The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-02-15
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EDITOR TINES.
As Illustrative of our American habit
of posing as the greatest sympathiser
on earth with suffering humanity, re-
cent utterances on Turkish barbarities,
in Armenia, are in point. One would
imagine from perusal of the public
prints that such thing as cold -blooded
cruelty 10 the unfortunate was some
thing quite unknown in these United
States Meetings are being held every
where, at which the unspeakable Turk
is denounced, as no doubt he should be,
for permitting SOME of his unruly sub
iects to murder and maltreat these
Christian Armenians. Belonging. like
US, to the church of Christ, no wonder
our sympathetic nature, as Christian
nation. is stirred as we read of their
horrible sufferings. And vet, while we
are III this sympathetic mood, and our
tears are flowing, it would seem as if, az
a Christian performance, this little scene
that took place in New York harbor on
Jan. 9th 1896 might set us thinking.
W. t5Cd ptb NlItiIIlS vi al ilGilldIl
massacre arrived in New York Jan. GOTH
The wife and three children Of one has
been murdered and most of the re,a-
tives of the other enc also. Fleeing to
America, that asy lum of the oppressed,
they are met, at the landing, by the
law officers OF this Christian land, who
examine them as TO their financial con-
dItion, and finding them without
means, they, the poor victims of Turk
ish barbarity, are refused the privilege
of landing upon this hospitable shore.
unto which they had fled for protec-
ton. The officers informed them that
as we understand Christs teachings
here, so our law has been framed, and
deportation they must submit to mas
much as they were destitute.
Both declared that return for them
meant starvation and death 1t seem
ed to be a sad case, in which the law of
great Christian nation was somewhat
out of whack with the ELUSIVE talk of
that nation about it's sympathy with the
suffering.
So, for the present, the two unfortu-
mates were taken to Ellis island, where
the city sends criminals, paupers and
insane, and there surrounded by all the
horrors of the situation, they will abide
until somebody with means and a be-
nevolent heart comes to the rescue.
Failing in this, the law is memorable
and they must be returned to starva-
ton and death. This is doubtless the
practice which Senator Thurston
called in the Senate the other day
a practice biased upon the teachings of
the lowly Nazarene on the shores of
Galilee ..
Hepburn of Iowa thinks sending
home the Turkish minister at Washing
ton would be the right thing to do to
show the Turks how mad we can get
when we try. He did not in his speech
show very conClusively how it was GO
ing to help the Armenians this giving
his walking papers to the Minister.
Now that the nation is about to issue
a new edition of the Monroe doctrine,
why does not some Congressman like
Hepburn suggest that it be so broaden
ed as to cover all such cases as this?
Let it he so amended that all Europe
will understand that their Ministers to
this country Nill be sent home if they
do anything to displease us and the or
iginator of such an amendment will be
the next President.
OF course no fighting will be necessary
in any case, for Just as soon as any Eu-
ropean state sees plainly that we mean
business, and won't remain on speak |
ing terms any longer with their minis
tiers, they will reform abuses double
quick. They-those foreign powers
are SO very fond of society they could
meyer endure the being thus deprived
Of ours, especially during the long SEES
sion of Congress. Hepburn is right. He
is a Columbus in the matter Of diScov-
ering panaceas for national troubles.
4A5k
As the time draws near for the as
sembling of the Conventions to nOmin-
ate Presidential candidates, the literary
bureaus Of the various candidates begin
TO get in their work. Every Sunday
paper from this on will doubtless con-
tain from one to ten columns of de-
scriptiye laudation, showing the Iowa
BILE nature of these aspirants for the
presidential chair. Before me lies, as |
write this paragraph, a three column
article, copyrighted by Bachelor and
Johnson, concerning one of the leading
candidates. Tom Reed.
l have been amazingly entertained
over it for it is hrim full of meat and in
formation.
The author starts out by saving, that
"Mr. Reed has been known to write
great many things which were not in
tended for publication. Goodness,
gracious This is a matter certainly
worth knowing, and should be gwen
general publicity. What did he do SO
for
Again; lie wrote an essay not long
ago choosing as his subject his house
cat, and il Is said to be a literary gem;
Can Mr.. Reed excuse himself for Long
er hiding this gem after whetting the
public appetite by such reference to ii?
Again.-"He writes with a pen and
his fingers fly very rapidly over the
paper Did you ever? No l never
This seems TO be bit of intelligence
that fills the aching void of the public
stomach