Show UNITED STATES A PAGAN Rev Dr Parkhurst Instances tho Slaughter of Noros Moros and Telegram WOODS ACT NOT BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE HAS A GHASTLY LOOK New York March his sermon on the tho relations of Christian nations that are Pagan the Rev Dr Charles H Parkhurst referred today to the recent killing of Moron Moros and PresIdent congratulator dispatch to General Wood Consider he said the cas easy and way In which we regard the mowing down of the savage and in the Philippine Islands when they stand In the way war of the na national national purpose of which after eight elgh t years of benevolent assImilation we hae just had a most startling ano an heartrending example in the born bom to death of six hundred men w men and children collected in a crater in the UIO Moro Islands Brilliant Feat Indeed There are two things to be about the jubilant congratulatIon sent by the tho chief executive to Wood The first is in reference to th the designation of the performance as It a brilliant feat of arms Basing our es estimation estimation on the reports rendered bY General Wood It was wa J no more a bril brilliant lant foot feat of arms than smoking be bees out of a hive or rats out of a nest But a far sadder feature of th the ex communication to General Wood is that it contained not one word of s sympathy one note of tender dif dis distress tress In view of time the IndIscrIminate slaughter perpetrated In honor of the American flag We have been taught to believe and Wp we like to believe that the president has a great heart Has a Ghastly Look And so I prefer to think of that cablegram composed as It was in the thA presence practically of mangled men torn women armless and headless chil children dren I prefer to think of it not as br be bring being ing the expression of the man Roose Roos Roosvelt Roosevelt velt but of the president Roosevelt in whom officially the heartlessness and the greed of unregenerate y is functionally represented I nt to in find a w way out for Roosevelt t tr r th the performance on the Jolo Job i island land h hs 8 a agh gh ghastly look and the matched It With the th exceptIon of the nance in the south of slav slavery y there has been I should s nay y nothing sadder in our history than the national attitude In which we today stand R Rt as t ward the little brown people of the thA Philippine Islands |