New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-02-03
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DONNELLIhN.
The Sage Fires Few Pyrotechnlcs over
the Arbitration Treaty.

~ Tic housc Oil thursday lSnatluS
.DOnnelly took a whirl at the arbitration
treaty agreed upon between Secretary
Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote and
which has been styled by J. Adam Bede
the browning act Of the century. Mr..
Donnelly was strictly at his best and the
St. Paul Dispatch on the same day gave
to its readers some of his most striking
utterances.
The English government, he said, was
the greatest marauder of the world. He
read some lines from writer IN London
Truth depicting tue trail Of desolation
and pes!ilence which had followed the
march Of conquest Of English armies,
and said that the American Declaration
of Independence was the first successful
protest against English dominion. If
England had had her way, America
would be today, side by side with starv-
ing India and oppressed Ireland, prov
ince of the British crown.
Mr.. Donnelly recited with some effect
the repeated attempts Of the British to
conquer American soldiers, referred dra-
matically to the battle Of New Orleans
and the attempt of England to aid the
confederacy. The governing class in
England had but two sentiments with
reference to Americans - one a recog-
milton of the power and magnitude of
this nation, and the other suppressed
desire to crush us if they dared. =,
There had been all kinds of conspira-
cies, political and business, to check the
progress of the American republic, and
there was evidence at hand that English
royalty had no sympathy for America or
rAmerican institutions. l.
Mr.. Donnelly would as soon expect to
find in the lower regions measures for
the promotion of Christianity as to de-
pend for justice in such case upon the
verdict of European monarch or his
appointec. In dealing with the ques-
ton of our descent from English sources,
Mr.. Donnelly made an exquistely anus
ing summing up of the names Of mem
bers and officers of the house to show
that we, as people, were not descend
ants from the English. In tracing the
ancestry of the names Mr.. Donuelly was
highly entertaining, and kept the house
in a tumult for half an hour"
Mr.. Donnelly had the clerk read from
the desk an editorial from a morning
paper, srefccting in some measure upon
himself, At the conclusion of the read
ing, Mr.. Donnelly quietly remarked that
the editor III question had as much con.
oeption and appreciation of the question
under discussion as Stalled hog would
of the fact that his picture had appeared
in the daily papers. He was not sur
prised, he said, at the course Of shjs pa
pes, because its editor was descended
from the torres of the revolutionary
times who belonged to marauding
band OF pillagers, who, by the light of
the moon, made it their mission to burn
barns and steal chickens. At the close
of the Revolution the American patriots
drove these chicken-stealing barn burners
from the land, and to this day when a
chicken drinks, it raises its head in
thankfulness to God for the fact that the
ancestors of the editor in question had
been driver. to the frozen shores Of No.
va Scotia, and thus secured to future
generations immunity from midnight
raids.
''But how that it is all over and a
hundred "years gone," continued the
speaker, their posterity may return to
sheer at patriotism, ridicule loyalty to
America and American institutions, and
to lift their blue noses in the air with
sneers and slurs at better men,
..Think Of it, said he, ave who have
been the scourged step children of this
cruel mother, asked to arbitrate. I
would arbitrate, but arbitrate with the
frowning cannon frowning through the
olive branches"
s.The trouble is, we have lot of old
ladies of both sexes who are clalnoring
for peace at any price and the most dan
gerous citizen Of this country is the hys-
terical, rhapsodical old clergyman who
knows all about the mex. WORLD and
nothing about this one.''
Incidentally Mr.. Donnelly remarked
that the only public service ever rem
dered by Cleve land was to make tile |
name of James Buchanan re-
spectacle by comparison, and he |
said that lie hoped an Old Tur-
vegdrop like Grover Cleveland would |
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