Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-10-06

that their flights of imagination
will be just AS unhampered as ever
by tie ehackles of truth.
AMERICAS DEBT TO HOLLAND.
The Rev. William Elliot Griffis,
a we'll known g ,neregationsl cler
gyman Of Boston, contributes to
last weeks Independemt "a sngges-
tive article cntit.cd"The American
in Holiand,' inspired by his own
recent observations III that inter-
csting country.
Worshippers of the AnEl Sax
on-why not more correctly tbs
Anglo Norman?- will note
with distas'e lis word of l1oIland:
I'VE owe This little country, less
than one third the So OF . no, far
more than our historians V no pro
coed OIL the theory that tinc United
States is an evolution OF England,
dream Of 4 a x Ancestral; $,
it is one Of the Americans father
lands. Politically, it is the place
Of his greatest deb"
He gives irrefutal=l; facts and
figures to susta these statements.
Holland was the fist Republic
in Northern Europe. In religious
liberation and love OF liberty The
Revolutionary fathers and makers
of the American Constitution cons
tossed it "our great example,;
though on the first point, be it said,
they had not to 60 80 far afie'd,
having had the example of reli5-
ious liberation from Maryland.
To quote from Mr.. Grifi =
"Here, nearly 800 years ago,
were discussed in print and By
voice, in all their possible phases,
the questions of centralized gov
eminent aud home rule, Of Federal
union and State rights. The Is it
ish are now begging over the first
rudiments of that which the Dutch
wrestled with long before the
Americans. We, who pro6.ed by
Dutch mistakes as we'll as SUCCESS
es, have settled the question of
home rule once tor all. Here fed
eral government of provinces like
Fricsland and Brabant-as differ
ent as Connecticut and New Next
co-was attempted. For ove two
centuries the measure of success
attained was unique.
"The American fathers of the
Constitution borrowed the best
features Of the Dutch machine.
with unique improvements of their
own. In other words, they turned
aside from monarchical England to
Republican Holland for political
Experience u, on which 10 draw.
They introduced those institutions
which do 70 puzz,o Englishmen te
comprehend, whereas to the Dutch
n,au they are as plain as the irr-
age in al, Am terdaia window ua'f-
ror. uollandcrs understand ons
State and Federal in:crwotkins
our Senate, in which big and l'tt!t
StaIee have each one vote; "nr ST.
preme Court; IL District of c.!
umbia, unrepresgnted in the Ma.
tional Legislature, ard a host O
deta;ls-aii borrowed from tlcil
old republic, bnt which are suct
inscrutable anomalies to the aver
age Englishman,"
All Of which plain statements Z
fact are in strong contrast to TIL
opinion Of the Protestant Episcop
al Chnrchman: "Ali of the rea
might and majesty Of the Unitet
States is AnglosSaxon in its origin
and English in its immediate deri
vation."
The hiftoric spots of Holland ar,
full of interest to the American
Hero along the front of the I.lant
of Defthaven runs the Telegram
Kade (the Pilgrims Quay. Oh
which will stand the American
memorial of those brave pioneer
OF whom the Irish poet John Boyl
10 Reilly wrote:-
!. what lire disid. S the Pilgrims fror
the rest?
5 We know them by the exile that wa
:. theirs;
Their Justice, faith and fortitude attes
And those long years in HOLLAND
IL when Their band
Sought humble living in a stranger
81 land.
8 The growing children learning foreig
speech;
And growing too. within the heart of eac
, A thought If further exile-of a home
, In some ,ar lan1E home for a life an
death
BY their hands built
I, Then, there is Bill, the Licking