Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-03-09

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Shall the Goddess of Liberty feel no in
debtedness TO foreign countries when
she has taken from their firesides their
fairest daughters and their bravest and
trlest young men and clasped them to
her own heart until these adopted sons
and daughters look up and call her
"sother?
IL we were to blot out from Amer
lean history the deeds of its foreign
born children, we would obliterate
many of the best pages of our national
heroics. An old poem begins some
thing like this:
Oh. give us men! A time like this demands
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 given us their sturdiest men of
mental and moral worth and their fair
est daughters. whose virtues are, as
King Solomon says, "above the price
of rubies." Surely for such priceless
gifts America must acknowledge she
is debtor Ito the Greeks and to the
barbarians."
Religious libertys cradle also was
built across the seas. True, it was
hoated across the Atlantic, and during
its tempestuous voyage of many miles
its infantile occupant grew and waxed
stronger. But, after all, we should not
forget that the cradle of civil and reli
gious liberty was first hammered to-
gether OH foreign shores.
In the astronomical world we find
that stars generally travel in constella-
tons, 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 per-
secutions; 1t was cast among the flames
which wrapped their fiery tongues
about the shriveling bodies Of John
/ Huss and Ridley and Latimer and Gran
mer; it was cast among the burning
logs beaped about the dying body of
| Savonarola when the Italian priest,
Elijah-like, was about to go to heaven
in chariot of fire; it was cast centu-
| ries back among the MERIDIAN persecu-
tons in the days of the apostolic mar
| tyrdoms.
Can we ever reach the day when we
shall feel that our religious liberty is
not natural outgrowth of the Chris
tian heroes and herOines who dared to
defy Bloody Alva, the prosecutor of
the Netherlands, or Lord Claverhouse,
the prosecutor of old Scotland, or de-
mOniac Catherine, the fiendish female
instigator of the ST. Bartholomew mas
sacre. or the bloody Queen Mary of the
English throne? When that grand old
man, Hugh Latimer, then over eighty
stood among the burning logs thai
were cremating him. he turned to Bish
op Ridley. his fellow 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, trust, shall new
er be put out" Aye, they did; they
did! They not only lighted a gospe
torch for England. but a torch which
would blaze in America centuries after
ward. We have religious liberty IL
America because the first great battles
for the enchainment and the decapita
ton of Satanic bigotry were fought up
on the other side of the seas.
Our Artistic Debts.
America is indebted to foreign land
as well as in moral and spiritua
sense. Some political speakers love t
boast that commercially we are indie
pendent of the world. They assert
would make very little difference to u
whether or no foreign countries he'll
any trade relations with us at all. Blu
this is not true. You are a wealth
man. You invite me to your HON
some night to a banquet. | accept
AS sit waiting for the other guests
arrive | say: MIR. So-and-sO, this is
beautifully designed home. Where di
your architect get the idea?" You al
swer: The plans of this house are nc
his ideas. He merely worked thel
out in detail after had described then
Some years ago. while | was in Ems
land. | came across a beautiful coul
try home. | then said to myself tia
If | should ever have money enough
, would build house upon that plal
| This home is the result of my resoly
, made at that time" Under my feet
a rug of exquisite workmanship. Whel
was it made? In the city of Dama
Gus. 1t is an imported rug. Whe
, your wife comes in to greet me. she
dressed in a beautiful costume.
. came from the Slkworms of Franc
I That diamond glttering upon your FL
, ger was dug out of the African mine
, Up to a comparatively recent dat
, our commercial dependence upon E
rOppon ma rL< offs for nearly n II oI1r crOo(