1896. A Scheme to Aid Armenians

A Scheme to Aid Armenians.

To the Editor of the Tribune.

Sir: The sentiments of a mass meeting recently held in Chicago to consider a feasible plan of deliverance for the Armenians is such an expression of my own desire and views on the subject, I submit the following for your consideration. The desire of the Sultan seems to be to get rid of the Armenians. It seems to me if the President of the United States of America, conjointly with Great Britain, would send a petition of request to the Sultan, through their Ambassadors, that all massacres and disorder of every kind shall cease at once, and that he be requested to consent to the immediate and peaceable leaving of the country of all Armenians, Hebrews and missionaries in the Turkish Empire, I believe he would consent.

The let every steamship line belonging to America and England be brough at once into the service of transportation to America, or giving the people their choice to come to America or go to any colony under the sole protection of Great Britain; but I should advise America. In the mean time, let Miss Barton make her appeal for funds and the United States Government consider the portion of the territory that shall be assigned to these people as their own as a means of livelinhood, the United States giving such assistance as is necessary to the comfortable care-taking of these people until the spring months arrive. Immigration is feasible and possible.

Annie K. Bailey.
Danbury, Conn. Jan. 9, 1896

dated January 9, 1896

A Scheme to Aid Aermenians

 

New-York Daily Tribune, January 25, 1896

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