The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-01-04

Holding Up Hands IN Holy Horror
While Butohery Goes On.


Cnurc1es. and kercy W. SuuttnSs cue
tor of the Contemporary Review, have
addressed the following communiea--
ton t o "Au Editors of England and
America
ave enclose extracts from q letter
from a private friend who spent sew
eral months of this year in Armenia
and who is one of the first authorities
ON the question, as indeed you would
admit were we at liberty TO publish.
his name. May we beg you to insert
these in the next issue of your psperT'
yours, faithfully,
TSignedl ssHExRY S. LUSS,
..Editor of the Review of the Churches
.PERcY W. BUSTSs,
sEditor Of the Contemporary Review"
Any allusion TO Armenia upsets me.
l am ashamed, excited, indignantwhen
I think of what l saw in that country
and of the confidence with which /
consoled quailing women and weeping
men with hopes that England would
see them through their difficulties, and
the words of heartfelt thanks they ut
tered, often ON their knees in the fields
or on the hillsides; and the child-like
messages Of anticipatory gratitude
which they asked me to deliver to the
English people nov burn and rankle-
within me like an envenomed wound.
.sThe European powers are playing
q ~farcical representation round the
graves of a Christian people. II con-
duct similar to theirs were to be pur~
sued by an individual in private life,
1t would be visited with social ostra-
cism, and would brand him with an in
delible Gains mark of infamy. Fancy
a mans neighbors parading about the
doors Of his house while he and his
children rush frantically from o
to room and from window to window.
imploring them to save them from the
devouring flames. We have pity on o.
rat, if we hear of its protracted and
hopeless efforts to escape from the
burning, but men and women, boys.
and girls who are killed piecemeal are
laughed at-that Is what it has come
to.
The governments Of Europe are spec
tacleto make angels weep. They guard
the gates OF Turkey sc to say, solemnly
declaring that whatever may hap
pen to the Christians, however diaboli-
cally they may be tortured TO death,
nothing shall happen to the Turks
they at any rate must and will be pre-
served from harm. Is 1t a wonder then
that the Turks should set about full
filing their threat Of wiping out Ar
menia in Armenian blood
Every one knew that the threat
would be fulfilled Consuls reported
to their governments hat the depart
ure Of the European delegates froms
Moush would mark the beginning Of
the blood bath, and newspapers gaves
the prophecy Publicity. Appeals to-
the public to insist on precautionary
measures were multiplied, and at last
mere verbal warning gave place to un-
mistakable signs and ominous prepara-
But diplomacy turned a deaf Ear
(the Armenians are nobody's kith and
kim. We're they Greeks or Bulga-
rians. Magyars or Serb, they would
have high and powerful protectors who
talk of the primary duty of protecting
brothers and Christians. Even Abys-~
siniaus are brethren and orthodox
when political calculations come in
But they are Armenians; and 70 none
of these governments insisted on the
execution or even dismissal of Zekki
Pasha and the authors of the Sassoun
savagery. Nay, they were decorated.
o-I Iorcra1 hy &bo cu1<on a m
enlargement to others to go and do.
likewise.
And now others have gone out and
have outheroded Herod, and no one
seems shocked. People are only in
terested to get the latest news of Sivas.
Trebizond, or wherever the latest
have occurred, at their
breakfast table early. Few persons.
take even G remote interest in the ar
menian question on the continent, and
those feware the advocates of Turkey
The Austrian press, said to be paid by
the Turkish government, impudently
denies the Sassoun massacre and &C.
cuses the Armenians of having at
tempted to butcher the Kurds and.
Turks. The German press is the:
bearer Of the same kind of culture to
its readers, and in both those couu-
tiles the public knows positi$Es5 noth-
ing about the present statdS Of the
Armenian question
The Russian papers, beginning with
the Novoya yremyrz, cracks jokes att
the Armenians. and in the last num-
hers which I have Rad nalrs st{Thv-