The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-30


 ice, to be discussed oyer the diplomatic table at our later convenience, while OUT congress pledges at once the heart and the hand of this people to England in any decisive action on her part to put e stop to the colossal anarchy of his tory,
 Let the voice of England's laureate poet, as from the dead among WEom live her heroes of the past urge heg once more to
 Wake to the higher aims
 Of lapd that has lost little her lust
 of gold,
 And love of peace that was full of
 wrongs and shames,
 Horrible, hateful, monstrous, not to
 be told,
 And hail once more to the banner of
 battle unrolled"
 But for humanity's sake let not Amer ica wait to find her voice, when one strong word of brotherhood and trust might speed England on to nobler cour- age in her appointed task. Our con gress could proclaim no holier truce be- tween two counties now VeNed for too trifing cause; it could do nothing to render arbitration hereafter more ire sistibly the will of two imperial peo- ples; it could In no way more worthily represent the daepest feeling of this country toward the land from whence we came, or arouse responses more eX- ultant throughout the whole English 1 speaking race than by passing reso- lution that We will stand by England, if need be, against the world, whenever England shall arise in her strength, and extend the arm of her power over Ar menia, and issue the ult,matum Of h r law and her order in behalf of two mil lions and a half of Christian people whom the awful Turk is eXterminating from the earth. And should the Prov idence of God so ordain that these two Christian nations, which are rivals in | the arts of peace, shall once stand to- gether in the holy alliance for human- | ity's sake American gunbOats ecEoing roar of British battleships in prOclama- tion of the Almighty gospel of peace and good will to oppressed and stricE- en peoples, while the whol2 heaped up iniquity of Turkish misrule falls shat l tered to the earth, and Gods just wrath shall be wrecked on a giant liar; then never again need fear slize upon us lest a little handbreadth of dispute upon our far southern horizon shall grow in- to dark cloud of war threatening to overwhelm two peoples; for they shall then be made ona not alone by common blood and common speech. but also by common sacrifice and common battle for law and liberty throughout the world
 Let our congress then be urged in pull pit and by the press, and through the voice proceed ding from the Christian heart of our people, to address their at tention to this one commanding issue in the affairs of the nations, and high 1y to resolve, in fitting terms but with unmistakalole meaning, that the Amer 1 ican people wifi pledge their heart and their honor to England in any decisive action she may take to put instant stop to the awful tragedy of the century. PROTECT ARMENIAN CITIZENS IN
 TURKEY.
 Apart from such cooperation witt | England does our government have any separate or further ObligatiOn in Tur key" What then shall be said of this issue? The reply that first suggests itself is easy Our traditional policy of non-interfereH2e with foreign nations 1 has kert down to a minimum our pow. CT to protect even our own citizens ir their trade in foreign lands. In maya l nd ni 1 the weakest of the nations Ol the earth We are still Violat. | ing one of the first principles of Christian morality, inasmucf as we put the defenseless prosperity of our seabOard cities as a temptation | before all the rest of the world The Eng ,ish admiralty maps, l am told have for a long time had upon them two l red marks in this vicinity-one mark indicating the place If our harbOl where a battlcship might lie, and the other mark showing the bearings oi the Winchester arms factory as the target. We have not even a torpedo boat in any harbor or creek of ouI Connecticut coast. This mere state ment of fact I deam enough u dispose of all war blu*ter on our part.
 This fact however, for our immediate military ard naval weakness has less relevancy in the discucsion of our re- lations with Turkey; for even our pres ent naval equipment might enable us to cope at least with the Sick Man of Europe. l will not discuss, there fore, the matter on the basis of power but only as a question if right policy. Should our traditional policy of nOn- interference ever be cast aside? A con- ceivable case might be put in which, think, eVeni our most conservative pub- lic.Gt6 would be compelled to justify a sympathetic interference as the only right policy for this country. Should England, for example, ever be so hard pressed by Russia, and so overwhelmed by ri5.rg flood of anarchic forces throughout her own empire, that. de- serted by other lf-aggrandizing pow CTS of Europe, her civilization might seem in peril of perishing without our ad then in behalf of our own higher aims as= a nation, in behalf of the law and order of God in mOderm history it might become our supreme national duty to cast aside our traditional sign of nOn-interference and to raise in it's stead our stars beside Englands flag