Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-21
EVIL SPEAKERS.
DR. TALMAGE VIGOROUSLY DEFENDS TIE
GOOD NAME OF RUSSIA.
That Empire the Savior of America During tie
Late War-CalumniOus Charges Fully
Answered by the Great Brooklyn Dr.
VRe-Ihs Truth About Siberia.

Talmage to-day fulfilled his promise
that he would again speak of his visit
TO Russia, aud correct many wrong i'm
preSSionS concerning that empire and
its ruler. After an exposition of Scrip
ture and congregational singing, he took
for his text: III. Peter ii. 10: "Presump-
tuous are they, self-wiled, they are not
afraid to speak evil OF digntes."
Amid 3 most reprehensible crew,
Peter here paints by one stroke the por-
trait OF those who delight to slash at
people in authority. Now, we all have
a right to criticise evil behavior. wheth-
er In high places or low, bat the fact
that one is high up is no proof that he
ought to be brought down. 1t is bad
streak Of human nature now, as IL was
In the time OF the text bad streak OF
human nature that success of any kind
excitss the jealous antipathy of those
who cannot climb the same steep.
There never was David on the throne
that there was not some AbSalom who
wanted to get it. There never was
Christ but the world had saw and ham
mer ready to fashion cross on which
to asSassinate him. Out of this evil
spirit grow not only individual but ma
tional and international defamation.
What are the motives for miSrepre-
sentatlon? Commercial interests and
international jealousy. Russia Is as
large as all the rest Of Europe put to-
gether. Remember that nation is only
man or woman on big scale. Go
into any neighborhood of America and
ask the physician who has small prac-
ticy what he thinks of the physician
who has large practice. Ask the lawyer
who has no briefs what he thinks of the
lawyer who has three rooms filed with
clerks trying in vain to transact the
superabundant business that comes to
him.
ASK THE MINISTER
who has very limited audience what
he thinks of the minister who has over
flowing audiences. Why does not Europe
like Russia? Because she has enough
acreage TO wallow all Europe and feel
she had only half q meal. Russia is as
long as North and South America put
together. But" says some one, ''do
you mean to charge the authors and the
lecturers who have written or spoken
against Russia with falsehood?" BY no
means. You can find in any city or
nation evils innumerable il you wish to
discourse about them.
/ said az ST, Petersburg to the most
eminent lady in Russia outside of the
Imperial family: "Are those stories of
cruelty and outrage that l have heard
and read about, true?" She replied:
''No doubt, some Of them are true, but
co you not in America ever have officers
Of the law cruel and outrag locus in their
treatment of offenders? Do you not
have instances where the police have
dubbed innocent persons? Have you
no instances where people in brief
authority act arrogantly?" l replied:
Eyes, we do" Then, she said: why
does the world hold our government re-
spOusiUl1 fUI oNUepUtO.~i 1912
soon as an official is found to be cruel,
he Immediately loses his place"
It's most important that this country
have right ideas concerning Russia,
for among all the nations this side OF
heaven, Russia is Americas best friend.
There has not been an hour In the last
seventy-fve years that the shipwrecE
of free institutions In America woulu
not have called forth from all the des-
notisms OF Europe and Asia shout OF
gladness wide as earth and deep as
nerditiop. But whoever else Ialled US,
Russia never did, and whoever elsa was
6onbtful. Russia never was. Russia,
tben An old government, smiled on the
orodle of our government while yet In
Jts earliest infancy. Empress Gather
Inc of Russia in 1776 or Whereabouts OF
I.sad l-indlv interference that our thir-
teen colonies might not go down under
tho cruelties of war. Again In 1913,
Russia stretched forth toward US mer-
oiFrI hand. When our dreadful civil
war was raging and the two thun-
6or clouds OF Northern and Southern
voIor clashed, Russia practically SAID
70 the nations of Europe: keep your
bards off and let the brave men OF the
North and South settle their own
+ronbIesn / rehearsed some OF those
scenes to the Emperor last July, say
ing: "You were probably 700 young W
remember the position your latner toOA
At that time," but with radiant Smlie,
he responded: sob, yes, rememo er' l
remember" and there was an sccenIua,
tion Of the words which demonstrated
tome that these occurrences hao olteh
Seen talked of in the Imperial house
6oId I stood on New York Battery,
dnring the war, as l suppose many OF
S,or aid looking off through a magnify
nc glass upon a feet Of Russian ships
,svvbat are YOU doing there?" l asked,
"a 90 every one asked: what ouSl-
aSs have the Russian warships In our
Nav York Harbor?" Word came that
ANOTHER FLEET OF RUSSIAN SHIPS
was in San Francisco Harbor. What
does this mean?" our rulers asked, out
did not get immediate answer. In THESE
two American harbors, the Russian
Aeets seemed sound asleep. Their
great mouths Of iron spoke not a word,
Ed the Russian flag, whether floating
~ the air or orooping by the flagstaff,
,nade no answer to our inQuisltiyenesS.
William Fl. Seward, Secretary OF State,
esEsd the Russian Minister at Wash
ington. the meaning Of those Russian
sbins in American waters, and got nc
satisfactory response. Admiral Farra-
gnt said to a Russian officer after dining
IN the home OF the eminent politician,
ThnrloW Weed, that maker and un-
maker of Presidents: What are you
doing here with those Russian yes
sells of war" Not until the war was
over was it found out that in case Of
foreign Intervention all the guns and
the last gun of these two fleets In New
York and San Francisco Harbors were
TO open in full diapasOn upon any for
eign ship that should dare TO interfere
with the right of Americans, North anS
South, to settle their own controversy
But for those fleets and their presenc'
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