Arizona republican., 1895-12-28
THE NATIONS HONOR.
Keynote of the Evening Address by
 Thomas Fitch

11hOmaS EItch.
 At the evening session the church was well filled with the crowd that as sembled to hear Thomas Fitch's ad dress upon the subject of An Arizonan 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 ap- plause such as rarely comes to a speaker.
 Upon England's aggressions, MT. Fitch in part said:
 'It is perhaps not 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 in- fancy of this republic, 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 insisted upon in a way that makes every patriotic American citizen-of whatever poli- tics proud of Grover Cleveland It is the doctrine that from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn there is no American republic so poor, so weak, so devoid of armies, so destitute of ships, so bankrupt in its treasury, so afraid of its oppressor, so fearful of its fate, but that it may-for the preservation of it's existence and its territorial in- tegrity as against any European power command the aid of the treasury and the armies and the navies of the United States.
 s'In 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 glint of her ibayonets 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 op- pression in the present.. The woods man by the bank of far northern rivers | mutters curse in French as her troops pass by. The Maori in the An tipodes 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 lhelplessness 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 a more passionate hatred than the Irish people, and none have greater cause. Well has the poet said: She has secured the seas as spoiler, Her mart is 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. I know that at occasional ban
 quets it has been customary for rep
 resentatives of both nations to assure
 each other of the broldherly 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
 Valley 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 490 Liverpool merchants outftted the cruiser Alabama, and England has
 fifteen million memories of the Ala bama award We remember how Eng.
 fish authors and orators and journal. lsts for many years derided and de nounced us concerning the institution
 of slavery, which England originally esta blished among us, and when a f last Ithe hour of struggle came to us then Exeter Hall went out of business
 the sympathy shops for the slave f closed their doors, the shops for tht f sale of arms and munitions of war tt help slavery opened theirs, and Britisl
 cruisers under confederate flags dot.et D the Atlantic with the wrecks of oul
 destroyed merchantmen, and lit tn Arctic ocean with rhe flames of ou1 Q burning whalers. England's aid t, the confederacy cost north and soutl f together two years more of war, hal a million more lives and three thou , sand millions more of money. Q 'Nor does the south owe Englan, any good will for such aid, for it wa r sordid. cold blooded, wicked mo Q tive that impelled Great Britain t help the southern confederacy; an n now that the last disability has beel
 removed from the last confederate sol
 dinr. now tihat the naauac of tho mi n