Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-01-16

the nuisance OF the ages be wiped on the |
face of the earthl Down to the perdition |
from which It smoked up sink Moham-
medanisml Between these outbreaks Of
massacre the Armenians suffer in silence
wrongs that are seldom IL ever reported
They are taxed heavily for the mere privi-
lege Of living, and the tax is called "the
humiliation tax" They are compelled to
give three days entertainment to any
Mohammedan tramp who may be passing
that way. They must pay blackmail to the
assessor, lest he report the value of their
property too highly. Their evidence In
court is of no worth, and If so Armenians
raw a wrong committed and one Moham-
;nedan was present the testimony of the
ono Mohammedan would be taken and the
testimony of the 80 Armenians rejected.
In other words, the solemn oath of thou
sand Armeninns would not be strong
enough to overthrow the perjury of one
Nohammedan. A professor was condemn
ed to death for translating the English
"Book of Common Prayer" into Turkish.
Seventeen Armenians were sentenced to
Is years Imprisonment for rescuing a
Christian bride from the bandits This Is
the way the Turkish government amuses
itself in time of peace. These are the de-
lights of Turkish civilization.
But when the days of massacre come
then deeds are done which may not be un-
yelled In any refined assemblage, and IL
one speaks of the horrors he must do so In
we'll poised and cautious vocabulary. Hun
dreds of villages destroyed Young men
put In piles of brushwood, which are then
saturated with kerosene and set on fire
Mothers, in the most solemn hour that
ever comes In woman's life, hurled out
and bayonetedl Eyes gouged out and
dead and dying hurled into the same pitt
The slaughter of Lucknow and Cawnpur,
India, In 1857, collapsed In ghastlinessl
The worst scenes of the French revolution
| in Paris made more tolerable in contrast
| In many regions of Armenia the only un.
| dertakers today are the jackals and hyenas.
Many of the chiefs of the massacres were
sent straight from Constantinople to dc
| their work, and having returned were dec
GRATED by the sultan.
Turkish Murderers Decorated.
To four Of tho worst murderers the sui
tan sent silk banners In delicate appreci.
| alton of their services. Five hundred thou.
| sand .Armenians put to death or dying Of
starvation This moment, while speak,
all up and down Armenia sit many peo,
| pie freezing in the ashes of their destroyed
homes bereft of most of their households
and awaiting the club of assassination to
| put them out of their misery. No wonder
| that the physicians OF that region declared
that among all the men and women that
were down with wounds and sickness and
under their care not ono wanted to get
we'll. Remember that nearly all the re-
ports that have come to us of the Turkish
outrages have been manipulated and modi
fed and softened by the Turks themselves.
The story is not half told. or hundredth
part told or a thousandth part told.
None but God and our suffering brothers
and sisters in that faroff land know the
whole story, and it will not be known un
til, in the coronations of heaven, Chris
shall lift to special throne of glory thest
heroes and heroines, saying, "These arr
they who came out of great tribulatioI
and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the lamb" M.
Lord and my God, thou didst on the eros
suffer for them, but thou surely, o Christ
wilt not forget how much they have suf
fered for thee! / dare not deal in impre
cation but never so much enjoyed tn
impreoatory songs of David as since hav
heard how those Turks are treating tn
Armenians. The fact is, Turkey has go
to be divided up among other nations
OF course the European nations must tax
', the chief part, but Turkey ought to b
compelled to pay America for the Ameri
can mission buildings and American
schoolhouses she has destroyed and to SUP
port the wives and children of the Amerl
cans ruined by this wholesale butchery
When the English lion and the Russia
bear put their paws on that Turkey, th
American eagle ought to put in its bill.
Missionary Heroes.
Who are these American and Englis
and Scotch missionaries who are bein
: bounded among the mountains of Al
> menia by the Mohammedansp The mobiles
. men and women this side of HEAVIER
> some of them men who took the highe
honors at Yale and Princeton and Harvar
and Oxford and Edinburgh some I
those women, gentlest and most Chris
: like, who, to save people they never sav
spend their days in self expatriation, sa
ing goodby to father and mother and
9 terward goodby to their own children,
Q circumstances compel them to send the II
u tie ones to England, Scotland or Americ
have seen these foreign missionaries
their homes all around the world, and
stamp with indignation upon the litera
blackguardism of foreign correspondent
: who have deprecated these heroes al
b heroines who are willing to live and d
y for Christ's sake. They will have t.
: highest thrones in heaven, while their d
t famsrs will not get near enough to t
shining gates to see the faintest CLINT
+ any one of the 12 pearls which make
d the IL gates.
70 This defamation Of missionaries Is au
IS mented by the dissolute English, Americ
and Scotch merchants who go to foreil
cities, leaving their families behind thel
:. Those dissolute merchants in foreign cit
:. lead life Of such gross immorals that
= pure households of the missionaries art
perpetual rebuke. Buzzards never did |
= lieve in doves, and If there is anythi
= that nightshade hates it is the water IL
y What the $50 American missionaries ha
n, suuor6u III tlo ooooiiiShh SAhP'io oihoo -
= leave tho archangel to announce on
y day Of Judgment. You will see 1T rease
y :. able that put SO much emphasis
p Americanism in the Ottoman empire VIII
y tell you that America, notwithstandi
!. all the disadvantages named, has now o'
~ $4,000 students in day schools in that O.
:. pire and $4,000 children in her Sabbf
schools and that America has expend
w in the Turkish empire for its bettermt
: over 100000 Has not America rig
= = to be heardp Ayei 1t will be heard
~ :. am glad that great indignation meetiI
~ are being held all over this country. II