Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-07-04

al arbitration shall be established there
will be many International injustices.
From time immemorial the strong ma
tons have been trampling upon and
brOwbeating the weak nations. Here
tOfore the American nation has been
unable to do much more than look aft
er its own personal interests. But now
that time is past. The American ma
tion-and when l speak about the
American nation l naturally mean the
United States government-has grown
TO be so strong that by the power of
its great navy and its great multitude
of inhabitants it can successfully and
in Christian spirit take up the causes
of the weaker and the more helpless
nations when those nations are being
downtrodden and unjustly used by the
greater governmental powers. The
American nation can do for the help
less and weaker nations what it did
for suffering and helpless Cuba. When
the Spanish governor general of Cuba.
General Weyler, began to murder and
TO imprisOn and to exterminate and
to rob the Cubans, he did not for one
| instant suppose that in order to pro.
tect and save neighbOring people the
congress OF the United States would
declare war against Spain and at one
sitting vote $50.OO0,OOO to the president
Of the United States to carry on that
war. But the United States govern
ment did throw its protecting arm
about that suffering people. The
United States government did offer
that protection in an unselfsh manner
| As soon as the Cuban islands were res
cued from Spanish tyranny the United
States raised Cuba TO the dignity of
sister republic When the United
States government declared war
against Spain, the Spanish govern
ment did not for one instant suppose
that the Philippine Islands would be
snatched from Spanish control. but
| they were. No sooner did the guns of
| Admiral Dewey echo round the world
than the people of America realized
that there We're other Islands suffering
from the tyranny of Spain as well as
I the Cuban islands. So the stars and
stripes were hoisted over the Philip
pine Islands MS well as i'm Havana har
Dor. And when those stars and stripes
were raised in the east as well as in
the west the United States government
| declared that It's protecting arm should
care for the dOwntrOdden races Of the
Pacific as well as those Of the Allan
tic. And so one of the mightiest and
the purest and the hottest motives of
/ Americas future mission will be to
care for helpless and unjustiy treated
nations wherever they may be found
until supreme court of international
arbitration can be established. Then
those weaker and downtrodden ma.
tons shall be able to care for them
selves.
The Lesson Taught by Penn.
And would especially plead for the
American nation to start forth and
succOr the helpless and weaker ma
tons because God always blesses the
individual as well as the mighty ma
ton that is true to those who are
weak. Do you know why the colony
bf Pennsylvania never had any diff.
tuties with the American Indians?
When Massachusetts and Virginia
were being decimated by Indian wars.
Pennsylvania colonies were living in
peace ana happiness with the redskins
because William Penn was always
true and honorable with the original
settlers of the American soil. When
the great Christian Quaker was about
TO sail for America King Charles Of
England asked William Penn il he
should not send over a regiment Of sol
diers to protect the young colony.
NO" answered William Penn: ~ do
not wan. a regiment of English SOL
diers. shall have no trouble with the
Indians because 1 intend to buy the
land from them" BUY the land from
the Indians! exclaimed King Charles.
What do you mean? Why, l have
decided you that tract of land. 1t is
mine, and l gave it to you. For what
then, William Penn, did you pay me
Sl6OO0?" Il paid you the $4,000, u
replied the brave Quaker, ito purchase
your good will, not the land. Thai
land, your majesty, does not belong t
you any more than it does to me. The
land of Pennsylvania does not belons
to you any more than the city Of Lon
don would belong to a party of Amer
lean Indians who in a canoe might bC
blown across the Atlantic and lane
upon our shores and who then NIGH
go up the Strand waving their toma
hawks and shouting The city of Lon
don is ours because we discovered itp ,
So William Penn, believing that al
weak and helpless people should b,
justly protected, crossed the Atlantic
and made his famous agreement witt
the Indian chiefs under the "Charte
oak" And as a result of that agree
ment the Pennsylvania colonies live,
in peace and happiness because the,
were true to the helpless. So God vii
prosper Americas future if the Amer
leah nation is true and faithful in it
protection and care of the weaker an,
! helpless nations.
But perhaps the greatest mission o
America next to scattering the gospe
of Jesus Christ is to prove that it
| people can be true to God in its dav
of prosperity as well as in its days o
adversely. When a people are poor
weak and helpless, when a trouble,
: and bleeding and suffering people ar
struggling for liberty and for thei
{ very existence, when a collection O
( eX-slaves are following their leade
g through the weary journey of fort
: year tramp through the wilderness.
y is not so difficult for them to pray an
p" to worship God, but it is difficult for
& people to be true to God unless whe
{ riches come and prosperity comes an
unlimited influence comes they hay
u an especial grace given to them. 1t j
u difficult to be true to God when tn
u mighty forTesses have been builde
y at the mouth of every harbor to kee
le out the foreign foe and when the RI
tie of the factory and the whistle c
u the steam engine and the blow Of til
e hammer and the rasp of the saw al
u Ell playing an accompaniment TO til
u tune of national financial success.
u Reconsecr:ite the Nation.
'e As the American nation is a govern
e ment for the people and by the peOpl
y would have every one of us TIN
y Fourth of July season reconsecrate OF
Il nation TO God by reconsecrating OF
&c own personal lives to his divine SER
u ice. When the ambassador from &c
81 many appears at the White House an
le presents his official documents. he doe
u not come as the representative of IL
Z German nation, but as the persons