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But no experience I havo ever undergone has been so depressing as a visit to Adana, tho center of tho Armenian massacres of a year and a half ago. Throughout theso Investigations In Turkey, Adana has kept arising as a specter. Now I havo seen what remains to be seen of that holocaust of blood and fire and pillage. Tho heart of the city Is still In ruins. People are only beginning to rebuild. Widows and orphans bulk largely In tho popula tion. A measure of self support is coming through the picking of the cotton crop, at which a family may earn as much as 25 cents a day. It seemed to mo, as I walked about the streets of the city, and had pointed out to me individuals as well as neighborhoods which had been re sponsible for a share of the live thou sand deaths, as if thero were a cyn ical leer upon tho faces of tho Turks v-ho watched the stranger pass. A Pall Upon the Country. I came down through Asia Minor to Adana ,and two days back in the Taurus mountains I was told that "Hero the massacres began." The Christians wcro harried through many villages and into Adana and Tarsus. Tho whole region ran blood. Ono cannot enter Into conversation with a group of people without quick ly hearing echoes of those awful days. I chanced to meet six prisoners Just out of Jail, where they had been im prisoned sinco the massacres, because they had defended their village against tho Turks who assaulted it. Some of the Btorles of the defense of individual homes and village com munities are thrilling to tho last de gree. Ono English speaking young man told mo quietly when I ques tioned him that ho had no* been in Adana at tho time, but In a near-by villago which had successfully resist ed the attacks of the Moslems. At tho last attack, when the Turkish soldiers and the fanatics came upon them, tho men of tho village moved In a body outsido tho walls, to make thero a last stand for their homes and loved ones; for they knew if the butchers got within the gates, all Would be over. Tho massacre swept like a forest fire over all this beautiful region. It gives a visitor a creepy feeling to have a resident point out to him, hero and thero, an individual who led In the attacks upon the Christians. Tho real leaders In the massacre wero never punished. To tho credit of the young Turks, be It said, they hanged flfty-slx unimportant persons whom they held responsible. On tho spot I find an ominous questioning as to whether tho party in power has not been obliged to mako terms with tho reactionaries. Unavenged Americans. It comes as a surprise to learn that nobody has been punished for the cold-blooded murders of Rogers and Maurer, tho two Amorlcans who were shot down whilo engaged In carrying water to extinguish a fire. The very names of the murderers are men tioned here. It would seem as if tho simplest kind of detective work on tho part of the government could find tho culprits. I saw tho exact place of tho tragedy. The men were shot from a window that was pointed out lo mo, while they were engaged In a work of mercy. It was not random balls from a distance?the nature of the street precludes that?but woll* aimed shots from tho home of a well known citizen, occupied at the time by Turkish neighbors. Trowbrldge, tho third American, escaped only by falling on his face. Hero arises an Important question. Tho safety of all other Americans In Turkey Is endangered by tho Immu nity of the murderers of Rogers and Maurer. Tho fanatics have not been slow to spread tho news that two for eigners had been killed and nobody punished. If this may be done with Impunity once, why not again? Amer icans in this part of the world aro quite perturbed over the situation, and they point to the well-known usage of Great Britain in following to the bitter end whosoever sheds Brit ish blood. The deepest instinct of nationality calls for the protection of citizens abroad. The department of State has filed a caveat with the Turkish government, so that the way Is yet opea to demand the punishment of the offenders and indemnity to the families of the slain. It is true that a few persons of no consequence were punished for the murders of fifteen thousand Christians; but nobody haa been punished specifically for the death of the murdered Americans. The Reason far the Massaeres. "When the hive Is full we gather the honey," Is the way one Turk is quoted as having explained the Adana massacre, and those that have pre ceded It throughout the past fifty years. That Is to say, many foreign era resident here believe that the prosperity of the Christians, which is markedly superior to that of the Mos lems, is a temptation that provokes the massacres. This would make the end chiefly sought not vengeance but simply loot. Certainly, In uddltion to the massacres, the houses nnd stores of the Christians were completely gut ted. I saw whole lines of shops that had been stripped bare by the Turks. ! The latter are no better for all their plunder, for "Como easy, go easy." Most of It has been spent in dlsslpa tlon and gambling. The latter vice Bits heavily upon Adana. Another reason, greater than the loot, was the carrying off of Christian girls and women to Turkish harems. This Is a phase of the massacre which naturally cannot be written about In detail. It was no caso of haphazard plunder, such as that In which tho Sabines used to figure; It wob rather Turks making choice of tho daugh ters of neighbors with whose un veiled faces they were familiar. Each man had his prize marked before the signal was given. And this applied also to loot as well as to lust. One typical Instance was recalled to me, as I met a woman who had' lost In tho massacre every member of her own and her husband's family. Her daughter, I was informed, was one of the twenty-seven Armenian girls who braided their hair together and per ished in a burning house, taking this means of making suro that none of them In an agony of pain would es cape from the fiery prison, which was really a deliverance from tho fato they most dreaded. It Is undoubtedly true that some of the Armenians had been indiscreet In the use they mado of tho liberties granted by the constitution, they talk ing patriotism and a possible renewal of tho ancient Armenian kingdom. They followed the general custom of carrying firearms and they openly practiced with them. They were flamboyant and injudicious, and gavo this slight pretext for tho awful crimes which followed. The Holy Law of Blood. Tho fundamental cause must be sought deeper than any of tho consid erations named. The reason lying at the bottom of tho massacres may not bo doubted. It is clear to who ever would look. It was the appeal of Abdul Hamid to the holy law of the Shorlat. One need not go far International Mission Hospital, Adana. ther bark than tho indubitable Tact that tho one lino of division which , marked the massacre was tho line of religion. It was Islam raising tho ! sword against Christianity. The ; Sherlat was the bond that held to > gether tho murderers' legions. Tho I powor of the hodjas and mollahs was , tho machinery chletly used in organ izing the massacres. The one great weapon left In Abdul Hamid's hands was his olllce as Caliph, "the Com mander of the Faithful." So, to con found the plans of tho Young Turks, ; and to Invoke foreign intervention, he gavo the command to strike. Only the power of the Young Turks pro- | vented similar massacres in many places. This is a chapter mostly tin , written. Sometimes it was a force ful governor who prevented the ful fillment of orders from Constantino ple. In one case it was a Young Turk military officer, who. upon receiving news of the plan, went into the pros* once of the Governor and said: 'I want you to understand that if there is to be a massacre here, it will begin with you." In Adana, strangely enough, most of the Christians still blame tho Young Turks for at least a measure of re sponsibility. They say that the Young Turks wanted to glvo a lesson to 1 he turbulent Armenians and Macedo i nians. They point out that the worst massacro occurred nine days after the first, the Christians having been dis armed in tho interval. The Salonlca soldiers they charge with participat ing In the slaying of the Christians. There are somo things that cannot easily be explained about trq massa ore, If the New Regime Is 'tu be ac quitted of all responsibility, yet thcro is no doubt, whatever agencies con- j trlbuted, the real power of the mas sacro lay in the Ineradicable hatred for Christians on tho part of the fol- ! lowers of the Prophet. Will There Be Another? When I asked the Minister of the Interior in Constantinople, Talaat Bey, if there could be another massa cre, he lifted up his hands and cried, "Cod forbid." The Sheikh ul Islam assured me positively, and he was speaking as the religious bead of Islam in tho Turkish government, that such a thing could not occur again. The enlightened and strong handed governor of this province, DJemal Bey, gave me his word that there would be no more in as sac res Ih the region of which he has since taken charge. No assurance could be more positive than these I have had from the highest quarters. None the less. In the Interior of the ' country the people feel otherwise. Tho Christian community, which rep resents many denominations of the older churches, stand Bolidly together In a conviction of a possible repeti tion of the massacres. At Adaua I had an Interview with tho lenuvis of tho orthodox Greek church, tho Greek Catholic ?church, tho Armenian Cath olic church, tho Gregorian Armenian church and tho old Syrlac church, and they were a unit in declaring that the attitude of Islam toward Christians has not changed, and that the worst is still possible, although they have conndenco In the good intentions of tho present Governor. Even the Rev. \V. N. Chambers, the American Hoard missionary, who has been the fore most figure In events subsequent to tho massacres, and is easily tho lead er of tho vcommunlty, is under the same cloud of depression. Small won der, when he recalls tho murdered friends who died is his armB, and the bodies which ho rescued from mutila tion. The argument for the possibility of another massacre lies In the fact that there has been no change in the minds of the people. Tho Moslems have not been made over by the pun ishment of an inconspicuous few of their number. They still look upon the Christians with antipathy. The village Moslem children cry at tholr Christian playmates: "I am going to get that dress when we kill you." A Crop of Orphans. The aftermath of tho massacres Is the multitude of orphanB, euch with a story as individual and as tragic as if his wero tho only story of sorrow in the land. I have met many at Tarsus, where 5,000 Armenians refugeed in tho American school, so that only two hundred were Blaln. I saw a llttlo boy of 7 or 8, whose father and broth ers had been killed beforo his eyes. I asked how ho escaped. With a sig nificant gesture he answered: "I lay among tho dead"; that is, he had fallen down as if slain and had wait ed until the murderers left. Tho mission schools aro over whelmed with these orphans, In Adana they are so thick In one of the schools, which tho missionaries hope may one day bo made larger, that they sleep on the floor bo closely that the teachers must pick their way among their bodies in order to reach their own rooms. Pathetic talcs of the murders are legion. Here is one, for instance, of a widow who has to support a swarm of little children, an aged mother, and an idiot sister, and who herself has no training for earn ing a livelihood. The missionaries havo stnrted industrial work among tho Armenians, and they have also established an International hospital, which Is to bo a permanent memorial of tho Adana massacro. Surveying the Situation. It seems to me as if "Remember Adana" should bo written on the mind of the Young Turk party when it Is tempted to boast; and also before the eyes of all tho statesmen and pub licists who have anything at all to do with affairs in the Turkish empire. There are some reasons why this massacre may not easily bo repeated, but there are greater reasons why a duplicate of it may burst upon tlio world at almost any time. For tho mind of Islam has not changed. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Barney Won. Henri Grcssit, tho Savage advance man, who. it is claimed, is tho per fect sartorial gem of hi:; profession, sailed yesterday r. the Crotic for Mediterranean points on a five weeks' pleasure trip. At 0 o'clock yesterday morning Barney Roilly decided to . o along. They had to hurry, but they caught tho ship. Quite pompously Henri went abroad. Barney followed him in anything but a pompous man ner. 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