The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-23
ARM ENiANS NEED
ALL WE CAN GIVE

One Of the most telling stories of
the ueacherles OF the Turks towards
the Armenans, was told in the story
of Dr. Isaac Yonan, an Assyrian, who
spoke at the state conference of the
/ Near East Relief, in Milwaukee, re-
Gently.
Dr. Yonan is an Assyrian and has
come to this country to interest
/ Americans in the cause of the AS
/ sylians and Armenians In his plea
for help, he said:
For the last twenty-five years
/ have been a professor in the only col.
lego in Persia. have taught hun
Gleds and hundreds of young men,
| who, when the Werld war was on,
were needed as interpreters to the
/ British, The other day in Chicago |
met a number OF them Some had
been in Jhis country for fifteen years,
bun taey could not speak word Of
! English. over there we know your
| language, your history, we are Amer
! leans though on a foreign soil | have
! lived in that world Of turmoil with my
! father, with my people and | fought
| IN the war My little boys, with me.
lave seen starvation and the horrors
OF war have seen men sawed
asunder and have seen women led
captive; have seen husbands kin
their wives at the critical moment
@heh the Turk was ready to snatch
'er to him. | have been in terrible
! flights where a mother, with bloodshot
! eyes flied with horror and fear, has
| taken their children -one on her back,
! and carrying another, was fleeing 10
save them and herself If you had been
| in those sieges as | have, you would not
leave the city of Milwaukee till you
! hau done what you could to save TO-.
900 children.
Il feel that the Armenians have two
just claims upon you one, as repre-
/ sent2ttyes of those Christian races
which We're killed and crucifed, tor.
/ tured NTH hunger. many of whom
have died in the front line trenches cf
| christianity. We have died for CTR
.aiE and are dying today For Coo
years the terrible Turk has been our
EmasJer His program has been to
Innihiute and exteIminate us. He
has killed us, is killing US now, but
he can never kin our faith He can
lake a babe by the hairs Of its heaa
and decapilate him with his Damascus
| .1 ger with a smile
When this war began, we save orr.
elves to the allies They made *
raNasant promises 10 us. We refused
n oller OF the Turks and Germans,
believing that the time had come whom
We would he free Of the Turk and th.t
% would put ourselves with the alltys
nd make the supreme sacrifice 10 *
aN.lE, We did our part We cid
per cent more than the British "a.
| 70 pr cent mO.e than the Fguea.
NE save 100000 young men Cut 5.
apo Pr people to fight the battles (
81 allies. These young men ue...
n4enGered and they never reueafgG.
We organized our armies, and Ii.
aT-old boys enlisted My own /.
ls one of them We had l2.pag ft .t
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