The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-13
KNOWS TIE K0ORDs WELL.
Lady missionary Says They Are the
Paid Tools of the Sultan.

Miss Anna Melton, of Monsui Turkey the
famous missionary who has done such Won
derful work among the Koords, spoke last
evening at Andrew Presby terian church upon
the nature of the missionary work in Tur-
key. She spoke for over an hour and he'd
a large audience enthralled with her THRU
ling recitation of atrocities committed by tn >
Mohammedan hordes. Mss Melton has spl Mt
some SIX years among the X ordi h noun
tains and perhaps IS bet er acquainted with
the koords than any other one person n
this country today. She is now travelling
in this country, and will be for some ght
months to come, as it is now impossible for
her to return to Turkey. on account of the
serious troubles still existing in the in
terror. AS soon as 1t is poSs BILE for her to
return she will do so. Her work there has
been very successful, though flu. of risk.
Her recital last evening of the terrible con-
ditions existing there makes it evident that
the greatest personal courage is necessary
to live as a missionary among the barbara
hordes of that cline.
Miss Melton says that while the Koord s
just as atrocious as he has been painted
and while he has committed ali that he has
been charged with and more, too, he is S i'll
not to be blamed. She says that he has COM
mitted depredations of his own will but
for centuries has been practicng the m st
heinous offenses against humanity by direct
orders from the sultan of Turkey. Miss Mel
ton says that it was a common thing to see
a Koordish chief, after one Of the great mas
sacres, proudly flourish order signed by
the sultan authorizing the wholesale bu tch-
cry. Every koord outbreak is ordered by
the general government at Constantinople.
For 1000 years the Koord has been the tool
Of the Turkish government. The Koord is
the scapegoat of Turkey. Whenever the Turks
premedftate anything so heinous that it will
shock the civilized world, they are ashamed
to perpetrate it and just send out orders for
the Koord to do it. The first Armenian
slaughter was ordered by the sultan and
every subsequent slaughter was ordered d.
rectly from the seat of government. The
Koord did simply what he was told to do.
| The Koord as Koord, says Miss Melton, is
not bad fellow. 1t is as tool of the sui
tan that he is devilsh. She says that the
thing which above all else proves to her
mind the fact that the Koord had orders to
kill the Christians is the fact that orders to
spare foreigners were followed out. She says
she knows the Koords well enough to know
that, if they had an uprising of their own.
they would spare nothing or nobody. and
would never stop to distinguish between for
eigners and natives.
The Koord said Miss Melton is the direct
result of the Mohammedan religion. If ever
a religion deserved to be judged by its fruits
she argued that Mohammedism should be
Judged by the Koord, for he the direct
result of thousand years of Mohammedan
The Government of Turkey she said~:s
carving on and perpetrating a system of gl"
gantic larceny. Caravans travelling by gov
eminent passports, and thereby under govern
ment protection, are held up and plundered
by the soldiers of the government, and the
very man who issues to a caravan the permit
to tlavel from one state to another may N a
few hours be dividing the spoils resultant
from the plundering of that caravan by his
own soldiers Christian missionaries expe-
rience this every day. They are held up
wherever they go and robbed, and if they de-
muir at all they are shot Town like dogs.
The utmost caution is necessary to insure any
lease of life at ALL l1iss Melton says the
whole fault lies with the religion. It teaches
them that to kill the Christian is to do the
will of God. They are most religious, they
believe, when carrying out this horrible edict
of the Koran. The only way to restore peace
among them is to convert them to the doc
effort.