Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-10-27

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after q chicken, he nearly always got
It. daughter and applause) Der
llieve the Republican party has prayed
the Lord to send it after a chicken
(laughter), and it is trying now to
cover up greed and avarice with the
hypocrisy that 1t is being done for the
welfare of the people of the Philippine
islands.
Christ Before PLATE.
read sermon not long ago that
impressed me much. would that
every Christian might read that SER
mon. The minister, who was Mr.
Brown of Rochester, N. ", took thDS
text, or passage which describes thet
scene where Christ was before PAfsts.
PLATE said to Christ: "Knowest thou
not that have power to release thee
or to put thee to DEATH" and taking
that text the minister contrasted force
and love. PLATE represented force.
Behind him was the Roman govern
ment, the Roman legions and Caesar
himself. Before him, helplessA nand
alone, stood Christ preaching the gos-
pei of love, and force triumphed.
They nailed Him to tree, and those
who believed in brute force stood
around, Knocked and jeered, and said:
"He is dead" and then the minister
pointed out how from that day the pow
er of Caesar waned and the power OF
Christ increased, and in few centuries
the Roman government was gone and
Its legions forgotten. whilethe followers
of Christ increased with each passing
year, until millions now take His name
with reverence upon their lips, and
then the minister said that In this ma
ton force and love meet face to face,
and that we are to decide whether this
nation would stand before the world
as PLATE. representing brute force,
or as Christ, representing the uplift-
ing power of love.
believe he spoke the truth I be-
Iieve that this nation today must de-
eide whether 1t is going to be great
moral force, rising and drawing all
men unto it, or whether it is going
to sink to the low level of the empires
of the Old World.
Let me give you an illustration Of It.
While the nation held aloft this doc
trine of self-government and the prin-
ciples of republic, it dared to express
it's sympathy with struggling mankind
everywhere. When Greece was strug-
Cling for her liberty, Daniel Webster
Numbered out the sympathy ot& the
American people; and when the Gu
bans were fighting to be free, congress
heard their cries and promised succor
and relief; but today, in PARKWAY
Africa, in the Dutch republic, the
Beers are offering up their LIES blood
in defense of their right to govern
themselves, and this great nation
stands with its hands tied and tia
mouth gagged, and dare not offer one
word of sympathy. (Applause.) ~
Dare Not Sympathize With BoersA
What spectacle, the greatest repub-
lie in all times afraid to say a word,
and why? Because, If we expressedl
our sympathy with the Beers, England
would cable back, What is the matter
with the Filipinos?" daughter and
applause.)
believe in Jefferson's doctrine Of
friendly relations with all nations and
entangling alliances with none. I am
as much an Anglo-Saxon as the aver
age man. l am part Irish, part Eng
glish and part Scotch, but I am all
American. / appreciate the friendship
of Great Britain. / want this nation
to have the friendship of every nation.
But am not willing that this nation
shall purchase the friendship of any
nation by being silent when people
are struggling for the right to govern
themselves. (Applause.) would
rather have the love of those few Beers
fighting for the right to govern them
selves than to have the smiles of
an English aristocracy trying to crush
out liberty. Cloud applause.)
Here are the questions that are press
ing upon the American people. Here
are the issues upon whose settlement
depends this nations position through
out the world. We have been repub-
lie Our light has been shed abroad,
and 1t has reached into the dark cor
ners of the earth. Shall this light go
out? Shall we abandon the founda-
ton of the republic and build upon the
shifting sands upon which monarchy
and empire rest? And now when the
Democratic party is engaged in death
graDple with the powers of darkness
we are asked to stop in the midst of
the fight to settle the details of state
convention. cloud applause.) be-
lieve in the principles for which Dem
ocracy stands. believe they are the
hope not only of the American peeg&le,