Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-07-05

not riue would tlaSn, not 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. | 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. | believe that peace
maker will not be a 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 internation-
al arbitration shall be established there
will be many International injustices.
From time immemOrial the strong ma
tions 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 | speak about the
American nation | 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 a Christian spirit take up the causes
Of the weaker and the more helpless
nations when those nations are being
dOwntroddcn and unjIstly used by the
greater governmental powers. The
American nation can Go for She help.
less and weaker nations Whai it did
for suffering AMI helpless Cuba. When
the Spanish governor general Of Cuba.
General Weyler. began to murder AMI
to impriSou and to cX,erniua.e ana
to rob the Cubans, lie dill net for one
instant suppose THAI in order to pro
tect and save nei@hboring people the
congress Of the United States would
declare war against Spain and AZ one
sitting vote $j0.CO0,0OO 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 unselhsh 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 were other islands suffering
from the tyranny Of Spain as well as
the Cuban islands. So the stars and
stripes were hosted over the Philip
pine Islands as we'll 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 we'll as those of the Allan
tic. And so one of the mightiest and
the purest and the holiest motives Of
Americas future mission will be to
care for helpless and unjustly treated
nations wherever they may be found
until a supreme court of international
arbitration can he established. Then
those weaker and downtrodden ma
hons 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
tions because God always blesses the
individual as well as the mighty ma
ton that is true to those who are
weak. DO you knew why the colony
Of Pennsylvania never had any diff
culties 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
10 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; 81 do
not want Il regiment Of English sol
diers. 1 shall have no trouble with tne
Indians because | 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
S1G,OOO?" Il paid you the $4,000"
replied the brave Quaker, Ito purchase
your good will, not the land. That
land, your majesty, does not belong to
you any more than it does to me. The
land of Pennsylvania does not belong
to you any more than the city of Lon
don would belong to party of Amer
lean Indians who in a canoe might be
blown across the Atlantic and land
upon our shores and who then might
go up the Strand waving their toma-
hawks and shouting, The city of Lon
don is ours because we discovered it! "
So William Penn, believing that all