Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-03-14


I ready hands;
Men who possess opinions and will;
Men whom desire. for office does not XIII.
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
nentaI'and moral worth and their fair
est daughters, whose virtues are, as
King Solomon says, "aboye the price
OF rubies." Surely for such priceless
gifts America must acknowledge she
is-a debtor ito the Greeks and to the
barDarians."
Religious liberty's cradle also was
buslt across the seas. True, 1t was
;irs ted across the Atlantic, and during
it.5 tempestuous voyage of many miles
81 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.
y In the astronomical world we ind
that stnrs generally travel in cOnstella-
lions, or in groups. Thus we also fnd
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 or
American manufacture. 1t was cast
In the hot fires of the Covenanters per-
secutions; it was cast among the flames
which wrapped their fiery tongues
about the shrivellng 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,
Enjah-like was about to go to heaven
IN chariot OF fire. it was cast centu-
fies pack among the Nerodian persecu-
tions in the days of the apostolic mar
tyrdoms.
n Can we ever reach the day when we
khall feel that our religious liberty Is
bot n natural outgrowth Of the Chris
Nan heroes and heroines who dared to
kefy Bloody" Alva, the prosecutor Of
lhe Netherlands, or Lord Claverhouse,
the prosecutor of old Scotland, or de-
.honlac Catherine, the fiendish female
3nstigatOr Of the st. Bartholomew mas
tacre, or the bloody Queen Mary of the
English throne? When that grand old
fman, Hugh Latimer, then over eighty,
stood among the burning logs that
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 candle by Gods
grace in England as, trust, shall nev-
er be put out" Aye, they did; they
Edld. 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
pr tfIe c.. ..I...iIAslaant- nd tia d~~" f,ita
ton of Satanic bigotry were fought up
ON the other side of the seas.
49,
Our Artistic Debts.
America is indebted to foreign lands
In a commercial and an artistic sense
as well as In a moral and spiritual
sense. Some political speakers love to
beast that commercially we are inde-
pendent of the world. They assert ii
would make very little difference to us
whether or no foreign countries held
any trade relations 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. | accept
As sit waiting for the other guests 10
arrive | say: "Mr. So-and-so, this IS q
beautifully designed home. Where did
your architect get the idea" You an
swer: "1he plans of this house are mol
his ideas. He merely worked them
out in detail after had described them
Some years ago, while | was in Eng
land | came across a beautiful coun
try home. | then said to myself thai
If | should ever have money enough
would build house upon that plan
This home Ia the result of my resolve
made ot that time" Under my feet /:
n rug of exquisite workmanship. WherC
was it made? In the city of Damas
Gus. 1t is an imported rug. Wher
vour wife comes in to greet me, she Il
dressed in beautiful costume. L
came from the silkworms of France
That diamond glittering upon your I'm
ger was dug out Of the African mines
I'D to 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 tauntingly asked: "Who in IN
four quarters Of the globe reads al
American book or goes to an American
play or looks at an American paintlni
or statue? What does the world ow
to American physicians or surgeons
What new substances have their chem
lists discovered? What new constella
tions have their astronomers discover
ed? Who drinks out of American
glasses? Who eats from American
plates? Who wears an American Goa
or lies down to sleep in an America
blanketY Foreign manufacturers o
the present day know only too we
that since 1920 the commercial depend
ency of America upon commercial Ell
rope has nightly changed. But we ar
still dependent upon Europe in man
ways. Finsen, the Norwegian. reache
across the seas to lessen the horrors G
smallpox, Charles II. Spurgeon and J(
seph Parker sent their messages OF tn
Unrrsr rove queen vIcrOr1a gave us n
example of how royal queen could b
a domestic queen, and the ships wbic
My the Atlantic still return with
: heavy cargoes as when they left OF
shores.
How We May Best Repay.
How, then, is America to cancer IL
national debt in moral and spirltu'
sense which she owes to the moder
Greeks and to the barbarians2 "WelI