The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-04

ORGANIZATIONS In Europe and America
are taking a deep interest in a prop
osition that q new Mayflower be built.
The programme Is to have the mod
ern Pilgrim ship come across the
ATLANTIC Ocean, bringing the repre-
sentatives of those branches OF the
Afayflower families that remained In
England in 1920 and have them well
coined at Plymouth Rock on hands
across-the-sea basis by the descend
ants OF the Mayflower passengers in
this country as preliminary to the
Worlds Fair which will undoubted-
ly be held In Boston, In New York
or at Plymouth Rock about the year
1920.
Specialists experts familiar with
the examination of historical docu-
ments-say that If the Government OF
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland Is to select the repre-
sentatives OF the work has not been
started one minute too soon. for the
reason that 1t will require several
years to make a systematic search OF
Mayflower records on the other side
ofthe water. to say nothing about the
records In this country.
III this reunion Of the two branches
ofi'the Pilgrim families should take
place in 1920, and all the defendants
OF the AIayflower passengers in the
United States should gather at Ply
mouth Rock. II is estimated by one
Authority that at least half million
persons would be there to welcome
their English cousins. 1t has long
been standing joke that all Amer
ipan citzens in some mystic manner
claim that the-blood of the Mayflower
passengers runs in their veins, and
the statement, made in all seriousness,
thai hundreds OF thousands OF persons
in this country are really entitled to
join Mayflower societies, will come
as surprise to most persons. And
equally surprising, perhaps, is the
statement that " the new Mayflower
is ITO be built along the lines OF the
old Nlayflower, the cost onght not
greatly to- exceed $4,000.
Interviews with some prominent
Americans elected the following
views OF the undertaking:
e. Mira Julia Ward Howe, author OF
"The Battle Hymn OF the Republic
l. think America and Great Britain
stand for substantially the same
great principles and the same leading
ideals. And although our forefathers
had to leave England in order to en-
JOY religious liberty, England more
than any other European country
stands for religious liberty today.
Aud anything helps which helps the
people OF the different nations OF the
world to better understand each 9TH
er.t
Robert Treat Paine, President OF the
American Peace Society.-The idea OF
q new NIayflower visiting us right in
line with the international visits az
ranged by Sir Thomas Barclay and
the Cremer Commiss'o of 1888.
II was nearly twenty years ago that
William Randall Cremer. who is a
member of the British Parliament and
one OF the leaders in the great Inter-
parliamentary Union movement, sue
ceeded In bringing about a conference
between score of the French legis-
lators and an equal number OF the
members of the British Parliament.
And the influence OF the good ac-
coInplished at that particular time is
still being felt throughout the world e.
AS foi Sir Thomas Barclay-the work
that he has accomplished in connec-
tion with the International Brother
h0cd Alliance Is better known and
better appreciated IN Europe than in
America
IiFor the International Brotherhood
Alliance has already been instru-
fnental in promoting a series of inter-
national visits on the other side OF
lsbe water. The visits which have
taken place or are taking place be-
tween the workingmen OF Great Brit.
ain, France, Germany and Belgium
alave been productive of the best OF
reBults.i AS to the intercommereia
visits | need only say that the meet
ing IN Paris of the Associated Cham
bers of Commerce of Great Britain
was largely the result of the labols o
Sir Thomas Barclay and that many
Old World writer's declare that thu
entente cordiale between Great Brit
ain and France has been due in
large mefsure to intercommercial Wis
Its between the two countries
John ID. Long. ex-Secretary OF tn
United States Navy-When we speal
OF the Pilgrim Fathers, we really refe
TO i few OF them, hardly more thai
can be counted on my fingers. AM
to my mind the striking thing in thi
small number who stands for the Phi
grinis is their practical wisdom
what In the vernacular we call har
common sense. 1t determined an
governed their convictions. not onl
III religious but in material things
In both lines their minds were mad
and their action taken with deliberat
well-welghing There was no sky
rockety enthusiasm, no evaporatin
impulse, mo fanaticism. When the
took o. step they took It with vie
to every step that would follow, an
they fixed their eyes, not on any d