The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-04
IN BEHALF OF ARMENIANS
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 States should have nothing to do with the affairs or government of mankind ! east of the Atlantic. A nation of sev- enty millions of people cannot afford to sit idly by when such crimes are being perpeUated But the feeling or the sentiment of isolation or as it is called non-interVenuon in matters transpirlng outside our own boundaries or at least our own continent, is ex- ceedlngly strong. The worship of the fetish of George Washington's proposed Injunction to avoid all entangling alll- ances goes OH yet and as q result we are in no condition to enforce our views anywhere. Practically think the only possible outcome in congress will be the passage of the resolution emphat- ically expressing the opinion of the peo- pie of the United States.
 Very truly yours,
 c. II. PLATT,
 Extracts were also read from letters received from Congressman N. D. Sper- ", MT Sperry Is heartily in sympathy with the move to aid Armenia, and stated in one of his letters that he had presented to the committee on foreign relations the suggestion contained in Dr. Smyths last Sundays sermon to the effect that England and the United States should unite in securing a ces- sation of the Armenian atrocities. Dr. Smyth after reading the letters spoke as follows:
 DR. SMYTH'S REMARKS. Now that the Venezulea war is prob- anly over, and the moral sentiment, as well as the financial conservatism. of two imperial nations may be trusted to find needed diplomatic means for peace with honor the attention of the people of this country should be fas- ! tened upon the far more momentous international issue which is being de- termined for all Christian powers by the crisis in Armenia The difficulties With which English statesmanship is confronted before thls awful problem Of humanity, I shall not venture to discuss. l recognize, however with joy the fact that the conscience of Eng land Is awakening, and rising flood or indignation promises to sweep before It the policy of inaetion which suffers the colossal crime of the century to go on unrebuked by the thunder of Eng fish guns. The death cry of Armenia demands of the civilized nations two answers which may seem discordant, but which now may together be needed to proclaim the gospel of the Almighty's love for Armena,-the two answers cannon and charity.
 So far as the relations of our own government to this crisis In Turkey are concerned, it Is enough for us to see the clear steps of national duty right before us, and to take those whatever further consequences may open beyond them. The department of state Is de- termined to protect the property and lives of American citizens in Turkey at any cost But the course of events IS laying a compulslon of providence upon this nation to answer the greater question of It's mission: Who is my naighbor? The higher statesmanship for this coutry is contained in the parable Of the good Samaritan The problems of humanity in this cosmo- politan age may compel us as a na- tion to learn q larger wisdom than the policy of Isolation in which the repub- lie was cradled Our own poet of pa- triotism, Lowell, has taught us that New occasions teach new duties" No man who gets near enough to the peo- pie to interpret the half conscious thought of the popular heart, and to gain some prescience concerning the ir- resistible movement of the life of the nation, can remain blind to the fact that. since the civil war, there has been an increasing and powerful conviction
 in this country that We have a national mission and destiny as 6 mighty moral power in getting justice done and the liberty of law secured in the world I might give significant facts to justify this assertion. If this is the tendency; if this is the pFovidential calling of this nation. then our individual opinions, or the complacent wisdom of our schools, can no more stop ur stray this move- ment of our national consciousness, than the voices of the owls in the woods, or the leaping of the fish in their shin ing littleness from the surface of the stream, can silence the mighty voice of the river on it's predestined way to the sea.
 But if our national missior lies in the future in thiJ direction it can be accomplished only in holy alliance with England, and the moral power of Eng land, and we shall never consent to have our stfngth wasted in any petty disputes with that great policeman of the world. The higher law in our statesmanship is forcing upon us now, in view of the massacres among the Armenians, the question who is our na- tion's neighbors. If we can see in the way oc our commerce or our missions the people who have fallen among thieves: if we cam in any way reach with our aid the suffering land, which the great powers, like the priests and the Levites, have passed by on the other side, that land Is our nations ne ghbor-that awful de olation requires eur mercy.
 I speak thus of the larger and incal- culable issues, which aIe involved in the Armenian crisis, because when we begin to realize these, We shall be the more ready to support the Red Cross