St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-27
TO BLOODY ARMENIA
PROSPEROUS MILL CITY SENDS
PRACTICAL SYMPATHY AND
GREETING.
MONSTER MASS MEETING
ADDRESSED BY REPRESENTA-.
TIVES OF ALL CHRISTIAN
CREEDS.
BARBARITIES OF THE TURK
Call Forth Resolutions of IndiSna.
tion-Reiief for the OPP
pressed.
BARBARITIEs OF THE TURK

her suffering people was most elo-
quently pleaded at the Lyceum theater
yesterday afternoon, when Christian
men and women. representing all shades
of political opinion, expressed their
horror Of the atrocities which have
shocked the civilized world, for which
the unspeakable Turk stands alone re-
sponsible
1t was the first protest against Ar
menia's wrongs which has emanated
from Minneapolis, but 1T was uttered
with a vigor and earnestness which
left no doubt of its sincerity. The
! splendid audience which filed the spa
cious theater had assembled in re-
spouse to call for a mass meeting to
express sympathy for the victims of
Turkish oppression, and not a man or
woman present but burned with indig-
nation as the stories Of indescribable
prosecutions and nameless outrages fell
from the lips of the speakers Every
available seat down stairs and in the
balcony was filed with representative
men and women.
When Mayor Pratt called the meeting
to order there was small need of his
brief statement Of the objects of the
meeting, for the auditors had come
with a full knowledge of what they
were to hear. and also with the desire
to give some substantial appreciation
of their sympathy. On the platform
were seated FIR. Cleary. Senator w. D.
| Washburn, William Henry Eustis,
Judge Robert D. Russell, ex-Gov. John
S. Pillsbury, President Cyrus North
rop, of the state university; Rev. j. F.
! Chaffee, Rev. Matt S. Hughes John
w. Thomas. J. B. Donald, Rev. Frank
Doran, James McAllister, John B. Dom
aldson, George Galpin, ]. C. Hoblitt,
DR.. Martha Ripley, Mrs. T. 3. Walker,
Mrs. II. B. Roberts, Mrs. Robert Pratt,
Mrs. Della Whitney Horton and many
others.
The vast audience arose and sang
America" as prelude to the speech
making, after which prayer was Of
fered. Dr. Chaffee prayed that the day
might soon come when Armenia might
enjoy the blessings of other Christian
lands and be permitted to worship God
in its own way. 1--WE are here today"
said the divine, because we hate big
otry, oppression and persecution, and
because we love equality, fraternity
and justice. We pray that the Christ
ian nations Of Europe may be aroused
to their responsibility, and do some
thing worthy their honor and the civil
ization which is their boast The
dungeon, the rack and the fagget have
no longer place anon : civilized men,"
He closed by speaking the Lords
prayer, in which he was joined by those
seated on the PLATFORM
Mayor Pratt briefly outlined the OBJ
jects of the nesting He said the
Christians of America and England
had interested themselves in the cause
of Armenia's helpless people, but the
spectacle of Christian nations stand
ing idly by while the Turk perpetrated
the most horrible atrocities was the
most lamentable tragedy of the nine
teenth century. The mayor introduced
William II. Eustis as the first speaker.
MIR. EUSTIS SAID:
THE occasion which brings us here
is one of the noblest impulses of the
human heart, the expression of sym
pathy for an oppressed people Think
OF this scene here today. This great
audience, the distinguished men on this
platform, who are interested in the ad-
vancement of civilization. Since the
earliest times persecution has marked
the footsteps of the human race, and
even the two mighty forces of tyranny
and freedom have been oppressed. Ty-
ranny controlled the destinies of man
kind in early ages, but today free
dom has almost gained the world. We
have progressed as Americans, and
when win q victory -,
the struggle for liberty we win a vic
tory, too, for the Americans. Public
opinion, the collected judgment of the
world, is the irresistible force which
Is driving everything before it, and
which will eventually drive slavery
from the world. And in the crisis that
confronts US, L say, if Armenia's peo-
pie cannot be protected, put out the
lights of the statue of liberty in New
York harbor." Mr.. Eustis closed with
an eloquent allusion to the crescent of
the Ottoman empire, whose baneful
horn had been driven back centuries
ago, he said. and which at one time
threatened to overshadow the world.
One horn of it had been driven back CEN
turtles ago, and he hoped to see the
other horn superseded in Asia Minor
by the Red Cross.
FIR. Cleary'S eloquent voice was next
heard in scathing arraignment of tie
unspeakable Turk, his address being
almost entirely historical, being rich
IN historical illusions to the degraded
and blood-thirsty followers Of Mahom-
ct. He said the crusaders of 800 years
ago had not been we'll understood. 1t
was at the close Of the eleventh cen
tury that God willed that Christians
should take up the cross and make the
crescent bend to the plains of Arabia
I'VE have not we'll understood the
crusaders" said he. "but as 800 years
have come and gone and we from this
| Western world send forth our notes of
sympathy and encouragen to the
victims of Turkish fanaticism, we can
understand better that enthusiasm
which seems to us chimericaI In the
crusades Of 800 years ago. For al
most 300 years they tried to obtain
the rights which the sons of Amer
lea ask to be given to the down-trod-
den Armenians today. We stand today
as Americans to plead for the Derse-
cuted Armenian, not because he is a
fellow Christian, but because he is a
member Of the common family of hu-
mainly. We feel inspired with that
noble enthusiasm which led the fuedal
lord and baron to do battle for the
rights of man on Arabian SOL 300 years
ago.
Continuing. Mr.. Cleary said the
fanaticsm Of the false prophet in Ara
hia had prevented her people from
making any progress in all the CEN
turtles. He then said that Americans