The Washington herald., 1915-12-12

I and oftenest invoke the name Of AilaR
| only to cover their bloody revenges.
Whether the Kurdish massacres that
have have dss REDEEMED the history of Turkey
government close and honest observers
disagree. 1t is well proved that the Con-
stantinople authorities have let the mur-
derers go unpunished. But We must re-
member that this is Characteristic
weakness of officers Of the law in mob
ridden communities OF the United States.
The Aeeomplices Of the Crime.
Whatever has been the degree Of the
Sultan's guilt. the great Christian pow
els oI the civilized world have been his
accompliceS In those wholesale murders,
for they have been the pillars of the
Turkish empire through loo years az
| least But for the support Of European
governments 1t would have fallen long
when England was not the crutch Of
the sick Man." France or Russia was
while his Kurdish butchers are wagins
their latest campaign of horror among
the Armenians- The British government
SSsnite,y diem Es, assumed saS; the resp9nsbiIity 70:
Constantinople in 1873. At that critical
moment II entered into a treaty with him
which made Great Britain the Guarantor
| of his Asiatic dominions and the London
politicians took the Island Of Cyprus as
their pay.
The Russian victor thereupon was sum-
IL,
ne was compelled to relinquish the spoils
OF his war and where the Sultan was
once more set upon mis- feet The con-
In behalf OF the Armenians. But with
this new lease OF power. Turkey inso-
lently Knocked the humanitarian profess
sions OF European politicians
Some of the darkest deeds done to the
Armenians have been perpetrated by the
very shore which England overlooks from
J her island of Cyprus. When the Glad
1 la mi STR
| ministry after the Berlin congress there
was spasmodic display of British ac-
tivity in behalf of the outraged people.
but finally the subject was dropped at
London with the excuse that Bismarck
had objected. Thenceforth the rife and
knife of the Kurd We're unchecked.
were massacred in the year 1896 The
next year 500. it is said. were struck
down in Constantinople alone, where
hasI;.d their death S cries were heard in the em-
1909 another red year was added to the
Armenian calendar and the foulest mur-
der rode the whirlwind over the Cilician
plain.
MurderinE Race.
A grand vizier Of Abdul Hamid once
declared that the way to get rid of the
Armenian question Is to get rid of the
Armenians" This now seems to be the
| policy of the Turkish government While
| it has the alliance Of Germany and Aus
ira "hile tllc OlucT powers are
barred from the scene by the war Tur-
| key Is doing her utmost to get rid of
the Armenians to the end that there may
be no Armenian question remaining when
peace returns.
The reports, thrilling with horror. are
beyond belief. Mr.. Morganthau, the
American Ambassador at Constantinople.
Is quoted as saying that already a ma
jority OF the Armenians in Asiatic Tur-
key have been killed. But as il Turkey
were unequal to the friShtful task she
has set herself of numbering an entire
race. she Is driving great numbers Of
these afflicted people from their homes
and like cattle is herding them in droves
toward. Mesopotamia and other strange
lands.
The hardest battlinss and campaign
ings on the Russo-Turkish front have
accused of betraying the Turks. Inevita-
bly, they cannot be loyal to such mas
ters. and the war has been a fair occa-
sion for some revolutionary proceedings
But the greatest offending of the Arme-
mans is only this that they have been
under the heel of the Turk for 1.o0O years
and have survived. ever clingtng to their
faith and their civilization. Even In the
chivalry of the Spanish bull ring. such
an example of endurance would be re-
spected and the life of the bull spared.
Will not and cannot the Unlocking ma
tions at this spectacle of imperial butch
| cry make their protesting voices heard
In Constantinopie. by way of Berlin ana
hands Of the cowardly slayers Of the
Oldest Of Christian nations?
] Copyright. 1915. By James NORMAL