Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-01-05
Gladstone.
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we were not only maintaining the 'po-
sition we had elected in the life of ma
tions but expanding our territory, in
creasing in population and wealth,and
that an approachment was not only
desirable but sound politics as we'll as
economies; then steps were promptly
and quietly taken to bring about more
friendly relations.
a better feeling seemed to obtain in
the Intercourse of the two nations.
When abroad, England was the natural
home of our people When travelling
on the continent, at Paris we were less
Americans barbara ct bizarre mais
richie: in Germany die schroffen un-
gebildeten Amerikanner aber reich.
In England we were the transatlantic
cousins, spoke the same language-per-
haps with the Yankee twang, or the
broad southern accent but it was the
same language-only with variations.
The conviction had not come too
soon to the English mind; it was near
| ly two generations before they fully
realized our position. Had we been
defeated, what would have become of
our Washingtons, Jeifersons and all
our revolutionary heroes? But We
we're successful, and the array of great
and noble men that graced our revolu-
tionary councils and fought our bat
ties is today one common heritage
Were they not most of them of the
same stock? And how, many Epglshp
men eaffSAou find thtsSaay that revere
not the memory of George Washington
md host of Others?
And do we not--we of the north
feel as proud of our brethren across
The line, though they fought in lost
ause, and were unsuccessful, but they
fought like heroes for their convictions
md sacrificed for them their lives and
their fortunes. What true American
today and for many a day past does
not feel proud of the Lees, the John
sons, the Gordons, and all the other
brave men of the south, and do not our
iouthern brethren feel likewise to the
heroes of the north? Grant, Sherman,
Hancock, Hooker and Thomas, and all
If them, are names dear to them; and
ire we not today more firmly united
han ever-and hardly more than one
generation gone?
And is not the national feeling very
much the broadening of the family
feeling, and was not the first rude form
If government the unifcation of fam
lies for mutual protection, and does
not the same feeling obtain in each
+ r,amily? Dove not retain fond recol-
iections of the Prodigal Son that left
he homestead restive under paternal
restraint, even though he has decend-
ID in the, social ladder?
But let that same prodigal strike out
N the world and be successful and
make a name for himself, and it is
John from sunrise to sunset. Thus
Clyde, the widest urchin of his coun.
y, the incorrigible youth, expelled
4 from every school and every college
whose wild pranks even his dotini
grandfather could no longer tolerate
'hipped to the ~!Indias to a counting
house to succumb, perhaps, to the dead
V ftmes eXhaled from the jungles-
lis name is seldom heard; nay, almost
'orgotten. clyde emerged from thai
counting house a captain, colonel, a
yeneral-a natural born general the
most daring the most skillful of that
lay and founder of England's great In
iian empire. Lord Clyde returned to
England with renOwn and laces OF
'upees, received by royalty, consulted
~ the ministry, dined by the East In
liza Company-it, is my son, John my
brother, the Lord Clyde, and my cous-
n, Lord Clyde" even if fifty times re-
moved.
1t is the family failing all over the
world. Ii is the family failing trans
planted into the national; and why
hould we be exempt from itor the Eng
ish nation? Why shouldn't We sing
he praises of our heroes as well as
he Greeks, who had them immortal
zed through the gifts Of Homers gen
us? We hear and speak of the Angel
If Charity of Faith and of Mercy" and
invoke their aid, but we never hear ul
the Angel of Success because he is q
lemigod whom we place on a high ped
stall for all mankind to !, bend theiI
| Knees to end worship Il
Stephenson's great invention had
laid the command of steam's colossal
powers at the feet of his countrymen
and they were the first to apply and
utilize it to its full capacity. 1t made
England for very near two generations
he mart of the world for manufactnr-
ers. Carried in the bottoms of her YES
sci which commanded all seas, to Asia
and Africa, whence they carried back
the spices and silks and perfumes OF
India, and the precious stones and
lVvbry from Africa, and from the new
world the products of that virgin soil
which brought nourlshmentt to her toll
ing workmen in exchange for the pro-
duction of their labor.
While England was thus controlline
the marts of the world with her manu-