St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-23
Eloquent Address by Arch
bishop Ireland at a Chi
r eago Banquet.
M'KINLEY is AT DETROIT
He ignores the Father IF His
Country and Devotes His
Talk to Tariff.

erS and their topics were DIS IolioWS'
.The Churchman as a Citizen, Arch
bishop Ireland, of Minnesota; George
Washington, the Patriot Albert j.
B. Beveridge, Indiana; '"The Two
American Leaders Providenually
Chosen" P. S. Grosscup, Illinois;
can Honest Dollar" M. d. Ingalls,,
Ohio; 'Our Country" Minot j. Saw
age. Massachusetts. Archbishop
Ireland's address was an eloquent
eulogv on the work accomplished by
George Washington and the brave
Revolutionary patriots. ecompareu
the America of today with the strug-
Cling little nation which they estab-
lished, and showed the great moral
Influence it had already had upon the
civilized nations of the earth. HIS
address in substance was as follows:
CIVIS AMERICANUS.
ssCiyis sum Romanus: l am
Roman citizen,"-a proud title this
Was-the nations owned none
prouder-in olden days. 1t clothed
it's possessor with the majesty OF
imperial Rome, and made him the
partaker of all her rights and honors.
We bear no envy to the sons OF Ro-
mulus; we have a title-"Civis sum
Americanus: 1 am an American cit
izen''-and never was there another
title equaling it in sublime meaning
and in copious wealth of rights and
privileges.
Abraham Lincoln thus defines the
government established by George
Washington and his co-laborers: "a
government OF the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people" America
is the highest form of organized
democracy.
The archbishop then delivered a
most eloquent eulogy on the growth
of the American republic and its
influence on securing freedom for
the masses in nearly all civilized
nations in the world. Then, return
ing to his subject, American citizen
ship, he said:
Americans, noblesse oblige! The
citizens of America are her mon
archs No country deserves so well
of it's people as America, and none
is so dependent upon them. Deep,
to be our patriotism.
De Tocqueville tells of two sorts of
patriotism. One is the attachment
principally arising from that in
stinctiHe, disinterested and indefina-
bic feeling which binds the heart of
man to his home and its traditions
The other is a more rational attach
ment, less generous, perhaps, and
less ardent; but more fruitful and
more lasting. It is coeval with the
spread of knowledge, it is nurtured
by the laws, it grows by the exercise
Of civil rights, and in the end is
identified with the personal interest
of the citizen. 1t arises when a man
cOmprehends the influence which the
prosperity Of his country has upon
his own welfare and whatever h0
holds dear, knows that the laws
authorize him to contribute his as.
sistance to that prosperity, and la,
bors to promote it as a portion
of his interest, and a portion of his
right
l would have American patriotism be
Of both kinds-at once instructive and
rational. In my present theme, how
ever, [ may lay special stress on the
need and duty of the latter
Our country. After God, we are in
debted to it for all things, and, after
Him, to it is due our sovereign allegi-
ance. Time, labor, wealth, life, fam
lily; we lose sight of all when country
demands sacrifice from US.
He then speaks of the dangers to the
republic growing out of the increase of
wealth and the growing unrest.
"These facts make evident the neces-
sity of good citizenship. 1t will guard
the republic against all perils, and it
alone will guard her.
Good citizenship! It comes by moral
ity, religion and intelligence
Private morality begets national moral
ity, and the latter always reacts upon
the former. The ethical code is the
same for governments as for indiyid-
ual men. In it's dealings with foreign
countries, with it's own citizens. the
nation or state, as we'll as the indi-
vidual, is held to the sovereign law
of eternal justice, which is never vio-
lated by high or low with impunity
Vox populi, voX Del, it is said The
words are true when the nation or
state moves within the orbit of the
powers delegated to it by the Supreme
Master; but that orbit never exceeds
the lines of righteousness -
Of the ballot he says: ''The ballot
issthe pride of the true American. its
proper use is his sacred duty The
American refusing to vote on election
day merits disfranchisement, or exile;
the American Boosting of his political
incidence proclainls his shame
He who sells his vote, sells his coun-
try; and he who buys it immolates
patriotism on the unclean altar of his
greed and ambition
The system in vogue regarding office
holding and the spoils system were
criticised, a warning sounded regard
ing the dangers from unrestricted i'm
migration, and also the perils of So
cialism. He then closed as follows:
Yes, fellow citizens of America, the
republic will endure. Humanity in it's
evolutions has reached the eve of
democracy, from which there will be
no, backward movement. Peoples of
enlightened countries will not again
submit to government of which they
are not integral parts, and where COM
plant may be made that the masses
are not fitted for the rights and du-
ties OF a democratic regime, there re-
mains but one thing to be done-to lift
them up to the plane of their new des-
tiny. America Yas the first large
country to make the experiment of
true democracy, and she has made it
in conditions and with results which
do not permit us to doubt Of her future
success. I have unreserved confidence
in the great national heart of America.
I repeat Lincoln's creed that the whole
people will not be wrong the whole
time. Temporary alterations are pos
sible. But the government of the re-
public is so well constructed, and it's
several parts SO well adjusted, that