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


eminent Find Some Way to Assist in
| Putting an End to the Borrors-Forty-
| Five Episcopal Signatures.
New York, Feb. 1.-The World this
morning says:
This numerously signed and earnest
/ " worded memorial has been mailed
to President Cleveland:
ITO the President of the United
! States Of America: Strive, the bish-
ops Of protestant Episcopal churches
of America, beg most earnestly and re-
/ specially 10 address you, the chief of
the nation, in regard TO the massacre
! Of our fellow Christians in Armenia.
| The extent of these massacres is not
/ fully known, but enough is known 10
/ reveal the horror Of the situation and
/ TO call for the indignant protest of all
/ civilized and Christian people 1t Is
estimated by those well acquainted Wit
| the facts that not less than $4,000 OF
/ our fellow Christians are now suffering
/ and are in danger Of perishing in con-
/ sequence Of the massacre in Asiastic
| Turkey, and that at least $4,000 have
| been already murdered. In Trebizond
/ and Erzeroum, in the provinces of Bit
| lis, Van and HarpoOt, and in the whole
/ Of other districts the people are very
miserable. Villages are sacked, prop
/ erry is destroyed and men, women
and children are tortured and put to
( death for holding to the faith and prac-
/ tice of the Christian religion.
SHOULD QUICKEN SYMPATHY
The entire severance of church and
state in our country should not be al
| lowed to stifle our sympathies or ham
per our action in case like this. It
should rather stimulate them. 1t is
a case which especially appeals to US
as men and Americans. As citizens
of this republic, we have learned TO
know and dared to maintain that no
form Of religious belief should expose
its adherents TO persecution. 1t is as
representatives and maintainers of
this essential American principle that
we appeal for antional action in this
matter of foreign persecution whose
details are too horrible TO depict or
enumerate. We sincerely trust that
some measure or measures consistent
with the national traditions and the ma
tiOnal dignity may he devised, and
that speedily, which should bring the
whole force Of the national sentiment
to bear upon the solution of this sub
ject; to cause the instant suppression
of the massacres, to succOr the unhap-
by and impoverished survivors of them
and to secure for the future ample guar
| antee for the safety of Christie peo-
pie in the exercise and maintenance
| of their faith.
1--WE feel profoundly that our nation
should cease TO recognize the Turkish
government as a civilized power so long
I ;r- no -IAar Nf q
menian continues. and that it should
| bring every influence to bear upon the
civilized nations of Europe, which may
present united front in demanding
that such atrocities cease at once and
forever. Signed:
John Williams, presiding bishop,
| of Rhode Island; Thomas March Clark
of Rhode Island; r. II. Wilmer Of AL
| ALBANIA: Charles Todd Quintard of Ten
/ nessee; II. NJ. Medley of Maine; d. d.
| futile of Missouri; Frances McNeece
/ Of Whittle, Virginia.; A. y. Littlejohn
/ of Long Island; Frederick Hunting
| ton of New York; OH William Whitta-
! ker. of Pennsylvania; Henry Niles
| Pierce of Arkansas; William Woodruff
| Niles of New Hampshire; John Frank
| lin Spauldng of Colorado; Alex c. Ga
ret of Northern Texas;Thomas L. Dud-
| ley Of Kentucky; John Scarborough of
New Jersey: George De y. Gillespie of
Western AIichigan; William Edward
| McLaren of Chicago; Alexander Bur
| CESS, of Quincy, Ill; G.. William Pc
terkin Of West Virginia; George Frank
! lin Seymour of Springfield, H.; COrt-
! land Whitehead of Pittsburg, Pa;
| Hugh Miller Thompson of Mississippi;
| Henry Goldman Potter of New York;
! William David Walker of North Dako-
! ia; Alfred \. Watson Of East Carolina;
| Nelson s. Roulison OF Central Pennsyl-
vania; William Paret Of Maryland; w.
| Forbes Adams, Easton, Nd; James
| r. johnson of Western Texas; Abel
| Leonard of Nevada. Utah and West
ern Colorado; y Leighton Coleman of
! Delaware; Andrew w. Leonard Of
| Ohio; Thomas Frederick Davis of
! Michigan; Arson Rogers Graves Of the
| Platte, Nebraska; Edward Robert At
will of Western Missouri; Henry Mel
| Vile of Jackson, Alabama; Isaac l..
! Nicholson of Milwaukee. Wis: Charles
| Reuben Hale of Illinois: William Crane
! Gray of Southern Florida; Francis Key
! Brooks. of Oklahoma; Ellison Capers
of South Carolina; Arthur c. Hall Of
| Vermont; Frank r. Millspaugh of
! Kansas; Joseph Blount Cheshire, jr.,
| Of North Carolina.
CROWNED HEADS MAY READ.
To these names Will be added the
| signatures of western bishops who have
/ been communicated with but have not
| had time 70 answer.
The memorial is the outcome of a re-
! cent meeting of the Church club at
which DR.. Peters. Of St. Michaers
church. presented letters from reliable
I persons in Armenia whose disclosures
| were so impressive that a committee Of
| three was appointed To cOnfyer with
! Bishop Potter He brought the mat
/ ter to the notice Of the archdeaconry
/ Of Westminster two weeks ago, and
! ArchdeaCons Tiffany and Van kleek
| and DR.. Peters were appointed a com
| mittee u obtain the signatures of al
| the bishops Of the church to the appeal
! addressed u the president. \ similar
! communication Is - be sent 70 the
| archbishop OF Canterbury. the car Of
| Russia. the emperor Of Austria and the
emperor Of Germany.
DEMOCRATS HIRE A HALL
/ Convention at the Coliseum and Head
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