The Irish standard., 1892-07-30
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND ABROAD.

niece OF the Rev. Mother, Aloyslus
Joseph.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND ABROAD.
His Speech In French Delivered Before
the Geographical Society in Paris.
| While in Paris the Archbishop of St.
Paul lectured before the Geographical
society He spoke in French and the
Paris papers were full of compliments to
him for the accuracy and purity with
which he used that language.
M. de Vogue, in introducing the Arch
bishop, said: "Six years ago we learned
that Mgr. Ireland went to Paris with
Cardinal Gibbons to plead the cause of
the Knights of Labor. Consequently he
has our affection, which he won by the
generosity of his ideas and the magnetism
of his eloquence. By the style of his
language and the acce of his heart you
will recognize in him something of
France"
Thanking M. de Vogue, the Archbishop
said:
| It is true that I am somewhat of a
Frenchman. With you I passed the
bright years of my youth, and France is
the mother of the ideas of my soul.
Therefore, when 1 come again upon her
soil, I feel my heart growing young; l
feel that am once moro in the land of
my youth. I love France because I have
seen her close at hand. But who would
not love this country, with it's glorious
history, it's generous ideas and it's devo-
ton? Let other nations fight for worldly
notions and frontier considerations;
France stood in the past and stands in
the present always ready to labor and to
| struggle for honor, for religion, for every
thing that elevates the soul, and that is
the reason why the moral, the religious,
and the intellectual world cannot exist
| without France. And that is also the
reason why I, a citizen of the United
States, am not a stranger here. I salute
you in the name of my country, that
owes 10 you n0f lDerty.
France may we'll be proud of her child,
that has become giant among nations.
To-day we have sixty-fve millions of in
habitants. and at the close Of the century
we shall have, with Gods blessing, hun
dred millions. No doubt we owe great
deal of this increase to the immigration
which has poured upon us like torrent;
but this immigration would not come if
the fertility and the riches of our country
did not attract the people of the old
Continent.
How, you may ask, Is assimilation
brought about in our country? It is pro-
duced as soon as the immigrants breathe
the air of America. They love liberty,
and when their feet touch our soil they
become transformed. Their children will
be of different type from that Of their
ancestors. The first Anglo-Saxon colo
nists gave special stamp to the country;
but siuce their time we have become
eclectic, and we endeavor to take the best
qualities in each nation. From you we
take the love of the ideal.
We are accused of being too fond of
dollars. Well, yes, we like dollars, be-
cause they represent the fruit of our Ia
Dor. But our hand is ever ready to give,
and we know how to spend with just as
much good will as we accumulate. One
thing may surprise you, and that is that
we esteem the artist and the scholar far
more than we do the capitalist. Give us
time and we, too, will have brilliant deco
rations of life. Americans despair of
nothing.
It is also said that American women
are rather bold and independent, and you
hear of their demands for the electoral
suffrage. All Of them have not these
radical ideas; but all have an independ-
ence of mind which does them honor,
and they desire a practical education.
IT an accident deprives them of their
fortunes they are ready to go to work,
and they are prepared for that by their
education. That is the reason why, if
women ever gain the right to vote, they
will commence in America, and they are
worthy Of it. One Of our States, Wyom-
ing, has already given women the right
to vote, and one of them has just been
elected Mayor Of one of the towns there.
The next day all the drinking saloons
were closed by her order. You see that
we must not despair il the world Of
women obtain the right to vote.
In the United States the republican
faith is the expression Of organized dem
ocracy. You know something Of our
Constitution. At the present time we
are engaged in the election Of Presi-
dent. It is q battle between the Repub-
licans and the Democrats, two parties
which are not divided by very tangible
differences. The Republicans have .