The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14
AFTER BRENNAN.
Worcester Armenians
Aroused By His
Utterances.
NEARLY 1000 IN THE CITY.
To Hold an Indignation
Meeting This
Week.
NEARLY 1000 IN THE CITY.

Worcester Armenians believe, in q
measure, that in coming to the United
States to escape the persecution of the
Turkish sultan, they simply stepped
out Of the frying pan into the fire.
They charge the Worcester police de-
partnent with neglect in failing to
properly protect the sons Of Haig, and
some night this week, not yet designat-
ed, there will be a meeting in the
Church Of Our Father, at which steps
viii be taken toward the formation of
an Independent political club. Bishop
Sarajian' has become interested in the
project and will lend the promoters all
the assistance in his power.
There are nearly 1000 Arrmenians in
Worcester, and the leaders in this
movement claim that if the men should
become naturalized the Armenians
might become a power in local politics
that would have to be reckoned with
by the two great parties.
They are intensely wrought up in re-
gard to the statement made by Chief
OF Police James M. brennan in the CEN
tral district court last week that the
Armenians are troublesome people,
and that they are constantly getting
emhroiled in difficulties with themselves
and others.
This, the leaders deny They say
that there are quarrelsome people
among all nationalities, and that on the
whole the Armenians will compare ia
vorably with any Of the other races
that go to make up this cosmopolitan
city. A race, they maintain, should not
be denounced because of the acts of
the few.
To The Spy man. yesterday, some
of the leaders outlined the probable
platform that will be adopted by the
proposed club. Its main object will be
the enforcement of the law for the pro-
lection Of Armenians, plans will be con-
sidered for the moral and material adj
vanoement of the race, and an attempt
will be made to have every male Ar
menian above the age of q take out
papers of naturalization and become
citizens.
There has never been any general eff
fort made for the naturalization of the
Armenians, and this movement will be
watched with interest by those who be-
lieve that Armenians only come over
to this country to secure competence
Z with which they may retire to their
own country and live like pashas.
The treatment the Armenians re-
ceive at the hands of the hoodlums of
this city," said Simon Shooshan, one OF
the leading spirits in the movement for
an aggressive political club, reminds
me of the story of certain feud once
read about. Two factions, the Cronins
and the Maras. had falling out, and
eternal enmity was declared When
Cronin met Mara or Mara met Cronin
then, as they used to say of the Greeks
came the tug of war. 1t was the sig
nal for pitched battle, and the result
always was that there were less Gro
nins or Maras in the world than pre-
4 vious TO the battle.
- One day a party of armed Cronins
met akone Mara in glen. There was
no way for him to escape.
lis Mara said the leader of the
Cronins, as if he was referring to a
worm Or a bug; kill it,
SO i is with the Armenians; a lone
Armenian is always welcomed by a
gang Of hoodlums, the same as the Gro
nins Welcomed Mara-with a club"