• has issued a
-.'as follows :
- }i#• r»''■ y presented
rH*y -he people of
■: «»ld their reputa
do a work of con
; > and help setle
has disturbed the
hundreds of
ijovemor « p
nmr H • •
proclamation. r-.. 1
"An 11, *y i
In u • s-err: Asia « I
1'■ ,r,r.> ■ ’ IfiiT may
•mu fr.r generogi'v
structlvt- phllanihr,,
a controversy that !
pence of 'he world
year*.
Americans ha .dilliculty Id form
in- an adequate conception of the hor
roi and villainy of the crime that has
Imert committed against the Christian
people of Asia Minor and I am con
vinced ti at If we could visualise their
suffer',!,* fniineetleut a'nns Would give
the y.'M).noO,r*tO now asked of the na
tion.
"I ntn equally gore the people of thli
"•ate do not Intend hy neglecting tills
call for help to allow these suffering
p.-oph- to peris! and so enable the
murderous Turks, upheld as they were
hv Certtiany. to succeed In their pur
to destroy this race ns certainly
as if they had beet, victorious In war
It 's seldom thn- we I a.p before ua
n duty so plain, a reason so clear and
a cause go urgent as Is afforded hy
'his appeal through which we may al
1 e•. 'ate suffering regardless of race,
creed or denomination.
''>u- of the Near Kris* came the
grett* men of Bible days whose >each
in-s have helped the world f,,r cen'o
r'es it. Its struggle for freedom. Just1 e
Rnd righteousness. In the name of the
prophets and lenders of old let us help
the r descendants today.
