Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-03-12

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 ,is for
| centuries their best treasures. They
have given us their sturdlest men Of
mental and moral worth and their fair
est daughters whose virtues are, as
King Solomon says, "abovc the price
Of rubies." Surely for such priceless
gifts America must acknowledge sue
| Is debtor ito the Greeks and to the
| barbarians."
Religious liberty's cradle also was
| built across the sens. True, it was
iioated across the Atlantic, and during
its tempcstuous 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 on foreign shores.
In the astronomical world we find
that stars generally travel in constella-
tions, 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. It was cast
in the hot fires of the Covenanter's per-
secutions; it was cast among the flames
which wrapped their fiery tongues
about the shrivcling 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,
Eliiah-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 n 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
instiga tor of the St bartholomew mas
sacre. or the bloody Queen Mary Of the
English throne? When that grand old
I man. Hugh Latimer. then over eighty.
stood among the burning logs that
were cremating him, he turned to Bsh-
] d &c ~, nv
and said: ''Be Of good comfort, Master
Ridley, and play the man. We shall
this day light such candle by God S
grace in England as. trust shall new
or be put out" Aye. they did, they
did. They not only lighted a gospel
torch for England, but torch which
would blaze in America centuries after
ward. We have religious liberty in
America because the first great battles
for the entertainment 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 lands
in n commercial and an artistic sense
as well as in moral and spiritual
sense. Some political speakers love &c
boast that commercially we are indie
pendent of the world. They assert il
would make very little difference to u.
whether or no foreign countries held
any trade rela tons 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 tC
arrive | say: MIR So-and-so. this Is 6
beautifully designed home. Where die
your architect get the idea?" You an
swer: The plans of this house are no
his ideas. He merely worked then
out in detail after | had described them
Some years ago, while | was In Eng
land, l came across n beautiful coun
try home ] then said to myself tina
if / should ever have money enough
would build a house upon that plan
This home is the result of my resolve
made ut that time" Under my feet Il
rug of exquisite workmanship. Where
was it made: In the city of Damas
Gus. 1t is an imported rug. WhcI
your wife comes in to greet me, she il
dressed in beautiful costume. |
came from the silk worms of France
That diamond glittering upon your fin
ger was dug out of the African mines
Up to a comparatively recent dat
our commercial dependence upon Eu
ropean markets for nearly all our good
and chattels was almost absolute. Ii
1920 the Edinburgh Review Of Scot
land tauntipgly asked: who in tn
four quarters of the globe reads al
American book or goes to an American
play or looks at an American painting
or statue? What does the world ow
to American physicians or surgeons
, What new substances have their chem
lists discovered? What new cOhstella
lions have their astronomers discover
; ed? Who drinks out of America
, glasses? Who eats from America
plates? Who wears an American Goa
, or lies down to sleep In an America
blankct?' Foreign manufacturers O
, the present day know only too we
, that since 1920 the commercial depend
, ency of America upon commercial Ev
rope has nightly changed. But We ar
; still dependent upon Europe in man
ways. Finscn, the Norwegian. reache
, across the seas to lessen the horrors O
/, smallpox, Charles Fl, Spurgeon and Jo
seph Parker sent their messages Of tn