Connecticut western news., 1896-01-16

city to serve our government in the pat ent office, but afterward went forth from the doors of that patent office with divine patent signed and sealed by God himself to heal all the wounds she could touch and make the horrors of the flood and fire and plague and hospital fly her presence. God bless Clara Bar toni Just as I expected, she lifts the banner of the Red Cross. Turkey and all nations are pledged to respect and defend that Red Cross, although that color of cross does not, in the opinion of many, stand for Christianity. In my opinion it does stand for Christianity, for was not the cross under which most of us worship red with the blood of the Son of God, red with the best blood that was ever shed, red with the blood pour ed ont for the ransom of the world? Then lead on, oh. Red Cross. and let Clara Barton carry it The Turkish gov ernment is bound to protect her, and the cbariots of God are 90, ,000 and their charioteers are angels of deliverance, and they would all ride down at once to roll over and trample under the hoofs of their white horses any of her assailants May the $500, 900 she EVeks be laid at her feeti Then may the ships that carry I her across Atlantic and Mediterranean , seas be guided safely by him who trod into sapphire pavement bestormed Cali lee. Upon soil incarnadined with martyr dom let the Red Cross be planted until every demolished village shall be re- builded and every pang of hunger be fed and every wound of cruelty be healed and Armenia stand with as much hber- ty to serve God in it's own way as in this the best land of all the earth, we, the i descendants of the Puritans and Hol- flanders and Huguenots, are free to wor- ship the Christ who came to set all na- tions free.
 The Cry of Duty.
 It has been said that if we go over there to interfere on another continent that will imply the right for other na- | tions to interfere with affairs on this continent, and so the Monroe doctrine be jeopardized. No, mol President | Cleveland expressed the sentiment of every intelligent and patriotic Ameri- can when he thundered from the White | House a warning to all nations that there is not one acre or one inch more of ground on this continent for any 1 transatlantic government to occupy. And by that doctrine we stand now and shall forever stand. But there is doc urine as much higher than the Monroe doctrine as the heavens are higher than the earth, ard that is the doctrine of humanitarianism and sympathy and Christian helpfulnesa which one cold December midnight, with loud and multitudinous chant, awakened the i shepherds. Wherever there is wound it Is our duty, whether as individuals or as nations, to balsam it. Wherever there is knife of assassination lifted it is our duty to ward off the blade. Wher- ever men are persecuted for their reli- zion it is our duty to break that arm of power, whether it be thrust forth from Protestant church, or Catholic ca thedral, or Jewish synagogue, or a mosque of Islam. We all recognize the right on small scale. If, going down the road, we find a ruffian maltreating a child, or a human brute insulting a woman, we take hand in the contest if we are not towards, and though we be slight in personal presence, because of our indignation we come to weigh about 20 tons, and the harder we punish the villain the louder our conscience ap- plauds us. In such case we do not keep our hands in our pockets. arguing that if we interfere with the brute the brute might think he would have a right to interfere with us, and so jeopardize the Monroe doctrine. The fact is that that persecution of the Armenians by the Turks must be stopped, or God AL mighty will curse all Christendom for It's damnable indifference and apathy. But the trumpet of resurrection is about to sound for Armenia
 American Sympathy.
 Did say in opening that on one of she peaks of Armenia, this very Arme- ilia of which we speak, in Noah's time the ark landed, according to the myth, as some think, but according to Gods "say so, as know, and that it was aft CT long storm of 40 days and 40 nights, called the deluge, and that afterward 8 dove went forth from that ark and re- turned with an olive leaf in her beaki Even so now there is another ark being launched, but this one goes sailing not over deluge of water, but deluge oi blood-the ark of American sympathy and that ark, landing on Ararat, from its window shall fly the dove of kind ness and peace to find the olive leaf ot returning prosperity, while all the mountains of Moslem prejudice, oppres sion and cruelty shall stand 15 cubit! under. Meanwhile we would like tc gather all the dying groans of all thu 500, 900 victims of Mohammedan op pression and intone them into one pray or that would move the earth and tn, heavens, hundreds of millions of Chris tians' voices, American and European crying out: 70 God Most High, spar, thy childrenl With mandate from th
 throne hurl back upon their haunche the horses of the Kurdish cavalry. Stol the rivers of blood. With the earth quakes of thy wrath shake the founda tions of the palaces of the sultan. Nov all the nations of Europe to comman, cessation of cruelty. If need be, let tn warships of civilized nations boom thei indignation. Let the crescent go dow
 before the cross, and the Mighty One who hath on his vesture and on hi thigh name written King of King
 and Lord of Lords, go forth, conquer ing and to conquer. Thine, O Lord, i the kingdom Halleluiah Ameni"
 Trilby.
 r 1T see there Is to be an apartment hous : on the South Side called the TriIby,