The Irish standard., 1893-10-21

dan to West Point, would censure the


government that appointed him and CAV
him that command, and would censur
the God, If they dared, who endowe'
him with his great capacity as militar,
leader. Phil Sheridan was Catholi
and had probably attended mass tina
morning in Washington City. And i,
hat same battle was your own fellow
citizen, Charles M. Cornyn. ne, too, wat
q Catholic, AM if I ever saw braveI
soldier than he it was only Andrew Jack
son, and if ever saw truer patriot
have never known 1t.
| And what are they teaching? The re.
ligion of hate. Christianity is as hostile
to them as Christ is to sin. What are
they after? They say that the Catholics
are going to rise and cut all our throats
and make the earth rich with Protestant
blood. l would Just as lief trust the
Catholics as the Methodists, or the
Methodiste as the Catholics. There is
nothing in their claim that would do any
credit to the most driveling idiot.
would hate to have a mind and heart
that wo',ld permit me to believe that the
followers of Christ of Nazareth could
possibly have any revolutionary inten.
tions. If the Catholics Of this city are
going to rise will go out and suppress
them myself and I will not need mus
ket either. lApplause.]
There have been two events in the past
thirty years that could not have hap.
pened in any other country on the globe
in any age. We suppressed great rs
bellion and not drop of blood was shed
in punishment of that rebellion. This
could have occurred in no other country
and nowhere in history or human ma
ture can you find parallel to it. The
other event occurred the other day in
Chicago. They had 9 congress of reli-
gions. The Catholics and Protestants
and Mohammedans and Buddhists, they
were all there in conclave together.
There was no A. P. Aism there. Zap
plause. No such religious as emily
ever met before and these two events
hang the lights on the pathway of hu-
manity higher than human hands ever
hung them before, and when look up
and see the brilliancy of ftheir rays reach
ing out and illumining the other side of
the globe I feel swelling pride that l
au an American and citizen of this re-
public. (Applause
And then turn and look down into a
deep, dark, ,cavernous valley. I see toads,
lizards and scorpions and snakes and
adders and slime and v~rmin. shut out
from the light of the sun, shut out from
the light Of Christianity, shut out from
the light Of truth, shut out from the
light Of mercy, shut out from ali that is
good, down in that dark valley / see an
assembly of the A. p. A. Tremendous
applause).
trust that no one will complain of nae
for speaking Of them in connection with
this religious gathering in Chicago, for /
present the one as the highest achieve
ment of humanity and I present the other
as the most God -forsaken remnant Of the
human race. (Applause).
There is rule you may adopt with
perfect safety and that is that all secret
political societies are enemies to the gov
ernment under which they exist. / love
secret political society under despot-
ism and l despise it under republic.
(Applause.) They hold their meetings
and their membership secret They are
either enemies to the government and
don't dare to disclose it, Or they are cow
ards and afraid to take the responsibility
of their own conduct, ,or they are ashamed
of the work they are doing. hope it is
the last, for that is the only thing can be
creditabie to them.
want to say to any Democrat who
has been wheedled into it that pity his
weakness but I pray him to come out as
it is trap set for him by designing Re
publicans. never had particle OF re-
spect for the old Know Nothing party
and this is one of it's offsprings.'