Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-27


Of Europe put together, you can see how
natural would be the jealousies. know
of two prominent European newspapers 1
that keep men on salaries TO catch up /
everything unfavorable TO Russia and /
magnify the incident And the stereo- |
typed stories Of Siberian cruelty in one /
case out Of n hundred is true, but in nine |
ty-nine out Of hundred cases they are |
fabrication. And in the one case as soon |
as 1t is reported the official is discharged.
They who have been sent Ito write up" |
Russia and Siberia have done as that man |
would do who, sent to write up" New |
York, should write up the slums as n speci- !
men Of what New York is, or, sent to write
up the American congress, should write up
some depraved politicians as a specimen of
American craftsmanship, or, sent to write
up the sanitary condition of this country,
should send a kodak picture of all the
warts and carbuncles he could find as a
specimen Of American health. believe
can reverse the opinion Of any man antag-
onistic to Russia who will give me an
honest hearing, as my own opinions have
been reversed by what recently saw and
heard.
Before passing to the other field of my
summer observation l give you one little
specimen of the falsehoods about Russia.
/ stood In London with my tickets for st.
Petersburg, Russia, in my pocket. 1t was
two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three
o'clock was to take the train. An Amer
lean physician came in and said, "You GER
tainly are not going to Russia" ] said,
"Why not?" Then morning paper was
shown me, saying that in st. Petersburg
there were two thousand cases of virulent
cholera; the city had been divided into
hospital districts. and the doctors were at
their wits end what to do with the number
of patients. The population was flying in
terror. 1t was almost as bad in Moscow.
While rejecting on these accounts two
messages arrived from other friends protest
ing against the foolhardiness of my rushing
into the presence of two thousand cases of
cholera in one city. OF course halted. !
halted for four days. Meanwhile tele.
gram from st. Petersburg encouraged me
to go. l went There was not single
case of cholera in St. Petersburg or Mos
COW, and there was not a single case in
either city until four weeks after l left
those cities. But the continental false
hood had done its commercial errand.
| Tens of thousands of Americans and
Englishmen who proposed to summer in
Russia turned in other directions.
At the large hotel in St. Petersburg at
which l stopped, though capable of hold
ing five hundred guests, and months before
every room and every hallway and every
mattress and every pillow had, been en-
gagged by telegraph by sightseers, all the
orders were Cancelled, and instead of five
hundred guests | should think about
thirty, and that including our party. And
so it was in all the hotels in northern Rus
sia and the subtraction of tt amount of
commercial profit from those cities you
may imagine. But that whole subject of
systematic fabrication l adjourn to some
other hour. Yet must tell you of pic
ture of pathos and moral power impressed
upon my mind, SO that neither time nor
eternity may efface it.
The ship Leo swung to the docks a few
miles below St. Petersburg loaded with
-four from America. The sailors on board
huzzaed as they came to the wharf From
yacht on which we had descended the
river to the sea the prominent citizens OF
St. Petersburg disembarked. The bank
was crowded by prosperous citizens, who
|
poor laborers, who had come down to Offer
their services free of all charge for the re-
moval of the breadstuffs from the ship tc
the imperial freight train that took the
-four to the interior free of charge. While
we stood there the long freight train rum
bled down to the docks, the locomotive anC
each car decorated with fiag-the Ameri
can flag and the Russian flag alternating
Though a flag to some eyes is only
floating rag, you ought to see how tn
American flag looks five thousand mile
from home. 1t looked that day like sec
, ton of heaven let down to cheer morta
vision. Addresses of welcome and response
were made, and then the work began, th
, only contest being who should lift th
hardest and be most expeditions From
, ship to rail train. From rail train to knead
ing board. From kneading board to over
, | From oven to the white and quivering lip
a of the dying. Upon all who, whether b
contribution small or large, helped max
that scene possible may there come th
benediction of him who declared, IT wa
, hungry and ye fed me-"
= GREAT MEETINGS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
q But l must also give a word of repol
+ concerning my other errand-the preacl
ing of the Gospel in Great Britain las
4 summer. It was tour I had for man
: years anticipated. With the themes of til
> Gospel confronted more people than eve
. before in the same length of time-mult
q tudes after multitudes, and beyond an,
: thing can describe. The thrmgs in a
the cities were so great that they could
controlled only by platoons of police,
| tlI.u 6nb bs1rt !, tha
q each service indoors followed by servi,
: for the waiting throngs outdoors, and bot
n by handshakings to the last point of ply
"a ical endurance
,f From the day in which arrived, at noe
y in Liverpool, and that night addressir
" two vast assemblages, until got throug
Il my evangelistic journey, it was scene
=, blessing to my own soul and l hope
40 others. I missed but three engagement
of all the summer, and those from beiI
= too tired to stand up. At all the asser
ir blages large collections were taken-tl
"a money being given to local charities, feeh
churches, orphan asylums or Young Men
Christian associations-my services beiI
W entirely gratuitous. But what a Kumme
"a There must have been much praying he
20 and elsewhere for my welfare, or no me
"a tai could have gone through all l wel
NJ through.
Ne In every city and town had messag
u poured into my ears for families I'm Amer
ne ca. Oh, SONS of Scotchmen, Engltshme
IS, Welshmen and Irishmen, there are hear
al On the other side of the sea beating in affe
I'd tion for you and praying for your presel
oy and eternal welfare. They wanted me
is give you their love, and here it is by Il
be wholesale, for cannot give it by retail. d
re appoint not the old folks on the other si'
a the Atlantic. You will probably never s
IT, them again in this world. Their hair
whitening, and their step is not as firm
rs when you saw them last. So live that y
ed may meet them in heaven. Write hor
often, and while you know they are pra
III ing for you do not forget to remember