El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-28

~ HRISTIAN sympathy is always on
the side Of the under dog. 1t is
mans natural impulse to say:
s.The devil take the hindermost- the
new spirit that has come into the
world saws: Il Will take care Of the
hindermost-
The same Christian sympathy that
ertends itself to forsaken individuals
reaches out also toward the oppressed
people and races. That Is one OF the
principal tests of sweetened charac-
ter.
suersca.s treatment of the indian
has been, for 100 years, a standing i'm
parchment of American Christianity
The partition of Poland was due 10
European paganism. We love Ireland,
partly because she is lovebibe, and
partly because she has been vctimized-
In the Boer war those of us who
were Christians were glad it took Eng
land SO long to crush the Dutch spirit
All the world, outside of Russia, has
a tender side for the Firms. What Toll
stoi said about them, shortly before his
death, marks him as standing very
close to our Lord in the outflow of his
sympathy for the suffering and the OPP
pressed.
ToIstoi's Mighty Sympathy.
II suffer in behalf OF the Firms as
much as any one among them, and my
heart is heavy with the fate of the
Poles. and the Let's, and the Jews
suffer because of everything that
Metchnikoff writes and Stolypia puts
into action. I feel in way as IL L
shared the guilt Of those mems words
and deeds"
1t is part of the same bigness OF
heart that prompted him also TO go on
and say that the Firms would be IN
the wrong If they committed any act
of resistance. He enjoined 1T upon
them to drop every form OF patriot
ism" for. said he, every patriotism,
whether II be Finnish or Russian, i'm
nl,es a threat against other nations"
While we may, and probably do. take
exception to the idea. as thus ex-
pressed. IT Is not difficult to detect in
II an element that is true enough to be
respected and Christian enough to be
cherished.
One can decline to- indorse Tolstoi's
expression, and yet be amply able to
realize the genial breadth of senti-
ment that 1t aims 70 represent
The svvarming Cities.
yvTHEN one remembers how big
M the world is and how mucn
w room there is in IL, 'Shere one
can live without being crowded ana
pinched, il seems such a wretched pity
that so many thousands. and tens OF
thousands Of people should squeeze
themselves together-as they do In the
denseIy thronged sections of our cities
like so many sardines in box or
peas in pod.
If there were not afforded means OF
subsistence outside, and If people were
obliged to cluster together, like bees
In hive. in order to be able to live,
the case would be different, but, as 1t
1T. there are millions upon millions OF
unoccupied acres upon which people
might settle and maintain themselves
In self-respecting comfort, live In hu-
man and humanizing relations with
themselves and the rest of the world
These paragraphs are not motived
bv spirit of criticism, but rather by
a desire to emphasize the larger lib
erty and the sweeter life that is posi-
BILE TO them, but to which they seem
TO have no ambition to attain life
where there is hard work, but where
there IS space to turn around and
room TO breathe; SKY untainted by
smoke; the noisy rattle of the pave
ments replaced by the lowing of cat
tie and the songs Of birds; people
enough around to make a company,
hut not enough to make a crowd; play
ground for the children and escape