The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-01-28
HIS EXACT WORDS.
What Father Corbett Really said
in His Grand Army Address
at Duluth.
ENCOURAGED TO PROCEED BY

The Grand Army Veterans After
Being Rudely Interrupted
by a Fanatic.
A Duluth dispatch of the 18th inst.
falsely accused Father Timothy Corbett,
pastor Of the prot Cathedral, of referring
in the course of his address to the Grand
Army men to the recent trouble in local
political circles into which the Protestant
and the Catholic churches had been
dragged. 1t was said that Father Corbett
declared that the trouble had been
brough about by peripatetic Protestant
preachers, whereupon the audience was
said to have taken his remarks as an in
suit to Rev. G. II. Stocking, chaplain Of
the post, who was present, and then a man
jumped to his feet and cried out, "That's
enough of that! Choke him otfW The
dispatch further stated thst confusion
followed and rush was made for the
platform, evidently to strike down
0LNCI OOID0LOs DAU O1u0A Ao AA1AG1Ay AO-
stored before the trouble came to blows.
The truth is that Father Corbett was
rudely interrupted by only one man IL
the audience when alluding to itinerant
ex-prlests like Ohiniquy and Slattery and
ranting ministers who try their utmost
to create dissension among American
citizens, The disturber was evidently
an Orangeman and member OF the A.
p. Association which infests the fair city
OF Duluth, and was not Grand Army
man ct all, as the report would lead the
reader to infer. 1t was only bigot that
made the disturbance, and after his ex
pulsion from the hall the Grand Army
veterans encouraged Father Corbett to
proceed with his address and he did 80,
eliciting rapturous applausefrom the au-
die1ce. There was nothing offensive to
any true and loyal American in the on
tire address, as the following verbatim
report from the Duluth Herald abund-
antly shows. After few preliminary
remarks, Father Corbett spoke as follows:
n After my service in Gods holy cause, my
heart experiences no greater Joy than
when I find myself among the veterans
who conserved this Union. When I
think OF my country stretching from the
Cult of Mexico to the British POSSESSIONS
and from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coast, with its beautiful and well-goy-
erned states; with unequal natural re-
sources, with It's fertility OF soil, it's COM
modious means of transport, it's railroad
system; with a constitution that has no
equal in the past or. present; with con-
stitution that puts ali men on level
and in which liberty, fraternity
and equality are not mere monumental
Inscriptions; 9 constitution that gives
legitimate food for legitimate ambition,
and this for every man no matter what
land witnessed his birth; with people
who own the land and receive the fruit of
their own industry, whsre mans success
II, fife depends in his own efforts; with an
active and gc-ahead people, among whom
inventions spring to light in numbers,
and the poor man with prudence and
economy can become well-to-do man,
q millionaire thank God that I have
the great privilege Of being born in
this free and noble country. Do we
peep over the terrestrial horizon in i'm
agination, what sad spectacle meets
our view! There is almost universal dis
Y content, almost universal uncertainty as
to the stability OF this or that form of
government. Men armed up to the teeth
! are ready to shoot each other down as
beasts. On this side of the Atlantic the
sunshine of public and domestic peace
relgns without the aid OF arms. This
country was once in danger. The i'm
mortal Lincoln called for volunteers,
and on you went, old veterans, inspired
by the soul-stirring sounds Of mar
tial music and encouraged by view OF
our NOBLE banner, the emblem OF all that
is great and grand -on you went to the
field Of battle and fought that our flag
should live. Difficult it was to learn the
military step, heartrending to bid fare
/ well to homes and loving wives and
h daughters, but the country demanded it
and you knew no sacrifice Gentlemen,
does the American constitution contain
within itself the elements OF dissolution?
8g Such 8 question was asked at the birth
of the American republic, and the expert
4 5ence OF over q century has failed to
realize the prophecy Of our enemies over
d I the water. Gentlemen, is the Church OF
Rome an enemy to the American repub-
Ssslic2 t4sntleme en, shall I respond 70 this
question? Here the old veterans called
.so ahead 81 shall give yon es-