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


reforms which local needs require in
the provinces inhabited by the Armen-
ians, and guarantees their security
against the Circassians and the Kurds.
II undertakes to make known from
time to time the measures taken. with
this object. to the powers, who will
watch over their application"
Article e2-"Tte Sublime Porte hav-
ing expressed its Willingness to main
tain the principle of religious liberty,
and to give to It the widest sphere. the
contracting parties take cognizance OF
this spontaneous declaration" (They
should have said OF this stupendous
false pretension)
Article Ga. concluding the treaty.
closes with these words: 'In witness
whereof the plenipOtentaries afiix their
signatures" and seven powers partici-
pating bound themselves by this treaty.
1t Is said to be one of the most re-
markable international agreements ever
entered into. signed by more great
powers than had ever before bound
themselves by any one compact
The congress lasted thirty days, ad-
journed July IS, 1878. but Just before
its close, the British government an
nounced its treaty OF defense with
Turkey, causing great sensation.
as follows:
TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRIT
AIN AND TURKEY.
Article If Batoum, Ardahan, Kars,
or any of them. shall be retained by
Russia, and II any attempt shall be
made Mt any future time by Russia TO
take possession of any further terri
tories of his imperial majesty, the
sultan. in Asia, rs fixed by the deflnl-
tive treaty of peace, England engages
TO join his imperial majesty, the sultan.
In defending them by force OF arms"
I'm return. his imperial majesty. the
sultan. promises to England to intro
duce necessary reforms, to be agreed
upon later between the two powers,
into the government, and for the pro-
lection OF the Christian and other sub
Jects OF the porte In these territories.
and In order to engage England to
make necessary provision for executing
her engagement, his imperial majesty,
the sultan, further consents to assign
the island Of Cyprus to be occupied
and administered by England"
This compact had been secretly sign
ed Mt Constantinople on June 4, 1873.
Thus the land that claimed to be the
leading nation of Christendom was
leagued with the head power of heath
endom. and that the worst In all the
world, almost as unholy an alliance
as a league between heaven and hell.
As direct consequence of this damn
ing deal the devllsh Turk has tram
pied upon these three treaties with per-
feet impunity, while deiiantly dsre-
garding overwhelming forces which are
watching each other, fearing to inter-
fere. while he not only aids and abets.
but instigates and perpetrates the rob-
berry. torture. murder and rapine of
the helpless victims whom he promises
to protect. and whom all the parties to
these treaties committed to his tender
mercies. pledging their faith to the
whole world to defend them from harm
and protect them fully in all their civil
and religious liberties and rights bS
all the powers of Christendom at their
command.
THE MOHAMMEDAN UPRISING.
While Europe watches and waits, the
bloody Turk keeps up his awful work
and the raising of the standard of the
false prophet may prove a final effort
Of the rulers of the rotten Ottoman
empire TO restore the prestige OF their
diabollcal despOtism by arousing the
hundreds of millions OF Mohammedan
barbarlsm, to rally to the rescue of
their accursed cause; or. what ie ~
flnitely worse to wreak fearful wronv
upon helpless victims of their fanatiu..t
fury till the desecrated earth shall
tremble beneath the tread of their
ahhorrent hosts.
The awful atrocities In Armenia are
merely Mohammedan massacres, to
which the bloody Turk would commit
all mankind. not Moslem. The cause
Of Christians in Armenia, therefore, Is
not che of any particular race or re-
llglon but humanity at large and clvil
and religious liberty in general.
Neither financial considera tions nor
national jcalousies nor fraternal rela-
tlonshlps should be permitted longer to
prevent the powers from fully en-
| forcing peace and Justice. The UNI
\ fnYltpts nf 10 ~ Mr.h
/ med among the troops that are over
] running Syria. means not onlv 80
4 massacre of Christians, but OF Bud
/ hlsts and others as we'll This rs tile
( signal for holy war and the sign
| OF general uprising OF Mohamme-
I dams, which. unless met Immediately
/ by the united, powerful forces OF Chris
tendon, win spread until armies of
millions arrayed for robbery, murder
and rapine may indefinitely extend an
era OF cruelty and bloodshed 20 ter
rible that the world may well shudder
Mt the very thought OF It, Can Chris
tlnn nations continue to listen quietly
TO the cries Of despair that come to
us, and either from greed OF gold or
territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT or coward
ice conniVe longer with such crimes
( If islam is allowed to gather itself to-
Yether for the great death grapple Of
the ages. in Its final struggle with
. 'HllNNNiiNAN loT iUt NNfl1uNN' VI INC
world-heware ANY nation that will
permit It's politicians to trine longer
or plot further for the preservation OF
this ahonirntinn should be branded nv
the Christian world Rs unworthy OF
recognition In the councils or nations
and ostracised from nil future all-
nnces Of civilization, for It is In the
power OF the peoples OF Europe united
ly to Put an end to thrso ntrocities
Over one hundred millions or Mos
lens in Africa, forty millions OF islam
In India, besides uncounted millions
moro In China, Arabia, Persia, Thlbnt.
Mrhnnistan, Tartary, Turkey and
other countries. consider tho sultan Ms
their religious, II not political ruler.
and Constantinople as their actual
capiiai, belng bound relieiouslv to
obey him II not by political allceiance,
by the tyrannicai ties OF religious
bieotry.
No more wnrlike races, nor barbar-
Gus religlonists ever devastated the
earth than have fought for the faith
OF Nohpmmed on many of the blood
lest nelds OF history.
According to recent reports Of
THEIR UPRISING IN CENTRAL.
ASIA,
they nre over-runninr peaceful
provinces in the interior, In
vast hordcs, pouring In upon
Northwestern China with all the
fury or their fendish fanatacism, and
sweeping the mlserahly equipped,
poorly trained unratriotic forces of
the Celestial Empire 1I,te sheep a. the
slaughter. utterly annihilatlng Whole