The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-15

and Franz sigel to fight her battles and
| Speaker Henderson to preside over her
congress and Thomas Watson to plead at
her bar? Shall the Goddess of Liberty
feel no Indebtedness to foreign countries
when she has taken from their fresides
their fairest daughters and their bravest
and truest young men and clasped them
to her own heart until these adopted
sons and daughters look up and call her
mother?
II we were to blot out from Amer
| lean history the deeds of its foreign
| born children, we would obhterate many
/ of the best pages of our national heroies.
Oh. give us men! A time like this de-
mands
Clean minds, pure hearts, true faith and
ready hands;
| Men who possess opinions and a will:
Men whom desire for office does not kill.
The Demand For Men.
To supply this national demand for
eign countries have been giving us for
centuries their best treasures. They have
have given us their sturdiest men of men
tai and moral worth and their fairest
daughters, whose virtues are, as King
Solomon says, above the price of
rubies' Surely for such priceless gifts
America must acknowledge she is a debt
or TO the Greeks and to the barbarians."
Religious liberty's cradle also was built
across the seas. True, it was floated
! across the Atlantic, and during its tenn
pestuous voyage of many miles it's in
fantile occupant grew and waxed strong
er. But, after ALL we should not forget
that the cradle of civil and religious lib
erty was first hammered together on
foreign shores.
In the astronomical world we find
that stars generally travel in constella-
lions, or In groups. Thus we also find
that every great advancement of the
human race, spiritually or mentally, So
cially or economically, is in touch with
other events, though they may be seen
or unseen. The sweet voiced village
church bell of today is not entirely of
American manufacture. 1t was cast in
the hot fires of the Covenanter's persecu-
tons 1t was cast among the flames which
wrapped their fiery tongues about the
| shriyeling bodies of John EIuss and Rid
| ley and Latimer and Cranmer; it was
| cast among the burning logs heaped about
| the dying body of Savonaroa when the
| Italian priest, Elijah-like was about to
| go to heaven in a chariot of fire; 1t was
| cast centuries back among the Nerodian
prosecutions in the days of the apostolic
martyrdoms.
! Can we ever reach the day when we
shall feel that our religious liberty is not
natural outgrowth of the Christian he
roes and heroines who dared to defy
/ Bloody Alva, the prosecutor of the
| Netherlands, or Lord Claverhouse the
prosecutor of old Scotland, or demoniac
! Catherine, the fiendish female lnstigator
of the st. Bartholomew massacre, or the
| bloody Queen Mary of the English
| throne? When that grand old man, Hugh
Latimer, then over eighty, stood among
the burning logs that were cremating
! him, he turned to Bishop Ridley, his fell
| low martyr near by, and said, BE of
| good comfort, Master Ridley, and play
the man. We shall this day light such a
candle by Gods grace in England as I
| trust shall never be put out" Aye, they
did they did, They not only lighted a
gospel torch for England, but a torch
which would blaze in America centuries
afterward We have religious liberty in
1 America because the first great battles
! for the enchainment and the decapitation
of Satanic bigotry were fought upon the
other side of the seas.
Our Artistic Debts.
! America is indebted to foreign lands in
| commercial and an artistic sense as
| well as in a moral and spiritual sense.
| Some political speakers love to boast
| that commercially we are Independent of
the world They assert it would make
| VEL niue tlltt 10 us NHelntT OF
no foreign countries held any trade re-
lations with us at all But this is not true
You are a wealthy man. You invite me
to your home some night to a banquet.
l accept. As | sit waiting for the other
guests to arrive | say Mr.. So-and-so,
this is a beautifully designed home.
Where did your architect get the idea ?"
You answer THE plans of this house
are not his IDEAS He merely worked them
out in detail after | had described then,
Some years ago while | was in England,
l came across a beautiful country home.
| then said to myself that If / should ever
have money enough l would build
house upon that plan. This home is the
result Of my resolve made at that time"
Under my feet is rug of exquisite work.
manship. Where was it made? In the city
of Damascus 1t is an imported rug. When
your wife comes in to greet me. she is
dressed in a beautiful costume. 1t came
from the silkworms of France. That da-
mond glittering upon your finger was
dug out of the African mines.
Up to comparatively recent date our
commercial dependence upon European
markets for nearly all our goods and
chattels was almost absolute In 1920 the
Edinburg Review of Scotland tauntingly-
asked: who in the four quarters of the
globe reads an American book or goes
to an American play or looks at an
American painting or statue? What does
the world owe to American physicians or
surgeons? What new substances have
their chemists discovered? What new
consultations have their astronomers dis
covered? Who drinks out of American
glasses? Who eats from American plates?
Who wears an American coat or lies
down to sleep in an American blanket ?"
Foreign manufacturers of the present day