The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-21


The IRISH RAJ, +
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roads and cities to be built in this re-
public OF ours.
tits fashionable lately to call this race
here the Anglo Saxon, and England the
mother country. Nothing is farther
from the truth. It was disputed by
Paine century and quarter ago. It
less true now. He says, SIT is said Eng
land is the mother country. Then more
is the shame. The whole of Europe and
not England is our mother country. .
This land is but in its infancy. She is
only beginning to develop her composite
character, mkde up OF the traits of all ma
tionalities, and century from now the
descendants of the Irishman, the Ger
man, the Frenchman and the Swede who
fell or fought in the war Of the rebellion
will be as proud of their ancestry as are
the descendants OF those who fought at
Lexington or Monmouth over century
ago. loud applause.
And in looking at these huge struc-
lures where the people of every cline
have come to vie with each other IN e1-
hibiting those things that promote the
peace and harmony and happiness Of
human life, I am reminded of what we
read in the Bible of another structure.
We are told that at creations morning.,
and when the world was young, "the
earth was Of one tongue and one speech,
and each said to his neigh Dor let us make
Il city and tower the top whereof may
reach to heaven, and let us make Our
to all lands" And the Lord looked at
the city and the tower which the chill
rem OF Adam were building in their
pride, and he COMPOUNDED their tongues
=, that they could not understand each
other, and he scattered them unto all
lands; and the city and the tower were a
failure and the name thereof was called
Babel, because the language of the whole
earth was COMPOUNDED and they were
scattered abroad ON the face of the world.
Four thousand years or more have
p ssed away since Adams children were
cursed and scattered at Babel-4,O 0O
years of war and pestilence and oppres-
sion, in which man has fought and
chained and slain bis fellowmsn because
rivers and mountains divided him and
tongues COMPOUNDED him, until the Lord
at length seemed to have looked with
plying eyes on the war trampled and
tyranny oppressed descendants of the
mer IT old; and in this our day and in
our own land He calls together the scat
tered SOILS of men to build another city
and another tower, and they come at
His summons from all lands, like broth
ers, as in the worlds earl y morning; they
come from the icy homes of Scandinavia
and from sunny France and Italy, from
poor down-trodden ireland, and from
the Rhine land-the Saxon, the Colt, the
Norman and the Teuton, the dusky sons
Of the tropics and the almond-eyed ones
of the East-all the nations and tongues
Of the world are gatherin4 in this great
city, this glorious republic, and they are
lisrlng one common tongue as in the
early days, and they are acquiring COM
mon tastes and ideas, and they are build
ing q tower mightier than Babel that is
to last for all time, whose foundation
stone was the immortal Decla1 alton; and
this tower is ascending up, up to the
great throne itself, and on it's summit the
God of liberty has placed his own cleo
trio light, and it shines as beacon guide
to the down-trodden of every land, to
bring the children of men again together
and make them brothers as of old-to
give liberty to the slave, knowledge to
the ignorant, plenty to the starving, JUS
tice to the oppressed, equality to alI; to
develop the highest type CT nat hood
the world has ever seen; and to fill con-
tinents and islands with the blessings of
life, liberty and happiness which, under
it's radiant light, are enjoyed by the
thousands who listen to me and who
should thank God that they live in the
freest and most progressive land the sun
has shone upon since that morning
Adam first trod tho howery paths Of
Eden in ,he long ago. Prolonged ap-
plause.)
AN HONEST KENTuCKIAN.
His Bigotry Gives Way to Admiration
on Seeing the Catholic Educational
Exhibit.