The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-24
Resident of Constantinople
Says Young Turks Are
Country's Hope.
TCHORRIGAN TALKS
ABOUT SITUATION
Constitutional Party Stand
ing for Progress and
Advancement.

It's the Young Turk party that is
to be the making of Turkey" declared
K NJ Tchorrigan, an Armenian from
Constantinople, who vas in the city
yesterday.
"The Young Turks stand for enter
prise, for progression, for all that is
modern and for the making of great
nation of the now weak and tOttering
Ottoman empire. There is soon to come
crisis IN my native country, and
when it does, the future of that coun-
try will be forever decided. My only
hope is that the party of Young Turks
will be successful.
"They are not revolutionists, they
are not radical reformers, but they
are modern business men, who under
stand conditions in the world and VINO
would place Turkey abreast the times.
They have been put off by promises
they have been deceived by false hopes
held out by the sultan. But the time
has now come when the thing will be
settled once and for all. A change
must come in Turkey, the times de-
mand it. A widespread movement for
a better country is now on foot and
the massacre of Armenians is helping
along the day when such things VIII De
no longer tolerated"
MIR. Tchorrigan is we'll educated
Armenian. whose manners, dress and
talk show little of the foreigner. he
smoke freely of conditions in Turkey
and of the changes going on there al
the present time.
The Young Turks party stanoa for
good and stable government, salo
Tchorrigan. "The sultan made prom
ises to reform about four months ago
and called a joint parliament, COM
nosed of the leaders in both parties.
that of the committee on union and
nroeress and that of the older Turks.
The riots were brought about Though
the wish of the Cossack and hurulsll
tribes to destroy everything that IS su-
nerior to themselves They apply u
the sultan and he says XIII the people'
will protect you At once the Ar
roonians are slaughtered and in case
tba governor of the province or city
o++enn+s to interfere the people say
tbev have trade from the sultan ana
defv him to interfere. Should the gov
arnor interfere, then Abdul secretLy
orders the soldiers to rise up ana mas
sacre him. When massacres are coIh-
mitted if is thus that the sultan keeps
his word.
eft is the Young Turk party Wnlch
renresents the business men. They Qe-
sire TO see the country grow and pros
per as it can. At present business II,
Turkey at best is precarious one ana
for that reason many Turks are leaV-
inq the country until conditions pc
come more peaceable. When properly
is ruth1esslv destroyed what can we oo
other than leave or fight. We lose IN
either case.
81 recall what befell friend of NINE
who owned several hundred acres Oh
1ond with hundreds of head or sheep
and cattle and horsese. One nlgnt the
horde descended upon him and drove
ont his cattle. To escape the country
be sold out his valuable farming Iana'
all the tools, although they hao not
left MANY tools, and the farm oulloinss
which were left for so Ira or aDou'
s21o They were after me to XIII me
bnt 7 fled and escaped. relative OF
mine whom they captured eventually'
killed 20 soldiers as they attempted TO
enter his door. one after the other IL