The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-29
MONROE DOCTRINE TO STAND.
OTHERWISE MINNESOTA'S LEGIS-
LATORS DO NOT THINK THAT
TREATY WILL Do.
DoNNELLH TALKS AT LENGTH
Caustic in His Recital of English
History So Far as 1t Relates
10 United States.

luton on the adoption of the Olney-
PaUncefote treaty looking to interna-
tional arbitration, with a brief but per-
tinent amendment suggested by Rep
resentative Douglas hitched to it, was
adopted in the house yesterday after
noon after being discussed for several
hours on a special order, beginning at
II o'clock
Representative Donnelly, who prom
Used the most emphatic opposition to
the resolution as originally drawn, was
appeased by the alterations made, in
fact, after talking in vigorous man
ner against entering into such a treaty,
withdrew his own resolution and voted
for the senate measure with its recon-
structions and appendage. A large
number Of spectators joined with the
members in the keen interest taken in
the debate. Representative Jacobson
occupied the chair.
Ma DonneHy said that he had no
dt.lre TO make an grafton, but that
th.s was matter Of the greatest mag
nl-uGe az the treaty not only involved
t-e honor but ii might involve the ter
rloccy Of the United States. He had no
sympathy with the sentiment expressed
L leave all the matters Of interest to
tAe United States to the representa-
tires in Washington. He contended for
the right Of the people to rule.
We have the same right to counsel and ad-
use with eur senators and representatives
in Washington thai our constituents have TO
ADVISE with US by letters, petitions, resolu-
tons and other expressions of the public
thority does not come from the top, but the
bottom. And l have no sympathy with what
l may call that servile spirit which is dis
posed to allow those in authority to govern
without consulting the will of the governed.
| have the highest respect for the gentlemen
who represent this state in congress. They
are both eminent and able and at one time
or another both have served in or the
other of these two houses, and at that time
we who served with them did not suppose
that they were separated from US by plane
tary distances. There may be men, and
presume there are, on the floor of this house
today who will sit as United States senators
from this state. 1 will leave it to every
man to name for himself who they are.
L2ughter)
There was a time, back in the 70's when
your humble servant lacked only five votes
OF being elected to the senate of the United
States But l do not suppose that 1 would
have been any wiser the day after the election
if I had five votes more than l had when
the test came. l do net wish to attack the
English people, in fact l have the greatest
respect for them, and l have given twenty
years of my life to a study of the works and
life of the greatest Englishman who ever
Hved-Franos Bacon. l remember George
Washington was a transplanted Englishman;
that John Adams Benjamin Franklin and
other great patriots Of English blood.
At the same time, it is not we'll to be car
ried away by any sickly sentmentality about
the mother country" The governing power
of England for centuries was the descendence
Of William the ConquerOr, and the aTistocr&sy,
gathered about him, and It was a record of
cruelty and blood. This aristocracy has now
succeeded by another aristocracy equally cruel
ard Bloody. The world cannot forget that
han h ,rr1s
opium and the Chinese arose in opostion like
our forefathers who threw the tea overheard
IN Boston harbor they threw the opium into
the river, and England forced the Chinese to
receive the opium. and thereby caused more
g2:sery to the 4000 600 people of China than
any act in the history of the world
l cannot forget that the English government
and by that do not mean the English peo-
ple-bu the aristOcracy and the ruling class
has been the greatest maurauder in the world
great octopus sucking in the life and blood
OF the people of all nations.
In support of this view of the English gov
eminent, Mr.. Donnelly read a poem clipped
from LabOuchere's Truth in which every i'm
portant expedition of aggression and spolia-
ton was pictured a naked fact. He con-
cluded this line 1f argument by quotations
from the Declaration of Independence, with
side shots from the speeches and writings of
Thomas Jefferson and other patriots Of that
kind, and claimed that it is the present pur-
pose Of England, if it has the power to re-
6uce the United States to the position of a
province and place her people side by side
o
starving Irishman But God intended this
continent to be the home of freedom and
self-gOveTnment, and but for Divine inter
position, England would never have lost her
control of this country.
Mr.. Donnelly supported this view of the
attitude CT the English government toward
that after England had put down the Cor
sican Napoleon, and confined him on the
island Of st. Helena, the magnificent troops
which had served in the continental were
sent upon an expedition to conquer the United
States. He pointed out how they had ravaged
the American coast, burned the capitol Of the
United States, destroyed the commerce. and
carried fire and sword from the mouth of the
Kennebec to the Mississippi, meeting their
first and last reverses at New Orleans, at the
hands Of the American frcntiersmen, led by
Andrew Jackson, the son Of expa.riated
Irish weaver Mr.. Donnelly drew picture
death Of Gen. Packenham, the English com
msnder
Look what they lid in 1861 said Mr.. DON
nelly There then a good deal of talk
about the mother country, but the English
shlpyards were teeming with men engaged in
building ships to aid the enemies of this
country, and after the war was over we
compelled by arbitration, the payment of
damages wrought by these pretended friends
OF America: Who was the arbitrator? The
president Of the republic Of Switzerland: not
king nor the attorney of a king
The English king and artstocracy have only
two sentiments in regard to this county; they
appreciate the greatness of a country peopIed
with 7e,OGO,90O inhabitants, and their other
desire is to wipe us off the face of the
earth. / have been in England; l have talked
with her great men and statesmen, and I
know whereof | am speaking And if it had
not been Tor the love Of liberty in the breasts
Of the cotton spinners, this country would
not have survived for France and England
had prepared t. unite. France with her bogus
emperor had already sent Macmillan to Mex
1ce-and the newspapers at that time told
Of the formation Of a Roman system which was
&c operate TO destroy the republican insti-
tutlCns IF this country. But Henry Ward
Beecher went over, and by appealing to
the common people, tie working people in
the manufacturing towns he stirred IN a
sentiment which compelled the government to
abandon its policy. The common people of
England stood By the government stood by
the United States, and the aristocracy did
net dare to carry on the policy thew had
agreed upon. When the war was over and
the poor, half-starved people of the manu-
featuring towns of England whose LOYALTY
to liberty had cost Them so much received
their first consignment of cotton from this
country, they rushed forward and kissed the
bales. they rolled from the ships bringing
Employment and support.
While ] would have you remember the de-
lotion Of the common people of England 7
would not have you forget that the kings
and aristocracy Of Europe arc not with US
Mr.. Donnelly then turned his attention IN
g. mere direct discussion of the treaty and
is provisions. He said that the first report
was to the effect that King Oscar of Sweden
was to be the arbitrator; that the full
text Of the treaty has been published 1t was
found that instead Of the king being the
arbitrator, Oscar had simply the function of
cut that this did not materially change the
situation, as the appointment of the ar
bitrator was in the hands Of king and