The record-union., 1896-03-28
UNDER WHAT FLAG SHALL We LIVE?
MAJOR RYAN SAYS 1T is THE
GREAT QUESTION TO-DAY.
He Believes That Man Can be Better
Judged by His Actions Than by
What He Says.

Major T. c. Ryan gave his third lecture
last night, at the Congregational
Church, to a large audience.
He said that there were many i'm
portant subjects that were agitating the
American people-the questions Of sill
yer and gold, protection and free trade
and others. They had been great ques-
tions to the Nation all his life, but to-
day there was a much greater one,
Shall we live under an American flag,
or shall we live under the flag of some
foreign nation? The Nation is under
going a great revolution. There are
many men and women to-day who say
there is no danger. but they are people
who have not madesa study of the SUBJ
ject, and therefore are not acquainted
with the facts as are those who have
examined into it.
The person who wishes to know con-
cerning any matter should study it,
Those who will study the subject of
Romanism in this country will learn
many things, the knowledge of which
will lead them on the road to good
American citizenship.
We have a beautiful country, adorned
by mountain. hill plain and river, ex-
tending from ocean to ocean, and with
70,0OO0OO of inhabitants, representing
all the nations of the earth. We are
endeavoring to solve the financial, So
cial, economic and ecclesiastical ques-
tions which have occupied the great ma
| tions of the past, and have often de-
luged their countries with blood.
No country on the face of the earth
has ever done SO much for the ennobling
of manhood and the uplifting of woman
hood as we have within the last hun
dred years. We have come to the con-
| clusion that it is not enough to go
through college in order to be educated
and to make a living. We have come to
the conclusion that the only religion
| that should be taught in a public
schoolroom should be the religion of
| American patriotism. We think that
| the walls of the public schoolroom
| should not be adorned with pictures Of
st. Peter, the Virgin Mary and the
bleeding heart, but with those of Wash
| ington, Jefferson. Lincoln and other
great Americans, in order that the
young minds may grow up filled with
| lessons of patriotism.
We should grow up to appreciate and
free thought, which it has always been
the aim of Romanism to crush out We
must battle for these rights and main
tain them, for they are in great danger
On this coast the papers are fair and
| just, but the papers of the East have
combined with and are dominated by
| this power, which seeks to crush these
rights.
| There is a difference between the
American and the foreigner. The for
eigner brings with him his hates, his
home quarrels and opinions and pre-
serves and fosters them. Such associa-
| tions are the Order of Hibernians. the
Clan-na-Gael and the Molly Maguires.
The best friends that Ireland has to-
| day are-irst, God; second, England.
and third, the American Protective AS
sociation. Had Gladstone's bill passed
il would have forced ireland into slav-
cry to Romanism, but God prevented it
| and saved Ireland. It has been the
aim of these associations to embroil this
country in war with England, II possi-
BILE.
There Is another thing he wanted to
call attention to. If, in the East, he
wanted his boy to learn a trade by
which he could earn a living in his own
native land he must go and ask permis-
sion of an O'Hoolihan, who had scarcely
shaken the dust of Ireland from his feet.
but who is the leader of a. union. The
time has come when men of principle
are needed to stand up for the rescue of
our country from these encroachments
A mans loyalty to his country is to be
measured, not by what he saws br,t bv
what he does. His loyalty to the public
school system is to be measured by the
fact that he sends his children to them
or to the parochial scnCoS
His remarks were frequently applaud
ed, showing that his audience was fully
| in accord with him