The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-08

Christian Europe in Not Suppressing
Them--statement from an Eminent Au-
thority.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-Dr. Henry S.
Lunn, Editor OF the Review of the
Churches, and Percy W. Bunting,
Editor of the Contemporary Review,
have addressed the following commu,
nication to all editors in Eugland and
America:
I'VE enclose extracts from 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 you would admit
were we at liberty to publish his
name. May we beg you to insert these
in the next issue of your paper.
Yours faithfully,
Henry S. Lunn,
Editor of The Review of Churches.
Percy W. Bunting, .
Editor the Contem porary Review.
ANY allusion to Armenia upsets me,
I am ashamed, excited, indignant
when 1 think of what l saw IN that
country and of the confidence with
which I corsoled qualing women,
weeping men, with hopes that Eng
land would see them through their
difficulties, and the words Of heartfelt
thanks they uttered, often upon their
knees IN the fields or on the blllsloes
and the childlike messages OF antlcl-
patory gratitude which they asked me
to deliver to the English people now
burn and rankle within me like an
envenomed wound.
The European powers are playing a
farcical representation round the
graves of Christian people. If con-
duct similar to theirs were to be pur-
sued by an individual In private life,
it would be visited with social ostra-
cism and would brand him with an
indelible Gains mark Of infamy.
Fancy a mans neighborS paradlng
about the doors of his house while ne
and his children rush frantically from
room to room and from window to
window, imploring them to save them
from the devouring flames. We have
pity Oh rat if we hear of its protract'
ed and hopeless efforts to escape from
burning, but .nen and women, boys
and girls are killed piecemeal: are
laughed at-that'sw whati it has come to.
The governments of Europe are a
spectacle to make angels weep. They
guard the gates of Turkey, so to say,
sclemnly declaring that whatever
may happen to the Christians, how.
ever diabolically they may be tortured
to death, nothing shall happen to the
Turk+they, at any rate, must and
viii be preserved from harm. Is 1t a
wonder, then that the Turks should
set about fulfilling their threat of
wiping out Armenia in Armenian
blood2 Every one knew that the
threat would be fulfilled. Ccnsuls re-
ported to their governments that the
departure of the European delegates
from Moush would mark the begin
ming of the blood bath, and newspa-
pers gave the prophecy publicity.
Appeals to the public to insist on pre-
cautionary measures were multiplied, I,
and at last mere verbal warning gave
place to unmistakabie signs and prep
arations. But diplomacy turned a
deaf ear the Armenians are nobody S
kith and kim Were they Greeks or
Bulgarians, Magars or Serbs, they
would have high and powerful pro
tectors, who tellingly talk OF the prl;,
mary duty of protecting brothers ana
Christians. Even Abyssinians are
brethren, and orthodox when political
calculations come in. But Armenlans
And so none of these governments m
sisted on the execution or even dis
missal of Zekki Pasha and the au-
thors of the Sassoun savagery. Nay,
they were decorated and honored by
the sultan as an encouragement to
others to 90 and do likewise. And
now others have gone out and out
Heroded, Herod, ard no one seems
shocked. People are only interested
to get the latest news Of Slvas or
Trezibond, or wherever the latest
massacre has occurred, at their break
fast table early. Few persons take
even a remote interest IN the Arme,
Man question on the continent, and
those few are the advocates Of Turkey.
The Austrian press, said to be palo oy
the Turkish government, lmpudently
denies the Sassoun massacre, and ac'
cuses the Armenians of having at.
4oronted to hntcher the kurdS and
Turks. The German press is the bearer
of the same kind of culture to Its
readers. and in both these countries
the public knows positively nothing
about the Armenian question. The
Russian papers, beginning with the
Novoya Vremya, cracks jokes at the
Armenians, and in the last number
which I have read, asks: Why
should we Russians sacrifice a.slngle
soldier for the sake of Armenian
bankers and millionaires, who are
much better off than we are ourselves,
to say nothing OF British and Amerl'
can alligators who have so cIeVerly
cot up the Armenian comedy
a couple of regiments of soldiers or
Cossacks is what is wanted. They
would set matters rightin few days.
But even if the whole English speak.
ing people should rise aud demand
these, would it be accomplished
HE'LL ON EARTH.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-The next issue OF
the Contemporary Review will con,
tain e long article entitled: Armenia
an Appeal by Dr.. Z. J. Dillon,
which the following is synopsis:
The time has come for every rea,
soning person to accept or repudiate
his share of the joint Indirect respon,
sibility of the British nation for Sc,
ries OF the hugest and foulest crimes
that have ever stained the pages OF
human history. The Armenian peo.
pie in Anatolia are being extermlnateo
by Turks and kurds by such fiendlsh
methods as may well cause the mosl
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