Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-11-26
DEFENDS RUSSIA.
DR. Talraace Ayers That Country
Eas Been Detained.
essays the Russians Have Tiecn Mlsrcp-
resented Oy False Reports aud That
Few Cnses of Cruelty HIVE
Gren Enlarged Upon.

In a ,ct sermon Mt Brooklyn Rev. T.
Dewitt - mage took for his subject
"Intcraati,ual Defamation. His text
was trah II. Peter II. 10: "presump-
tuou, ARE ."y, self-willed, they are not
afrai,i t. Xix evil of dignities." DR..
Taima.r : i'll:
Amid 81 most rcprehcnsible crew,
Peter rcr nnints by one stroke the por-
trait ,,,.,' who delight to slash Mt
people Il: i:hority. Now, we all have
u righ; - criticise evil behavior,
whetI or high places or low, but the
fact thgtu. is high up is no proof that
he ou-h, - be brought down. There
never was; David ON the throne that
there was nut some Absalom who want
cd u get il. There never was Christ
but the wsrld had saw and hammer
ready 10 fashion n cross on which to as
sassinate him. Out OF this evil spirit
grow not only individual but national
and international defamation. To no
country las more injustice been
done than to our own in days
that are past. Long before Mar
tin Chuzzlewit was printed the
literature of the world scoffed Mt every
thing American. Victor Hugo, as hon
est as he was unequaled in literary
power, was so misinformed concerning
America that he wrote: "Thc most
singular thing is the need OF whit
Ting, with which all Americans
are possessed. 1t is such that on
Sunday they give the sailors little
bits of wood because II they did not
they would whittle the ship. In the
court, at the most critical moment, the
Judge, whiting, says: Prisoner, are
you guilty?' and the accused TRANQUILITY
responds, whiting: i am not guilty. '"
Lord John Russell called us "a bubble
bursting nationality" But our country
has at last recovered from such carrica-
ture and there is not street in any
city of Europe or Asia where the word
America" will not win Difference.
But, there is sister nation on the
other side of the sea now going through
the process of international defama-
ton. There is no country on earth so
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 40 lNuNStd anu uO lhOh-
arch more misrcpresented than its en-
peror
What are the motives of misrepre-
sentation? Commercial interests and
international jealousy. Russia is as
large as all the rest of Europe put to-
gether. Remember that u nation is
only man or n woman on a big scale.
said ut st. Petersburg TO the most
eminent lady of Russia outside of the
imperial family: Are those stories of
cruelty and outrage that have heard
and read about true?" She replied: mo
doubt some of them are true, but do
you not in America ever have officers of
the law cruel and outrageous 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 au-
thority act arrogantly?" / replied:
''Yes, we do" Then, she said: why
does the world hold our government
responsible for exceptional outrages?
As soon as an official is found to be cruel,
he Immediately loses his place" Then
! bethoueht myself: Do the people in
America hold the government at Wash
ington responsible for the Homestead
riots at Pittsburgh, or for railroad in
surrections, or for the torch of the villain
that consumes q block of houses, or
for the ruftiuns who arrest n rail train,
making the passengers hold up their
arms until the pockets are picked?
1t is most important that this country
have right ideas concerning Russia, for,
among all the nations this side of
Heaven, Russia is America best friend
There has not been an hour in the last
seventy-five years that the shipwreck
of free institutions in America would
not have called forth from all the des-
potisms OF Europe and Asia shout of
gladness wide as earth and deep as per-
dition. But whoever else failed us,
Russia never did, and whoever else was
doubtful, Russia never was Russia,
then an old government, smiled ON the
cradle of our government while yet in
its earliest infancy. Empress Gather
inc, Of Russia, in 1875 or Whereabouts,
offered kindly interference that our
thirteen colonies might not go down
under the cruelties of war. Again, in
1918, Russia stretched forth toward us
a merciful hand. When our dreadful
civil war was raging and the two thun-
der clouds of northern and southern
valor clashed, Russia practically said
to the nations of Europe: Keep your
hands of and let the brave men of the
north and the south settle their own
troubles"
stood on New York battery during
the war, as l suppose many of you did,
looking off through magnifying glass
upon a feet of Russian ships What
are they doing there?" asked, aud so
everyone asked: "What business have
the Russian warships in our New
York harbor?" Not until the war
.rv,e fo,.nH that