The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-05-05
FAMOUS ORA TOR.

FAMOUS ORA TOR.
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tempts Of tyranny we're resisted and the
resistance led to successful revolution.
{ [Applause.]
And when the last foreign soldier had
been driven from our coil, when the
polluting step of invasion had been
washed out in the blood of patriotism,
this country had taken the initial steps
toward the achievement OF its destiny.
A government was still to be formed to-
replace that which had been overthrown,
| and if I have said that I believed that
this republic had it's origin two thous-
and years ago in the divine scheme tor
the redemption of mankind, refuse no
title of credit to the patriots and states
men who framed the constitution and
launched this republic upon the sea OF
human experiment.. [Applauee.] l do
not believe that they founded a new
truth, because truth in it's nature is eter-
nal and immortal; but they discovered
the truth; they knew it; they made it
the underlying feature Of the political
structure which they reared.
It has been said that the trainers OF
this constitution established it upon the
model of the English government, but
those who make that criticism know
little of the political conditions of Eur
ope at the close of the last century. The
man who says that this constitution is
based upon the model Of anything that
existed in the world hundred years ago
is ignorant of the history of human pro-
gress. One hundred years ago there
was not upon the face Of the world any
where single government which could
form the model'for q liberty-loving peo-
pie. The English constitution in l789
was not the English constitution of to-
day.
EUROPE VIEWED BY CONTRAST.
Just consider for moment the con-
dition OF Europe 100 years ago and con-
slider it to-day Consider all the changes
that have occurred. The old French
monarchy has been overthrown. A re-.
public was reared upon It's ruins and
that republic has fallen; the eagle that
carried the armies of France triumphant
ly over Europe died eating out his own
heart, ashamed, over the rock OF st.
Helena. A restoration has occurred:
monarchy has been overthrown again, q
new monarchy has been formed: that
IN turn has fallen; q republic has been
succeeded by an empire; that empire has
also crumbled into dust and q new re-
public experiment. Is now in exis-
tence.
The power of the ancient house of
Austria has been circumscribed. In the
innermost recesses OF eastern despotism
the gives have been stricken from the
wrists of the serfs The English consti-
tation has been changed and the power
has at last been placed in the hands OF
the English democracy, from whose JUS
tice we may expect reparation for the
crimes and outrages that for centuries
have been committed by the English
masses. [Applause] A new empire has
been proclaimed. In the ancient palace
of Leo XIV. new military power has
risen to overshadow Europe upon the
line of Napoleonic empire.
In the ancient City of Gregory TOM
poral monarch holds it's court. Here
al me our constitution rem aims the same
as it came from the hands OF it's trainers,
the only change beng the confirmation
of it's perpetuity, the decree that this
compact is an indissoluble union and
that this country must be one. Loud
Applause.] When we look over the his
tory of this country, one hundred years,
We are filed with gratitude and rover
ence to God for the providence which
has always overhung us, always over
Swallowed us, always guided ue, always
delivered us from difficulties.
Here is government based upon the
theory that it requires no special train
ing to administer it. Here is a govern
ment founded in exact aud open and
righteous defiance of theory that there
must be an educated class before you
can safely trust it with the suffrage, and
here is government which has display
ed craftsmanship Of the common peo-
pie in every crisis that has confronted it,
which has enabled it to surmount diff
culties, to triumph over obstacles, to solve
problems which had perplexed the states
manship of the learned men of the world,
Of the schools and Of those who claimed
to be the Lords anointed.
how AMERICA HAS pRospERED.
Look back on the period when THE