Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-07-08

EINutS. i TOll ttldSebW anu IINefDOOI
and London during the last hundred
years she has sent forth her best sons
and daughters by the hundreds of thou
sands and by the millions. Still that
invading army is calling across the
Atlantic for more re-enforcements.
back the irish servant girl to her par
ents ON Killarney lakes. Let them
come to me. and will pay their way"
Send me the girl once courted
among the highlands or w0oed under
the shadow of Linlithgow while read
TO her the tragic story of beautiful
Queen Mary, who was born among
yonder hills" writes the young Amer
icaniZed Scotchman who is winning q
fortune In the new world Send me
my sisters and let them flee the Lon
don fogs," writes the young English
man who is running Texas ranch.
All, yes. the invading army of the
British empire is growing. Her sons
and daughters have been rapidly max
ing success among Michigan hills,
and Georgia pines, and western prai-
ries, and In metropolitan New York.
Am I wrong in stating that the British
empire has again laid siege and cap
tured Bunker Hill, with her immi-
grants every year coming into New
York harbor!
But the British empire demands from
us her annual exports of gold. We are
told that the American struggle for lib
erty was brought to a climax when
King Georges prime minister demand
ed that the thirteen colonies pay a tax
on tea. The Boston tea party was or
ganiZed. One dark night u number of
young men, armed to the teeth entered
those ships and tossed overheard all
the boxes containing that imported tea.
Taxation without representation Is
wrengw the people cried. We will not
pay cent to the British throne until
King George allows our people to vote
in the house OF commons" But when
George Washington took the oath Of
Office as president of the United States
did we then cease to have any further
dealings with British gold?
The Conquest by British Capital.
Have you as rational man ever
stopped 10 consider how many Ameri-
can industries have been fostered and
built up by British capital? The Brit
ish workmen have come here by mill
lions and settled i'm our land and taken
out naturalization papers. But the
British capitalists. although many Of
them have never crossed the seas. have
sent their moneys here and invested
them here by the millions and millions
of pounds. The British capitalists are
saying to our miners. You run my
Mines" to our railroad men, You run
my railroads. to our street electric
car line presidents. You run my street
railways" Yes, the British capitalists
have their moneys invested In our
country by the millions of dollars. II
all British capital We're TO be with
drawn from our manufactures and
railroad stock and mining industries
this country would hear the most aw-
full financial crash the world has felt
since man began to buy and sell for
barter and gain. And. furthermore.
one of the surest guarantees that Eng
land wiz never go TO war against
America is that as a financial nation,
she cannot afford to do so. She would
not only be fighting her own sons and
daughters. but she would be destroy
ing her own pocketbook. The British
immigrant is here. The British mil
lions are invested in American coal as
well as in Sheffield cutlery or Manches-
ter factory or Belfast linen or Glasgow
mills.
If the British empire dominates us in
a linguistic and social and Industrial
way. how much more does she infiu-
ence us in Il religious way, Suppos-
ing our churches had been the out
growth of the Spanish cathedral in
stead of the Scottish kirk What
would have happened? Surprising the
men who laid the religious foundations
of our theological seminaries had come
from another class than the Puritans,
dominated by the spirit of Rev. John
Robinson. Surprising the men who
taught us our ideas of morality and
right had not been inspired by the
teachings of u John Knox. Would we
still be the nation whose God is Lord,
as we are today? Thank God that the
gospel fires which are today burning
upon American hearths were once
started by the live Goals of the old
Puritans and the old covenanters
The spiritual lips of many centuries
are pleading from our pulpits today.
not spiritual lips which have been born
within the last century One of the
most dramatic and pathetic stories
ever told was that of Cyrus w Field
when he described before the New
York chamber of commerce THE Sto-
ry of the Atlantic Cable" For thir-
teen long years this persistent oper-
ator had struggled against contempt
and ridicule of all sorts. At last the
cable was successfully laid. Then the
Great Eastern sailed ont to sea to
grapple for the cable. which had been
lost in midocean the year before. Two
miles and half the graphing hooks
sank IN tho bntfop, Of fha ncaop no,,