Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-03

they had had died out and degenerated into a hopeless bitterness.
 Dr. Kimball painted a horrible picture of the Turkish prison and the cruelties it any wonder" she asked, that there was revolutionary party among the Ar menians?' But it was a revolutionary party that did not revolve. Dr. Kimball said she would speak plainly about the Armenian revolutionists. There were people who said: You have brought it all on yourselves" Yes, they had, be- cause they desired to be Christian and civilized men. If they had been content to live as beasts of burden and slaves, they would be safe from persecution.
 The injustice suffered by the Arineni- ans under English domination was noth- ing compared with that suffered for centuries by the Armenians at the hands of the Turks. A spirit of indignation naturally arose among the young men, many of whom were educated in this country and Europe, and they formed clubs. They comprised but per cent. of the Armenian population of Turkey The great mass of. Armenians were as much opposed to a revolutionary party as the Turks themselves, because they saw that the revolutionists cause was a hopeless one and tended only to bring destruction upon themselves.
 Because this 1 per cent of foolish and disloyal men existed, was 1t any reason why 100000 people should be massacred? Was that justice? Of that 100000 who were butchered, 99 per cent. were people who knew nothing and cared nothing about revolution. Many of them lived in the small towns and villages of the coun- try, including men and women, and who never heard of revolutionary party or parties. There was more than what we heard of the Turkish massacres that was true. No pen can describe the hor- TOTS of those massacres. Dr. kimball gave a vivid, blood-curdling description of a nne-days' massacre she had wit messed in the province of Van in Arme- mia.
 She passed on to speak of the relief and medical work done by the missionaries of the American board. They are stationed at all the large centers in the country and the board has instructed them to give themselves so far as the needs of the people demand, to thus miniStering to the distress of the persecuted people, Speak ing in particular of the industrial and general relief work which Dr. Kimball conducted in the city and province of Van she referred to the great generosity of the American and English people, who contributed to the work in Van alone some $S0.000 during the time pr. Kimball was in charge. This money supplied the bare necessities of life to the poor of the entire provinces At times 10000 people were cared for daily. She enlarged upon
  trial relief adopted at the outset and by means of which one-third of the Arme- nian populatio of the city was cared for. ..a 9.
 pr. Farnsworth, of Cesarea. Western Turkey a mission station of the Ameri- can board, said that he would try to m- press upon the audience some idea of the extent of the calamities that have come upon the Armenians of Asia Minor One of the more destructive battles of our great war, 18614 was the seven-days killed, as officially reported, on the union side. was 1,7S4, In these massacres there were not less than eight places where according to our most reliable statistics the number killed was larger than this The average in, eight cities, as given in Dr. Bliss tTurkey and the Armenian Massacres," was more than twice that number, or 3,725' The most destructive battle of that bloody war was al Gettys- burg. There the number killed on the union side was 3,070. a't
 In closing the speaker called attention to the Armenian as an immigrant. For some years, he said, good many Armenians have found their way to America. Of late they have come in larger numbers. Even were they not a desirable class of immigrants, the fact that they come to us fleeing for their lives gives them a peculiar claim upon our Sympathies, and we cannot refuse them a chance for life in our broad, free, Christian land. But they have proved themselves good clas SIS of citizens We have quite a number of them in Boston. They have their faults, no doubt but If enterprise industry and economy are qualities that make good immigrants, then the Armenians are such. t..s5 .rl.a, t- 7 .E s-. .s