The Irish standard., 1896-01-04
Armenians the Brightest, Brainiest
and Smartest People OF
Asia rlinor.
They Are Superior to the Jews or
Greeks in All the Affairs
N of Life.
Twist a Yankee and You Make a
Jew, Twist a Jew and You
Make an Armenian.


the relief or Armenia Miss Barton tells
me chat at least 100000 OF its people are
now on the verge Of starvation and tina,
these Will need support for from eight tt
ten months, writes Frank G. Carpenter
She does not think a relef expedition
should be undertaken at all without $780,
GOO is contributed at the start, and she
says that effective work viii require an
expenditure of millions. The Red Cross
society has no funds of it's own. 1t has
not appealed to the people for money, but
at the request of religious bodies Of the
United States, has merely announced its
Willingness to distribute such funds as the
people may raise for the purpose. The
amounts required for such reMef are
enormous. was in Russia during the
last famine, and the people there ate UP
between two and three million dollars
worth OF food every day. This was kept
up for months. and l was told that the
famine mad cost nearly half billion dol
Jars. The private gifts of the Russians
amounted to s180,0OO,0O0. The govern
ment gave nearly as much, and the present
czar, who was then crown prince, was at
the head of the relief fund Our gifts to
Russia in food and money amounted to
less than million dollars. They were
merely drop in the bucket in compari-
son to what was given by the Russians
themselves. In Russia It was estimated
that one person could be fed for 5 cents a
day. It will probably cost more than this
n Armenia, as all of the food will have to
he brought IN from Europe Bue even
cents person it will require $4,000 a day,
or more than half million dollars a
month, for the food alone of those who are
now starving. In addition money will be
needed for clothes and she'tsr during the
winter. The farmers WIFI have to be aided
in planting their crops, and it is hard to
see how the people can be kept from nov
Until harvest for less than $5,0OO,0OO In
this relief every cent will have to come
from the outside, and if the other nations
OF Europe do not unite with us it IS doubt.
ful whether enough funds can be raised to
do effective work. The rich .Armenians
living outside Of Turkey will probably
help and considerable AID may be expect
cd from them.
Ine Annenians are the yankees of the
Orient. They are the brightest, bra:niest
and smartest of all the people of Asia
Minor. They are superior to the Jews or
Greeks in business. The Turks say tttW:st
yankee and You make a Jew, twist a
Jew and you make an Armenian" The
Greeks say that zone Greek is equal to
two Jews, but that one Armenian IS equal
to two Greeks" Another proverb is cur
rent in Turkey: From lle Greeks OF
Athens, from the Jews of Sa.oG.oa and
from tEle Armenians everywhere, good
Lord, deliver us l met the Armenians
everywehere during my travels in Asa
Minor and 1 eound them acting at the
heads of all kinds of business. There are
many rich ArmenLans in India l travel
ell with one conn., tng from Singapore to Gail
cutta, who told me he was on els way back
from Hong Kong, where he had gone to
SCI. pearls to Chinese. I found the con-
ductors on Egyptian railroads to be Ar
men.ans, and when l travelled over the
transconttnental railway to Paris the
guards on the train and the men, WHO took
UP my ticket were Armenials who spoke
English and French. There are hundreds
of thousands of Armsnians in Europe.
There are a large number N Persia, and
those who live in different parts of Turkey
are said to number about 100000. There
are Number in ConssaE's. nople. They
manage most of tine banking business of
tine Turkish capital and the large marcan-
tlia establishments there belong to them.
Wns'n the riots occurred in STEAMBOAT a few
weeks ago nearly all the stores were closed
Hle.r Armenian owners fearing they would
DE looted by the MOB. When I visited the
government departments OF the sultan I
found that, though the chief officers were
Turks the clerks were in most cases Ar
men:ans, and the brightest man whom
met in Turkey was one ce tae sultan $
secretaries who was OF Armenian birth.
He spoke half dozen different languages
and was man of great Influence. There
are Armenian engineers, architects and
doctors in Constantinople, and when got
money on my letter of credit It was an
Armenian clerk VINO figured UP the eS-
change and an Armenian cashier VINO
handed out the money. The Armenians
OF Armenia proper are almost all farmers,
and the exorbiIant taxes of the sultan have
made most of them poor.
The Armenians assert that their coun-
try is the hottest land upon the earth.
1t lies in Asia Minor, southeast of the
Black sea, and between it and Persia.
Mount Ararat is situated in it, not far
from the locality in which these outrages
are now taking place, and some of the
mona steries claim to have pieces of the
identical ark in which Noah landed upon
4IllS IltOuuldlu, dltu 4CNeIGs ID a Idfl1t sLGdI.
it which is pointed OUT as the site Of
Noah's vineyard. The vineyard has a
monastery connected with It.; and ths
monks show wlthered Old vine Msiissss.!i Mssiissss.,!:ii
they assert is the very one from Whitin was
made the wine which made Noah drunk.
He cursed it after he got over his spree
and it has borne E,o grapes unto this day.
Noah S wife IS said to be bur- ed on Nj. Ar
jarat, and the Arme enians; trace their ancss-
TRY back to Japhet in one long genea.og-
5icai tree; They have q radition that the
Garden Of Eden was located In Armenia
sIt was situated almnst in the center of
the region where the worst massacres
have occurred, and 1t is now ma eff The
barren spots uf tie country The Ar:
smenians believe that the wise men of the.
east who followed the star Of Bethlehem
TO find the sysoung Christ came from ar
7mensa and the st tarss appaarsd
sin the sheaYens not Tar ON Mount Aatas
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