Milford chronicle., 1892-11-25


q. today fulfilled his promise that he won
I'd again speak of his visit to Russia and co
rect many wrong Impressions concerpin
@, that empire and its ruler. After an exnos
ID tion Of Scripture ana CONGREGATIONAL sin,
y ing he took for his text II Peter IL !
"Presumptuous are they, self willed; ne
are not afraid to speak evil Of dignities;"
g Amid a most reprehensible crew Pete
here paints by one stroke the portrait q
p those who delight to slash at people in au
: thority. Now we all have a right to crit
else evil behavior, whether In high place
or low, but the fact that one Is high up
proof that lac ought TO be brought down
It is bad streak Of human nature now. a
it was in the time Of the text bad streal
OF human nature, that success Of any kin,
eXcites the jealous antipathy Of those VIII,
cannot climb the same steep. There nev
was David on the throne that there VA,
not some Absalom who wanted to get IL
There never was a Christ but the world
had saw and hammer ready to fashion !
cross on which to assassinate him.
Out OF this evil spirit grow not only in
dividual but national and international
defamation. To no country has more In.
justice been done than to our own in davs
that are past. Long before Martin Chuz-
zleWit" 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 misiu-
formed 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 thev
/ give the sailors little bits Of wood, because
If they did not they would whittle the shin.
In court, at the most critical moment, the
Judge, whiting, says, Prisoner, are you
guiltyp and the accused TRANQUILITY re-
spends, whiting, am not guilty."
Lord John Russell called us "a bubble
bursting nationality" But our country
has at last recovered from such caricature
and there is not o street in any city Of Eu-
rope or Asia where the word NAmerica"
will not win Difference, But there is a sis
ter nation on the other side Of the sea now
going through the process Of international
defamation. There is no country on earth
so misunderstood as Russia, and no mon
arch more misrepresented than its en-
peror. VIII 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? If the
SANDER OF one person is wicked, then the
slander Of one hundred and twelve million
people is one hundred and twelve million
times more wicked.
In the name OF righteousness. and in he
bali Of civilization, and for the ENCOURAGE
ment Of all those good people who have
been disheartened by the standardization of
Russia, I now speak, But Russia Is so
vast subject that to treat it in one dis
course is like attempting to run Niagara
,alls over one mill wheel. Do not think
hat the very marked courtesies extended
ne last summer by the emperor and en-
lress and crown prince of Russia have
me into the advocacy of that
umpire, for l shall present you authenti-
ated facts that will reverse your opiniops
( theT have been antagonistic, as mine
we're reversed,
went last summer to Russia with as
many baleful prejudices rs would make an
from the mountain Of fabrica-
ion which has for years been heaped up {
gainst that empire. You ask how Is il l
ossible that such appalling mlsrepresen- {
atoms OF Russia could stand? I account
)r 1t by the fact that the Russian Ian S
uage IS to most an impossible wall. Ma
gn the United States or malign Great
ritain or Germany or France, and by the b
ext cablegram the falsehOOd is exDosed t
IT we all understand English, and MANY v
our people are familiar with German b
nd French. But the Russian language.
sautiful and easy to those born to sneak I,
IS 50 most vocal organs an unprOnounc- <
Die tongue, and if at St. Petersburg or y
Oscow any Rnti-Russian calumny were p
'nied the most of the world outside of o.
ussia would never see or hear the denial. 7
DISCUSSING MISREPRESENTATION. o,
What are the motives for misrepresenta- Z
IN? Commercial interests and interna- b,
,nal Jealousy. Russia is as large as all A
e rest Of Europe put together Remem. til
r that nation is only man or a woman al
a big scale. Go into any neighborhood st
America and ask the physician who has ST.
small practice what he thinks Of the pe
ysician who has large practice. Ash ST
awyer who has no briefs what he thinks gi
the lawyer who has three rooms filed ne
th clerks trying in vain to transact the ha
business that comes to
n. Ask the minister who has a very W,
lited audience what he thinks of the eA
mister who has overfowing audiences. wi
Why does not Europe like Russia? Be be
Use she has enough acreage to swallow tb
Europe ana feel she had only half n gr
al Russia is as long as North and th'
lth America put together. "But, &" says to
ne one, "dO yOu mean to charge the Gee
hNrs and the lecturers who have written EN-
ipOken against Russia with falsehoodf'' pal
no means. You can find in any city or ba,
ion evils innumerable if you wish to SOL
course about them. AMI
said at St Petersburg to the most emf aga
t lady of Russia outside Of the imperial
Trr Awo . -
rage that have heard and read about the
y" She repliedi mo doubt sons Of q
N are true, but do you not in America llis
; have oflicers Of the law cruel and out Wit
aous in their treatment Of offendersf the
you not have instances where the police fort
e dubbed innocent persons2 Have YOU sur
where people in brief author qua
act arrogantlyp ! replied, Eyes, we N
Then she said; "Why does thS world Eae,
our government responsible for ex- emf
ional Outragesg AS soon as an official viii
und to be cruel he Immediately loses chai
place" imp
zen bethought myself, Do the people has
merica hold the government at WASH Siaf
on responsible for the Homestead emf
pr for railroad instructions, or for m
torch Of the villain that consumes a n
ock Of houses, or for the rufians plar
arrest rail train, making the passen- ner
hold up their arms until the pockets tive
,ickedi Why, then, hold the emperor tum
ussia, whois as impressive and genial Wini
y as hsye eYef looked at or talked IN oi
, responsible for the wrongs enacted oeeu
nation with a population twice as tbro
, in numbers rs the millions OF Amer the
Suppose one monarch in Europe ruled tbet
England, Scotland, ireland, France, enee
lany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Norway Is,
Sweden sl,,s
1uld it be fair to hold the monarch re- 5lb
ilHs ieF an that occurred in that not
ty dominipng Now you must reneun- WIN
hat Alexander the Third reigns over iidid
! dominion than all those empires put pres.
her, As q nation * only man or tbat
m on big scale, let me ask, would empe
prefer 70 be judged by assas
faults CT your virtuesf All people euto,
e ourselves have faults. mot
pessimist attempting 10 write yorr IT. All
Apply would take you in your weaker Ct Bit