Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-16
Doctrine OF Helpfulness.

1t has been said that If we go over there
to interfere on another continent that
will imply tho right for other nations to
Interfere with affairs on this continent,
and go the Monroe doctrine be jeopardized.
No. no! President Cleveland expressed
the sentiment of every intelligent and pa-
triotic American when he thundered from
the White House warning to all nations
that there Is not one acre or one inch more
of ground on this continent for any trans
atlantic government to occupy. And by
that doctrine we stand now and shall for
ever stand.
But there Is doctrine MS much higher
than the Monroe doctrine as tho heavens
arc higher than the earth, and that is the
doctrine Of humanitaranism and sympa-
thy and Christian holpfulness which one
cold December midnight, with loud and
multltudinous chant, awakened the shop
herds. Wherever there Is wound it is our
duty, whether as individuals or as nations,
to bals~m it. Wherever there is knife Of
assassination lifted it is our duty to ward
off the blade. Wherever men are persecut-
cd for their religion 1t is our duty to break
that arm of power, whether 1t be thrust
forth from Protestant church or Cath
Ollie cathedral or Jewish synagogue or q
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right on n small scale. If, going down tho
road, we find a ruffian maltreating child,
or a human brute insulting woman, we
take hand in tho contest il we are not
towards, and though we be slight in per-
sonal presence because of our Indignation
we come to weigh about go tons, and the
harder we punish the villain the louder
our conscience applauds us. In such case
J N
arguing that If we interfere with the BRUTE
the brute might think he would have n
right to interfere with us and SO leopard
ize the Monroe doctrine.
The Ark of Sympathy.
The fact is that that persecution Of tho
! Armonians by the Turks must be stopped,
or God Almighty will curse all Christen-
dom for its damnable Indifference and
apathy. But the trumpet of resurrection
is about to sound for Armenia. Did say
In opening that on one OF the peaks Of Ar
menia, this very Armenia of which we
speak, in Noah's time tho ark landed, &c
cording to the myth, as some think, but
according to Gods say so," as know,
and that 1t was after long storm OF 40
days and 40 nights, called tho deluge, and
that afterward dove went forth from that
beak? Even so now there is another ark
being launched, but this one goes sailing,
not over deluge of water, but dcluge OF
blood-tho ark of American sympathy
and that ark, landing on Ararat, from Its
window shall fly the dove of kindness and
peace, to find the olive leaf Of returning
prosperity, while I'LL the mountains OF
Moslem prejudice, oppression and cruelty
shall stand Is cubits under. Meanwhile
we would like to gather ull the dying
groans of all the 500, 900 victims of Mo-
hammedan oppression and intono them
into one prayer that would move the earth
and tho heavens, hundreds OF millions OF
Christians voices, American and Euro
pean, crying out: 20 God Most High
Spare thy children. With mandate from
the throne hurl back upon their launches
the horses of the Kurdish cavalry. Stop
tho rivers of blood. With the earthquakes
of thy wrath shake tho foundations Of the
palaces OF the sultan. Move all the nations
of Europe to command cessation Of cruelty.
If need bo let the warships of civilized
nations boom their indignation. Let the
crescent go down before the GROSS, and the
Mighty One who hath ON his vesture and
on his thigh name written King of Kings
and Lord of Lords, 20 forth, conquering
and to Ionquor. Thine, o Lord Is the
kingdom Halleluiah Amenl"