The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-07-11
81, 100000 Armeniaus Perish BY Hand
If The MOsIem in 500 Years and
Terrific Slaughter Of Chris
lians Continues
HORRIBLE TORTURE OF
HELPLESS VICTIMS
Five Women CruciGed and Blood Of One
Thrown Into River OnCrOss Reaches
Christian Balileships al
Mouth ii River
IwrItten tor the UnIted rress.l

written for the United Press.)
Revolutionary movement and open
treason" have been the cause OF the
present plight Of the ArmenIans in
Asia Minor, according to Or. Ahmed
Emin, editor OF the Constantinople
Tanin, as set forth in his story, "The
Other Side" recently printed in the
press OF the United States.
When the Turks conquered Ar
menia $40 years ago there we're 4O,-
100000 Arnenians in that country.
Today there are hardly 100000 Of
them all over the world
The s70o0,0OO Armenians perished
as the result Of periodic, annual and
daily massacres at the hands OF the
Turks. A fanatic may consider this
the work Of a human race"--the
Turks and indulge in pointing out
the faults Of other nations to justify
the sarharic acts Of its own.
Tongues Cut Out.
The assimilation 81 the Armenians
is historic impoasibilIty Even the
Turkish practice Of cutting the tongue
OF every Armenian when he failed to
speak Ia Turkish did not make sue
cessflt the assimilation policy Of tho
ottoman government.
BY what sense Of Justice then does
the Turk argue In favor Of his own
government as a giver Of freedom
of language? What does the gentle
man mean By freedom Of ianguageg
What doe. me gentleman mean by
"freedom OF community" Il he does
not wish ID contradict flatly the flats
Of the Ottoman rulers?
Thirty thousand Armenians were
maseacred IN Adana at the hands Of
the 50 called YoungTurkish party in
1908 soon after the proclamation OF
the constitutional government -
Women Are crucIfled.
Five women we're cruclfied, One Of
the bodies, still on tho cross. was
thrown into the river and the blood
stained waves Of the river washed
ii to where the Christian battIeahih
were anchored.
To the mind OF our critic this may
be absolute equality with the Turks
Poison for Vaccine.
Not long ago the government sent
official doctors to "vaccinate" the Ar.
menian children Of the towu OF zei-
tun Instead Of injecting tho vaccine
syrum they injected poison and 400
children died in one night. II this is
the work Of humane race what
might be its brutal deedsg
My own experience In the massacre
Of 1895 and 80 are still fresh in my
memory and If necessary can emu
merate tales Of horror which heard
and saw
with I'll these cruel inflictions. IN
stead u fostering revenge, one Ar
meniar political party held the bloody
hands d the committee Of union and
progress saying that It Is enough ws
sre brothers; lot US work for the vel
fare OF the country.
The Armenian revolutionary move
ment ets the child Of prosecutions at
the hands Of she Turkish government.
when apparently a change took place
in Turkey in 1905 the revolutionary
parties automatically became political
parties
Wholesale Prosecutions.
suppose that few Armenians. :
q group of them had conaplred against
the government Why were not those
directly responsible punished7 Did
the limited States deport and massa-
ere the German population because Of
the iAviess acts OF a few members OF
that natIonality9 Did Great Britain
put to the sword the Iriah people
men. women and children--hecause CT
the present aprisins9
By what logic then can Turkey