Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-18
HAIR PLAY"


 "FAIR PLAY" An Intellectual Treat at the Opera
 House Last Night.
 4 large audience gathered at the opera house last night to listen to the address ot Henry \. Adams of Brooklyn, on "Fair Play" The exercises opened with an ex- cellent rendition of ''St Patrick's Day" by the Sacred Heart church cholr. which was followed by "The Harp that Once Through Tara's Hall, ">"Oft in the Silly Night" and America" W. J. Hughes and NJ. J. Me Evoy sang solos and were encored. Ip introducing the speaker Father Treanor said it gave him great pleasure to intro duce the lecturer of the evening. who, he said, came as a stranger 'and yet not alto gether unknown, for we knew him as a man possessing the courage of his convictions and willing to follow them regardless of self sacrifice. He is also known in the field of letters and thought as a~man of marked ability" Mir Adams Is a young man with powerful voice, and for over an hour he kept the audience interested with his wealth of happy illustrations and eloquence. Being a convert to the Roman Catholic faith many thought his discourse NOuAO Oedl ihtStlS Ill IeliSIOuS LldtleES, but in this they were mistaken. for the speaker took up the broad field of christen- dom and talked of fair play between man and man, regardless of race and creed. He used three allegories to illustrate his meaning, the first representing the brutal nature in man, the second he termed principle. and the third carried the sane tuary lamp of conscience.
 MT Adams said that whAa fhaPe was only one man on the earth he was privi- legged to have what every plan wants now, the whole earth; but when another ap- peared dissensions arose, for the first man thought that the fact Of his being here first entitled him to all and when a third came the idea of recognizing his claim to any thing was preposterous. But while the the first two were disputing about how much of the earth belonged to each, the third man was looking on. knowing all the time that he held the balance of power Whichever he decided to join was sure tc win.
 Conscience the speaker regarded as the sanctuary lamp of justice and far play lighting up the brute nature in man "Through the conscience of a womau," he said. America became known to the world. The hope of finding another world where human souls might be found and brought into Gods church prompted the queen of Spain to lend aid to the discover. CT of America. It is this spirit of fair play which prompts the great nations of the world to defend the weaker ones from be, ing swallowed up by their more powerful neighbors."
 The speaker referred to the massacre ot christians in Armenia, and said that the resolutions sent to the sultan of Turkey in condemnation of this brutal work would not have much effect unless he feared thai more stringent measures might be re sorted to, MT Adams provoked goot laugh when he said: The sultan of Fur key may sheer at christianity anC he may enjoy himself and feel quit, secure in his harem, but he must not de spise the demand for fair play. If h, should let him look out that Go q doe. not rap at his back door" Lieutenan Fitzpatrick was sitting in front seat ant looked like man who was prepared tc start at a moments notice.
 The speaker talked ut great length showing how difficult it Is to ge ,men to concede equal rights {, all. and said it took Amcrici three quarters of century before sh, admitted that all men were born equal This was in not the constitution. but it wa written between the lin.s. The eloquenc, of a Phillips was of no avail. It was simple woman who showed the people tn, condition of the negro of the south. II ,"Uncle Toms Cabin" Then the heart O the American people was touched an, once this has been done you can hav what you want.
 ! Talking about how some people act a soon as they are Set free Mir Adams clteG the conduct of the PGritans who fled t, America from religious perse secution in tn old world and quoted Bishop Williams a saying that the first thing they did afte coming here was to fall on their knees an, then on the Aborigines. If they found Baptist they put a ring through bis nos and Quakers had their ears cut off. Thi reminded him of the story of the mal who said: What glorious morning l. llve. Let us go out and kill something" | 1t makes my blood boil now" con !tinued the lecturer, ito See an editorial il n newspaper hintIng against the church o which I now have the honor to be al humble member. as though we are not a loyal us others, in the face of the fact tha
 when the institutions of this country CT endangered the roster of some of the reg ,ments who went to the front at the Wi derness, Chantilly and other fields c slaughter was made up entirely of my co religionists and Catholic Irishmen."
 He expressed hope that ultimatel Ireland would receive fair play. and dre, touching picture of the grand old man impelled by a sense of justice, standing u in front seat of the house of commons and moving the home rule bill for Ire land.
 What Mir Adams had to say on the labo question was significant. Those me- may be wide of the mark. All great re formers have been looked upon as cranks Columbus with his idea of A new worl was A laughing stock among the so-calle wise men of Europe People looked a him and knocked their heads with thei fingers to signify that Columbus head wa for rent. Remember when you lie dow in your comfortable homes that there ar l0O, ,0OO,0OO men and women withou homes. without courage. When the labor ing III en recognize that when they are unite they can have what. they want you ma expect to see something done for the un employed of the world. This can be ac complished without knocking of hal day from their work. without shoulderin "a musket, without joining a secret society It can all be done by putting bit O paper into the ballot box containing tn to the labor question and could be foun, with little effort If all were united"
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