Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-07-08


victory by a small number Of emil
grants. From Glasgow and Liverpool
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.
"Send me my brother and sister," calls
back the Irish servant girl to her par
ents on Killarney lakes. Let them
come to me. ard | will pay their way"
"Send me the girl l once courted
among the highlands or wooed under
the shadow Of Linlithgow while read
10 her the tragic story OF beautiful
Queen Mary. who was born among
yonder hills" writes the young Amer
lcanzed 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 bills.
and Georgia pines, and western pral-
ries, and In metropolitan New YORK.
Am I wrong II stating that the British
empire has az lin laid siege and cap
tured Bunker Hill, with her immi-
grants every year coming Into New
| York harbOrf
But the Britt n empire demands from
us her annual rxports OF gold. We are
told that the a nerican struggle for lio'
erty was ,brol ght to climax when
King Georges prime minister demand
ed that the thi teen colonies pay tax
on tea. The Z )ston tea party was Or
| ganized. One dark night number or
Young men, armed to the teeth, entered
those ships ard tossed overheard all
the boxes cont ining that imported tea.
Taxation without representation Is
wrongw the pc )ple cried. I'VE VIII NOT
my a cent to the British throne unit
King George allows our people to vote
In the house OF commons" But when
George Washington took the oath OF
Office as presld ent Of the United States
did we then cease to have any further
dealings with British gold?
| The Conquest By British Capital.
Have you % rational man ever
stopped to con slider how many Ameri-
can industries have been fostered and
built up by British capitalf The Brit
lsh worknen have como here by MIL
lions and settled In our land and taken
out naturaliza ton papers. But the
British capitalists, although many or
them have never crossed the seas, have
sent their moneys here and Invested
tSem 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 were TO be with
drawn nOm 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 surCSt guarantees that Eng
land will never 60 to war against
America Is that, as q 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'
fer factory or Belfast linen OK Glasgow
mills.
II the British empire dominates US in
linguistic ard social and industrial
way, how much more does she infu-
epce us In 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? Supposing 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. SrppOslng the men who
taught us our ideas of morality and
right had not been inspired by the
teachings Of 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 tie old cOvenantcrs.
The spiritual lips of many centuries
are pleading from our pulpits today,
not spiritual lips which have been born
within the las. century. One of the
most dramatic and pathetic stories
ever told was that of Cyrus w. Field
when he desc ribed before the New
York chamber Of commerce "The Sto-
nv OF the Atlt ntic Cable" For thir-
teen long yeas this persistent oper'
ator had stru1 1gled against contempt
and rIdIcule O. all sorts. At last the
cable was sucC essfu!ly laid. Then the
, Great Eastern sailed out to sea to
. grapple for the cable. which had been
lost In midocean the year before. Two
, miles and a half the graphing hooks
sank to the bottom Of the ocean. Day
, after day and week after week the
work went on. At last the graphing
, hooks caught. Slowly and surely from
its bed of prineval ooze the lost cable
was lifted up. But no sooner did the
end appear above the surface of the
sea than the men raised cheer. Then
like q frightened creature 1t seemed tc
, tear itself away and fall back to Its
old couch.
Cyrus ". Fields Courage.
Again ond AGAIN went the huge crap