The Irish standard., 1894-05-05
FAMOUS ORATOR.
Hon. Bourke Cochran Addresses an
Audience at Chicago Of Over
5000 People on
TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTISM.

The Destinies Of the World Largely
Depend Upon the Patriots
Of This Nation.
From the topmost gallery, where the
electric lights glittered like stars in q
golden armament, down to the edge OF
the platform people were orowed to hear
w. Bourke Cochran in the Auditorium
last Monday night, says the Chicago
Herald. The. fire of patriotism had
brought that sea of faces to the vast
theater to be swayed by the orators elo-
quence, like the waves under the influ-
ence Of mighty wind. Mr.. Cochran
chose for his subject, "True American
Patriotism" Not one in the great au
dience failed to be fred by the spirit of
eloquence that painted in glowing words
the dawn Of liberty and followed it's
development to the apotheosis in the
constitution of the United States.
Fire on. State street delayed the speak
er's appearance, but as he walked slowly
on the platform with the chairman,
Thomas B. Bryan, he was meet by cheers,
which made the yellow lights shiver in
their globes. MI. Cochran raised his eyes
to that great audience, framed in yellow
and gold, and bowed an acknowledgment.
Chairman Bryan murmured something
about the appearance of the audience
and the orator whispered: ut is great
sight" Around him we're men of all ma
tionalties and creeds, religious and po-
litical, but all citizens who pinned their
faith to the American constitution.
After the singing of patriotic songs by
the Imperial Quartet, and further
musical addition by William Ludwig,
the baritone, Chairman Bryan introduc-
ed the speaker in few choice words.
He said:
A few days since the east thanked the
west for the light shed by great mind on
q great theme. It is meet that the east
should now send us like bright star to
Aash it's light on the same loved lines.
The orator we now greet and who is as
stanch an American and as true to our
Aag as the most ardent Of our native
born, is son of the isle whose griefs
are the pathos Of history and yet whose
murky atmosphere of national sorrow is
relieved by the ever burning and mex
5inguishable altar fires of patriotism.
High in the councils of our nation. by
him were recently uttered those words
of patriotic fervor which thrilled all
hearts. From such lips we need expect
NO distempered frenzies, but rather words
OF wisdom, clothing thoughts all aglow
with the love of law and liberty. Noone
knows better than he that underlying
our republican institutions, so dear to
patriotic hearts, are not only the princi-
piles of freedom, but also the freedom of
principles. I have the honor Of intro
ducing him whom, doubtless, an hour
hence this magnificent audience would
gladly rechrlsten "Burke" Cochran.
Raising his eyes upwards the orator be.
gan his speech in low tones, which did not
impress the audience with the easy flow
OF eloquence that was to follow. 1t was
q calm, judicial, philosophical speech,
devoid Of flowers Of rhetoric, increasing
in warmth as the orator traced the his.
tory of freedom until he reached the
apotheosis of liberty--the American con-
stitution. Then as his telling, forceful
words portrayed the results of the slow
growth of liberty from the time the Re-
deemer preached the equality of man to
it's practical exposition under the stars
and stripes, the great audience broke out
in cheers.
MR.. CoCKRAN's ADDRESS.
The warmth. Of this Welcome, the COM
pliments which have been showered up
on me by the chairman, make me keenly
sensible of my utter inability to make an
adequate return to. the compliments
which have been bestowed upon me.
T do not believe the man lives and
breathes who could do justice to the
subject which has been assigned to me
tonight. And yet Notwithstanding the
difficulties which surround it, this
welcome, 80 cordial, so generous, 80 un-
reserved, from representatives Of all par
ties and Of all creeds, encourages me
even while it emharrasses ne.
American patriotism is q subject which
embraces the whole globe and the whole
duty Of man. The American patriot is
the soldier Of civilization. Upon Ameri-
can patriotism depended the future
destinies OF the world. Eor 2,O00 years
men have struggled blndly, oonfusedly
sometimes, but steadily, always toward
that hieher freedom which nfakes liber-
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