The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-22
TALMAGE ON RUSSIA.
he SAYS THE GEAR rs NOT As BAD
rs PAINTED.
Gross MISREPRESENTATION Are Made About
Cruelty to Prisoners-The Object
of Three ExageratiOns.

After an exposition of Scripture and con-
Negational singing, he took for his text:
Ill. Peter, =, 10: "Presumptuous are they,
seIf-willed, they are not afraid to speak
evil of dignities."
Amid a most reprehensible crew, Peter
here paints by one stroke the portrait of
those who delight to slash Mt people in au-
thority. Now, we all have a right to crlti-
else evil behavior, whether i'll high places
or low, but the fact that one is high up IS
10 proof that he ought to be brought down.
1t is q bad streak of human nature now, as
it was in the lime If "a text a bad streak
of human nature that success OF any KIND
excites the jealous autipathy of those who
cannot climb the same steep. There
WAS never David IL throne, that
there WAS not some Absalom who wanted
10 get it. There never was Christ but the
word had saw and hammer ready to fash
ION Il cross on which to assasslnate MN.
Out of this evil spirit grow not only III
dividual but national and international a"-
famation. TO no country has more injustice
been done than 10 our own III days that are
past. Long before Martin ChuzZleWlt WAS
printed. tie literature of the world scoHed
at everything American. Victor hugo, as
honest as he was unequailed III literary
power. WAS nllsiitOrined concerning
America that he wrote: lie most silisI-
lar thing is the need of whiting, Win
which ali Americans are possessed. 1T ~
sncii that on Sundays they give the sailors
little. bits OF wood because ii they did nos
they would white the ship. In court, NJ Tue
most critical moment, the judge, whiting,
says: Prisoner, are you guilty anu inc 'tc-
cused TRANQUILITY responds, whiting; am
not guilty" Lord John Russell called US
A bubble-bursting nationality. but our
country has ut last recovered from sucu
caricature, and there is not a street on any
city of Europe or Asia where the WORD
America" will not win difference But,
there is q sister nation on the other SIDE OF
the sea now going through the process VI
international defamation. There Is no couh-
try on earth SO misunderstood as tIussla,
and no monarch more mlSrepreScnted IMAM
it's emperor. VIII it not be III the cause OF
justice. If ] try to set right the nllhGS OF
1hoSt. who compose this august aSSeNlniaSe
ami the minds of those to whom, on DoIn
sidns IF the ocelu these words shall come
IL tlI:. SANDER of one person is wicked, then
;he Islander of one hundred and twenty
million people IS one hundred ana twenty
million times more wicked. In the name OF
righteousness and III behalf OF clvillzaiion'
am; for the encoura cement of all those
good people who have been disneartehen
bv the standardization OF kussla, now
sneak But Russia Is so vast Il SUBJECT th'tC
70 treat it III one discourse Is IKE atteuipt-
ing to run Niagara falls over one mil wheel.
90 not think that the very Inirked courte-
sizes extended NE last summer by The eni
peror and empress and crown prince "
Russia have compmented me INTO 'he "u
yocacy of that empire, for L shall present
Won authenticated facts that Will reverse
youp 0pinions, if they have been antaSonlS-
tic as mine were reversed. Went last sum
mer 10 Russia with as many baletui pre-
judices as would make an aVai:lnche rom On
wears been heaped up against that empire
You ask how is it possible that such APP
Mailing MISREPRESENTATION OF iuSsl;i cotiiu
stand? | account for it by the TACT tiiaI ilie
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vaIl NIaIign the United States or mallgn
Great Britain or Germany or France, ana
nv the next cablegram the ialsehood Is eA
nosed. for we all understand EnTi!Sii, ;lu
many of our people are fainIlar WIN mca
man and French But the Russian Language,
beautiful and easy TO those born 10 Spe;'A
II. is TO most vocal organs an unprohouhc-
chile tongue, and If ut ~. Ieterspu'E vi
Moscow any ant-Russian caiuihhy werf
denied the most of the world 0u'siue ~
Russia would never see or hear the delliai'
What are the motives for mlsrepresentl-
.;on1 Commercial interest anu mterhtuoH
~ jealousy Russia is as large as All tiie rest
of Europe put together. ltemehlprc 'hat d
nation is ONLY n man or a woman on 4 DIE
scnIe Go into any neighbOrilood OF Amer,
;c-, and ask the physician who mas 4 sIn'ih
practice what he thinks OF the phy Sicl 'I.
who has a large practlce. ASK me iaMSel
who has no briefs what he thinks OF tne
lawyer who has three rooms ntied "l.h
clerks irving in vain to transact tile Supel
abundant business that comes - MN ASK
the minister who has = very limited audl-
cncc what he thinks OF the minister VINO I nus
oyrrfowing audiences Why does not EU-
roDa like Russia? Because she mas ehouGh
afreare to swallow all Europe and 1eel she
had only half Il meal. Russia Is as long as
North and South America put toSetheF'
..Rut" SAYS some one. do you mean TO
CHARGE the authors and lecturers VINO
nave written or spoken against Nussla WIN
falsphood?" BY no means. You can md IN
any city or nation evils lnnumeraDle II you
wish 20 discourse about them
Ia az s. Petersburg TO the most emil
,..ut lady of Russia outside OF the imperial
family: Are those stories OF cruelty anu
nulr;,ge that have heard and read ABOUT
t,lta1'' She ropIied: NO doubt some OF them
,,.e inc hut do Won not in America even
Iaye officers OF The law cruel ANA outrageous
IN tI7nil. treatment of offenders: DO you not
have instances where the police have club
bed innocent persons! Have N"u no lhsiAl-
eos where people in brief authority act AFRO
gartIy:' ] replied: Yes. we do Then she
said: why does the world holC our gov
eminent responsible for exceptional out
RACES? As soon rs an official IS fouha |"
he cruel he Immediately loses MS place;
Than I hethought myself: DO the pcopie
=, America hold the government at WASH
;mrton RESPONSIBLE for the Homestead rlotS
at Pit+sbnrg, or for railroad insurrectlonf,
or for the torch Of the villain that con
slimes a block of houses, or Tor me run
Il
San,ers hold IN their arms until the pockets
are nicked? Why then hold the emperor
"f Russia. who is an impressive and GENIAL
i man as I have ever looked at OF talked
with. responsible for the wrongs enacted IN
a nation with population twice as large
in numbers as the millions of America
Suppose one monarch in Europe ruled over
England. Scotland, Ireland. France, Germa-
ny. Spain. Italy. Austria, Norway and Swe-
den. Would it be fair to hold the monarch
responsible for all that occurred Ill that
mighty dominion? Now, You must remcn-
Der that Alexander III. reigns over wider
dominion than ali those empires put to-
gethcr As nation is only man or Il
woman on a big scale, let me ask, would
YOU individually prefer to be judged
ny your faults or your virtues! All
peonle. except ourselves, have faults
The pessimist attempting TO write your
biography would take You in your weak
or moods,and the picture of you on the
first page of your biography would be as
sou looked after some meanness had
been practiced on you and You were tearing
mad. Now, as ] am an optimist, / give
you fair warning that if | ever write your