The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-06-15
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4 Of the Loyal Leglon at
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Tss Eloquent IalohIg an dsr stirs the
N N Hearts Of the Old
ii Soldiers.
Can you, old soldiers Of the Grand
Army, and you citizen soldiers Of the
Republic, still hear this bugle call?
a3 Nay, through some Of your heads are
white, yet we who meet and pass you
daily note no dimness of eye or dizziness
of;hearing. f.@
However worn your eyes may be,
(, you note the dag you followed where
ever 1t floats on sea or land; and more,
your sight is so unerring and your hear
ing so alert, as that old bunting unfurls
on the winds of heaven, that you would
mark the absence of the wonted touch Of
pride or defiance in any Of it's folds, and
detect the slightest note of Difference or
humility in the sound of its tapping.
Our country wants no more wars. !, We
tlu6I 1lk ZIG VI 1oo IiAe%S tAAO
occasion may never come again when a
resort to arms may be necessary. New
ertheless, war is always possible, and
while we deprecate it, we do not fear It..
Whatever may come, however, your
tasks in the field are over. But we
think Of this, that if conflict with some
encroaching nation ia eved I'd come
in the future, finding us, as our wars
have found us without standing army
or a trained soldiery we pray that it
may come SO early that you and your
surviving comrades and our living
brethren of the South, the old blue and
the old gray may still be with us for
guidance, for counsel and direction.
Optimists and some doctrinaries tell
us that the age Of war is forever past.
The evidence does not sustain the prop
ositfon. The peoples Of the whole world
excepting America only, are either under
arms or onsAawar footing, and the SIMS
ter preparations still 60 on. s,5 IN
In these days more favored tradeare-
lations and the opening OF new markets
for commerce are; the imperative and
more and more emphatic demands Of
the dense and denser populations land
producers Of Europe upon their respec-
tive governments. a !,
Intrigue and war, and conquest, and
massacre and false pretenses and
treachery, are means to this end in use
by the great competing countries of the
old world in the strife. 1t is the part of
wisdom to consider these things, and in
our Ngilant guard of our country's well
fare it is our patriotic duty to weigh as
nothing all international after dinner
sentiment and friendly professions in
the stilted and stock phrases of diplo-
macy II I'D s. 53
In the present conditions we may in
dulge in a reciprocity Of polite phrasing
and post-prandial exuberance II our
alert watchmen will meantime keep an
eye on our good friends across the Allan
tic, especially when, having appropriat-
ed Africa, the islands and even the rocks
OF the sea, wherever force or intrigue
naysgain Affecting, they begin to take
an interest, not altogether born Of Gu
riosity or of a purely Christianizfng
spirit, in this hemisphere
repeat, 1t is the part of wise men
and of wisdom and not of alarmists and
hysteria, to note the changing condi-
lions of the world, to discuss them and to
study them in the interests of America
and her future. To illustrate, no one
can be SO Innocent, II suppose, as to be-
Neve that the sentiment Of relationship
or. friendship of England to the United
States would stand in the way of the
settled policy of Great Britain anywhere
to make Englishmen richer, and her
power greater, even at our cost. If any
one so believes, he has not read with at
tention just a little bit Of history, only
l.oA - 1rY kt,,ot ne
only that Of 30 years, only that of two
md only that of one. II :5 "
For her splendid. championship Of
Englishmen, for her unreseryeda pro-
lection of her sons, whenever and where
ever treated with insult, oppression,
outrage, or injustice, England commands
pnd receives the admiration of man
kind. But an important civilization
has no praise for her in her relations
with and treatment Of other nations,
peoples and tribes. &ss Il ~ i$ i5.1
Let us be just. Her unvarying policy
at first, and last, and always, to adj
vance British, interests and retain Brit
ish supremacy, to retain and add to
British wealth. Her purposes are ma
teriA. These ends served, civilization,
Christianity, humanity, the general
welfare Of the race, generosity and all
the virtues may come and receive en-
couragement and promotion at her hands
but never at the expense, never in any
way Of and always slbord inated to the
material policyfI have stated Whoever
setsSin the way of thatsfs the enemy OF
England, and will be 80 treated, whether
1t be the5IJ nited States, as great COM
merciaF rival who may be intrigued
against and eneroached upon, and even
crippled in some time of her distress or
when of guard, or a tribe OF black men
In Africa, in the way of her colonization
schemes, who may be safely nassacred
with machine guns. aS their spear men
charge the invader with a bravery not
excelled by the knightly valor Of any
age. 8 II 3sisgi 'ii.55 ,lS
The corruption of continental cabinets,
the treatment Of Napoleon after his SUR
render, the acquisition and history OF
India, the shameful support of the Turk
in Europe to this day, the treatment OF
Greece in her struggle for independe
the cruel massacre Of Afghan tri bes, the
occupation Of Egypt, the ruthless slaugh
ter Of blacks In Africa, the unspeaka-
BILE treatment of Ireland, and the chiv-
airy Of the mighty toward the weak as
exemplifed In Venezuela and Nicaragua,
are a few OF the subjects to be treated Of
and characterized by the fair historian
OF the next century, when he shall set
down the facts of this. one and record
the impartial judgment Of enlighten-
ment upon them. 81 81
i But they are subjects worth consider
ing now, because We should study we'll
the conditions surrounding our. future,