The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-05

has been subject TO Turkey. We cal
understand the Jews. with their glor
ious past, making bid for kingdom
and we can, with difficulty. realize TIT
aspirations of the Irish Nationalist
but for Armenians TO indulge in sucl
| chimerical views is more than absurd
And the educated Armenian of Eng
land and the United States knows it ii
absurd, even as does his educated
brother in COnstantinOple.
When the western Armenian has rea
liZed his fortune, does he return TO hi.
native land? Never, Does he, like 6
wealthy Greek, endow schools or build
| churches or hospitals in the far-otf val
legs of Anatolia? No. He drops his
termination IAN" purchases country
seat and poses as a merchant prince
Some ftw return 10 ConStantinoplt
and build palaces on the BosphOrus
but | never heard Of one venturing tC
Erzerum. or endeavoring any way Il
ameliOrate the conditions of his fellow
cOuntrymen- From a distance these
patriots have organized the HintSchal
party, sending emissaries drawn from
the poorer classes 10 travel through
Anatolia sowing the seeds Of discon
tent and anarchy in their track. BY
! this means they have infamed the
minds of the peasantry, and finally
caused them to break into open revolt
But not one OF the better classes has
ever ventured personally into the fray
At COnstantinOple and elsewhere the
mObS were always composed of the
laboring classes; the towards in broad
cloth all took refuge in the churches.
The central Hintchak committee. safe
in Europe and America. worked for
their own selfish ends, regardless of the
misery their action might entail on
their fellow-contrymen. What their
real object was is shrouded in obscur-
ity. There are many theories. One.
that it was their intention TO set up an
autonomous state in Turkey, which
should eventually become the center
round which the Armenians of Russia
and Persia should gather, and from:
this, after the next great European
war, should spring the new kingdom
Of Armenia.
Another theory is that the Hintchaks
are Russian agents in disguise, work
ing merely TO stir up discomfort in the
country, making good government i'm
possible, and so leading to a Russian
invasion and occupation. \ third
party insist that the HintchakiStS are
Nihilists, pure and simple, and are af-
filiated TO the European branches of
that criminal association. Lastly, we
have a party who maintain that the
Armenian committee is powerful
combination of financiers, who are
clearing" Turkish stocks, and who will
hesitate at no villainy TO carry out
their dtsigns. If this last theory be
the correct one, the Hintchakists have
been peculiarly successfully; for they
have not only pushed down Turkish
government securities, but the shares
of the Ottoman bank and of the many
speculative companies that institution
has flOated since Sir Edgar Vinvent be
came its head we have receded nearly
30 per cent, many have fallen cent per
cent, since the Armenian outbreak in
Constantinople just three months ago.
There is abundant proof that prices
have not reached their lowest limit
Local issues are unstable. and it is
generally understood that in about a
couple of months we shall be face to
face with a financial crash which will
involve every household in the country.
There is no doubt that the run on the
Ottoman bank in the month Of Deem
Der was the work Of the Armenian conf
mittee