Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-02-07
WILSON ASKS RELIEF NOW
BLooDTHiRsTY MoslEMS thus
HAD DOUBLE iNTENTIoN-RE-
LiGloN AND POLITICS.
Best Peoples Of Turkish Nation Ne
ported and slain Because They
Are Followers of Christ.

Probably no campaign ever staged
in America met with so responsive O..
reception as that given the Armenian
and Syrian Relief Campaign, once It's.
true object was made known to tho
loyal and generous people in Missouri.
We had always associated those
places in which the suffering from the,
recently ended world war is the most
intense with our remembrances of the
Bible stories, and our attention was.
fastened on Belgium and France.
But the stories related in the Bible
Of wars cruelties, and those stories
Of the sufferings Of the Belgians and
the French cannot begin to compare
with the actual conditions as they ex-
list even today in the place that we
call the Holy Land.
The very places where Jesus was
born, where he was reared, where he
performed his miracles - Bethlehem,
Nazareth, Jerusalem, and the entire
Palestine, are now the abiding place
of famine, pestilence, and outrages
udlly llOll luS udllO VI Jut ulopCdho-
BILE Turk and the farbarous Kurds.
The Armenians, Syrians, Greeks and
Persians who for centuries have been
the producing classes of Turkey,
which government dominated the en-
tire Holy Land, was sought to be ex-
terminated when the war broke out.
This was for two reasons-religious
and political.
These peoples were and are Chris
tians The Mohammedan Turk hates
all Christians, and in days gone by
has massacred thousands in his en-
deavor to make the "infidel dogs" en-
brace the true religion" as he terms
the Moslem religion. Then came the
war The Turk spurred on by Ger
many, who realized that these Chris
tians were the natural allies of the
nations Germany was fighting, sought
to complete the destruction of these
Christian people.
All other attempts were puerile as
| that Of the last four years, when the
prosperous Armenians, Greeks and
| Syrians were deported from their
homes, their property confiscated, and
tens of thousands massacred for the
love of inflicting torture. The mira
Gle is that even now four millions are
yet alive.
For several years the Armenian and
| Syrian Relief has done much to ale
viate the suffering. 1t has an organi-
cation that can reach these peoples,
who have no nation through which to
| @hnp &c he M
ganization that can extend help to all.
The Red Cross cannot do the work.
1t has but few stations there.
The men at the head of the Armen-
ian and Syrian Relief have provided q
fund to carry on the expense of the
organization here. Not one penny OF
the $3O,000,000 that will be raised
February $40 will go into the expense
ct raising the fund. A special fund,
contributed by men at the head of the
organization, pays this expense.
President Wilson has scrutinized
the plan, and has placed his stamp
of approval on it. He has issued a
proclamation asking the public to re-
spond to the call. He has gone fur
Their. He has asked congress to ap-
propriate $10O,OOO,0O0 for the same
purpose But in doing so he made 1t
clear that this should in no wise in
terfere with the $30O0O,000 drive. The
800 100000 will not be available for
months, and by that time hundreds
of thousands would have persisted.
Food Administrator Hoover when he
went abroad soon saw for himself the
need of quick action. He got in COM
I munication with the officers of the
Armenian and Syrian Relief. Though
the big $30,000,O00 has not yet been
raised, these men of wealth advanc-
| ed money with which food was bought
through the Food Administration, and
1t is now beig dispensed.
The War Department, through Sec
rotary Baker, is conveying workers
to the scene on Government trans
ports without cost. Secretary of the
Navy Daniels is placing at the COM
mittee's disposal ships on which to
ship other supplies. And this is with
out cost
Hoover has ordered all food admin
! istrators in every State and in every
county to do all in their power to
make this campaign a quick success.
so that millions Of lives will DO