The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-09
ARMENIAN WEEK In
BINGHAM CO. CON-
MENCINC AUG. Il
People Are Urged to
Subscribe to this Noble
Cause. Mrs. James
Duckworth has charge
of work.

Next week will be our Armenian
week in Bingham county. The
American committee for Armenian
and Syrian relief has asked Bingham
county for $1,000 to aid in the allevi
alton of the sufferings of one million
five hundred thousand people, prin
cipally women and children who have
been driven from their homes by the
bloody Turk across the deserts OF
Arabia. The massacre of the Armen-
ians by the cruel Turk with the con.
nivance of Germany is one of the
horrors of the age. The American
consular agent at Damascus esti-
mates that 100000 people have been
pushed into the provinces of Aleppo
and Damascus. In part his report
is as follows: yr.r
1.-THE majority are women and
children and they are slowly dying
of starvation. In every tent there
are sick and dying. Any one who
cannot get a piece of bread by beg
ging, eats grass, raw and without
salt. The people gather locusts and
eat them raw. They fall on the dead
ANIMALS, whose flesh they eat eagerly
and without cooking" The Ameri-
can consulate, Tifiis, states that there
are $4,000 fatherless children who
await American answer for their sup
port.
'In Ourfa, Marash, Aintab dis
tricts, 100000 look to us for bread.
Conservation estimates indicate that
at least two millions are dependent
upon American charity to provide
them with the barest necessities of
life to save them from starvation.
What l have seen and heard
passes all Imagination. | thought
was passing thru part of hell. They
arrive by the thousands. The ma
jority leave their bones here; as far
eye can reach are to be seen mounds
where 200 to 800 corpes are buried
in the ground pell-mell." This is
the verdict of an eye witness.
These facts, just few gathered
from vast accumulation of them,
fast piling up beyond count of stag
gering comprehension, moves the
world too little. In the mad whirl
of events we are overlooking some
thing quite as, ill-omened and much
more awful than this gigantic war.
The assassination of Armenia is the
most colossal crime in all history
and thank God that He has not
looked down unmoved upon peo-
pies death! The day Of reckoning
is dawning and as judgment undi-
luted will he meted out to those re-
sponsible for this crime, so will re-
h,,1z hn ~ yhn
withheld the hand and gave nothing,
to the starving Armenians!
In all the annals of Christian his
tory there has never been a nation,
people, or race, who have demon
strated to the wide world their reso-
Lutte trust in the living God and I'M
flinching loyalty to Jesus Christ and
His Cross, as the Armenians. They
took their cross at the very down
of the new fal.4., back in the third
century of the Christian era, lifting
it up over and above Persian fire.
and have since followed the
Master for seventeen hundred years,
in the midst of the bloodiest mas
sacres, savagery, cruelty, outrage and
butchery, vastly SURPRISING the pre-
ceding Medes and Persian barbarities
and succeeding Medieval inquisitions,
till at last they stand now at the
Golgotha of their national cruel
fixion, after 600 years of blood and
iron rule beneath the scourge of
tyranny.
Armenia is no longer land of
Garden of Eden, but Gethsemane.
No longer a land Of the joyful and |
The merry, but a country of frightful-
ness and gigantic gallery of starv-
ing humanity. Oh, her cup runneth |
over, not with the sweetness of the |
blessing, but bitterness has filled it |
10 the brim and runneth over with
he blood Of the martyrs and with
he tears of the starving saints.
Pick out at random any town or
village in Turkish Armenia and you
put your finger on little world
If horror and grief" is the testimony
If an eyewitness. The area of end
ess butcher, restitution and devasta-
ion widens. To the cold of the
winter that knows no mercy, and the
orrid heat of summer and the re-
rain of cruel hunger are added "the
,estilence that walketh in darkness,
he destruction that wasteth at noon
lay" s@ .
Yet under the poisonous teeth of
he ungodly Turk, the one prayer
Ind supreme and holy ambition of
he starving thousands is that they
night be enabled to endure their