Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-05-26

from the market. It was the trade
 with the colonies which began to give i England new wealth. So long as the country was justly and temperately governed, the shopkeeper and mer chant were content 10 leave the gov ernment in the hands that held it.
 Walpole let them alone anI thought
 and action were alike left free.
 We will now consider Charles
 James Fox, son of the first Lord Hol- iand, who, although in eloquence and brilliancy did not perhaps equal Pit or Burke, yet he was of the first class among orators. He was elected to parliament when only 19 years old. He was d close friend of Burke and
 one of'the chief opponents of the war with America, the outcome of which he clearly foresaw He was a DOW eriul advocate of the claims of the colonists and opposed to all coercive measures which were adopted by the government. Burke called him the greatest debater the world ever saw" We will next turn our attention to Edmund Burke, of whom it has been said, Tt would be difficult to select an example of a more lofty and ire proachable character among the great statesmen of England He was up- right, conscientious, conservative, re- ligious and profound. Although he was the most conservative of states
 men, clinging to the constitution and
 to consecrated traditions and associa-
 :ions both in church and state, still bis name is associated with the~most
 important and salutary reforms which~
 England made for half century. To
 my mind Burke looms up after the
 lapse of century, as a prodigy of
 thought and knowledge, devoted to the
 good of his country; an unselfish and
 disinterested patriot, as wise and sa-
 Saeious as he was honest; q sage
 whose moral wisdom shines brighter
 and brighter, since it was based on
 the immutable principles of justice
 and morality. The great career of
 Burke began by opposing the leading
 opinions of his day in reference to the
 coercion of the American colonies He advocated conciliation, the withdrawal
 of theoretic rights, the removal of re-
 strictions on American industry, the
 withdrawal of monoplies and of un-
 generous distinctions. He would bind the two countries together by cord of love. He spoke strongly of the loyalty of the colonists and showed that in claiming the right of taxing themselves, they were only holding fast to principles which Englishmen had always asserted. When some
 member remarked that it was horrible l for children to rebel against their
 parents, Burke replied: Tt is true l the Americans are our children; but when children ask for bread, shall we give them stone?" For ten years l he labored with successive admins ] tIations to procure reconciliation. He spoke nearly every day. He appeal ed to reason, to justice and to com mon sense.
 ] But I need not enlarge upon his
 noble efforts to prevent war with
 the colonies. The logic of events at
 last showed the wisdom of Burke and the folly of the king and his ministers, and of the nation at large. And now last but not least by any
 means among Our English Friends is William Pitt, one of the greatest of English orators and statesmen, dis tinguished as the Great Commoner,"
 5ut who became near the close of his life Earl of Chatham and who has long been universally regarded as the
 coionists' best friend. During the first half of his life he took an active
 part in public affairs, and it was his genius that largely extended the Brit
 ish dominion in both hemispheres. In
 1114 the unjust action of England to-
 ward the American colonies called forth all the remaining powers Of the venerable patriot. With all the force
 of his eloquence he opposed every harsh and coercive means which has tened the separation of the colonies from the Mother Country. IL was in