160 "ABOVE ALL NATIONS IS HUMANITY" tries where they were living and sent them to you, that you may mass your forces and lend a hand to save them.” HOWARD B. GROSE, Aliens or Americans? p. 269. Above all nations is Humanity. Cosmopolitan Club Motto. America is the land of the larger hope. LADY HENRY SOMERSET. It pleased Heaven to open this last refuge of Humanity. EDWARD EVERETT. Our country has suddenly been shaken out of its complacency. It has come to take its place among the world powers and has come to understand that no nation liveth to itself as 'no man liveth to himself,' and we as Americans must come to understand that in any righteous league that shall bind the nations together we must give as well as take. MRS. GEORGE THATCHER GUERNSEY, President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution. April 14, 1919, in address before the 28th Annual Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Let us realize that this country, the last founded, is the greatest charity of God to the human race. In America is the hope of mankind EMERSON. BARONESS VON SUTTNER. ... Never forget the poor, nor think anything you bestow on them to be lost to you, even though they may be black as Ebedmelech, the Ethiopian eunuch, who cared for Jeremiah in the pit of the dungeon; or as black as the one to whom Philip preached Christ.... Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them.' JOHN BROWN, in "Letters to His Family," 1859-quoted in John Brown, by W. E. Burghardt DuBois, Ph. D., Former Professor of Sociology, Atlanta University. Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation,-we fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy, and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this work and striving? Would America have been America without her Negro people? W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS, Editor of The Crisis. Author of "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade," "The Philadelphia Negro," etc. The Souls of Black Folk, p. 263. No other race, or white or black, When bound as thou wert, to the rack, WHY SYMPATHIZE WITH POLAND So seldom stooped to grieving; Forgot the past and proved them men Go on and up! our souls and eyes Shall follow thy continuous rise; Our ears shall list thy story From bards who from thy root shall spring, And proudly tune their lyres to sing Of Ethiopia's glory. 161 PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, "Ode to Ethiopia," The Life and Work of Paul WHY ALL WHO BELIEVE IN WORLD-WIDE DEMOCRACY SHOULD First,-Because it was the first nation to adopt Democracy. In 1572, when the republic was founded, they adopted a written constitution, and under that constitution the office of king was made elective. While having the title, the king of Poland had none of the powers of a king, and could be removed any day by a vote of the Diet, without impeachment or trial. The governing body was composed of two chambers called the Diet-both bodies elective. Second, Because it was the first nation to declare for religious liberty. Under the wording of the Constitution, they declared that no citizen should be deprived of his right to worship God as he saw fit and proper. Jew or Gentile, Catholic or Protestant, Mohammedan or Infidel had equal rights, and no one suffered either in person or in property on account of his religious convictions. Third,-Poland stood for peace. They declared in their constitution that the arms of the Republic of Poland should never be engaged except in defense of the Republic against invasion, and in defense of Christendom when assailed by the powers of Mohammed. In the two hundred years of its existence as a republic these principles of the Constitution were never disregarded. Hence, Poland, three hundred years ago was the pioneer nation in all that the best thought of the world of today stands for, to-wit: Democracy, Religious Liberty and Peace. JOHN SOBIESKI, May, 1919. For two hundred years Poland stood like a wall of fire, protecting the Christian world against the fierce and fanatical Turks-never asking or receiving any compensation whatsoever for all of this sacrifice to save the nations. And Poland stood in the fight until the last mighty attempt that the Mohammedans made to conquer the Christian world, when with an army of half a million they marched triumphantly to the walls of Vienna. The whole Christian world was in dismay. It was there that Poland's great King John the Third, with his Christian army of seventy thousand met them and dealt them such a crushing blow that it ended forever any further attempts to conquer the Christian world.... 162 SAVE MOUNTAINEERS FOR LEADERS The day of retribution has come and Russia, Prussia and Austria are in the dust.... So those three great and powerful empires dying, covered with shame and humiliation, while Poland, which they robbed and ruled for more than one hundred years, is again restored and is taking her place proudly among the free, independent and glorious republics. But Poland has a great problem before her. Probably in the world's history never has a nation had a more difficult one. More than half of the country has been utterly devastated. More than twenty thousand towns and villages have been burned. More than two-thirds of her man power has either been killed or disabled. Her wealth has been largely dissipated and practically all of her resources destroyed. JOHN SOBIESKI,* "The Republic of Poland," in The Golden West Magazine, "To THE mountains, in time to come, we may look for great men, thinkers as well as workers, leaders of religious and poetic thought, and statesmen above all." EMMA B. MILES. "THE young man of the mountain, when once educated, is so confident of himself, and so positive of opinion, that he is admirably adapted to be a leader." SAMUEL T. WILSON. "The temple of knowledge is not to be found by searching through far lands; it stands here at our hand. Nor are the great men and the leaders to come mysteriously from some distant place; they are here at our doors, pleading for a chance." MARTHA BERRY. "HERE is our Jerusalem, the children of the hills; our neighbors; our kith and kin. Begin with them and save them and let them help us save the world." EDWARD O. GUERRANT. Quoted by Arthur W. Spaulding in Men of the Mountains, pp. 10, 176, 278, 296. How is it with Japan? Just now it is fashionable in certain quarters to suspect Japan's friendship for the United States. Yet those who are in a position to know the facts, and especially those who understand the Japanese people, maintain that Japan's attitude and * "Now, just one more question, Colonel Sobieski: Have you any desire to return to Poland and claim your title and estate?" With an emphatic gesture he replied: "No, indeed, I sincerely hope that my native land may become a free and prosperous republic, but I have no wish to return there. The United States is good enough for me and the only title I desire is that of an American Citizen !” CARRIE LEE CARTER-STOKES, reporting an interview with John Sobieski, in an article published in The Golden West Magazine, Los Angeles, April 1, 1919. |