The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
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,nl.noxvn tongues" Around these or over these but few of us have tine linguistic ability to go or to climb. But, though between us and England rolls the At lantic ocean, 2000 miles wide, the bridge of common language spans it. over that bridge every day walk the British states men, the British reformers, the British authors, the British preachers, the British leaders of thought.
 The British empire has conquered us by the tongue, but not by that alone. Every year she sends over a great in- vading army. This army of invaders are stout of muscle and clear of eye and brave of heart. They have the bravery to cross the seas. Yes, but they are also brave enough to bring along their wives and children. and gold. and picks, and plumb lines. They plainly and blunt iy declare that they have come to capture our lands, and sit upon our mercantile thrones, and form their colonization set dement's. And as soon as they can get a foothold here they say they will send over for their fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters to come and live with them in their new homes which they have built In the new land and which they are already beginning to rule.
 We find in America the English and the Scotch and the Irish families every where. Supposing I should ask all those whom I address to arise and say who were born in the British isles and who are sons and daughters and grandchildren of ancestors who were born there, how many do you suppose would stand up? A twentieth? A tenth? A fourth? Yes, I think a fourth or even third is not overestimating the numbers.
 When the original thirteen colonies won their natio nal ir ape l ,'es WIZ had all told in this country between three f1,. ..atll ef nr1A had a smaller population than has the present city of New York. In little over a hundred years we have nearly S0,0U0OOO inhabitants Whence did these people come? From the American cradle? Yes. The American stork has bnilded her nests in the chimneys of many homes. But the American storlk from 100000 parents could not produce sO,000.000 living descen- dants in a little over hundred years. The vast numbers of the American inhabi- tants today came over as emigrants from Europe or their fathers or grand-fathers came thus. And by far the largest pro- portion of these emgrants came as an in vading army from the shores of England and Scotland and Ireland.
 The Great British Army.
 Great is the British army of emigra- tion England defeated Napoleon Bona parte at Waterloo with an army Of less than rocco men. The British empire hurled back the Russian Slav from the shores of the Black sea in the Crimean war with an army of only S0,OOo men. Hayelock fought his way up from the coast to Lucknow and Cawnpur with only 1900 men, Robert Give, afterward Lord Give, subjugated the whole Indian em- pire with only a few thousand troops.
 But. though the British empire has won many successes on land as well as on sea with small armies and navies, she has not won her American victory by small number of emigrants. From Glasgow and Liverpool and London during the last 100 years she has sent forth her best sons and daughters by the hundreds of thousand and by the millions. Still that invading army is calling across the Atlantic for more endorsements. "Send me my brother and sister" calls back the Irish servant girl to her parents on Killarney lakes. "Let them come to me- and VIII pay their way" Send me the girl l once courted among the highlands or wooed under the shadow of Linlithgow While read to her the tragic story Of beautiful Queen Mary who was born among yon- der hills" writes the young Americanized Scotchman, who is winning a fortune in the new world "Send me my sisters and let them fee the London fogs, writes the young Englishman who is running
  of the British empire is growing. Her sons and daughters have been rapidly making A success among Michigan hills, and Geor- gia pines. and western prairies, and In metropolitan New York Am l wrong in stating that the British empire has again laid siege and captured Bunker Hill, with her immigrants 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 liberty was brought to a climax when King Georges prime minister demanded that the thirteen colonies pay a tax on tea. One dark night a number of young men, armed to the teeth. entered those ships and tossel overheard all the boxes contan- Ing that imported tea. Taxation without is wrong!'' the people cried. we will not pay a cent to the British throne until King George allows our peo- plc 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 fur ther dealings with British gold?
 The Conquest By British Capital.
 Have you as a rational man ever stopped to consider hoy many American industries have been fostered and built up by British capital? The British work men have come here by millions and set tied in our land and taken out naturaliza- ton 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 mil lions 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 dol lars.
 If all British capital were to be with drawn from our manufacturers and rail- road stock and mining industries this country would hear the most awful finan- cial crash the world has felt since man began to buy and sell for barter and gain. And, furthermore, one of the surest guar antees that England will never go to war against America is that as financial na- ton, she cannot afford to do so. She would not only be fighting her own sons and daughters but she would be destroying her own pocketbok. The British immigrant Is here. The British millions are Invested in American coal as well as in Sheffield cutlery or Manchester factory or Bel fast linen or Glasgow mills.
 If the British empire dominates us in a linguistic and social and industrial way, how much more does she influence us in a religious way! Supposing our churches had been the outgrowth of the Spanish cathedral instead of the Scottish kirk. What would have happened? Supposing the men who laid the religious foundations of otlr thaolOgical seminares had come