The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-25
JUSTIFIARLE WAR.

( Ian Maclaren, whose lnlmlJaDle pei
sketches of Scotch life and character
have delighted and won for him Sc
much admiration among English speak
ing people in all parts of the world
has this to say about war:
There are wars that are not only pos
sible, but, will say, when every other
means has failed, are justifable, and
viii tell you what kind of a war that
would be. 1t would not be with any
European power, but it would be with
the power. or any power, or any part
of a power, which is slaughtering
Gods people and which is making a
Christian country into a shambles. If
we are Gods people in England, then
surely to England ought the oppressed
people to look. and above all the Chris
tan oppressed; and surely our blood is
boiling within US when We think of
what has been done. not only to men
but to women and children, by the
barity of the Turks in Armenia.
Upon the reasonable assumption that
all people are Gods people," the
Scotch writer and pastor, without
straining the facts of history or dis
torting cOtemporaneous events, could
have found numerous instances besides
Armenia in exceptional justification of
war, and in many of which the great
Christian nation England, instead OF
coming TO the rescue of Goods people, !"
has always been oppressor or alder
and abettOr of oppression, but never
on the side OF the oppressed. Ireland
has been struggling, and praying to
the God of the people for her freedom
from British oppression, for centuries,
but up to date there has been neither
Divine interposition nor enough Chris
tan spirit in the English nation to
loosen her iron grip on the throats of
Gods Irish people. The American col
onists had little experience with this
same God-fearing Christian nation,
and finding appeals TO her sense of
justice fruitleSs, settled the dispute by
giving her sound drubbing, and Gods
people on this side the Atlantic have
never since had any confidence in that
great Christian octopus. Gods people
in India too, long ago had a taste OF
Christian English pharmacOepia of JUS
tee, and has been suffering from in
digestion and heart trouble ever since.
Just now the English nation is waging
an unholy war on some of Gods people
in the Soudan, while smacking her
leonine lips in anticipation of hearty
dinner some day off those honestly
pious Of Gods people the Beers Of the
TransvaaL The atrocities of the Span
ish government in Cuba are none the
less horrible than those attributed TO
the Turkish government in Armenia.
but not only is the British government
Indifferent but there is marked alb
sence of anything like healthy senti-
ment on the subject among the people
of England.
The fact is the overburdened and
oppressed of Gods people nowhere on
this earth are looking for England 10
help them, they are too well acquaint-
ed with her methods and practices in
such Elusive hope THE English gov
eminent is influenced neither by
Christian or any other standard Of
morals, in her dealings with or designs
upon other nations or peoples. in all
things she moves and acts under the
sole guidance OF the demon of con-
quest and plumber. To appeal TO Eng
land for suocor in distress. is ike ap-
pealing 10 the man-eating tiger Of the
jungle TO forego his meal upon his VIC
TIM In either case bullets is the only
remedy