The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-18
Yet, Streaked With Blood, the
World is Getting Better.

The world is called upon to listen
again to the narrowing tales of the
murder of Jews in Russia, tflis old
world that is entitled to peace; this
old world whose every square foot
of surface has been baptized with
human blood, stands again with
bowed head and listens to the
shrieks ard screams of the manned
and dying How long. o Lord, is
this thing to continue?
Is there to be no end of strife? Is
peace and love an irridescent dream.
flashed through the brain only for
the entertainment of the moments
Are men forever and a day, to tear
and rend their fellows simply be-
cause of color or creed? Better
hundred times that we have one vast
struggle, one gigantic butchery, and
turn the world over to the conquer
ing race after having annihilated ev-
cry other race, than that this thing
go On from year to year.
Can it be that, after all, civilization
is a failure? He who taught the
Golden rule knew not what he was
saying? That God made the world
and deserted it? Gloomy, you say?I
Yes, it is gloomy. But are not the
meanings of the stricken that reach
us through these ten thousand miles
of space gloomy? Are not the awful
scenes, printed upon the minds eye,
of little children's sufferings.
gloomy? Is not a funeral pyre in
which are burning to death a hun
dred men and women, gloomy? At
ter these nineteen. hundred years oil
preaching and praying, is it cheer
full thing to be told that thousand
innocent people-innocent of all
things save t;,at they followed the
law of nature, which says that kind
shall beget kinds it cheerful
thing to know that in a civilized
country thousand human beings
were shot and dubbed to death
within one pleasant month?
In the Congo country we have the
bleeding stumps of arms showing
what the white man has done to the
natives in the way of punishment fos
not bringing in rubber In this fair
United States we have men shot
down and hung because other men
have committed crimes. In South At
RIGA we have whole race of people
killed and driven from their homes
because of a few diamond mines. In |
Turkey and Bulgaria and such coun-
tries we have whole cities devastated
because of superstition and we are
today parleying with the sultan and
begging him to receive our ambas-
sador upon terms of equality In
Russia, unspeakable Russia, we have
the ground strewn with corpses be-
cause the tribe of people which gave
the world its Christ, ask to be allow
ed to live and breathe. Isn't it |
enough to produce little gloom?
But what of the future, you ask?
Is there no hope? Yes, that is about
all there is-Hope. 1t is the same
Hope seen by the three Wise Men
who followed the Star. 1t is the
same Hope that was given to the
world nineteen hundred years ago.
Perhaps it might not be we'll to fig
ure upon the progress so far made. |
and then to calculate how long it will
be until we have no more of this
blood-letting. 1t might dim Hope. |
The victory of the battle fought in
the hearts of men cannot be deter
mined in day, nor in a thousand
years. Slowly as it may seem.
streaked with blood as it is, the
world is getting better-let us hope.
We who are here today shall not I've
to see the end of strife, vet by our
daily actions we may contribute to
the Great Result that looms up
somewhere in the distance-Dayton
News.