The Irish standard., 1898-08-27
SENATOR c. K. DAVIS OF MINNESOTA
THE CORPORATION TOOL LlkES
CLOSER RELATIONsj
WITH THE ARCA.RoBBER OF the WORLD
STIRRING ADDRESS BY CANNON, OF
CHICAGO, ILL.

The following address on the Anglo
American alliance was delivered on
Aug ID at Peoria, Ill.,, by Hon. Nj. v.
Cannon, Of Chicago:
Ladies and Gentlemen: When Mr.
Chamberlain, known to the Irish people
as Joseph Judas Chamberlain, made the
mendacious announcement that he knew
America better than Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, and that he was positive
America would not listen to the 1rish
he must have had assurances from some
high quarter that his scheme of an
Anglo-American alliance would be IA
vorably received by all parties in Amer
ica or else he was indulging in & spe-
cies of British gasconade.
If the man who betrayed Gladstone
and the Irish people, and who became
UNANIMOUSLY notorious thereby, got any
such assurances from Democrats, it
must have been in the cabinet of Cleve-
land when his father-in-law held Office,
| and at a time when they were endeavor-
ing to press forward nn cXtradition
| treaty which would place every Irish
| exile under the ban of the British gov
| ernment, and from ex-Secretary Olney's
speeches in favor of the proposed treaty
since his retirement from Office Mr..
| Olney said that "as England has a great
| navy and we desire commercial advan-
tages in the far East, England will save
| lis the necessity of building Il navy to
protect our interests in the Orient"
There mover has been a time in our his
| tory when England has not been will
| ing to take lis under her protection and
give us the benefit of her navy and her
army thrown i'll, in consideration of her
j! actual or implied sovereignty over the
American people.
What argument can be adduced now
| for an alliance with England that will
place us in antagonism to Russia, Ger
many and France? What has England
| done for humanity or liberty that Amer
leans should at this time fling up their
hats in her honor? Is she not the same
| England that warred against the colo
nies; that burned Washington; that
| furnished guns, ammunition, privateers
| and men to man them to tho rebels, in
order that the fair fabric of liberty on
| this continent might bo stricken down,
| and tho institutions of slavery be per-
petuated?
Dolliver, of Iowa, calls the feeling
aroused by this conduct a "thrcadbarc
| feeling" and Grosvenor, of Ohio, rcpudi-
ates any kindly feeling for France, and
claims that what she did for lis was not
done out Of love for us, but hatred for
| England. Dollivcr and Senator Cush-
man X. Davis, of Minnesota wish us to
join England In carrying the blessings
of liberty and civilization around the
earth.
| This is the craftsmanship that we
| have fallen upon in the last five years of
| the Nineteenth century. We are to be
made partners in the crime that thrust
opium upon the Chinese, devastated and
plundered India, blew sepoys from the
cannon's mouths, created famine in
| India that appalled, the world; even in
the jubilee year reduced the Egyptian
laborer to a state Of abject slavery;
mado two, aye, three, assaults upon the
integrity of the Dutch, or Bocr, rcpub-
lie in South Africa; starved 800, 900 of
people to death in Ireland in the one
reign of Victoria; cvictcd 3,500,000 and
drove into enforced exile nearly d,000,-
ono in the same period, and refused, even
in the jubilee year, to release the Irish
political prisoners, except men like
Fcathcrstone and DR.. Gallagher, whom
she had driven into hopeless insanity by
the cruelty and savagcry OF her jailols;
who has, by the admission Of her own
committee, appointed by her own par
Lament, robbed Ireland of over $I3 ,000,-
600 every year since the act of union,
and refused, and refuses, to make any
restitution to the people of that coun-
try.
Are we now to be told that the French
people are our enemies, that gallant
race who gave us Lafayette and by and
through his love Of liberty, gave us
fleets and armies to destroy the power
of that same English oppressOr?
| Shall we be told that Russia wishes
our destruction? The same Russia that
sent feet to New York to protect us
when Palmerston and Napoleon III.
threatened to recognize the indepcnd-
cnce of the Confederate states, and
which, in full recognition of the Mon
roe doctrine, withdrew herself from off
| the American continent and gave up
Alaska for $7,O00,O00, which, it is said,
was really payment for the support of
| her feet in our behalf.
That Germany is our enemy, whose
children are here by the million and are
the very salt OF American citizenship,