AN ENGLISH – SPEAKING FEDERATION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2295, 6 December 1889, Page 2

AN ENGLISH - SPEAKING FEDERATION

The most rema-k.ble speeoh on the federation. of the Englisb-speiklog peoples of the world was delivered In America by the well-known Gen. Butler, who concluded with the following stirring appeal;-—" The two nations (England and America) are ooming together *»nd when it comes to piss all Europe and Asia, joined m battle array, If such a thing were possible, against the English- speaking people of the globs, would pau-e ia dismay before any hostile step would be taken against auoh a united power. Why should we we not look to .uch a union as a moans of spreading the Christian religion In Us most enllght.ned form? Such a united power would save all the other nations of Europe froa. final and Inevitable bankruptcy beaau.e of maintaining the immense armies and navies, to the destruction of their people, to keep other nations m chock, To that English speaking league every nation would be obliged to submit f r arbitrament every cause of difference, if uot for fear of its armed intervention, yet beoause of its holding ihe money of the world. No war could be oarried on wbich that power should disapprove, and any nation might disarm who should be proteoted even by tbe promise of financial aid by the pledge of the united English-speaking paoplo of the ea*th. With America and England uniting their means of production and transportation of tbat whioh sustains life and secures comfort, no want or famine could ever come, and within a oentury a universal langu.ge could pervade tha world, thus relieving it from the punishment inflioted on mankind by the Lord Almighty at the tower of Babel."