The record-union., 1895-12-31
THE NATIONS HONOR.
Soul Stirring Address by the Silver
Iongued Orator.
Hon. Thomas Fitch Sums Up the Ac-
counts Between England and
America In Burning Words.

The Arizona Republican" of Decem-
Der 18th publishes the following report
Of an address delivered at Phoenix by
Hon. Thomas Fitch:
At the evening session the church was
well filed with the crowd that assem-
bled to hear Thomas Fitch's address
upon the subject of IAN Arizonian
Abroad"
The noted orator was in his happiest
mood and for the greater portion of his
lecture, in a humorous vein took his
auditors on veritable Cooks tour
throughout Europe. But, when Eng
land was reached, his patriotic mind
turned to the great question now at
issue and his words were given APP
plauSe such as rarely comes to
speaker.
Upon England's aggressions, Mr..
Fitch in part said:
1T is perhaps irrelevant to the topic
of the evening to say just here that the
people of Arizona, in common with their
fellow citizens everywhere, rejoice that
the doctrine which was announced by
James Monroe in the infancy of this re-
public, and which was again announced
by Abraham Lincoln while we were yet
struggling in the throes of mighty civil
war, has now been reannounced and in
sisted upon in a way that makes every
patriotic American citiZen-of whatever
politics-proud of Grover Cleveland. 1t
is the doctrine that from the Rio Grande
to Cape Horn there is no American re-
public so poor, SO weak, so devoid of
armies, so destitute of ships, so bank
rupt in it's treasury, so afraid of its OPP
pressor, so fearful of its fate, but that
it may-for the preservation of its eX-
istence and its territorial integrity as
against any European pOwer-com-
mand the aid of the treasury and the
armies and the navies of the United
States.
I'm defending this position we shall
receive the sympathy of many peoples,
for around the world the morning drum
beat of Britain rolls in the ears of the
nations she has vanquished and the
CLINT of her bayonets lights the evening
shadows where conquered and unhappy
nations dwell. Her flag is everywhere
the symbol of unjust rule in the past
and the sign of living oppression in the
present. The Woodsman by the bank
of far northern rivers mutters a curse
in French as her troops pass by. The
Maori in the Antipodes remembers her
cruelty and motions in dumb appeal to
his gods against her. The dusky races
of India kneel in their ancient temples
and cry out to their unansWering idols
in the helplessness and hOpeleSSneSS of
their despair, and among all who
crouch upon the soils she has caused to
be stained with blood and tears, none
hate her with more passionate hatred
than the Irish people, and none have
greater cause. Well has the good poet
said:
She has secured the seas as q spoier,
Her mart is a robbers den
With the wrested toll of the toiler
And the mortgaged souls of men.
She hath scourged the weak and the lowly
And the just with an iron rod.
She is drunk with the blood of the holy;
She shall drink Of the wrath of God.
"It may not be overlooked that in
dealing with the present controversy
the people of the United States are not
embarrassed with any obligations of
gratitude toward the British Govern
ment. l know that at occasional ban
Quets it has been customary for repre-
sentatives of both nations to assure
each other of the brotherly love of the
people of each country toward the
other, and usually both speakers were
lying and both knew it. AS a matter of
fact, we remember Lexington and Val
ley Forge, and England has not yet
commenced to erect statues to George
Washington. We remember the wan
ton destruction of the city of Washing
ton, and England has not forgotten the
battle of New Orleans. We remember
that 400 Liverpool merchants Quilted
the cruiser Alabama, and England has
fifteen million memories of the Ala
bama award. We remember how Eng
lish authors and orators and journal
lists for many years derided and de-
nounced us concerning the institution
of slavery, which England originally
established among US, and when at
last the hour of struggle came to us,
then Exeter Hall went out of business,
the sympathy shops for the slaves
closed their doors, the shops for the
sale of arms and munitions of war to
help slavery opened theirs, and British
cruisers under Confederate flags dotted
the Atlantic with the wrecks of our
destroyed merchantmen, and lit the
Arctic Ocean with the flames of our
burning whalers. England's aid to
the Confederacy cost North and South
together two years more Of war, half
million more lives and three thou
sands millions more of money.
Nor does the South owe England
any good will for such aid, for it was
q sordid, cold blooded. wicked mo-
tive that impelled Great Britain to
help the Southern Confederacy; and
now that the last disability has been
removed from the last Confederate sol
der; now that the leaves Of the pine
and the palm, the magnolia and the
maple are twined inseparably in
Union wreath; now that the North and
South are united and keeping one set
Of books, all our accounts against
Great Britain will be consolidated and
charged in one sum against our an
cient stepmother.
And yet 1 do not look for war as a
result of the present conditions, for
Henry Iabouchere has declared that it
were better that all of British Guiana
and Venezuela should be sunk in the
bottom of the ocean than that there
should be war between Great Britain
and the United States, and Lord Rose
berry has said that the boundary ques-
ton ought to be arbitrated. with the
United States as arbitrator. These
men represent the Liberal party of Eng
land. and the Queen-tO whom we owe
honor for preventing the Trent affair
the Queen, who on great occasions has
shown her disposition and ability to be
something more than a nominal sover-
eign, is said to be actively for peace. If
his sovereign and the Liberals are both
against Lord Salisbury and he can only