The record-union., 1896-11-10

lOWeU. Ine horrors OIL II, however, IoT
exceeded the expectations Of the plot
terS.
Last September the Armenians began
their revolutionary plotting in Stam-
boul to rouse the Turks to resentment.
and they succeeded. Under pretence of
presenting a petition to the Sublime
Forte they fired upon the police, the
Turks replied and their passions being
aroused they went further than cooler
biooded Anglo-SaXons would have done.
When six or seven hundred Turks and
Armenians had been killed all Europe
and America were ablaze with excite
ment, which the Armenians cunningiy
fostered.
Every missionary is an Armenian
piotters aid. The missionaries hate the
Turk and his religion. They wish both
cverthrown. They have headquarters
at Roberts College and the Bible House
at Para, and from those points keep the
Armenians stirred up. They have
taught them all about freedom in
America and given them hopes far in
advance of their capacity to enjoy, and
SO the Armenians go on with their
revolutionary schemes, believing they
will be recognized and be placed in
Charge of the whole country.
Mr.. Smith then tells of his meeting
with a New York physician who was
embittered against the Turk: on in
vestigation he found that he had all his
information from missionary Profess
sor in Roberts College whom he had
met in Dresden. AT that very time the
Turk had a strong guard around the
college protecting the faculty and their
wives and children.
The missionaries cannot get behind
the human nature of the Turk, says
Frof. Smith. He is fighting for areligion
he believes in. His sours salvation is
wrapped up in it. He is fighting for his
affairs and his sires, literally. The Ar
menian is cunning and a plotter. He
can beat the Turk at everything but
the blood argument. The Turk, how
ever is no plotter, he is fighter. He
cannot counterplot; his argument in re-
siStance is the sword. In Turkey the
Mosaic law of an eye for an eye pre-
walls, it is the unwritten code of the
Orient, and on that the Turk stands.
We are not going to change it, it is
inbred.
AS to the Sultan's responsibility, he
does all he can. He stops outrages as
fast as he can. He is not to be held
responsible for the outbreaks, any more
than you would hold the Mayor of New
York responsible for riots he could not
foresee. All Europe is on his back; he
is accused of every crime, yet is a lib
eral minded and just monarch. He
demands loyalty of his people, and he
has it in all fullness. There was no
attempt on his life, as recently report
ed, nor has there ever been. That was
a manufactured yarn, and the story
that young Turkey is dissatisfied is an
other lie.
Heretofore the missionaries have die
tated the American Legation policy.
When Judge Terrill took charge, he be-
ing a just man of broad views, could
not grant the missionaries all their re-
quests. Then the missionaries did their
best to have him removed, and failing
in that the war against him began, and
low has a. hard row to hoe between
the Turk on one side and the Ar
nenians and missionaries on the other.
The attack on the Ottoman Bank was
one of the most cold -blooded conSpira-
cies ever hatched. 1t was months incu-
batting in Armenian brains and councils.
There We're 115 employees in the bank
Russian, Turkish, Greek and English.
The Splot was to blow them up unless the
Sultan would grant the Arnenians au-
tonomy. Every one Of the plotters who
got 1t UP is a Christian anarchist. There
are 100000 of them in the city. The
Turks cannot fight them in a body.
They have these devils among them,
and as a result riot and disorders oc-
cur.
When the bomb accidentally exploded
that killed four of the bank conspirators
the Armenians held the balconies and
approaches to the bank. Maxirno, the
iussian Dragoman, under cover of a
white flag, came and begged them to
disperse. After four hours of struggle
they yielded under promise of protec-
ton and dispersed. The dynamite
was removed and the 115 employees of
the bank went to their homes half dead
with fright. The leading conspirators
were taken to the quay, and rowed on
board a yacht owned by an English of
ficer of the bank, and at daybreak were
put ON a steamer and shipped to Mar
seilles.
Turkish inhabitants heard of the es-
cape they We're wild with rage; mob
of citizens. not soldiers, gathered and
swept through the city killing all Ar
menians they met. Suppose, asks Pro-
fessor Smith, a lot of foreign plotters
acted that way in Washington, after
ali attempt to blow up the Capitol, what
would be likely to happen in America :?
Suppose the President, rather than sur
render the plotters to the mob, hustled
them out Of harms way under a United
States guard to Cuba or England, what
would the life of any of the brethren
Of the conspirators be worth in Wash
ington? Yet that is exactly what hap
pened in Constantinople.
Mr.. Smith then describes a plot of
Armenians to assassinate the Christian
Greeks, and lay the murders at the
door of the Turks. For this purpose
zee priests robes were procured as dis
Guises, but the Government found them
and broke up the plot. The very day
or the Ottoman Bank plot Armenians
took possession of a schoolhouse in
STEAMBOAT and began to throw out bombs
tor the purpose of calling away the po-
lice from the vicinity of the bank. The
Armenian Revolutionary Committee
sends missives to the embassies daily
sealed in blood threatening to dynamite
them IL they do not interfere to aid the
armenian cause.
Bomb throwing is q favorite thing
for the Armenians, and they are con-
stantly at it, killing innocent people
passing in the streets. Instances of
this fact are cited. OF course, the Turk
ish mobs retaliate by tearing down the
houses from which the bombs are
thrown. Professor Smith admits that