Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-14
will stay here and die with cur people"

will stay here and die with cur people," Applause and hisses)
 He then explained how the British ann bassador had extended his protection to the missionaries, so that they were all lowed to continue their work unmolested. That was the only reason that they were not slaughtered" he said. Had our noble president on one of his fishing excursions wandered into the Turkish domain and had so much as tiny little bullet from Turks play pistol passed through his sail l take 1t Americans would have found that 1t was some of our business to interfere in Turkish af- fairs. Great applause and laughter) charge the government of the United States with misinterpretation of the en- frightened sentiment of the American people in this matter. The president of the United States, the secretary of state and the American minister have disre- garded our broken treaties; they have permitted American lives to be endan- gered; they have permitted American property to be destroyed without repara- ton and American citizens to be impris- oned.
 Our government has stirred the pas SionS of the American people to anger against England, one-thousandth part or the pretext that would have sufficed Tor a destructive war with Turkey. The ad- ministra ton officers have turned a deaf and almost scornful ear to the entreaties and representations of some of our best citizens, missionaries, churches and moral societies, and I denounce their conduct as unpatriotic, uncivil, undem- ocratic, unrepubllcan, un-American, un- Christian, selfish, weak. barbarous and criminal in the eyes of the American peo- pie and of God and all men,"
 Every word, almost of these last sem tences of MT. Mills was greeted by loud cheers Men and women on the plat ho1, ,{t.6 md 10 him rose and shouted their hearty ap- proval of the denunciation of President Cleveland. In the midst of the solemn charge of cowardice and disloyalty level- ed at the chief executive, the, secretary of state and the American minister, the whole audience rose spontaneously way ing flags and banners and crying aloud their approval. As MT. Mills proceeded they kept on their feet repeating the cheer of indorsement at every adjective. Finally when his voice and manner in. dicated that he had reached the end of his peroratlon six rousing cheers of ap- proval were given.
 Rev. Wayland Hoyt, who presided, arose in his seat beside the speaker and called upon the audience to reaffirm the charge. Again came the six cheers with hearty enthusiasm. q hope the response will echo through the empty White House and extend to Buzzard's Bay cried Mir Mills as he took his seat.
 Eight meetings in tents and churches closed the proceedings of the convention tonight, in which speeches were made by many prominent Endeavorers, among others Rev. Drs B. Fay Mills, J. Wilber Chapman of Philadelphia and J. I. Vance of Tennessee
 After a brief conservation service at each meeting the convention adjourned without day.
 The total registration of Endeavorers at this meeting is 31,112. Of these HOBO are from the District of Columbia. Penn sylvania comes next in point of numbers with 35S4, Maryland next with 3O1O and New York fourth with 1642 The other states that go above the thousand mark are Virginia Ohio. New Jersey. Massa- chusetts and Illinois.