MESSENGERS 0E THE AIR 



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 CARRIER-PIGEONS 



tion derived from colonial experience 

 under English rule — all come from Brit- 

 ain, a country whose high priest was John 

 Milton, whose sweet singer was Burns, 

 whose great intellect was Shakespeare, 

 whose great warriors for liberty were 

 Hampden and Sidney and Simon de 

 Montfort. 



I would rather have heard the Senator 

 eulogize the best offshoots of that branch, 

 and those offshoots right here in Canada 

 and Australia and in South Africa, than 

 to have heard his eulogy of Prussia. 

 They are the branches of the old stock 

 that had the courage to leave their neigh- 

 borhood and environment and seek out a 

 new habitat and adapt themselves to it, 

 and who won the American fight for lib- 

 erty and equal opportunity — who, like 

 our ancestors, plowed the field with the 

 rifle on their shoulder, while they held 

 the plow with the other hand. They were 

 English and Scotch and "Welsh and Irish. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS ENGLISH 



It was an Englishman of the English- 

 men, as far as his blood is concerned — 

 George Washington, of Mount Vernon — 

 who would have preferred to have the 



people speak of him as "George Wash- 

 ington of Mount Vernon," his plantation 

 name, rather than by some other name — 

 who led the American forces that fought 

 against the dictates of a German-blooded 

 king, backed up by Hessian hirelings. 

 George Washington warned against en- 

 tangling alliances and warned against an- 

 other thing — an infuriate and insensate 

 hatred of some particular people — be- 

 cause a man with that poison in his blood 

 is incapable of being a real, good Amer- 

 ican citizen in a country where the melt- 

 ing pot will finally operate. 



I do not like the arraignment which the 

 Senator made of the English people or 

 the English Government, even more dem- 

 ocratic than our own. I do not like it 

 because it was not correct historically, 

 because it was not true in sentiment, and 

 because it was an insult to the gentlemen 

 from whose loins I sprang, when they 

 themselves fought against people of like 

 blood who wanted to oppress them. What 

 did they fight for? They fought for 

 this — Thomas Jefferson and old Samuel 

 Adams were pretty nearly the only ones 

 of them who then had a larger vision — 

 George Washington and Lincoln and 



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