The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-06

of any further territories OF his Imperial
Majesty. the Sultan in Asia. as fixed by the
definitive treaty OF peace England engages
10 join his Imperial Majesty the Sultan in
defending them by force OF arms.
In return his Imperial Majesty, the Sui
tan. promises TO England 10 introduce
necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later
between the two powers, into the govern
ment and for the protection OF the Chris
tian and other subjects OF the Porte in these
territories; and in order to enable England
TO make necessary provision for executing
her engagement his Imperial Majesty, the
Sultan. further consents to assign the island
Of Cyprus to be occupied and administered
by England"
This compact had been secretly signed at
Constantinople June 4. 1878. Thus the
land that claimed to be the leading nation
of Christendom was leagued with the head
power of heathendom. and that the worst
in all the world: almost as holy an alliance
as a league between heaven and hell. AS
direct consequence OF this damning deal,
the devilish Turk has trampled these
three treaties with perfect impunity, while
defantly disregerding overwhelming forces
which are watching each other fearing to
interfere, while he not only aids and abets
but instigates and perpetrates the robbery.
torture, murder and rapine OF the helpless
victims whom ne promises to protect. and
mitted 10 his tender mercies. pledging their
faith to the whole world to defend them
from harm and protect them fully in all
their civil and religious liberties and rights
by all the powers Of Christendom at their
command.
THE MOHAMMEDAN UPRISING.
While Europe watches and waits, the
bloody Turk keeps up his awful work, and
the raising of the standard of the false
prophet may prove the final effort OF the
rulers of the rotten Ottoman empire to re-
store the prestige OF their diabolical despot-
ism by arousing the hundreds of millions
of Mohammedan barbarism to rally to the
rescue of their accused cause or what is
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upon helpless victims of their fanatical fury
till the desecrated earth shall tremble be-
meath the tread Of their abhorent hosts
The awful atrocities in Armenia are mere
~ Monammedan massacres TO which the
bloody Turk would commit all mankind not
Moslen- The cause of Christians in Ar
menia. therefore, Is not one of any par
ticular race or religion. but humanity at
large and civil and religious liberty in
general. Neither financial considerations
nor national Jealousies nor fraternal rela-
tlonSh1pS should be permitted longer to pre-
vent the powers from fully enforcing peace
and Justice. The unfurling of the green flag
OF Mohammed among the troops that are
oVerrunnlng Syria means not only the mas
sacre of Christians. but of Buddhists and
others as well. This is the signal for a
holy war and the sign of a general up
rising OF Mohammedans. which, unless met
Immediately by the united powerful forces
or Christendom, will spread until armies of
nliIions. arrayed for robbery. murder and
cruelty and bioodshed so terrible that the
world may well shudder at the very thought
or ii. Can Christian nations continue to
listen quietly TO the cries of despair that
come to US. and either from greed of gold
or territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT or cowardice,
connlVe longer with such crimes? II Islam
ls allowed TO gather itself together for the
great death grapple of the ages In its final
struggle with Christianity for the conquest
or the world, beware. Any nation that will
permit its politicians to trifle longer or plot
further for the preservation of this abom-
ination should be branded by the Christian
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councils of nations and ostracised from all
future alliances of civilization, for IL is
IN the power of the peoples of Europe
unltedly 10 put an end to these atrocities
over one hundred millions of Moslems in
africa, forty millions of Islam in India,
besides unaccounted millions more in China.
Arabia. Persia, Thibet, Afghanistan. Tar,
tary. Turkey and other countries. consider
the sultan as their religious. If not politi-
cat ruler. and Constantinople as their act
ual capital. being bound religiously to obey
MIN II not by political allegiance. by the
fyrannical ties Of religions bigotry. No
more warlike races. nor barbarous relig-
ionists ever devastated the earth than
have fought for the faith of Mchammed on
many or the bioodiest fields of history.
IN CENTRAL ASIA
According to recent reports of their up
rising in Central Asia, they are overrun-
ming peaceful promises in the interior. in
vast hordes. pouring in upon Northwestern
China with all the fury of their fiendish
fanatacism, and sweeping the miserably
equipped, poorly trained. unpatriotic forces
of the Celestial Empire like sheep TO the
slaughter. utterly annih;lating whole armies
of Budhists. They are reported to have
captured the great city of Si-Ngan the
capital Of the province of Shensi, China;
the metropolis of Central Asia second only
in size and Importance TO Pexn. and it is
stated that they massacred many thous-
andS OF DudhiSIs there,-men. women and
children, but spared all the Monammed-
ans among the mixed population composed
or Thibetans, Mongols and Tartars, the
vast majority OF them were BudhistS and
Confuscians, though the heroes of the first
century of the Christian era had taught
the truth there. and left a tablet still
standing, dated A. d., II.
This is one of the oldest and most re-
marhabie cities of the world, with its rec
ords reaching back TO twe.ve centuries be-
fore the Christian era began, and the open
ing pages OF the fourth thousand years
or its history are thus written and blotted
ard blurred with the blood of thousands
OF victims of Islam, this being but one
OF countless scenes of carnage, which trace
the bloody trail OF the Mosmes wherever
their feet have trod. from the times that
gave them birth.
Another recent report says that Chinese
general whose army was composed both Of
BIdhists and Monammedans, was warned
OF conspiracy upon the part of his Mos
lem troops to massacre all his Buddhist SOL
ders, just in time to defeat the plot by
arresting the ringleaders, seizing the arms
OF the mutinous. and hastily dividing his
mated. And this is only another of the
nnumerable instances of Mohammedan
treachery, audacity, and ferocity, which
time would fail to tell If pen could pos
sibly depict.
A RELENTLESS FOE.
Theirs is the same tender mercy to-day in
the heart of the Orient and in Asia Minor,
as has swept down for ages past with de-
moniac fury upon poor. defenseless vii
lagos. The terror of darkest Africa tearing
the infant from it's frantic mothers breast
without sufficient pity to beat its brains
out. before tossing 1t into the fire Of the
burning hamlet. or throwing its helpless
form into the jungle thcket, to become a
tender morsel for some prowling beast of
prey. Theirs is the same loving kindness
that forces the broken hearted mother with
bleeding feet. tottering long she
can be driven by cruel blows, or dragged
alive by the chains that bind the slave
gang together, till they are separated to be
sold or slain. Theirs is the same holy pas
sion that to-day ravishes the purest, tend
in the innocent blood of their outraged
victims till death delivers the defenseless
who have been betrayed by the powers
pledged to protect them. while these powers
delay dangerously longer in doing their
duty TO which they are bound by the most
powerful inviolate sacred treaty obligations.
permitting isolated millions OF Islam to
hear the call TO religious war. in which
to win is victory with booty and unbridled
rapine, and to die is eternal triumph in a
paradise of debauchery and delight,
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