The gold leaf., 1896-07-30
The Armenian Question in Hender.
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last Sunday afternoon, preliminary to a
mass meeting next Sunday, in the in
terest of the famine stricken Armenians.
1t was largely attended and was presided
over by Capt. W. b. Shaw. Remarks
were made by Rev. NJ ID. Hix, Rev. L.
NJ. Johnson, Messrs. $. II. Harris, {. A
Lewis, A. j. Harris, A. c. Zollicoffer, l..
L. Howard, Il. NJ. Pittman and Others.
We give below statement submitted
by u committee OF that meeting:
THE SUFFERING ARMENIANs
The citizens of Henderson are called to
attend a mass meeting at Burwell Hall
next Sunday afternoon, at 5 o'clock to
consider measures of relief for the Arme-
mans. Their desperate situation may
be described in a few words. They have
been subject to Turkey for five hundred
years. They are Christian, sef-respcct-
ing people, and, as such, have drunk to
the depths the bittercup OF Mohammedan
Intolerance.
The treaty OF Berlin provided for their
protection, and from time to time repre-
senta tions in their behalf were made to
the Turkish government. Finally the
Sultan was compelled by England,
France and Russia to consent to
scheme OF reforms. Immediately before
and after this unwilling concession
bloody and cruel massacres of the Arme-
| mans occurred in six Turkish provinces,
where they constituted a large element
OF the population.
Rev. Dr. IL. Allen Upper, OF Baltimore,
has lately spent some months in the
East, and writing from Constantinople,
says: ''ln fact the massacre of the Ar
menians is Turkeys real reply to the de-
mands of Europe. From TrebiZOnd the
wave of murder and robbery swept on
through every city and town and village
| in the SIX provinces where relief was
| promised to the Armenians.'
| The condition OF the people is thus
| stated in a circular OF the Armenian Re
lief COMMITTEES: "The victims of the mas
| sacre, mostly male bread-winners, num-
! Der $4,000; houses and..shops plundered
| or burned. ~ 600; Christians forced into
| MOhammedanism in despair of sympa-
thy and help from Christendom, + 1 900
survivors, largely women and children,
now perishing from starvation and dis.
ease without hope except from outside,
3O0, 0,OOO.'
| This Committee is under the presidency
| of Hon. David j Brewer, of the United
| States Supreme Court, with such men rs
Spencer Trask, Chauncy NJ. Depew! O
New York, f. c. Latrobe, of Baltimore
and Edw. G. Potter, ofBoston, constitut
ing the Executive Com mite, and Brown
Bros. 4 Co., Treasurers, giving assur
ance at once of a deserving cause, and OF
practical relief measures, honestly anC
efficiently prosecuted.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
| National American Red Cross, has, in
her old age, gone to Turkey, and is per
sonally supervising the administration
of the relief fund. She appeals for fur
ther help, as necessary to save men
women and children from death by star
vation. To her name may be addet
those OF other noble women who have
given this cause their warm support. W.
name Miss Francis Z. Willard, Julit
Ward Howe and Margaret Bottome.
To aid the sufferers by Il contribution
for their present needs, and to meiOrat'
their condition, by creating a bette
spirit, in cO!Isonance with the civilization
and religious development of the age
through resolutions Of protest agains
the barbarsn "Xercis' Il upon these oul
brethren, is til" t.urpose of the meeting
The speaker the occasion will pre-
sent the stu N more fully than il
practicable ia this statement, but W
trust enough has betn said to induce ouI
people to give the cause a hearing.
THOMAS NJ. PITTMAN,
Il. NJ. JOHNSON,
\. J. HARRIS,
| COMMITTEES