New-York tribune., 1907-11-26
DIR. AKED GAINS FRIENDS
HIS TiezCS Please the Sons of the
american ReUOlutiOn.

The Empire State Society Of the Sons OF the
American Revolution celebrated last night the
niversary OF the evacuation cf New York City by
the British troops by holding its eighteenth annual
dinner A hHftone reproduction of a steel
craving representing the embarkatIon Of the last
OF the redcodts 124 years ago greeted the several
hundred sons and daughters thcy took
their places in tho main ballroom OF the Waldorf
Astoria. To make the anniversary more significant
the sons and daughters" present gave their
most generous applause to the among the
speakers who born i'm England He intro
duced such. aud took pains to deny It to
apologize for it. although since his arrival in this
country, few months ago. he has formally Ameri-
canizcd himself TO the extent of taking his first
papers
The whole assembly was disposed last night to
fraternize with him when he declared that the real
England OF 120 years ago never unfrendly to
America The Rev DR. Charles f. Aked. pastor OF
tho Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. was tho Eng
lishman. who declared that Englshmen
were lighting for the very principles OF liberty
which the ancestors of his American hosts Of last
night battlcd for more than a century ago
In explaining his assertion that the real Eng
land OF George III's time never really opposed
the American colonsts in their fight for lib-
erty, Or. Aked said that to-day in England the
members of the free churches were fighting for
the same old principle of no taxation without
representation" For real English principles OF
liberty these people fighting, said the
speaker. just the Americans fought Although
introduced by President William Allen Marble OF
the society Englishman DR. Aked said he
felt he had claim to admission TO membership
into tho society. for his spiritual ancestors.
Franklin had pointed out. the best friends
the American colouists had. Your quarrel was
not with the I'm lsh people," said DR. Aked. 1T
was with the fools and opressors called George"
The clergyman said there were two Enclands-
one of the governing classes and of the real
Enslishmen Even the former capable OF
getting an idea into their heads. as had been
shown now and them and they getting more
of them as time went lie spoke hopefully of
the approach of the time when men and women IN
England would not be arraigned along with COM
mon felons because they refused to contribute TO
the support of the Established Church. and sub
scribed the hands across the sea- doctrine in
saying that humanitys nobest dream was of a
federation of the English speaking peoples of the
earth.
The Rev DR. Nehemiah Boynton one of the
other speakers, said that Charles Kingsleys ad-
vice to the workingmen Of England still held good
This that until they forgot to talk about their
rights and attend TO their duties little good would
be accomplished. DR. Boynton said that the Sons
Of the American Revolution had particular duty
in keeping alive the virillty OF the religious sense
of America. 1T will be sad day when tTfs sense
grows weak and fabby and when the Lords
Day the means of grace of less account than
the golf links and the worship of God has a lesser
attraction than tile country club" an expression
that was greeted with some applause DR. Boyn-
ton urged son his hearers the need of avoiding
Phistinism and doing all in their power to help I'm
the assimilation OF the hordes of immigrants COM
ing to shores
Nelson A. McCiaTy, president general of the ma
tonal society; Governor-elect J. Franklin Fort of
New Jersey, president of the New Jersey society
and Job L. Hedges were the other speakers
Both President McClary and DR. Rovnton oh
jected to the elimination of Christmas carols a.
the schools The former said il was time for tho
Americans to rise and call halt