Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-01-18
THE CRY OF ARMENIA
Or. TALmAGe RELATES THE HORRORS
or THe MASSACRE.

or The MASSACRE.
The Turk Places No Value on the Life Of
n Christian Heroic Work of Mission
ArIes-Duty of the Nations TO stop Per
secution -Christendom's Apathy.
WASHINGTON. Jan. l2-It was appro-
pirate that in the presence If the chief
men of this nation and other nations DIR.
Talmage should tell the story of Armenian
massacre. What will be the extent or
good Of such "a discourse none can tell
Tho text was II Kings xix 81, They cs-
capped into the land Of Armenia
In Bible geography this is the first time
that Armenia appears. called then by the
same name aS now Armenia Is chiefly "a
tableland, 1000 feet above the level of the
sea, and on one uf its peaks Nuah's ark
landed. with its human family and fauna
that were To MI the earth. That region
was the birthplace Of the rivers which fer
;lized the garden Of Eden when Adam
and Eve lived there. their only roof the
crystal skies and their carpet the emerald
Of rich grass. Its inhabitants the ethnol-
ogists tell us, are superior type of the
Caucasian race. Their religion Is founded
on the Bible. Their Saviour is our Christ.
Their crime Is that they will not become
followers Of Mohammcd. that Jupiter Of
sensuality. To drive them from the face
OF the earth IS the ambition Of all Moham-
mcdans. To accomplish this murder is no
crime. and wholesale massacre is a matter
OF enthusiastic appreciation and govern
mental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest Mo
hammcdan authority and recited every
day throughout Turkey and Egypt, while
styling all those not Mohammcdans as in
fidols is MS follows: 20 Lord of all crea-
lures o Allah, destroy the infidels and
polytheists, thine enemies the enemies Of
the religion O Allah. make their chill
drcn orphans and dcfilc their bodies
Cause their feet To slip, give them and
their families, their households and their
women, their children and their relatives
by marriage. their brothers and their
friends, their possessions and the race,
their wealth and their lands as booty to
the Moslcms, O Lord Of all creatures"
Turks at the Old Business.
The life of an Armenian in the presence
Of those who make that prayer Is of no
more value than the life of summer in
sect. The sultan of Turkey sits ON a
throne impcrsonating that brigandage and
assassination. At this time all civilized
nations ara In horror AT the attempts of
that Mohammedan government to destroy
all the Christians Of Armenia. l hear
somebody talking as though some new
thing were happening, and that the Turk
ish government had taken new role Of
tragedy on the stage Of nations. No, no!
She is at the same old business. Over
looking her diaboliSm OF other centuries,
we come down 10 our century TO find that
in ls22 the Turkish government slew 90,
600 anti MoSlcms, and in 1850 she slew
IL, 600, and In 1860 she slew ! I 900. and in
1876 she slew 10000. Anything short Of
the slaughter of thousands Of human bc-
ings does not put enough red wine into
her cup Of abomination 10 make IL worth
quafling. Nor is this the only time she
has promised reform. In the presence Of
the warShips at the mouth VI the Darda-
nclleS she has promised the civilized ma
tions Of the earth that she would stop her
butchcrics. and the international and
hemisphere farce has been enacted Of be-
lieving what she says, when all the past
ought 10 persuade us that she is only paus-
ing in her atrocities To put nations off the
track and then resume the work of death.
promised 10 alleviate the condition Of
Christians, but the promise was broken.
In 1889 the then sultan promised protec-
ton Of life and property without reference
To religion, and the promise was broken.
In 1874, at the demand Of an English min
lister plcnipoientiary the sultan declared,
after the public execution Of an Armenian
at Constantinoplc, that no such death pen
IL n 81
promise was broken. In 1850. mt the de-
mand OF foreign nations, the Turkish gov
eminent promised protection to Protcs-
tants but to this day the Proiestants M
STEAMBOAT are not allowed to build q
church, although they have the funds
ready. and the Greek Protcstants. who
have church. are not permitted TO wor
ship In IT, In 1886. after the Crimcan
war, Turkey promised that no one shogld
be hindcrcd In the exercise Of the religion
he profcsscd. and that promise has been
broken. In 1878, AT the memorable treaty
of Berlin, Turkey promised religious lib
erty To all her subjects in every part Of tho
Ottoman empire and the promise was
broken. Not once in all the centuries has
the Turkish government kept her promise
of mercy. So far from any improvement
the condition Of the Armcnians has be-
come worse and worse year by year, and
all the promises the Turkish government
now makes are only gaining Of time by
which she is making preparation for tho
complete determination Of Christianity
| from her borders.
Blot Out Instrumentation.
Why, after all the national and CONT
mental and hemisphcric lying on the part
of the Turkish government, do not tho
warships OF Europe ride up as close rs is
| possible To the palaces Of Cunstantinoplc
and blow that accursod government 10
atoms! In the name of the eternal God let
the nuisance Of the ages be wiped off the
face Of the earth. Down To the pcrdition
from which 1t smoked mp sink Moham-
mechanism! Between these outbreaks Of
massacre the Armcnians suffer in silence
wrongs that are seldom II ever reported
They are taxed heavily for the mere privi-
lege Of living. and the tax is called '':ho
| humiliation tax" They are compelled %
/ give three days entertainment TO any
/ Mohammeiian tramp who may he passing
| that way. They must pay blackmail TO the
assessor. lest hr report the value of their
property too highly Their evidence in
court Is Of no worth. and II 80 Armenians
u
nIcdan was present the testimony of the
one Mohamn.cdan would he taken and the
testimony 81 he 80 Armenians rejected.
/ In other words. the solemn oath Of u thou
sand Armc..iaus wculd not be strong
enough TO overthrow the perjury Of one
Mohamm"t,,I. y professor was condemn
cd to death fer TRANSMITTING ;hc English
Book II Common Prayer into Turkish.
I Seventeen .Armenians We're sentenced ia
Is years imprisonment for rcscuing a
Christian bride FROM the bandits This is
the way the Turkish government amuscs
itself in tin.r of peace. These are the de
lights Of Turkish civilization.
But whci the days OF massacre como
then deeds ..ic done which may not he I'M
veilcd in any refined asscmblagc, and II
one speaks %! the horrors he must do 50 In
well poised ....d cautious vocabulary. Hun
drcdS IF villages destroyed, Young men
nut In piles ut brushwood which are then
saturated with kerosene and set on flrel
Mothers, In the most solemn hour that
ever comes in . woman's life hurled out
and hayonetcd, Eyes gouged out and
dead and dying hurled into the same pit
The slaughter Of Lucknow and Cawnpur,
India. in 1857, cclipsed in ghastlincss
Tho worst scenes Of the French revolution
in Paris made more tolcrable in contrast
In many regions Of Armenia the only un-
dcrtakcrs today are the jackalS and hyenas
Many of the chiefs uf the masSacrcs were
sent straight from Constantinoplc tn dc
their work, and having returned We're dec