The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-18
ARMENIA NOW OR NEVER
Turkey Plans to Exterminate the 1000,
900 Survivors.

Some years ago ! taught English to i
class of Armenians. Every one had hac
one or more of his family surrounded by
Turks who poured oil over them and SCI
fire to them upon their refusal to deny
Christ
From them ! learned that the Turk fol
centuries has played upon the jealousy
of European nations to form dead
locked balance Every time il is accom-
plished the Turk slaughters as many
Christians as possible. Eventually ht
dreams Of getting the balance of power
over the Christians, wiping Christianity
from the face of the earth. A few years
or centuries matters not for its accom-.
plishment.
Turkey had no interest in this last wan
but the opportunity to carry on the ex,
termination Of Christians she succeed.
ed in killing half tower two Million Of
the Armenians, many Greeks and allied
soldiers.
Turkey now has the allies deadlocked
in peace ~ parley and is quick to fin.
ish the humiliation of the Armenians
unless prompt action is taken to restrain
her.
League Of nations or no league Of ma.
tons, balance of power or no balance OF
power, Russia several years before this
war offered If need be to defy all Europe
and drive the Turk out if Armenia would
place the Armenian church under the
jurisdiction Of the synod of the Holy
Orthodox Eastern church of Russia As
this would mean the practical absorption
Of Armenia by Russia they declined pre-,
ferring the independence Of their church
and the hope of national independence
even in the face of torture and death at
the hands of the "Unspeakable Turk"
1t is blot on this nation that we did
not declare war on Turkey and drive her
out Of Europe. 1t is a disgrace to our
civilization if We stand by and let Tur,
KEY complete her dream as it applies te
the Armenian, the most dauutless and
faithful among Christian races.
Is America love of humanity to dwin.
die to a cat and mouse game with the
hopes and lives of the long suffering Ar.
meniansl Is America to stand idly BY
check mated by European secret under.
standings and see another two million
people tortured to death and worse by
the Turk?
Has America raised its millions for the
relief of Armenia just to prolong her
death agony at the hand of the Turk !
Are the noble lives of the Christian he,
roes sacrificed at Gallipoli to 60 for
nought and to be added to those OF
Armenia as gains in the realization OF
Turkish dreams? Is our red blood all
shed and is our love of God and human.
ity again to give place to commercial
eXpediencyY
The blood of the martyrs, the screams
Of ravished women and the cry Of starv.
ing children still rise before the face of
God. Shall ii be a witness to our weak
ness and our downfall or to our SINGER
ity and strength to sustain assistance
help and succor to the end!
The government must be aroused to
immediate action to back up her ad-
miral's informal" order with an official
command" with teeth in I'll that Tur-
key cease instantly from her oppression
and massacre of the Armenian.
Our hands are not yet tied in Euro
pean affairs, the time to act is now, be-
fore it can be said I'VE meddled and
muddled and quit. BY Rev. George NJ.
Babcock of Marinette, Wis, in The
Churchman.