Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-30

such a move to upset the balance OF
European power or to absorb new ter
ritory, and a Christian nation like the
American which does not try to turn
the sword into the plowshare and the
spear into the pruning hook deserves
to lose it's influence, to fall from its
proud position as great and free ma
ton and to perish from the earth.
Recognizing the fact that many peO-
pie are looking forward to the time
when war shall forever be abolished,
an imaginative writer once described
how that blessed condition was to be
accomplished. He declared that the
time would come when all Europe
would be convulsed by a great inter
national struggle. He pictured that
event in the dim future. He arrayed
every European nation upon one or the
other side of the combat. But the
night before the great battle was to
open an angel in human shape would
be seen going through the camps Of
the two armies. This visitor would
stop long enough to pin upon every
soldiers breast a sign. And when the
two vast armies should next day pre-
pare for battle and the command
should be given to the troops to fire
not a rife would flash, not a sword
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 may
be accepted as truthful one except in
two or three facts. He describes that
day as in the dim future. 1 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 a man. I believe that peace
maker will not be man, but a 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 the Weak.
Americas future worldwide mission
will also be found in her emphatic pro-
test that might is not always right.
Until the supreme court of information
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 I naturally mean the
United States government-has grown
to be so strong that by the power OF
its great navy and it's 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 beine
downtrodden and unjustly used by the
greater governmental powers. The
American nation can do for the help
less and weaker nations what it die
for suffering and helpless Cuba. Whe1
the Spanish governor general Of Cuba
General Weyler, began to murder anC
to imprison and to exterminate ant
to rob the Cubans, he did not for one
instant suppose that in order to pro
tect and save neighbOring people tn,
congress of the United States would
declare war against Spain and at ont
sitting vote $50,O00,OO0 to the presiden
of the United States to carry on tina
war. But the United States govern
ment did throw it's protecting arm
about that suffering people. Thu
United States government did offe
that protection in an unselfish manner
AS soon as the Cuban islands were res
cued from Spanish tyranny the Unite,
States raised Cuba to the dignity of
sister republic. When the Unite,
States government declared wa
against Spain, the Spanish govern
ment did not for one instant suppos
that the Philippine Islands would b
snatched from Spanish control, blu
they were. No sooner did the guns o
, Admiral Dewey echo round the worl
, than the people of America realize
that there were other islands sufferin
, from the tyranny of Spain as we'll a
, the Cuban islands. So the stars an
stripes were hoisted over the Philip
, pine Islands as we'll as in Havana hal
Dor. And when those stars and stripe
, were raised in the east as vel! as i
, the west the United States governmen
, declared that its protecting arm shoul
: care for the dOwntrodden races of til
Pacific as we'll as those of the Altar
tic. And so one of the mightiest an
: the purest and the hottest motives {
o Americas future mission will be
r care for helpless and unjustIy treate
nations wherever they NAV ha fOun