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    NOT ALL ARMENIANS ARE IDIOTS
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    How many of my readers,
    I wonder, are familiar
    with the name of Artin Dadian? -
    a prominent member
    of the Ottoman Administration
    under Sultan Abdulhamid II,
    who wrote the following letter
    to our revolutionaries in 1898:
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    "I suggest that today we exercise nothing
    but patience and tolerance.
    First, Europe shows complete indifference
    and says there is no Armenian question
    as far as they are concerned.
    Second, the threat of the complete
    annihilation of the Armenian nation
    has not yet entirely passed,
    and third, the people are tired
    of revolutionary deeds
    and are ready to patch up their differences
    with the government in order to remain safe
    from further terrible events
    as have almost wiped out our people
    from the face of the earth.
    Fourth, various organizations
    are fighting different causes,
    each in their own way,
    and in the middle of all this
    stands one pitiful Artin Dadian,
    who on the one hand begs the Sultan for mercy
    by telling him that this would be
    in the best thing for his Empire
    and on the other hand
    fights base individuals
    who in order to attain their selfish aims
    are even willing to sell their nation."
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