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Show THE ARMENIANS. Irtce of a Jlanirejto by the ReTOlitlonary Party Bcganl-1 ing Turkish Imtltj. ! A PRIME MINISTER ASSAILCO BY A MOS. 1 Prominent Prizr-ngbtcri Begin U Turn Inrlr Aittntloo to the SUgt. r THE ILLINOIS CENTRAt Rtt-WAY Rtt-WAY DIFTICULTV. , Hypnotism Cuajcmnrd bj the Ron-Isn Ron-Isn Cbnrrh. Tbe Bar- 7 ttf f Xegmt. - -u "5 fif TMeparlt to the ews.1 a iiANirnsTo. ' Iaanr4bx ine Armenian Hetolu louarr 1'arir. I CoSTAKTUCOfJX, 3cpt 5. Tile Arnithlau IteTulutionary party lias issued a manifesto, which is being secretly and widely distributed throughout tbe country and reads as follows: "Fellow Countrymen: Our brethren: breth-ren: are being dally massacred, their homes and property usuqvd and burned, our sisters torn from their homes by barbarians. The soil of our motherland, once Uie sure asylum asyl-um of all zuflenrs by tyranny and outrage, is now carpeted by tbe corj-ses of cur countrymen; lis plains arc Indndsted by Armeulan blued; and cur fair Armenia transformed "o an anna for butchery. The soldiers of Turkey are annihilating, instead of protecting us. and massacre follows ruaswacre. Erzeruum and Mcush are scenes of their barbarous acts and ih entire land Is under the severity of marUil law and hundreds hund-reds clour brethren are pitilessly that down or thrown Into noisome dungeons to rot "Therefore, we Armenians, being el paced to T1IIS DAILY SLAUGHTER, have no other course left but to enter a desperate struggle against our savage oppressors. The memorable mem-orable demonstration of Uie 15th cf Julyln every metropolis of the Ottt-man Ottt-man empire, when wo made a gallant gal-lant stand fur liberty, showed Our Inexhaustible itallty and this ua-precedented ua-precedented event raised the hopes of all Armenia. , "Let all sons of Ualk and the ex-latriaUtl ex-latriaUtl exiles of our once Independent Inde-pendent country rush to Uie rescee of titlr struggling brethren and exterminate ex-terminate this government cf bloodthirsty blood-thirsty brigands. Let us clie oir ranks and wiih our legions, strouj; and disciplined, under the haumr of our fatherland, march against lie oppressor. Then tho-v villages act cities whiih the rile Turk has rendered rend-ered desolate ami tiulnhahltablo will at once be transformed lutoadca-dlse." |
