The Irish standard., 1898-08-13
CLEVELAND K!BERNlANS.

CLEVELAND H!BERNlANS.
Eloquent sp.ech IL. John y. kcntinx.
| the National President.
AT the great annual picnic OF the Irish
Nalionalists of Cleveland, o., recently
| held at Scenic Park. ringing resolutions
We're passed amid tremendous applause
by 1000 people Ill attendance Mir. John
! +. Heating, the newly elected national
president of the A. o. H. was the orator
Of the day. In the course of an eloquenl
! address he said:
We are opposed to an alliance between
England and America because ENGLAND
has everything and America nothing to
gain England today recognizes the fact
that she is alone. She knows that we
are competitors of hers in the field of
commerce. anu she feels that if we enter
| into Eastern trade our large production
and oHr great superiority in manufac-
lures Will soon enable us to drive her
from the market, and she also knows
that we are the great food supplying ma
| ton and that if at any time Russia
ceases to ship wheat to England or in
terferes with the shipping of wheat from
India CT Australia, with our help and
crops here, she would laugh at all the eff
forts of other nations TIC Interfere.
She also knows that VIC are the two
great coal producing nations of the
world and that by our refusing to sup
ply coal. should she be at war with any
continental power, their fleets would be
almost at her mercy. She knows also
that she cannot any longer raise soldiers
in Scotland and Ireland. and that the
hssique Of her own poulation is not up
! to the standard to supply good fighting
material, and the only people she can
| turn to would be America. An alliance,
offensive and defensive with this coun-
try, would mean that we supply the men
; to fight for her. We believe that the
belt Of red that surrounds the globe is
weak in some points, and she wants to
strengthen these spots by combining
them with the red, white,and blue.
They say England expresses great pity
| for Cuba and her suffering people Cuba
is suffering from the natural results of
war, and Ireland, to-day subject to Eng
lish rule, is supposed TO be at peace, and
yet over 100000 people ARE reduced to
abject dcstitution and famine regns over
one-third Of their island. England is
hyprocritical in her, compassion for the
Cubans. ar,
! England knows and fears that her time
has come when she. will, be Judged and
punished as Egypt. Greece and Rome
have been, ard as Spain is being punish
ed at the present time. II She feels that
she can no longer hold together her i'm
me;sc colonial possessions The posi-
ton of the Irish-Amcrcan in the Irish
question is that the arguments which
were used by the fathers OF the republic,
and as laid down by the immortal teca-
ration of independence are the argu-
ments and the platform on which he
stands.
The love of the Irish-American for the
| stars and stripes, and his desire to see
them float unsulied as message of nope
and promise to all oppressed nations
| compel him to oppose an alliance with
any nation which is the very antithesis
! Of all that this country symbolizes.
At the close of the speech the fol-
lowing resolutions We're adopted:
Resolved, That we enter our solemn
protest against the hyprocritical cant of
British newspapers and speakers, claim
ing to represent their government,
which, while protesting friendship and
admiration for the United States in it's
glorious work Of freeing Cuba from
| Spanish tyranny, continues to impose
upon Ireland a form of government that
is repugnant to three-fourths of its peo-
pie and EFFORTS annually from that I'M
poverishcd country $l5O00,00O of taxa
ton i'll excess of its just proportion; that
starves millions of it's subjects to death
in India; that conspires to deprive the
brave people of the Transvaal republic
Of their free government and wages con-
! slant wars of conquest upon weak ma
| tons.
We assert that England's professed
friendship is not sincere; that it is
made only for the attainment Of her
selfish ends, and that an alliance with
England would he of no benefit to the
United States, and would deprive us of
| the friendship of the great nations of
the world, which we now enjoy.
Gen. Wcyler, the iat'err-'lay Cromwell,
told the queen of Spain that the clergy
in the Philippine islands own consider
able property. The pcIig lous orders I'M