The Irish standard., 1899-07-15
statesmen have urged it Why is it
that; the English home office has in
sisted that we should do this work for
England-take their chestnuts out Of the

sisted that we should DO this work for
England-take their chestnuts out of the
fire.? @
ITO get as deep in he-mud as they are
and then fall on their. neck and they ask
for assistance to control the trade and
commerce that they have been unable to
control in the past - y.
: at is not the first time England had
interfered with. our national affairs.
Do you remember the speech that Lin
coin made to werkmen, when he said it
was the workmen, after all, that got on
the right side Of a question first. When
we were in war against slavery in this
country, when the operating weavers in
England were starving for cotton, the
English government sent agents among
the workmen to talk against us for the
dissolution of the union and the per-
petuation of slavery.
"She sent her agents preaching the
doctrine that to give belligerency to
the south meant continuance of slavery
and supply Of cotton, but they said to
the government of England, we will
starve, but we will never cast straw on
the side of slavery. cloud applause.)
"But they tell us that we don't honor
our soldiers. 1t is one OF their favorite
cries. We do. God bless and honor
every one of them. The American SOL
dier has proven of what stuff he is made
He obeys orders like man. We honor
the man who carries the gun and obeys
orders, but we are against,the order that
sends soldiers to kill people who never
harmed US. (Applause.)
"The men we are shooting to-day
fought for us 90 days ago before we
began shooting them. They took our
guns and went back of the Spaniards
and organized to destroy the Spanish
army, and for the first time in the his
tory of the world we saw that strange
sight. Nero himself never turned gun
on an ally, and it remained for our
country to use man to whip the enemy
and then turn our guns on the men
who helped us to do it. (Applause.)
"And whose boys are doing tie
work? Do you know Of any sons OF
United States senators blossoming in
the jungles of Luzon? daughter and
cries of mo, no.) There may be some
left drawing salaries in the commissary
department, but if every congressman
and president and senator and cabinet
officer had his boys there instead of the
plain boys of the country, it would not
take long to arbitrate this question.
Applause and cries of You are about
right there, Senator Mason.)
"The only way you can declare war
in this country is for your congress to
do it. Your congress has been silent
and if there is war it is an administra-
ton war and binds nobody but the ad-
ministration. (Applause)
ut won't do for cabinet ministers to
go around the country charging SEN
ator Hoar with bringing on the war
when he begged us to keep out of it. II
we had followed the voice of Senator
Hoar we would have had no war. ZAP
plause.)
"We call those people in the east reb-
els-rebels against a country to which
they have never sworn allegiance. They
must be subjects before they can rebel
If they were subjects, then they arc
American subjects and you are shooting
them because they want to vote. Come
come, you Fourth of July Americans,
look out! This shooting people be-
cause they want to vote may become
contagious. I say to you now we have
no more right to govern those people
there without their consent than King
George had right to govern US in 1776
without our consent. (Applause.)
"Let me say in conclusion that I came
to speak to you briefly against any al
lance by this country, and especially a
British alliance, for England makes al
liances principally to break them. (Ap-
plause.)