The record-union., 1899-12-13

talking advertisement for the country
and the people which to him have been
in the nature of new discovery. The
broad, generous, hospitable spirit Of the
American people captures his English
heart. The enterprising, progressive,
wide-awake methods Of his American
cousin wins his admiration and make
captive his fancy, until the stories ne
tells of American sayings and OF
American deeds and achievements seem
to his English brethren like so many
fairy tales, and in turn fire them with
the ambition to come and see with their
own eyes and hear with their own ears.
What better evidence Isl needed to show
the faith Of the English in our future,
in our possibilities and in our integrity
than the hundreds of millions of British
gold which everywhere throughout our
land have been invested by English
capitalists?
So closely have the commercial ties
been knit between the two countries
that we have become Great Britain's
largest and most valued customer, and
Great Britain, in turn, has become our
largest and most highly valued GUS
toner.
Were any great national calamity to
befall England, the people of the United
States would be among the first to feel
its i'll effects; as was made manifest by
the panics of 1893, caused primarily by
the financial shock in England, the re-
suit of the failure Of the great English
banking house of Barring Bros. Were
this nation, in turn, to meet with any
great calamity, the first to feel its dis
astrous results would be the people of
Great Britain whose income would be
greatly crippled by the loss of our sup
port. No two nations are becoming
greater commercial competitors and
rivals for the commerce of the world
than England and America; and yet.
no two nations are so deeply dependant
upon each others prosperity as are
England and America. The more pros
porous England becomes, the more
money she has with which to buy our
breadstuffs, our meats and our cottons,
the more prosperous America is, the
more money is at her command to buy
Englands woolens and textile fabrics
and her other industrial products.
Some one has said that "blood is
then the sympathy existing between
deeper than among those alien in
speech.
The story is told of an Englishman.
who, for the first time, visited Paris.
He retired to his hotel room at night
annoyed and harassed after a most I'M
happy day, full of troubles and per-
plexities, unable to understand any
thing said to him or to make himself
understood. He felt himself indeed a
stranger in a strange land, yearning for
someone with whom he could COM
mune in his native tongue. After a
troubled nights rest, he was aroused
in the morning by the loud growing of a
cock, and, jumping to his feet, he
shouted, THANK God, English once
more
If the American wishes to more
keenly appreciate the sympathy which
nature has implanted in the Anglo
saxon heart and mind, let him travel
for a time in foreign lands, where every
language but his own is spoken, and
then let him land upon the shores of
Great Britain, where he can once more
even the cockney English which, at
home has afforded him so much amuse-
ment, will be a most joyful and well
come sound, and will delight his ear as
he never imagined it was in the power
Of the English tongue to do.
AS Britons and Americans we are
bound together by common tongue,
by common ancestry, by common ira
ditions and by the same hopes and as
pirations. 1t is the mission of the Eng
lishman to aid in spreading intelligence
and enlightenment throughout the
world. He has done heroic work as a
traveller and explorer; as a missionary
and a trader in bringing light where
darkness prevailed intelligence where
ignorance reigned supreme. The Hima-
layas of Asia and the darkness of
Africa were no hindrances to his resist
less energy and enterprise. Millions of
pagans and heathens in those lands
have been uplifted by his religious mis-
sionaries who implanted into the hearts
of untold millions of heathens higher
conceptions of manhood and woman
hood
The nation that has given the world
win, Huxley, Spencer, Gladstone, Ten
nyson and Ruskin has in this alone laid
civilization under lasting and undying
obligation, and has made us, in COM
mon with the rest of the world, mental
and moral debtors to the spirit of Eng
land. England, in common with Amer
lea, stands for liberty of thought and
freedom of action; for enlightenment
and education; for law and justice; for
the highest development of manhood
and womanhood. Along all these lives
England and America are working to-
gether heart-to-heart and hand-in-
hand, and, let us hope, may ever con-
tinue thus working together. With the
Anglo-Saxons of the world united to-
gether in spirit and working as a unit,
tyranny and despotism, oppression and
persecution may we'll tremble and
quake with fear. With the English
speaking peoples banded together in the
cause of humanity and progress, civil
ization is destined to make strides I'M
dreamt of by the most sanguine opti-
mist of the past; and the centuries to
come are destined to be filled with a
broader sympathy for all the human
family.
I have been honored with the request
to present to your organization this
beautiful American flag, toward the
purchase of which the citizens of this
community have contributed so liber-
ally and cheerfully. In accepting this
banner / feel assured that you also
take with it the esteem, the good will