The record-union., 1896-11-10

which the Turk has been subjected.
The New York Herald" has steadily
maintained that the Christian Arme-
mans are as much to blame as the
Turkish people, and it's own CORE
spondent Whitman, has furnished it
the information upon which 1t has
based this judgment. 1t publishes a
long interview with Professor Smith
also, a synopsis of which we prepare
herewith for Record Union" readers.
Mr.. Smith has recently travelled in
Turkey extensively; lived with the peo-
pie in camp and house. and mingled
freely with all classes of them, and with
the Arnenians likewise. He has seen
both at their best and their worst, and
thinks he knows them in all the phases
of their characters. He declares that
Whitman has honestly described condi-
tions, and that he has performed good
service in laying bare the actual facts.
Professor Smith says that there is in
Turkey an Armenian Bureau main
tained for the sole purpose Of manu-
featuring and forwarding news unfa-
vorable to the Turk; that because OF
such news the existing sentiment in
this country and in England is ill-ad-
vised and misplaced. There are 100,-
600 Armenians in ConstantinopIe,
everyone of them an anarchist and
plotter. They are sending their kind
to America, but everyone of them
should be excluded. We have too MANY
Of that order of agitators and religious
fanatics now. These people are respon-
sible fo~ every outrage that has been
committed in Turkey against Ar1neni-
ans. This Professor Smith says he
knows to be a fact.
They have been plotting and schem-
ing against the Turkish Government
for years. They are SO well known by
their neighbors, the Roumanians, to be
disturbers, that they will have nothing
whatever to do with them, and give
no sympathy to them, and no Armenian
is allowed to land in that country. The
object of the Armenians is to gain pos
session of Turkey, having no country of
their own. They are born plotters, yet
they are accorded the same rights in
Turkey that are vouchsafed to any
other people of foreign religion.
Their purpose is to cause such trou-
BILE as to break up the Turkish empire.
They think that when that is done some
other religious sect Will come into con-
troll under foreign influence, and they
hope to be that sect. The Turk is do
ing exactly what any other people
would do, who have any spirit. under
similar circumstances. defense be
ing the first of natural laws, love of
country is very near to it, and the Turk
loves his country as we do ours.
The Sultan with an empty treasury
and an army serving without pay. is
making noble and plucky fgnt for
his land, and ought to have the sym
pathy of all men. II have studied the
matter from both sides" says Smith.
and L have almost reached the con-
clusion that the only good Armenian
is a dead Armenian"
Last year on his return from Turkey
the first time, Professor Smith wrote
letter charging that the Armenians
were the beginners in every outrage,
Whereupon he was fallen upon by all
the clergy and abused and revilcd He
declares that what he then said is still
true, and that history viii sustain him.
He calls attention to a letter by DR.. Cy-
rus Hamlin, formerly President of Rob y
q IS College in Constantinople, written
TO the Boston "Congregationalist," in
which he outlined the very things that
are happening to-day.
He charges that the primary object
Of the Armenian Revolutionary Com
mitfee was to provoke masSacres. They
calculated that if they murdered a few
kurds the Turks would be inspired to
resentment, and thus bring on atroei-
ties they could so magnify as TO create
universal sympathy for Armenians ana
hatred for Turks. On the other hand
the Turks attend to their own, and are
rever engaged in calculating what
ether countries think of them They
take no concern whatever about send
ing news abroad. They are essentially
home and home loving people.
All the Armenian trouble is the out
come OF well laid and coolly premed-
itated plot by Armenians. The story
Of filling up old wells with dead bodies
and driving Christians over cliffs inta
the rivers TO perish, as related two
years ago, never happened. The story
y as made out of the whole cloth, and
had not the semblance of truth. But
the story of the massacre at Anatoiia
was true. The Armenians murdered