The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-01-17

DaViu rs SINCE nave nearu now thoSe Turks
are treating the Armenians. The fact Is,
Turkey has got to he divided up among 9TH
er Nations. or course the European Nations
must take the chief part but Turkey ought
TO be compelled to pay America for the
American Mission buildings and American
schoolhouses she has destroyed and to sup
port the wives and children OF the Ameri-
cans ruined by this wholesale butchery.
When the English lion and the Russian bear
put their paws on that Turkey, the American
eagle ought to put In its bill.
Who are these American and English and
Scotch missionaries who are being bounded
among the mountains Of Armenia by the
Mohammedans? The noblest men aud wo-
men this side Of heaven. Some of them men
who took the highest honors at Yale and
Princeton and Harvard and Oxford and
Edinburgh. Some OF thom womsr gentle
and most Christlike, who. to save people
they never saw, turned their backs on luXu-
rious homes to spend their days in self-expa-
triation, saying Goodby to father aud mother
and atterward goodby to their own children
as circumstances compelled them to send the
little ones to England. Scotland or America.
l have seen these foreign missionaries
and | stamp with indignation
upon the literary blackguardisn OF for
eiSn correspondents vino havo deprecated
these heroes and hcroincs who are wiling 60
live and die for Christ's sake. They will
have tho highest thrones in heaven while
their defarlers will not get near enough to
tho shining gates TO sec the faintest CLINT OF
any one of the twelve pearls which make up
the twelve gates.
This defamation of missionaries is mug
mented by the dissolute English, American
and Scotch merchants who 20 to foreign
"ities. leaving their families behind them.
Those dissolute merchants in foreign cities
lead life OF such gross inlmorhls that the
pure households Of the missionaries are a
perpetual rebuke. Buzzards never did be-
lieve in doves, and IL thcre is anything that
niShtshade hates it is the wator lily. What
the $50 American missionaries have suffered
in the Ottoman Empire since 1920 leave the
archanSei to announce on the day Of julg-
ment. You will see it reasonable that put
so much emphasis on Amoricanism in the
Ottoman Empire when tell you that Amer
lea, notwithstanding al tho disadvantages
named, has now over 27,000 students in day
schools in that Empire and 5000 children
in her Sabbath-schoo!s, and that America
has expended in the Turkish Empire Tor its
bettermont over 9l0.OO0,oOO. Has not
America right to be heard? Aye, it
will be heard! l am glad that great in
digna,ion meetings are being held all over
this country. That poor, weak. cowardiy
Sultan, whom / saw Il few years ago ride to
mis- mosque for worship, guarded by 1000
armed men, many Of them mounted on
prancing chargers, will hear Of these SYM
pathetic meetings for tho Armenians.
If not through American reporters,
then through some Of his $50 wives
What to do with him? There ought to bs
some 81. Helena TO which he could be exiled
while the Nations OF Europe appoint ruler
or their own to clean out and take possession
OF the palaces Of ConStantinople To-ni.nt
this august aSsemblage in tho capital Of tho
United States. in the nane OF the God OF
Nations, indicts the Turkish Govcnment for
the wholesale assassination in ArMeni:. and
invokeS the interference OF Almighty God
and the protest OF Eastern and Western
Hemispheres.
But what is the duty o: tho hoar? SYM
pathy, deep, wide, tremendous immniiate,
A religious paper. the Christian Herald. OF
New York, has led the way with muui.icent
contributions collected from its subscribers
But the Turkish Government is opposed to
any reliei OF the Armenian sufferers. rs I
personally know. Last August before l hal
any idea OF becoming Il fellow citizen with
you WashingtonianS, $50, ,0lO ior Armenian
relief was offered me if ] would personally
take that relief TO Armenia. Ny passage was
TO be engaged on the City OF Paris. but n
telegram was sent to ConstantinoD,e asking
ii the Turkish Government would grant me
protection on such an errani of mercy.
A cablegram said the TIr'iish Govern
inent wished to know to whaI points in
Armenia desired to go with that relief In
our reply four cities wero named. one of
them the scene or wha: had been tho chief
massacre. cahlegram came from Consiau-
tinople saying that / had better send the
money to the Turkish Governments mixed
lI....l
So coDwoh of spiders proposed r"!ietJ
committee for unfortunate nic- Well a
man who wou!! Start up through the noun
tains of Armenia with $59.09o and no Gov-sl
ernmcnt protection would b. ,ulty OF monu-
mental foohardin"ss. The Tur ish Govern
mcnt has in every possible way hinderud |
Armenian relief.
Now whereas that angel o. mercy. Clara |
Rarton. who appeared on the hattlcnclds of |
fredericksburg. Antietum. Falmouth and |
Mountain ha #
French and German guns n Ma;Z AMI Paris |
ana IN JohnStown Hoods and CharpStown |
earthquake ani Michigan fires ana Russian |
famine! 1t was comparatively OF little i'm |
crate her with the Iron Cross FOR God hath |
decorated her in the sight OF a., Nations |
with glory that neither time nor eternity |
can dim. Born in u Massachusetts village, |
she came in her girlhood to this cityto serve |
our Government in the patent Office, bat ar |
terward went forth from the doors OF that |
patent Office with Il divine patent signed and |
sealed by God Himself to heal all the wounds |
she could touch and make the horrors of the |
flood and fire and plague and hospital |
fly her presence. God bless Clara Barton |
just as expected, she lifts the banner OF the
Red Cross. Turkey ani all Nations are
pledged TO respect and defend that Red
Cross. although that color OF cross does not
in the opinion Of many. S:ard 10" Chris,imu-
n.y. In my opinion ii doe. stand for Chris
tianity. for was not the crOg- under which |
most al uS worship red with the blood ol tho
Son OF God. rel with the best hino! t.iat was
ever shcd, red with the blood uuuyng out
for the ransom OF the world? Taen lead ON,
Oh, Red Cross. and let Clara Barton carry it! |
Tho Turkish Government is bound to protect |
her, and the chariots of God are 20 600 and
their chariotcers are angels Of dcIivcrancr
and they would all ride down nj once to roll
over and trample under the hoofs Of |
their white horses any of her assai ants.
May tho $500, ,00J sho seeks be laid at her
feet! Then may the ships that carry hrr
across Atlantic and Mediterranean seas he
guided safely by Him who troi into saophiro I
pavement bcst0rmei Galilee. Upon soil in
tarnadinci with mactyriom let tho Rel
Cross be planted until every d"'nolishc vii
laGc shall be rChuildcl AMI every pang Of
hunger be fci AMI every w1uLl OF crUclty |
be healed aId Armenia stand with as mach