he whole more just than other nations. We founded ourselves
upon justice, upon the doctrine that a naturally separated people had a
right to their independence, that all men were politically equal and
equal before the law, and that no government could be just that did not
rest on the consent of the governed. These doctrines are the highest
development of justice that has been wrought out in the past and by that
great movement called the Reformation. But England has never accepted
them.

We have taught England many things. The dread of our influence compelled
her to give the Canadian French liberal institutions. Any rights the
Canadians, the Australians or the East Indians enjoy are the result of
our revolution and the Sepoy Mutiny. Without our example the English
lower classes would still be serfs. Real liberty and free government,
the rights of the laboring man, have grown during the last century in
England out of American precept and example.

We have compelled her to enlarge her elective franchise towards
universal suffrage. Only a few years ago there were no cheap newspapers
in England. No reform journals or periodicals favoring popular rights,
could be started because there was a tax on the paper, a tax on the
advertisements and a tax on each copy of the journal, so levied and
manipulated that the tory aristocracy could kill at their pleasure any
popular journalistic enterprise. But the example of free and cheap
newspapers in America, under the guidance of a Gladstone, extinguished
those taxes and from that time dates the development of popular rights
in England. In the same way has England been compelled to adopt our
system of the secret ballot in place of her method which placed every
tenant at the mercy of the landlord and every mill hand at the mercy of
the mill owner. She is now struggling in a comical way to adopt our
public school system. It remains for us to teach her to be just to the
Boers.

With the greatest esteem for your distinguished ancestor and yourself, I
have the honor to remain,

Very truly yours,
SYDNEY G. FISHER.

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