The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-08-08
ARMENIAN ATROCITIES"

threatening demands for money so,
Patriotic purposes" with assassination
where demands are not Complied with
give the people a sample of real Armen'
ian atrocities close at home
| current revelations as to the cbarac.
ter ana methods of self-styled carmen
Ian patriots" in this city throw An in
terestlng light upon the inyestiuations
made by the Herald in Armenia soma
years ago, when the world was rinoino
| with indignant denunciation of the
alleged Wanton massacre of Christians
by Turkish soldiers in that country "
knowing the Herald's reputation for
INDEPENDENCE and fairness, the Sultan
appealed for its aid in ascertainino and
making known to the world the facts
about conditions in Armenia. The
Herald sent the late Rev. DIR. George
ID. Hepworth with another impartial
and trained observer to traverse the
country. Supplied with a guard bv the
Sultan and left free to travel and in
vestlgate at will, DR.. Hepworth ably
fulfilled his instructions, to learn the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth.
His special cable dispatches and let
tiers to the Herald made plain that
turbulence in Armenia was caused by
political agitators, members of secret
revolutionary associations. 1t was
shown that in each of the great capitals
in which Armenlans are settled there
were secret bands similar to that now
revealed as having existed in this city.
and the leaders of these bands were
usually men of education, who lived
and throve upon the funds obtained bv
M Sr MT q FOL
men or forced from them under threats
of assassination. These conspirators
flooded Armenia with inflammatory lit
erature and sent their agents there to
incite Instruction.
While these patriots, together with
the missionaries they misled and the
agencies of publicity they maintained,
were telling the world that the Turkish
government encouraged the massacre
of the Armenians because they were
Christians, the investigation of the
Herald showed that the turbulence was
not due to religious animosity. but was
purely revolutionary and melted by the
emissaries of these secret organiZa-
tions. In most villages the Turks and
the Christians, Greek or Armenian,
were found living in perfect amity and
there was no interference with relig-
ious belief or observances. The dread
full affair at Trebizond originated in an
attempt made by two emmissaries of
the revolutionists to assassinate Bahri
Pacha, after which they sought con-
cealment in the Armenian community.
The Herald's expedition revealed the
fact that the Armenian revolutionary
agents were feared and dreaded by
their peaceful fellow countrymen, just
as it now appears they are feared and
dreaded by the peaceful and thrifty
Armenians in New York. Precisely
the same system of terrorism practiced
in their own country is now shown to
be practiced here on American soil and
in the metropolis of the United States.
The Herald's revelations, made
through DR.. Hepworth, INDICATED the
Sultan's government from the vile
charge of melting the murder of Chris
tians, and the trade OF the revolution
airy instigators has never since been 80
lucrative as before
II is now ''up to" the police and our
courts to clear this city once and for all
of vile wretches who live by misrepre-
sentation, blackmail and assassination.
New York Herald