Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-01-16
Doctrine of Helpfulness.

1t has been said that if we go over there
to interfere on another continent that
will imply the right for other nations to
interfere with affairs on this continent,
and so 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 as much higher
than the Monroe doctrine as the heavens
are higher than the earth, and that Is the
doctrine of humanitarianism and sympa-
thy and Christian helpfulness which one
cold December midnight, with loud and
multitudinous chant, awakened the shep-
herds. 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. Wherever men are persecut-
cd for their religion 1t is our duty to break
that arm of power, whether 1t be thrust
| forth from a Protestant church or Cath
Ollie cathedral 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 ruffian maltreating child,
or human brute insulting woman, we
take hand in the contest II we are not
towards, and though we be slight In per-
sonal presence, because OF our Indignation
we come to weigh about 90 tons, and the
| harder we punish the villain the louder
our conscience applauds us. In such case
we do not keep our hands in our pockets,
arguing that If we interfere with the brute,
i the brute might think he would have a
right to interfere with us and SO leopard
ize the Monroe doctrine
Tho Ark of Sympathy.
il The fact is that that persecution Of the
Armenians 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 Noahs time the ark landed, &C
cording to the myth, as some think, but
J according to Gods 'say SO, as know
and that 1t was after long storm OF Al
J days and 10 nights, called the deluge, ant
that afterward dove went forth from that
! ark and returned with an olive leaf in hel
+ beak? Even so now there is another arl
being launched, but this one goes sailing
I not over a doluge of water, but deluge o
, blood--the ark of American sympathy
, and that ark, landing on Ararat, from 1t
I window shall fly the dove of kindness ant
? peace, to lind the olive leaf of returning
) prosperity, while oil the mountains
S Moslem prejudice, oppression and cruelt
D shall stand 15 cubits under. Meanwhile
: we would like to gather all the dyin
: groans Of all the 500, 900 victims of Nc
: hammedan oppression and intone then
: into one prayer that would move the cart
r and the heavens, hundreds Of millions 9
D Christians voices, American and Euro
ri pean, crying outi so God Most Hioh