Show I 8UFFEB1NG ARMENIANS I SUGGESTIOXS OFFERED TO AID THOSE I > DISTRESS Cablegrams Sent to the Queen and the Czar Reiiuenting the Intervention Inter-vention of England antI Russia CHICAGO Jan 5A large audience this afternoon filled Central Music hal and listened to various practical suggestions sug-gestions offered to aid the suffering Armenians Prominent citizens headed head-ed by Mayor Swift occupied seats on the platform and by their presence expressed the objects pressed their sympathy with jects of the meeting The appearance of Miss Clara Barton president of the Red Cross society and the speeches of General O O Howard and Rev Dr P I S Henson brought out storms of applause ap-plause Cablegrams to the queen and to the czar requesting the intervention of England and Russia to prevent further outrages by Turkey were read as follows i fol-lows and directed to be sent We have beer looking with horror at the deliberate attempt to exterminate extermin-ate a peaceful and historic people I the Armenians The policy and traditions tradi-tions of our people are against our interference in-terference by force of arms We citizens citi-zens of Chicago in mass meeting assembled as-sembled as fellow Christians with a semble a felow Dhristan wIh common ancestry appeal to you to stop this continued wholesale slaughter I circumstances which you cannot control render this impossible at this time in Turkey we respectfully suggest sug-gest that you with or without the cooperation co-operation of other powers endeavor to arrange for the bringing of the Armenians Ar-menians to the coast and thence to some country where their lives will be soared We pledge you the cooperation of our people in this undertaking In every possible way We are sure such hardy industrious and frugal tillers of the soil if cared for until they become accustomed ac-customed to their new environment would be gladly welcomed by the people peo-ple of the United States or other countries coun-tries Successive speakers declared England Eng-land and the western European powers were more to blame for the Armenian horrors than the unspeakable Turk who was simply a Turk from whom nothing better could toe expected Immigration to the United States was advocated in a heartily applauded resolution |