News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-01-16

| transatlantic government to occupy.
And by that doctrine we stand now and
shall forever stand. But there is a doc
trine as much higher than the Monroe
doctrine as the heavens are higher than
the earth, and that is the doctrine of
! humanitarianism and sympathy and
Christian helpfulness which one cold
December midnight, with loud and
| multitudinous chant, awakened tho
shepherds. Wherever there is a 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 prosecuted for their reli-
gion it is our duty to break that arm Of
power, whether it be thrust forth from
a Protestant church, OR a Catholic ca
thedral, Or Jewish synagogue, or a
mosque of Islam. We all recognize the
right on a small scale If, going down
the road, we find a ruffiau maltreating
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, aud the harder we punish
the villain the louder our conscience APP
plauds US. LII such case we do not keep
our hands in our pockets, arguing that
il we interfere with the brute the brute
might think be would have right to
interfere with us, and SO j2opardize the
Monroe doctrine The fact is that that
persecution Of tho Armenians by tho
Turks must be stopped, or God AL
mighty will curse all Christendom for
its damnable indifference and apathy
But the trumpet Of resurrection is about
to sound for Armenia.
American Sympathy.
Did I say III opening that on one Of
the peaks Of Armenia, this very Arme-
ria of which we speak, III Noah s time
the ark landed, according to the myth,
as some think, bat according to Gods
"say So, as l know, and that it was aft
Ell long storm Of 40 days and 40 nights,
called the deluge, and that afterward a
! dove went forth from that ark and re-
turned with an olive leaf in her beak?
Even SO now there is another ark being
launched, but this one goes sailing not
over deluge Of water, but a deluge Of
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 Of
returning prosperity, while all the
mountains of MOslem prejudice, oppres-
sion and cruelty shall stand 10 cubits
under Meanwhile we would like to
gather all the dying groans CT all the
100000 victims CT Mohammedan op-
preston and intone them into one pray
er that would move the earth and the
heavens, hundreds Of millions Of Chris
tianS' voices, American and European,
crying cut: 80 God Most High, spare
thy children With mandate from the
throne hurl back upon their launches
the horses Of the Kurdish cavalry. Stop
the rivers Of blood. With the earth
quakes Of thy wrath shake the FONDA
tions of the palaces Of the sultan. Move
all the nations Of Europe to command
cessation Of cruelty. If need be, let the
WarshipS of civilized nations boom their
Indignation. Let the crescent go down
before the cross, and the Mighty One,
who hath on his vesture ana on his
thigh namo written King CT Kings
and Lord Of Lords, go forth, conquer.
ing and to conquer. Thine, Q Lord, is
tho kingdom Halleluiah! Amen!"
If asked the question Have you got
stomach?o it would be safe on general
principles, to answer "Yes But, if
YOU are sure of il; that is, if you ever
feel any distress after eating or any
pains OF whatever DIES cription in the
region of the stomach, you have got
something m"re than an ordinary
stomach in other words, YOU have got
diseased stomach. The stOn ach is
powerful muscle, and the proper remedy
Tor tired muscle is rest Try the
Shaker Digestive Cordial, for this pro-
duct not only contains digested food,
which will nOurish the 81 stem without
any work on the TART of the diseased
organs, but it aids the digestion of other
foods as well. You can test its value
in Your case for the trihing sum OF 10
cents. Sample bottles at this price ale
carried by all druggists.
LAXOL is tie best medicine for chill
dren. Doctors recommend it in place
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