Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
LIES ABOUT RUSSIA
DR.. rALMAok AGAIN AssAlLs
JEALOUS :SLANDERERS.
Russia Watched Over America In Her
Cradle. and las Always Been Our
Friend-why Should We Believe the
Faishoe ds I.vented by Enemies?

empire md it's ruler After an exposi-
ton of scripture and congregational
singing, he took for his text: III. Peter
2: 10: "Presumptuous are they, self
willed, they are not afraid TO speak
evil of dignities"
Amid most reprehensible crew,
Peter here paints Icy one stroke the
portrait of those who delight TO slash
at people in authority. Now, we all
have a right TO criticise evil behavior,
whether in high places or low. but the
that he ought to be brought down. It's
bad streak of human nature now,as 1T
was in the time of the text bad streak
of human nature that success OF any
kind excites 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 a
Christ but the world had saw and ham
mer ready to fashion a cross on which
to assassinate him. Out of this evil
spirit grow not only individual but ma
tional and international defamation.
To no country has more injustice been
done than our own in days that are
past. Long before Martin Chuzzlewit
was printed the literature of the
world scoffed at everything American
Victor Hugo, as honest as he was un-
equaled in literary power, was so mis-
informed concerning America that he
wrote: "The most singular thing is
the need of whiting, with which all
Americans are possessed. IT is such
that on Sunday they give the sailors
little bits of wood because if they did
not they would white the ship In
court, at the most critical rIoment, the
Judge, whiting, says: Prisoner, are
you guilty? and the accused TRANQUILITY
responds, whiting: 4 am not
guilty"
There is no country on earth so mis-
understood as Russia, and no monarch
more misrepresented than its Emperor
Will it not be in the cause of justice If
try to set right the minds of those
who compose this august assemblage
and the minds of those to whom, on
both sides of the ocean, these words
shall come? II the Islander of one per-
son is wicked then the Islander of l20,-
900, 600 people is 100, 900, 600 times more
wicked. In the name of righteousness
| and in behalf of civilization, and for
the encouragement of all those good
people who have been disheartened by
the standardization of Russia, l now
speak. But Russia is so vast
a subject that to treat 1t in one dis
course is like attempting to run Nj
agara falls over one mill wheel. Do
not think that the very marked cour-
tesies extended me last summer by the
! Emperor and Empress and Crown
| Prince of Russia have complimented
me into the advocacy of that empire,
for shall present you authenticated
facts that will reverse your opinions, If
they have been antagonistic, as mine
were reversed. / went last summer to
Russia with as many baleful prejudices
as would make an avalanche from the
mountain of fabrication which has for
years been heaped up against that en-
pire. You ask, how is it pos
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representations of Russia could
stand? account for it by the
fact that the Russian language is to
most an impossible wall. Malign the
United States or malign Great Britain
or Germany or France, and by the next
cablegram the falsehood is e posed
for we all understand English, and
'~anv of our people are familiar with
I'D French. But the Russian
o, 5eautiful and easy to those
- ak il, is to most local organs
D. ptunounceable tongue, and if al
b. Petersburg or Moscow any anti
Russian calumny were denied, the
most of the world outside of Russia
would never see or hear the denial,
What are the motives for misrepre
sentation? Commercial interests and
international jealousy. Russia is as
large as all the rest of Europe put to
gether. Remember that a nation il
only a man or a woman on big scale
Go into any neighborhood Of America
and ask the physician who has a small
practice what he thinks of the physi
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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 minis
ter who has overlooking audiences
Why does not Europe like Russia? Be
cause she has enough acreage to swai
low all Europe and feel she had only
half meal. Russia is as long as North
and South America put together
But" says some one, do you NEAR
to charge the authors and the lect
urers who have written or spoken
against Russia with falsehood9" BY
no means. You can find in any city OF
nation evils innumerable II you wisl
to discourse about them.
IL is most important that this coun
try have right ideas concerning Rus
STA, for, among all the nations this sid,
of heaven, Russia Is Americas bes'
friend. There has not been an houi
In the last seventy-fve years that the
shipwreck of free institutions In Amer