The Irish standard., 1897-09-18

were to be congratulated on
having selected so grand memorial to
sentinel, in that beautiful cemetery,
their brothers dust. 1t was monu-
ment that would last for ayes, even as
had lasted it's models in the island of
saints, ages and bards. (Applause.)
The visitor to Dublin, when he made
his pilgrimage to Glasnevin cemetery
the Westminster Of 1reland-beheld,
towering above every other monument,
the O'Connell memorial, beneath which
reposed the dust OF the Emancipator OF
the Irish Catholics. Npplause.) 1t
scared into the air more than hundred
feet, and was visible to great distance
"a most beautiful, appropriate and i'm
posing memento of a peoples undying
factor Of creed and country. (Great ap-
plause) Not very far from it-almost
within sight OF 1t, in the splendid Phoe-
nix park, there rose another monument
conqueror, Napoleon-the Wellington
Testimonial. When ages had rolled
away, when even this fair young re-
public had grown old, and weak and
hoary, as all things material must. after
the lapse of long centuries; when even
the mighty name Of Wellington-the
great soldier but faithless and renegade
lrishman-had become but an echo of
fame; and when, like the temple of
Solomon, not one stone of this monu-
ment should stand upon another-even
then, in that time SO remote from the
living generation, the name Of Daniel
O'Connell shall remain unforgotten, and
the round tower above his bones shall
stand to bear witness that the warrior
for truth and right and humanity, is
ever more revered, more celebrated than
even the conqueror OF conquerors. who
has proved base and unworthy. (Great
applause.) Daniel O'Connell achieved a
greater triumph over Wellington than
Wellington did over Napoleon when the
Irish Tribune compelled the Iron Duke
to force George w., with tears of rage
and hatred rolling down his withered
cheeks, to sign the Emancipation bill Of
seven millions Of the prosecuted Catho-
lies of Ireland in 1929. Qong continued
cheering.)
1t was true that since tho event re-
ferred to, Ireland had made no great
stride toward liberty; but, at least, she
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long deaf to her past, complaints, and
influenced by English falsehoods, listen.
patiently, to her side Of the tragcal
story. Although her best and boldest
though disaster following disaster had,
for a time, quelled her struggles to be
free; although she was confronted by
one of the earths most powerful en-
spair or even Encouragement. The ma
tional enemy stood practically Isolated
among the nations. The sun might
never set upon that empire but, at cv-
and ominous clouds, fecked with blood,
obscured it's radiance. LII the passes Of
Afghanistan, on the burning plains OF
India; beneath the southern cross in
Africa, England was confronted by de-
termined and courageous foes. The
Khyber pass re-echoed the rifle shots of
the Afridis. In Hindostan, the Sepoys
remembered '57 and the bloody sword
of Ca1, 1,o NJ 10 fc T.
cal MOhammedans was aroused to a
boiling point-and in the Tunsvaal
brave Paul Kruger, president Of the
Boer republic, refused to recognize the
suzerainty of Great Britain. Great ap-
plause and cheers for Krueger) In
Europe, France and Russia-tWo of the
greatest military powers on earth--cap-
able each of putting three millions Of
trained soldiers, including the reserves,
into the field at once, were bonded in
alliance, and that alliance BODIED no good
to the future OF the British empire.
cloud cheers.) AS the conquering spirit
Of Napoleon leagued all Europe against
him at Leipsic, In 1873, SO the CONNER
cial and territorial greed OF England
might league all Europe, and possibly
America also, against her at a period
not far distant. She had again and yet
again insulted and dared America, and
she would have continued to do so, had
not the Monroe doctrine, as a moral
lash, been vigorously applied to her
back when she attempted to grab the
outlet of the Orinoco river, and SO Sc
cure from Venezuela the second great
est avenue of South American COM
mercc (Applause.) Were it not for the
Monroe doctrine, and the American de-
termination to enforce 1t, England 8
land rapacity in America would be equal
to her appetite for Asian and African
territory. No people SO revercd the
Monroe doctrine as the Irish Americans.
I, because they estimated It at its true
value. 1t was the old and reliable, and
| indcstructibe. barrier against English
aggression on this sida of the ocean.
(Applause) The English did not like
the Irish-Americans, BECAUSE, among
other things, the latter dved the Mon
roe doctrine, and would;. II necessary,
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