Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-10
WARNS AGAINST
PROPAGANDAO OF
TURKEY IN U. S.
Threat to Turn BOIsheviki
Ridiculous, Armenian
Editor Declares.
ATTACKS MISSIONARIES

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-Warning against
the pro-Turkish propaganda, which is
now emanating from ConstantinOple in
an attempt to influence the world against
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the Turkish empire,
was given by Arshag Mahdesian, editor
of "The New Armenia" in an interview.
First we learn that the sultan and his
cabinet are ready to give equal rights
to Christian nationalities," said Mr..
Mahdesian, providing the integrity Of
the Ottoman empire is kept intact and
that Turkey is upheld and supported
financially by a single power, preferably
the United States Then 1t is reported
that Turkey was always sincere friend
of the allies, and that it was involved III
the great war through the Vaccinations
of the committee of union and progress,
led by Enver and Talaat
"These allegations are followed by the
declaration of Mustafa Kemal, political
and military leader of the Turkish ma
tionalist movement in Asia Minor, that
the Turks might become bolsheviki.
though bolshevism is against every ideal
that the Turks cherish, If the allies, by
nberating the subject nationalities, or by
giving Thrace to Greece, reduce the Turk
ish territories
SAYS TURKEY WANTS
DEVELOPMENT CHANCE.
"KemaI continues: What we want
above all else is to keep our armistice
boundaries intact, and then a chance to
develon commercially The problem of
Turkey will cease forever If we are
started right economically. That is why
we have hoped so intensely that America
would help u.s.
'arhe Turkish government has always
been profuse in it's promises. 1t has al
ways spoken Of reforms and equality,
and practiced pillage and massacre. 1t
IL with view to saving Turkey from
ismemberment and securing the moral
and financial support Of America that
the Turkish leaders and their American
friends now palaver Of reforms.
'nThe falsity of the argument that Tur-
key was plunged into war by Enver, Ia
laat. and other leaders Of the notorious
committee of misnominal union and prog
ress. is apparent from the fact that 1t
was adduced only after the Turks had
been ANONYMOUSLY defeated. ANY war
that affords the Turks an opportunity to
plunder and slay the Christians is al
WAYS welcome to them therefore, they
would naturally have preferred to Join
the Germans against the allies. That the
criminal policy of the Talaats and En-
vers had the sympathy and whole
hearted support Of so per cent. of the
Turkish population is further evidenced
from the recent Turkish elections, which
resulted in the seating of rabid unionist
deputies.
TURKS ALWAYS
BOLSHEVISTS."
THE threat of Mustapha Renal Pasha
that unless the Turks are rewarded for
their misdeeds they may become boil
shevist is fatuously comical. If what IS
related of bolshevism is true, then the
Turk must be regarded as the original
simOn-pure bolshevik. 1t is the Turk
that, with his polygamous system, has
DESTROYED the family and rendered affairs
communal 1t is the Turk that, as
drone, has subsisted on the labor of his
Christian neighbors and victims 1t is
the Turk that does not believe in com
petition; if his neghbor is prosperous,
the Turk robs or kills him; and if
Christian has a beautiful home, he de-
molishes it. Instead of planting a gar
den, the Turk ruins his neighbours The
blasting misrule of the Turk has
devastated the most populous and civil
lied lands in such a manner as to make
the Lenines and TrOtskys appear tyros
beside Turkish leaders.
ACTIVITIES OF
AMERICAN MISSIONS.
"The most disgusting and disquieting
part of this Turkish propaganda is that
the Turks merely repeat what certain
Americans. all affiliated with either
Robert college or Constantinople Won
ems college, have advocated since the
armistice. The agitation, by these mis-
Nsionaries or by American ananciers, to
preserve the integrity of the Turkish en-
pire, is entirely inimical to The interests
of Armenia and Greece. 1t was the pow
erful American missionary interests in
ConstantinOple that prevented America
from declaring war on Turkey. 1t was
the same interests that published for free
and private distribution, in France,
America and England, a book entitled
Reconstruction Work in Turkey with
the object OF proving that "a division Of
the Ottoman empire into number OF
autonomous states would not be a solu-
tion but rather a complication Of the
Turkish problem
The main concern of the missionaries
and the f1nanciers seems to be the main
tenance Of the integrity of the Turkish
empire In their philo-Turk activities,
the American missionaries enjoy the sup
port of certain intellectuals, who delude
themselves with the hope that If America
helps Turkey they will enjoy the privi-
lege Of regenerating and reforming it.
Whether or not a government of muir
derers, by murderers, and for murderers,
can be reformed such a utopian project
must not be permitted to prejudice the
interests Of Armenia and Greece"