The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-02
DEFENDS RUSSIA.
Dr. Talmage Ayers That Country
Has Been Detained
He says the Russians Have Been Aisrep-
resented BY False Reports and That
Fea Gases OF Cruelty Have
Been Enlarged Upon.

In late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. 7.
Dewitt Talmage took for his subject
international Defamation" His text
was from II. Peter il 1O: "Presump-
tuous are they, self-willed, they are not
afraid to speak evil of dignities." DR..
Talmage said:
Amid a most reprehensibie crew,
Peter here paints by one stroke the por-
trait of those who delight TO slash at
people in authority. Now. we all have
a right TO critieise evil behavior,
whether in high places OF low, but the
fact that one is high up is no proof that
80 ought to be brought down There
never was David on the throne that
there was not some AbSalOm who want
ed to get it There never was Christ
but the world had saw and hammer
ready to fashion a cross on which to as
sassinate him. Out of this evil spirit
grow not only individual but national
and international defamation To no
country has more injustice been
done than to our own in days
that are past. Long before Mar
tin Chuzzlewit was printed the
OF tie NtTLO SCblLGu dL every
thing American. Victor Hugo, as hon
est as he was unequsled in literary
power, was so misinformed concerning
America that he wrote: The most
singular thing is the need of whit
Ting, 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 the
court, at the most critical moment the
judge, whiting, says: Prisoner, are
you guilty?' and the accused TRANQUILITY
responds. whiting: 1 am not guilty."
Lord John Russell called US "A bubble
bursting nationality" But our country
has 1t last recovered from such carrica-
-ture and there is not a street in 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 OF international defama-
ton. There is no country on earth so
misunderstood as Russia aud no mon
arch more misreeresented 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 a nation is
only man or woman on big scale.
said at ST Petersburg TO the most
eminent lady of Russia outside of the
imperial family: Are those stories of
cruelty and outrage that I have heard
and read about true?" She replied: NO
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
clubbed innocent persons? Have you
no instances where people in brief au-
thoritv act arroCautly?" l replied:
Yes. we do Then. she said: Why
does the world hold our government
responsible for exceptional outrages?
Ass0ou Is an official 5 found to be cruel,
he Immediately loses his place" Then
I bethought myself: Do the people in
America hold the government at Wash
5ington responsible for the Homestead
riots a. Pittsburgh, or for railroad in
surrections. or for the torch of the villain
that consumes a block of houses. or
for the ruffiauS who arrest rail train.
making the passengers hold up their
arms until the pockets are picked?
Why, then. hold the emperor of Russia,
who IS as impressive and genial a man
as I ever looked at Or talked with, res
pousible for the wrongs enacted in a
nation with a population twice as large
in numbers As the millions Of America?
Suppose one monarch in Europe ruled
over England. Scotland, Ireland France,
Germany. Spain. Italy, Austria, Nor
way and Sweden. Would it be fair to
hold the monarch responsible for all
that occurred IN that mighty dominion?
Now. you must remember that Alex
=ander the third reigus over wider
dominion than all those put together.
1t Is most important that this country
have right ideas concerning Russia for,
among all the nations this side Of
Heaven. Russia Is Americas best friend
There has not been 81 hour in the last
seveuty-ETe years that the shipwreck
of free Institutions in America would
not have called forth from all the des-
potisms Of Europe and Asia a shout of
zgladness wide a earth and deep IS per
iition. 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 cur government while yet IN
its earliest infancy. Empress Gather
Inc. Of Russia. IN 1756 or Whereabouts,
offered kindly interference that our
thirteen colonies might not 90 down
under the cruelties of war. Again. in
1918. Russia stretched forth toward Us
a mercifui hand. When our dreadful
civil war was raging and the two thun-
der clouds Of northern and southern
vaIor 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 I suppose many Of you did,
looking of through magnifying glass
upon a feet Of Russian ships What
are they doing there?7 asked, and SO
everyone asked: What business have
the Russian warships IN our New
York harbor?- Not until the war
was over was it found out that
IN case of foreign intervention all the
guns and the last Of these two fleets in
New York and san Francisco harbors
were 10 open in full diapason upon any
foreign ship that should dare to inter
fere with the right OF Americans, north
and south, 70 settle their own contro-
ve-sy. But for those fleets and their
presence IN American waters, there can