Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-14
AN INDIAN REPUBLIC
Was the First in This Country and
the Ideal of the Present.
PAN-REPUBLICANS LAST MEETING.
A Glowing EulOgy on the Puritans by
Edward Everett Hale.
YUNG WINGS PLEA FOR THE CHINESE
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PHILADELPHIA, Oct 13.-Tne second
and last day of the Pan-Republican Con-
gress and Human Freedom League was not
a marked success so far as the number of
people in attendance were concerned. The
audience at both morning and afternoon
session at the Academy of Music was so
small that the great auditorium was aban-
doned and the green room found amply suf-
| ficient for the accommodation of all who
had gathered. What was lacking in num-
bers was, however, made up by the enthusi-
asm of those present and the high quality
of the papers read when DIR. Chase was in
the chair.
The morning meeting at 10 o'clock was
opened with prayer by the Rev. George
Dana Bardman, D. D. Letters of regret
were read from ex-Presidents Hayes and
Cleveland. Mr.. Cleveland wrote from his
home, in New York:
1 have just returned to the city, and find
awaiting me your letter of the 18th instant,
inviting me to preside at a meeting in Phil
adelphia on October IL. am obliged to de-
cline the invitation thus courteously ten
dered, as it is impossible for me to leave
AN INDIAN REPUBLIC FIRST
The first speaker, E. P Powell, of AL
bany, n. Y, said that the first republic in
this part of the world was founded BY the
Indians who dwelt in the eastern portion of
New York, and that this was the ideal re-
public of our own country. He expressed
the hope that all monarchies would come to
an end and every nation of the world
adopt republican government.
Secretary Mcdowell read stirring poem
written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, prophe-
sying the final worldwide rule of human
freedom. Prof Yung Wing, who holds
from Harvard College the degree of Ill D.,
the foremost representative from China in
the Western world, read a powerful paper
| upon the exclusiveness of the American
Government, with special reference to the
treatment of his race by the legislation of
the United States. The Rev. David c.
Kelley, d. D., of Tennessee. spoke elo-
quentlv and learnedly of the Scotch-Ameri-
cans and their influence in the development
of this country. The question of the ad-
dress to the peoples of the world was recon-
mitted to the committee in charge.
EULoGIzING THE PUR1TANs.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D., of
Boston, who had been prevented from at
tending the mass meeting last evening, ad-
dressed the congress, speaking in particular
of the Puritans in relation to the idea of
human freedom and its realization in their
body polite. 'In their commonwealth, ''he
said, "the Puritans did what others talked
of afterward To them we owe the name as
we'll as the fact of independence The word
Puritan was wrongly regarded as a syn
onvm of precision or the stickler for trifles.
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his body under subjection. Charles L and
his court ridiculed this, but history has
vindicated it.
''The Puritan in politics cuts broad
swath, regardless of what others may say
or think. This is congress for the same
kind of action. 1t calls upon all the
world to cooperate Our people care little
for platforms, whether a man speaks from a
stage or carttaiL What we here saw will be
less than what hereafter we do The tree
is Judged by its fruits. This congress may
do great good by merely lifting diplomacy
among nations to higher plane.
FRANKLIN FOOLED THEM.
Franklin fooled European Diplomats by
telling the truth. And that is the secret of
Americas success in diplomacy from the
beginning. Congress may change the old
theory of consanguinity, whereby poten-
tates treat with one another as brothers
and COUSINS and NAV make nations deal
in their affairs upon grounds of common
humanity The United States is the great
est peace society that ever existed. It set
ties quarrels among the several States,
where European powers would go to war.
The Congress should see that permanent
tribunal for the adjustment of International
difficulties should be established
DR.. Goode, of the Smithsonian Institute,
spoke of a national university as the
fulfillment of Washington bequest in his
will, which, with interest fairly computed,
would now amount to something like
81, 100000 Governor Hoyt, of Wyoming,
introduced resolution, which was adopted,
providing for the appointment of COM
mittee on the fouding of national Uni
yersity.
A stirring address was made by the Swiss
Consul, Rudolph Koradi, also by Julius
Brown, the Chippewa Indian, who was fol-
lowed by Alfred II. Love.