Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-01-07

which trace the bloody trail of the
Moslems wherever their feet have trod.
from the times that gave them birth.
Another recent report states that q
posed OF both BudHsts and Mohamme-
dams. was warned.of conspiracy upon
the part of his Moslem troops to
massacre all his Ilidhist soldiers. Just
in time to defeat The plot. by arrest
inp the rlneleaders, SELLING the arms
of the r,utinIis. and hastily dividing
his forces, NDbre the scheme could be
contaminated.
And this Is only another OF the in
Vulnerable Instances of Mohammedan
trcachery, audacity, and ferocity,
which time would fail TO tell. II pen
could possible depict.
Theirs Is the same tender mercy to-
DAY In the heart OF the Orient and in
Asia Minor. as has swept down for
ages past with demoniac fury upon
poor. defenseless villages.
THE TERROR OF DARKEST
AFRICA
tearing the infant from It's frantic
mothers breast, without sufficient
pity to beat Its brains out. before tos-
sing IL into the fire of the burning ham,
let. or throwing its helpless form into
the jungle thicket, to become a tender
morsel for some prowling beast OF prey.
htlo ~ tue same loving KINDNESS
that forces the broken hearted mother
with bleeding feet. tottering on as
long as she can be driven by cruel
blows, or dragged alive by the chains
that bind the slave gang together, till
they are separated to be sold or slain.
Theirs is the same holy passion that
today ravishes the purest. tenderost
and trucst, while 1t reeks and revels
in the innocent blood of their outraged
victims till death delivers the defense
less who have been
BETRAYED BY THE POWERS
PLEDGED TO PROTECT
them. while these powers delay dan
Eenously longer in doing their duty
to which they are bound by the most
powerful inviolate sacred treaty obllga-
tions. permitting isolated millions of
Islam to hear the call to religious
war. In which to win is victory with
booty and unbridled rapine. and to die
Is eternal triumph in a paradise of de-
bauchery, and delight
Every moment spent In political plot
ting and contemplating by the diplo-
mats of Europe is increasing this dam
ger and inviting dire disasters, as 1t in
flames the awful passions of these
fiends incarnate tiercer and farther. to
finish the fearful work OF vengeance
they have alreay begun with such sick
ening horrors in Armenia, by the hor-
hundred thousand helpless human be-
ings.
THE FEARFUL FATE OF OVER
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
CHRISTIAN
women and children, outraged rayish-
ed, widowed and orphaned, naked and
homeless, freezing and starving, hunt
ed like wild beasts to perish In the
blood stained snow. the bitter cold the
, killing blasts of a wild mountain win
/ ter, Is being sealed in death while Eu-
I rope waits, and the heart of humanity
shudders, as 1t should shudder, till the
earth shakes with the shock of an
avenging and defending fury.
The whole world watches in horror,
as well 1t may, while In sight from the
lecks of our great war ships lying along
those shores, the smoke of their burn
ing homes and devastated villages rises
to heaven mingled with groans of muir
dered men, prayers and shrelks of out
ragged women. the pltiful walls of help
less children and the death cries OF
agonized beings, whom the powers of
Europe voluntarily pledged themselves
to protect. What is the matter with
the grand manhood of Europe? II this
: is its standard, we'll may the women
weenl
THE VENEZUELAN QUESTION
IS not worthy to be mentioned in this
connection, and 1t should cause bushes
of shame to burn into the very hearts
of Britons and Americans to think that
1t threatens war between them, but in
( tho light OF International injustice and
| intrigue, 1t looms up like the cloud,
/ though no larger than a mans hand
that may yet prove TO be a cyclone Of
b Divine wrath to wreck nations for
wrongs upheld. and rights downtrod.
/ den,
] The heart OF America aches for Ar
menia, and the outburst OF overwhelm-
ing enthusiasm over the Venezuelan
war cry comes from the evaporation
: OF the American people at the British
policy Of BLUM and blunder, from San
/ Stefano TO Venezuela, till they will no
! longer tolerate that game of blood and
| thunder in the new world. and are
ready to wash this wrong away n neod
be in the blood of the bravest and the
best. VIC
| They cannot forget that ENGLAND for
| greed or for glory or for territorial nr-
! Erandizement thwarted the czar at the
very moment when he might have freed
| Armenia forever from the oppression OF
the Turk, and they stand reudy to
| strike the death blow today TO such
treacherous greed In the new world
| though II might seem like stabblnp a
! mothers breast to war with Britain
saddcr even than that battle between
! brothers OF the North and South. in
the death struggle OF slavery ON Amer.
can soil. for the are bound to tho
mother land by all the tenderest truest
strongest ties OF blood and faith ana
| destiny. But
| COVERING BEFORE THE CANNON
OF ALL CHRISTENDoM
on the mlghtiest armament ever af,o,t
ready to thunder asain at lis vcrv
gates, cringes stlll In Constantinonie
the head center and controlling mower
| or that unspeakable system Of In.
| iquity, which has not only been nm.
| held by the common consent ~ ,ho
| great powers of Europe for oenturias
| put which for bonds and blood money
by the millions, has been fostered h.
| the flnanciers. and bolstered up Inv tba
battleships and battallons OF The var,
| powers who have bound themselves H.,
| fore the world to enforce faIthfnlIy ~
very treaties they permit to be vioIa,a
with impunity 'eu
| The powers which have forced ,b,s
| fearful state of affairs upon tho ,voril
| should face the consequences Of thnir
| political crimes or blunders. and rlght
these wrongs at once, or thew viii On.
| vite the wrath OF the An AvensIna
GOD to grind them to pieces against
cacn other, like the persisted nations
OF the past, In the all devouring mills
or their own insntlnte greed for rol5
and glory and greater empire,
Not the people. but Diplomats Of
Europe are to blame They voluntnrilv
bound themselves 10 defend those