The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-06-15


merce found refmge und ers iitss guns.
here is: q q fort on sof great
strength at Halifax, on our Northeast
border, recently added 10 and greatly
Strengthened
On our Mort hwestsrn border, across
the narrow strait which separates Van
couver from the state ok wv Washington,
immense sums Of money have been ex-
pended to complete and equip fort at
Esquimalt ss .ss. $.sa. 3. K
II refer to these things only In passing
to show something Of our environment.
These strong places may be for our de-
tense when that alliance OF English
speaking peoples comes, which is a fav-
orite dream of good men, and which is
an actuality some times tier dinner.
We are friendly powers, and the friend
ships should be real and lasting. It is
not, however, traditional friendship.
Up to the close Of the Mexican war,
English statesmen spoke OF the peace
Of 1915 with us ais a disgrace to their
ministry that made It. Tt was a, mat
ter OF lament in their literature that the
burning of our copitol and the arming
or the Indians against us was not follow
ed by a vigorous prosecution Of asWar for
conquest. .6s y - 80 s'TsS
AT the opening of the Mexican war an
alliance between England and France
was courted by Lord Liverpool through
negotiations with Gnizot,5 the minister
Of LORD Philippe. for the purpose ofswar
upon this country, ostensibly out Of
sympathy for Mexico. Guizot was will
ing and the citizen king was willing,
but their power was gone, and shortly
after they were fugitiyes from France
and the guests OF England. Then soon
followed the slavery agitation in the
world against this country, with Eng
land proudly leading as the championof
freedom and humanity, while her liter
ature and her agents famed the fame of
sectionalism and egged on the contest
from every vantage ground. The peace
full eradication Of slavery became impos
sible, and war came and with it the
struggle for national existence, the un-
exampled sacrifice of life, the bone and
>sinew Of the republic and of millions Of
money, s4& sssss. !. 4 Viii.
The sometime champion Of the rights
OF men, the great anti-slavery agitator,
humanitarian Eng gland, was found on the
side of slavery. She intrigued with
France and Russia, to- intervene for the
destruction Of this nation, and for the
pOAPClutiIAOu, Va 6AdvC4y. 0Ac, ulUl6
all other Influences combined, sencourag
ed the South at last with false hopes to
fight to the last gasp, to the destruction
Of all her prosperity and wealth.
The usual ruthless policy Of that ma
ton was maintained and everything that
treachery and intrigue and money could
do was done to cripple and ruin the ma
tion that was fast becoming Englands
leading competitor for the trade; of the
world; 7 with power and wealth sufficient
to protect her interests anywhere on the
globe. ts s.: 49, ~ sff'
simultaneously we have had the most
extraordinary claims and movements of
England and Nicaragua. We have, too,
the covert suggestion from her foreign
Office that the Clayton Bulwer treaty,
long since treated as abrogated at our
election, is still in force: r:
But it seems to me that we should
not think of our own hemisphere alone.
We are great nation Of producers; we
need and must have open markets.
throughout the world tosmaintain and
increase our prosperity. We should, in,
deed, heed the warnings Of the fathers,
Of Washington, of Madison, Of Jefferson,
and Monroe; but in needing them we
should weigh the consideration that
conditions have almost changed the
identity Of people from three to- five
millions, with sail municat ton ACROSS
the water, without telegraph; without
steam, without railroads, of small pro-
duction and little: surplus, when it is
now nation of 10000, 900, with all their
mighty needs and with their great fu-
ture, with their intimate and necessary
commercial association with every peo-
people and tribe of the world, and whose
merchants can speak the price Of their
goods at the Antipodes in less thanstw
hours time. Whereas our interests in
the early days were largely at home, our
material interests today depend upon the
markets abroad. We have entered the
lists in the great contest of live and let
live with commercial Europe, and our
diplomacy should be alert to secure and
protect favors and advantage from all
peoples that buy and sell or have port
that our ships can enter.