Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-19
Revolutionary Junta in New York
Calls Syriaus to Take Up Arms.
HAS BOTH SHIPS AND MONEY


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during three years has been secretly
at work throughout the world. says
Tlmcs-ilcraid dispatch.
Mlmcogrnph copies Of n call 20 arms
were Issued BY the thousand from the
headquarters u the secret council OF
junta not far from the Syrian colony IN
Washington street. this city. This re-
evolutionary party has on Its rolls 5000
men In this country alone who arr Will
ing To fight to free Syria from the rule
OF the Sultan Of Turkey.
Young SYRIA" a. the society Is
caii,d, Il the result of gradual growth.
The success " the cubana has In
aplrcd u to take bold stand. The
members say thrru viii be a very sick
man" In Europe before long. for they
assert they viii have the funds TO equip
armies and vessels 81 war. The coast
line Of syria. with it, cover and inlcis.
and the nciEhborinE isles. have been
carefully studied from a strategic poin,
u view. The reyolutionista cay they
have leaders with naval and military
training.
AGENT ACTIVE IN EUROPE.
Agents ~ tho Junta. directed from
the headquarters In this city. are ao-
tive In tho cities 81 Syria. In London
and IN Paris. Thousands In the noun
tainous districts ~ Syria are counted
upon to iiook to the standard Of the
iiberatorr.
All Of the thirty members ~ the juntn
here had a hand In the preparation OF
the call 10 arms issued today. The
proclamation II simply signed young
SYRIA Toward the end u the d0cu-
mcnt stress II laid upon the assertion
that the revolutionary society known
an Young Turkey" may lend It, co..
operation. when asked " a similar
society existed In Armenia the president
smiled and asked 20 be- excused from
talking upon the matter. lie frankly
said. however. that In the event OF
Syrian uprlainrH the sultan would he
20 busy attending 10 Young Turkey
That he would not have time to give
much attention to Young syria"
Arabic II the language IN which this
remarkable call % arms IN written
Every member " the lunta wrote line
or no Of II. ~ that all might say they
had hand IN IT, preparation. THIS
proclamation was the talk Of the
Syrian colony all day Whenever two
HyrianN meet these days thry look over
their shoulders 10 b. SURE that no Tur-
kinh secfct service agents are IN hear.
inx. They believe that the sultan has
the eyes 81 his sccrct police on the do
inE- In that locality. and they are ex-
ccciingiy circumnpcct. II you meet a
Syrian IN q restaurant he viii not talk
% the new movement until he has look
cd carefully about him.
JuSTA's SECRETS WELL KEPT.
Nobody In the Washington street col.
ony u supposed To know the names ~
tho members ~ the Junth. Those who
are IN sympathy with the revolution
aary movement save only secret aid 70
Young SYRIA" Tor they fear. II their
sentiments become known. that H.
Turkish government viii peraccutc
their relatives In Syria.
Upon the condition that his name was
not 20 b. used and that no description
81 Ills personal appearance be printed
the president 81 the lunin consented 10
awe an Interview. lie has a Holdicfiy
bearing H. speaks with a simple az.
rvctncrn. ne II wen educated and
speaks alN languages. lie has made "a
speciality of political science for years.
WHY THE CALL ISSUES HERE
lie said that the Juntn had given
him pcfmlssion 60 speak for publication
nation was strong enough TO declare
itself.
= am convinced" said he. that the
United States IL the birthplace ~ re-
publlca. Since your country has brought
. liberty 10 cuba and the Philippines
believe that upon American soil We
may form tho plans FOR the cmnnci-
patton OF Syria. The conditions In
syria are terrible. Tho people are
taxed beyond all reason. Property
N subject 10 conilscatlon ana tho home
u not sacred"
"wha, class Of ayrians are concerned
In this movement
AN classes" he replied. ''The sultan
oppressca both Christian and Moham-
mcdanT Those who are back OF the move
fnent belong e. the educated classes,
Many of them are inbued with Ideas OF
liberty obtained In the United States.
10 fact, our nag II fashioned after Ola
ulory. Il has been the border Of red.
10 denote the fact that We viii nacrlhe
our life'a blood, There II the border
II white. dcnntinF purity, ana the inner
Held " blue with a star, the I'VE points
Of which denote the provinces OF Jcru-
salem. Damascus. bcyroot. Lebanon
and Aleppo.
HAVE BEEN YEARS PREPARING.
you may tell Americans for u.s."
continued the patriot. that what has
gone abroad 60 the people of syrian
birth throughout the world N the result
" years Of consolidation aud labor 10
the one grcat end, We are no longer a
mew handful. chatting under fears aud
restraints, We arr a powerful orgnnl-
zatlon. counting among our number
some 81 the most diplomatic, energctlc
and wealthy u the 3yrians In America
and elsewhere, We have our hcnd-
quarters ON the soil OF freedom because
we are nlloWea here free speech ana en-.
tire rciRhtH within the pale % the law,
THE document which We have sent
out nH first call 60 the patriots was
printed on a mimeograph Tor iva rca-
honf. Though Il was written apparent
~ by one man, no less than thirty "
the patriots In SCENT council had "A
hand In the framing, and also Ia the
actual handwriting Of the document
More that that. as you know, Arabic
type IL not % be obtained IN this coun-
Try, the fow Arabic newspapers printed
here being struck from imported types
smugglod out u the Hultan'H tvnlna, na
II II against the Turkish law to allow
printing types TO be taken out OF the
country.
HAVE MEN AND MONEY.
This document Is fororunner, ]
may any ns others will follow, which
shall outline our policy more clearly
] may say that ours Will not be- a
talking crusade, but one of actual war
fare. We shall have the men. the ship
mud a nallN