Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-07-03

would be unsheathed, not a cannon
would speak, because the sign pinned
upon every soldiers heart would be
the sign of the cross. The picture
drawn by that imaginative writer NAV
be accepted as truthful one except in
two or three facts. He describes that
day as In the dim future. l believe
the day is now almost at hand. Again,
that writer describes the peacemaker
who will attach the emblem of the
cross to the breast of the common SOL
diers as man. l believe that peace
maker will not be man, but ma
ton. and that peacemaking nation the
American nation. America shall pin a
sign Of universal peace upon every
European nation by the means Of a
supreme court Of international arbi-
tration. This sign shall decree that
war, bloody, fiendish, demoniacal war
shall be no longer; that war shall for
ever be as dead as the multitudes of
dead soldiers whose bodies are now
decomposing in the grave trenches all
round the world.
Defenders of tho Wcnk.
Americas future worldwide mission
will also be found in her emphatic pro-
test that might is not always right.
Until the supreme court of internation-
al arbitration shall be established there
will be many International iniusticcs.
From time immemorial the strong ma
tons have been trampling upon and
browbeating the weak nations. Here
toforc the American nation has been
unable to do much more than look aft
or its own personal interests. But now
that time is past. The American ma
tion-and when l speak about the
American nation I naturally mean the
United states government-ha grown
to be so strong that by the power of
its great navy and its great multitude
OF inhabitants 1t 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 100000 900 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 unselfish manner.
AS soon as the Cuban islands We're res
cued from Spanish tyranny the United
States raised Cuba to the dignity Of a
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 were other islands suffering
from the tyranny Of Spain as we'll as
the Cuban islands. So the stars and
stripes were hoisted over the Philip
pine Islands as well as in 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 its protecting arm should
care for the downtrodden races of the
Pacific as well as those of the Allan
tic. And so one of the mighticst and
the purest and the hottest motives of
Americas future mission will be to
care for helpless and unjustly 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 I 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
of Pennsylvania never had any diff
cuties with the American Indians
When Massachusetts and Virginia
were being decimated by Indian wars
Pennsylvania colonies were living in
peace and 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 If he
should not send over a regiment of sol
diers to protect the young colony
NO" answered William Penn; ~ dc
not want a regiment of English sol
diers shall have no trouble with the
Indians because l intend to buy the
land from them" Buy the land from
the Indians exclain ii King Charles
"What do you mean? Why, l have
decided you that tract of land. 1t is
mine, and 1 gave 1t to you. For what
then, william Penn, did you pay me
S16,oo0?" II paid you the $4,000
replied the brave Quaker ito purchase