The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-13
Speeches on the Armenian Question
Rouse the Audience to Out
bursts Of Enthusiasm.
MANY PATRIOTIC vTTERANCES
The Meeting Was Called to Protest Against
the Turkish Butchery Of Armenian Chris
tlans and to Establish q Fund for Their Re.
lief The Speeches Were Repiete with Patri-
Never Precedented In This City.

~ Stfflt unprecedented pcTildpS tuS
church history of Scranton was that
witnessed last night In the First Pres
byterian church. when four speakers
''ss,ers each apDlauded to the echo for
their sentiments of Indignation against
the treatment of Armenian Christians
by the Turkish government. Such out
bursts of enthusiasm are seldom OBJ
served, and additional weight Is given
the occurrence from the fact that it
happened on Il Sabbath night and in a
house Of Worship. The church was
filled.
The speakers We're Colonel II. NJ.
Boies, Judge Alfred Hand, A. w. Dick
son and Rev. DR.. James Mcleod, the
pastor of the church.
Colonel Boies. whose characteristics
make him especially prone to vehement
outbursts against wrong doing in any
form, with difficulty read from his
manuscript In trembling voice, agi-
tated manner and frequent utterances
of wrath against Turkish brutality, he
plainly showed how the subject ap-
Dealed to him and the audience readily
fell into accord with his views. His
was the first address. ami IL faint clap
ping of hands. irresistibly developed
into volume OF applause when he re-
marked that. II no European nation
would. 1t was time for the United States
to grapple with the Turkish monster
and choke him to death and then divide
his estate among his proper European
heirs.
Judge Hands Sentiments.
That the United States should 60 to
Turkey with bullets in one hand and
ev vn,a.sa1 Inv, I,,1,.,, t, a. '"u sehtiineht
ho ,,,is",uo,s, 'u aao. na.her than
snon.iIiiit, W H., .ua aNoiu .he re,
stat"r,n't. =, '', 'a,', 'p.a.ir anu raoical
', ,' ne uiu not reiy upon MS
s,'ii,, I Naowm ,'o' ll"ency. put read from care
u'iy p'c.'aieu n'aIius.ript. re ala not
nv '.'.s W aNel 'iat ,he Woriu was on
.nr nerse vi cr'Sis oi wars pioody ana
,erriilc ana gave a comprehensive out
,.i,e vi 'ne SITUATION from POLITICAL
'e,s'ous s,ahupoiHt.
Mr.x Dcksoh mature, ike that OF
Noiohei boies' iiabIe TO forceful state
nnehts on ROBUST ana emphatic earnest
ness Without rear OF consequence or
crlticism' Won the applause of his hear
ers ny aVerfing that the protests of an
lndignant ana iighteously angered
people must indicate the policy of the
'niteu otates government IN Striking
u u oio" ior lDerty, fenglous liberty, In
iufhey. Ihe First presbyterian church,
he said. Is small church, Scranton a
small city, Pennsylvania a small st to
considering the EXTENT 0f tho world hut
if the tea occurrance In nn,,"r hn,hu,, Su.
or p.,r;cL uonr,,.s ..i;ha,,,'. i,aI ~, uor
". a.i nh IIei,s ioertH OF death
it'eiaIi.e Iouseu a nation IL would not
De unreasonable 10 suppose that last
nights meeting might indicate a sweep
ing demand from the whole United
States.
Probably never before dur;na h,s vac,
da,,o ;n cnr,,t,,, -. iIiD M les'
T.iov NV. ~ o,rahtoh mas the impetuous
~ INLcou Suohcu WITH Sucn an out
burst as characterized his last nights
address. He. too. was accorded the
same kind of applause as was given the
other speakers. especially when be re-
marked uDon atrocities or forn,o, oa,
tur;e. &c rh;,d;s ,,,a,, ,,.;,h ~ me cen
;,,,.nLo~;s S .,lu ,hii pay witn tne preseEt
"l.ne.es WnIcn Wouiu exact from the
next trutnlui historian the blacklist and
DlOOdleSt page or history ever recorded.
In opening the meeting DIR. Mcleod
duced Colonel Boies as the treasurer co
,octed NV the n,aat;no -, AZ ~ :,
mr;nn ,ast niorda,, -, ~. M v @ astois
u,'i',i.. u,IiEii ,aa' Mohua. III ,he ouhg men =
Boies said:
Colonel Boics' Speech.
Nowhere on the face of the earth do tho
authentic records of the human race cast
their the, Illuminating rays 50 far back into
found such strnendoms mnVements are nf
primevai intelIiuence skill. and nou,e er :
nowhere are the annals of hjstn,v 90 re.
piete with the greatest names of ium,ni-
~. Involved with tbe rise and fai, ns 81,
ble nv The narration Of sianebter ana
ran;ns from the eor,iest tines ,n ar, ,hn
present as in the conntrv wb;ch has M
walled and sbrieked undar he h,ond,.
tv.." i've ce,,turies. M e ''e'e '''N ''r 'ne last
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