The Irish standard., 1899-04-29

to say that America had got the worst
of it in the war of 1872? Had he for
gotten Perry and the victory OF Lake
Erie? Had he forgotten McDonough
and the victory of Lake Champlain?
Had he forgotten Harrison and the VIC
tory of the Thames? Had he forgotten
Lawrence, with his "Never give up the
ship" gallant Charles Stewart and "Old
Ironsides" and all the brilliant deeds OF
that war which had crowned the Ameri-
cans arms with glory on sea and land?
cloud and continued applause.)
Had they no cause to doubt Eng
lands alleged newborn friendship? Wy
oming valley, black with smoke, lurid
with the flames and soaked with the
blood OF the innocent and the brave
the diabolical work OF England's hire
ling Indian allics-loomed against the
horizon OF American revolutionary his
tory and babe them not forget. Admiral
Cockburn, one of Napoleon's jailers,
and Gen Ross captured Washington in
1914 and made bonires of our public
buildings Could they forget that? Need
he remind them OF the Civil war and
how the land OF Wilberforce, the alleged
enforccr of the cdict against the slave
trade, the emancipation of the West In
dian negroes, betrayed, for bride OF
Southern cotton, the cause OF liberty,
of Union, OF Lincoln? Loud applause.)
He might cite many other instances
the insults hurled at our government by
Lord Robert Cecil-now Marquis of
Salisbury and premier of England-in
the house of commons. Nor was he
alone in his infamy. Other members
of the British government contributed
hundreds of thousands of dollars to the
rebel fund, while Russia and Germany
showed their friendship by deeds, not
words They knew how the armed
British pirates, the Alabama and the
Shenandoah, and their mates, had swept
American commerce from the seas. Mr..
Anderson had intnlated that he (Mr.
Finerty) had said llasty things about
England. He wished to state, most
emphatically, that lie had never uttered
4 sentiment against England that he
would rctract (Applause.) He hated
England as corporation and he would
be ashamed of himself, both as an Irish
born man and an American citizen il he
did not. (Applausc) AS to individual
Englishmen, that was quite a different
affair. The poor things couldn't help
being born in England Laughtcr.)
Some OF them were right good fellows,
socially and in business: others were
not. He could never see where the
claimed superiority OF the ,Englishman
over the American and the Irishman
came in. The average Englishman in
this country was chiefly distinguished
by a loud check suit single cyeglass,
mutton chop whiskers and an abomin-
able old tobacco pipe. (Grcat cheers
and laughter) He could not hate such
a specimen as that-he could only pity
him. He could not hate decent Eng
lishman because Of his birth Did they
suppose he was savage? N-aughter.)
Some people who called themselves
Americans wished to forget the gories
OF the Revolutionary war. Four years
ago he had stood on Concord bridge
in glory-crowned Massachusetts. He
saw there the noble statue of the Minute
Man, leaving his pillow to take up the
backwoodsman's rifle and fight for the
liberty of his country. And on the
tablet OF the pedestal were engraved.
III letters of fire, as it seemed to his
imagination: the grand words Of En-
erson:
by the rude bridge which arched the
flood,
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,
Here, once, the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the
world" (Applausc)
There, too, he saw on the capstone
of the old wall, which was there on the
day Of the battc--"Gravc OF British
Solders'-the first who fell before the
Jury OF American frcemcn, and
Standing on the Briton's grave
He could not deem himself slave"
Almost in sight was Lexington, whose
green that same morning was dyed witt,
the blood of American patriots, and be-
yond all rose the monument at Bunker
Hill, pointing with giant finger of gran
tic, to the glorious destiny of people
who were willing to fight and die for
liberty. (Applause.) Could they forget
such lessons, such inspirations, for the
sake OF cutivating the good will of the
power whose misconduct OF government
made such bloody sacrifices necessary?
But Mr.. Butler had said that the
coasts OF old England were mostly peo-
pied by pirates. They were so yet.
Applause and laughtcr) The British
pirate had not changed his spots, al
though he had changed his flag, and
the red cross had taken the place OF the
northern raven
The proof that Americans were not
Anglo-Saxons was before him. Hardly
a man, or woman, of the several hun
dred present, had a fair complexion or
fair hair-charactcrstics of the Anglo
SaxOns, if thew ever had any character