Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-25
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TugElsh Crne!ty TO Armenian Christians

Turkish Cruelty TO Armenian Christians
This mornings paper tells us that
Turkey is proposing for peace terms.
When peace terms are considered the
people should be considered and reck-
oned with, or Turkey should be made
to swallow her own medicine. l feel
more aCutcly, because / have been read
ing today the action of these terrible
Turks i'm 1916. In this hook appears
a copy Of the drastic order, which drov,,
out a million and half Of the Ar
menian race and eight hundred thou
Sond persisted in transit. Five days
were allowed for the start, but they
were forbidden to sell their lands, real
estate and could only depart with What
they might pack on their backs. II
anybody gave them food or shelter or
any assistance, such persons would be
sentenced to execution. They bastina-
doed the stragglers sometimes with
hundred lashes at a time. The writer
says: The calves of their legs would
swell and burst. the victim faints again
and again, until reason departs"
One terrible account was of eight
hundred women and children who were
separated from their husbands and IA
theirs, with only a few old men among
them. and started on forty-five days
march from their home town, Aleppo
There were women of culture and re-
finement among them, who were forced
to carry on their backs all necessary to
sustain life on the journey.
darmes, whose instructions with regard
to the poor eXiles had nothing lc oking
to protection. Children were born on
the way. and sick women forced to move
on They were prodded with bayonetS
and the dead bodies left on the high
way" An eyewitness reported these
facts. THE roads were Strewn with rot
ten bodies, the streams clogged with
them. Despairing mothers, insane in
agony, threw their little children in the
rivers as they were dead in camps.
The purpose was utter destruction.
The Turks said so ther Iselves. In one
place forty thou sand reached the camp
alive They had only space of eight
square feet where some act of life had
TO be performed, they were not al
lowed to go outside this boundary;
Among h4se victims were q, number OF
women teachers and students from one
of the American mission schools. The
American ambassador dill his utmost to
save them, but in vain. Now that
Turkey is seeking peace, what should
be done to Turkey, remembering the
butchery of American teachers? What
should be said, in regard to indemnity
for property losses? Have not these
Turks placed themselves outside the
pale of humane treatment, by their afro
cities?"
Let us Adhere to Law and Order
In times of. war and the confusion
that naturally obtains in the rush of the
military, it is entirely necessary that
we should recollect that this is re-
public founded on law, not upon senti-
ment or a desire to make things coin
eide with violence or tyranny. The peo-
pie of the country, without regard to
party have given the president full au-
thority in all matters that pertain to
winning the war This Is well under
stood But there are local affairs that
are distinct from war measures which
should be regulated and adjudged by
local or state authorities, and our courts
should be kept in touch with the protec-
Of nTOnpTtV
Forty years ago Hon. A. II. stephens,
speaking Of the dangers which might
overturn the republic, discoursed thus
ly: I'VE have three great agencies in
our country, all distinct from each other.
namely, the legislative, the executive
and the judicial. The legislative is vio-
lently affected by nartisanship. We know
lently affected by the same influence.
The sole dependence lies in an incor-
ruptibIe judiciary. Whenever the jul
dietary yields to passion or party preJu-
dice we will fail as republic.
In this connection, it is well to state
that the temptation is great in this
crisis to have the courts, especially the
federal courts, to consult with spies. who
are indirectly invited under the espion-
age and sedition acts to indict persons
who do not enthusiastically accept the
demands of the government for large
dctable act to refuse to buy the govern
ments securities, but the effort can be
made to bring persons into court charged
with violations of the seditlon laws and
force a conviction from Wiling jury
of partiSanS.
Indicted on one offense and punished for
another that cannot be reached by law.
This is a dangerous thing to tamper
with. The hereafter may be very en-
barrassing after the war is over.
Request
Will some one of The Semi-Weekly
Journal readers who has clipped from
the Country Home column DR.. Hoff 5
remedy for consumption. Kindly send
sible. The Spanish flu has filled the
land with suffering and death. have
so many calls for the remedy that
think the easiest way to meet them VIII
be to republish the formula. The deaths
from the influenza are very frequent.
Those who recover are in danger of
lung trouble, as an after clap. / do not
keep a file of The Semi-W eekly, and
am. therefore, seeking the clipping here
me"'i Please Send Me Your Your Address Ire S->
A lady in Madison, Fla, wrote me
very highly priced letter, concerning
the value of lands in her section and
her success with farming. / send her
letter. to The Semi Weekly with her
initials signed. / had not asked the
lady's permission to use her full name.
That left me without her address. as
did not keep a copy of her letter.
The letter appeared in the issue of
Semi-Weekly September 10, 1918.
/ have had a dozen calls for her adj
dress. and 1 write thi sto her, asking
for another one of her fine letters to
publish and her full name signed to
the bottom of it,
/ have an idea she would make hne
real estate agent, her communication
has been so widely read. with so many
inquiries as to her home address.
MRS. FELTON,.