Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-06

THE OTTUMWA COUI
daughter, stand hand in hand to de-
liver the, bondsmen and proclaim lib
erty throughout the world"
The speaker referred to the great
ness of England, whose drum beats en-
circled the globe and whose flag was
the most familiar sight on the seas.
He spoke of the landscape on the
journey from Liverpool to London as
an historical panorama of unsurpass-
able power. Here is a battlefield, here
an historic event or the scene of some
great achievement.
AngIo-Saxon Population.
AT last we arrive at London, a city
where the drama of life is played in all
Its phases. Poverty and philanthropy,
religion and barbarism exist side by
side. There is more peril today of our
civilization being usurped in New York
and London and the other great cities,
and when you have lost the strategic
points, what will you do with the dis
tant places. London is city of 900
square miles. It's population increases
at the rate Of 400 day. There are
more Jews here than in Palestine,
more Irishmen than in Lin erick, more
Swedes than in Stockholm, and yet the
population is distinctly Anglo-Saxon,
differing from New York in this re-
spect where the foreign population is
much in the majority,
Crowded New York.
'"The most crowded spots on earth
are to be found in New York. With
all our broad prairies in this amazing
land, on the first stem of land which
projects into the sea are found the
people heaped and piled in what are
called the black dead blocks. You
hear great deal about converting the
cities as if the people could be driven
to salvation with a whip like the
slaves by the slave driver. 1t is only
by moral suasion, intellectual convic-
ton and Christ's converting power
that these people can be brought to
Christianity.
II am here to plead for the simple
life, not a life of war but of peace.
do not believe that the progress of
a nation depends on it's military naval
strength. 1t is it's right minded men
and pure women that makes the
strength of nation. | am not I'M
mindful of the advantages in being
prepared for war so well that peace
may be preserved but it is in having
the means to do evil that evil is done.
A man who has loaded pistol to pre-
vent being held up and starts out at
night with the intention of shooting
the first man who he thinks may mo-
lest him is more apt to wind up in
jail than at home with his wife. A
large navy or army is more apt to be
source of evil than of good unless
we have the right kind of statesmen
to guide the destinies of the nation.
activity reconciliation of belligerents,
arbitration between nations then | am
heartily In favor of it. But do not be
misled by the claim that Christianity
depends on such means for progress.
The cause of the Savior was never de-
pendent on Krupp gun. 1t is not in
diplomacy. not in great war fleets but
in bloodless battles, men who carry
no weapons that will pull down the
wreckers ia high places.
oliver Cromwell.
DR.. Cadfnan told of some Of the
great men of London, noted in the
history of the empire and in art, liter
ature and science. Referring to the
Duke of Wellington, he said that
Grant was most like him as general
and that to both these men, glory was
a prostitute and duty goddess. Re
garding Oliver Cromwell, he said that
England owed him much. and that
though he was a crude man of war,
with many faults which were better
not mentioned, yet he made England
great and but for him England and
the American republic would have
been thrown out Of existence. He
spoke of the house of lords and said
that men were made lords in England
for various causes. Tennyson for writ
ing poem, Roberts for his victories
in war and one man for brewing good
beer so that it was true that both
the beerage and the peerage were rep
resented in the house of lords. He re-
ferred to the Marquis of Salisbury, as
the greatest statesman the world has
ever known, and said that when he
died Secretary of State John Hay took
his place. Lord Roseberry he said, was
the greatest orator of two continents.
81 speak advisedly when l say this, "he
said. land l have heard Bryan and the
other great popular orators Of Amer
lea as well as of England, but if you
had heard Roseberry as / did in one
of his greatest speeches and realized
his depth of thought and logic and
wonderful command of the possibili-
ties of the English language, you
would admit the justice of my claim.
House of Commons.
"The house of commons, elected by
the people, is not held in the same
high esteem as formerly. Joseph
Chamberlain, who has been everything
in turn and nothing for long, Balfour,
who has made of wabbling fine art,
when the house can produce no better
mon than thnco for itc adorc If ic no