The Irish standard., 1892-07-09

| ments of war, the rivers and streams
| would have been turned red with the
blood of those who would have fallen to
carry such declaration into effect. 1t
| that declaration meant SO much with
their 3,50O,0OO people, how much more
should it mean to us to-day with our o.
0GO, 900 people, but it would be hypocrisy
for us to- day to .eulogize the actions OF
our old Revolutionary forefathers If we
did not carry within our breasts the sem
timents necessary to maintain those liber-
! ties which have been handed down to us
| by them And now after 116 years OF na-
tional life for a second time wa have
reached period in our tountry's history
| that tries mems souls. What England
could not accomplish with her powerful
| armies and navies, she is accomplishing
with her gold, securing control Of our
American industries, and thereby plac-
| ing our people in a position where she
| can absorb the products of our labor.
The American people have grown tired OF
those burdens and are arising spontane-
| ously to protest against them.
This power behind the English throne
that always slaughtered the weak and
used subtle and crafty means with the
atrong has it's agencies at work amongst
US to divide the people, and 80 to-day we
can see arising in our midst school OF
illegitimate thought-or rather want OF
thought foreign to our laws and un-
known to our constitu ton, having for it's
object the inoculation Of the body poll
tic with the germs Of a dangerous disease
knownas as sixteenth century bigotry. They
would inject into The hearts of the Amer
can people the doctrine of more hate and
less love, that dangerous doctrine which
dotted Europe with the graves Of it's vic
Tins. Even now before this cancer has
fastened it's roots the defamer of Anerl-
can womanhood can find an audience
and even seme faint applause.
Under other circumstances when the
mind is free from religions bigotry, the
man who would SANDER the descendants
of those noble women who pressed their
loving boys to their breasts and sent
them forth to fight for their country,
would find Il million muskets presented
at his cowardly heart.
Womauhood must find protection in
manhood, for what would man be with
out the refining influences of woman.
He can see uairrored in the countenance
OF his wife or the woman he loves trusr
and ncbler soul than his own. The great
est person that ever left the foot prints
on Mother Earth found pleasant co~u-
panionship in the humble Sisters of
Bethany.
Again, those people point to the shame
that it is to cater to All Irish element in
filing appointive offices, and while
do not think ii right to cater to any ole
meut. but that mon for all Offices. from
the president down, should be chosen be-
cause Of their fitness, still I may say that
when the long roll Of freedom that
action was beating, the Irish Americans
were among the first that presented their
breast TO the enemy. When in response
to the call Of that grand man, Abraham
Lincoln, the sons of the Republic raj
lied to maintain the union, the irish
Americans we're found in the front, while
xryl,r f.,h ho n <,f
tecting American institutions to-day
were conveniently close to the Canadian
boundary line, if not on the other SIDE.
held that the right of citizenship car
ries with it the right to hold office when
a person is properly chosen to do so. and
any class Of people who, by any means,
legaiized or otherwise, would disqua}ify
any citizen from holding office on ac-
count Of his nationality, brands that c,ti-
zen with the stamp of jgnominious iue-
quality.
Now let us consider what is cur duty
as American citizens to-day. Our duty is
to arise above those logs and supersti-
tions Of religious prejudice, and exter-
inmate this foreign conspiraracy which
divides our people by showering down on
ii the dynamite Of free thought and in
telIigent action. We wrnt to raise the
stars and stripes until they float a}oft
over free people enjoying all the bene-
fits which nature has laid in store for
them. and the untrammeled right to form
their own conception Of their Gcd and to
worship bin accordingly.
Liberty knows no international boun-
diary lines and while our duty is to main
tain our OVID bio drought liberties we
must not be selfish. We should lend our
sympathies and aid to the struggling peo-
pie of other lands. The social movements
in France, Go-,e', LAY and England Should
receive our synpathies In gratitude for
what the Irish people have done for our
government we should long for and en-
deavor to hasten the time when the sons
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