Armenian Grievances.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 29, 1912:
Patriarch Resigns as Protest Against Turkey's Policy.
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 17.— The resignation of the Armenian Patriarch here marks the culmination of the protests which have been made against the "laissez faire" policy of the Turkish authorities in Kurdistan by Armenian churchmen, deputies, and journalists during the last three years.
    The Dashnakzutiun Committee, which is still the strongest Armenian political organization, though it entered into an alliance with the Committee of Union and Progress in 1909, shortly after the Patriarch Mgr. Tourian had resigned in consequence of the failure or unwillingness of the Committee Government adequately to punish the ringleaders in the Adana massacres, only did so after receiving promises that the Commitee of Union and Progress would do its utmost to settle the land question in East Anatolia and Kurdistan in accordance with the wishes of the Armenians and to protect the latter against further Moslem attack.
    The results of the alliance proved most disappointing to the Armenians. The land question remained unsettled and the crimes committed at the expense of the Armenians did not abate. Moreover, the American schemes for the construction of a railway from Yumurtalik, on the Gulf of Alexandretta, to Sivas, and thence eastward to Argana Maden, which would have opened districts largely peopled by Armenians to trade and stimulated the mining industry, were shelved after long discussion in the chamber.
    Early in the present year the committee, presumably with the object of regaining the affections of its Dashnakist allies, decided "in principle " to dispatch a "Reform Commission," similar to that which journeyed through Albania, to the Vilayets of Inner Asia Minor, but this project never materialized and the fall of the committee regime and the dissolution of the chamber were regarded with indifference by the Armenian community, save for a few of the extreme Dashnakists.