The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-18

corded that the Turks themselves have often sickened at their bloody work and have turned away with loathing, leaving the Armenians to finger in fearful anticipation of the day when the hearts of their oppressors grew stout for a further feast of blood and carnage. Such intervals were the only surcease given to the hapless Armen- ians-when their butchers grew tired of the work of killing and ravishing
 The last great massacre of the Armenians is the worst that history mas known and indicates nothing less than an attempt to annihilate the race from Turkish soil. The reports leave little doubt upon tlAs score as they plainly disclose that the attacks are not the work of depredating and law less bands but are they systematic ac-
 ion of trained and officered troops of the Sultan who are apparently going about their awful task under orders and in pursuance of a definite plan.
 From all appearances the only thing that can save the pitiful remnant of this once sturdy race is intervention by
 the Christian powers of the earth These people are not barbarians. They Ire perhaps the oldest Christian na tion on the face of the globe hence 1t is a solemn Christian duty; sacred obligation laid upon Christian human ity to go to their relief The whole Christian world should rise in unison to demand the cessation of the murder ms outrages and the punishment of their perpetrators. If the Christian races are true to the spirit of their
 belief they cannot allow the awful
 barbarities inflicted on the Armenians
 to pass unheeded. Besides the horrors
 being wrought in defenseless Armenia the massacres of Kiev and kishniet and even the abominations of the Bel
 sian Congo dwindle into nothingness
 The world is fain to gasp with horror lat the desolation of Belgium yet be-
 side this greater horror it were but
 trifiing thing. Christian humanity
 cannot stand idly by and see the shat tered remnant of the Armenian race swept away in the devastating flood of 1 Moslem hatred nor can it in justice to itself permit that the loathsome bar barities continue ever again.
 It is not question of sending money although money will do a most bene- icient work in alleviating the suffer ings of those thousands who have fled
 O such places of shelter as may be sound In Persia and Russia. What is needed most is the united demand of he Christian world that Turkey cease forever her recurrent outbreaks of murder and rapine. In this demand the United States, as the foremost nation If the earth in upholding the cause
 f humanity, should by all means be the leader. AS the earth's greatest exponent of freedom and the right to
 i've in peace and security it is the ~olemn duty of this government to espouse the cause of this suffering peo
 1le and to impress upon Turkey once and for all that humanity cannot per nit continuance of what is undoubt- dly the most shameless horror of mod ern times. Backed by the remaining | Christian nations, the United States should hold up the warning hand with | he admonition: Thus far and no farther" Such a protest would proba
 ply not pass unheeded by even the
 "unutterable Turk" but, even though
 the cost be war, this colossal barbar-
 ism should not be left to continue.
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