New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-04-27
DEMOSTHENEs ECLIPSED.
Senator Davis Makes Brilliant Speech
on the Chinese Exclusion
Act.
he Denounces the Gahens1y Scheme and
Compliments the Pope and Arch
bishop Ireland.

U0mpllmenGs Jne rope anu Arch
bishop Ireland.
Friday was a red letter day for Min
nesota's senior senator, G. *. Davis. The
Chinese exclusion bill coming up for de
bate, the great feature of the discussion,
both for information and eloquence, was
the speech of Mr.. Davis. His address
was fully an hour in length, and COM
manded the profound attention, not only
OF the auditors in the galleries, but Of
the full senate, many of the Democratic
senator's going over to the Republican
side and taking seats around the orator.
The remarkable display of knowledge Of
the subject, the force of the logic, the
elegant diction, wealth of illustration
and broad craftsmanship such made such a
marked impression that Senators Sher-
man, Gray and others congratulated Mr..
Davis on having gained distinction by
his utterances, which places him among
the few real orators of the country. He
Won from his colleagues, without regard
to party, the highest encomiums Among
other things he said, referring at the OUT
set to the bill as rank, radical, un-
blushing, unmitigated repudiation of
every treaty obligation remaining be-
tween the United States and China:
The Chinese government did not want
its people to come to the United States.
But how was it with the people of the
western hemisphere9 There was matter
for more profound contemplate in the
proposition of Mr.. Cahensly, who had
submitted to the pope last year a propo-
sition to denationaIize nations and to
supplant them by the institutions of as
many nationalities as were to be found
in America, than there was in all the
Chinese questions that had arisen since
1858. That gentleman Mr.. Cahensly)
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proposed to use the power of the Catho-
lie hierarchy to bring about the great
political result. He (Davis) reioiced
that he could speak Of the matter with
out committing the offense Of treading
on religious ground, because it was to
the credit of Pope Leo Kill, the great
est pontitic statesman who had sat on
the throne for years that he had refused
the proposition as soon as made to him.
That attempt had not been instigated
by the American hierarchy at all. He
believed that it met with the repproba-
ton of Cardinal Gibbons, and he knew
that it met with the reprobation Of Arch
bishop Ireland. This Mr.. Cahensly was
not a priest, but.a layman, a member Of
the Prussian diet. In the memorial
which he presented to the vatican he
claimed that the want of representation
Of the different nationalities of emigrants
in the episcopate was one of the causes
of desertions of the Catholic forces, and
that hence it was desirable that every
different national groupe Of emigrants
should be organized into a distinct parish.
with priest Of its own nationality 1t
was one of this mans schemes that the
various foreign languages should be per-
petuated in the United States by the
segregation of people by nationality.
How utterly obliyious to the idea that
there is an American nationality and an
American people. Never had there been
a more infamous attempt to prostitute
the religious power to political purposes
than was expressed in. that memorial
This man, was no inconsiderable man !;
he was a. man who could combine
allies. It had been stated that Mr..
Schlezer, the German representative at
Rome, was in hearty accord with him
and backed up the mem orial; and that
American families Of high rank and royal
and noble circles were interested in the
scheme, but it was to the glory Of the
American hierarchy that it had fought
the proposition. Perhaps I have gone
out Of my way to bring up this subject
now, but it SO far dwarfs by contrast the
danger to be apprehended from the Chi
.nese, that I could not refrain from it.
AN OLD v VETERAN IN LUCK,
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