother and to others
IN the house. 1t is not time for inquiry. That
mas already been done, and 1t produced the
most appalling and heartrending results 1t
human? Let us do our human duty, then.
The most astonishing part of Mr.. Halls
article was wholesale denial and an effort to
whitewash the Turk of the crimes committed
before the heavenward rising protests OF
Europe and America against his outrages.
Lacking evidences to support his views, Mr..
Hail refers TO Senior Zimmenes, a Spanish
tIayeler All who have read last January's
papers Will remember Senior Zimmenes, the
so-called Spanish traveller, was paid by the
sultan to lecture in London TO divert the pub
nc sympathles from the Armenians. 1t was
discovered that he had never been in Armenia
In London the public would not even hear
him. What that classifying Spanish traveller
SAID is unjust, is cruel. deny most emphati-