Turkish Character Cruel.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 29, 1912:
To the Editor of The New York Times:
    I read with surprise the letter of G. F. Herrick in The New York Times about the character of the Turks. I have lived and traveled in Asia Minor, and studied the history of the Turks in Asia Minor, but could not find the "honest," "peaceable." "thoroughly human," and "lovable " Turks of Mr. Herrick; neither have the great men like the Right, Hons. James Bryce and Gladstone, nor any truthful and unbiased foreign observers of common intelligence been able to find his mythical Turks.
    If Mr. Herrick has not studied the Turkish history, blackened all through by fiendish Turkish atrocities, how could he forget the wholesale massacre of 100,000 Armenians in 1894, and the horrible massacre of Adana, unparalleled in the history of Tartars?
                L. S. SHONT, M. A., of Asia Minor.
                New York, Nov. 27, 1912.