The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-24

of the society for their kind reception,
and said that with a little encourage
mentment at any time men will do
most anything.
Il am pleased that I have such an
energetic body of young men connected
with my church. In taking the place
of Father Scannell, man we all loved
and respected, I feel honored, and l
have never yet ceased to have respect
and love for the memory of the dead
pastor of st. Anne's. I shall try to fol-
low in his footsteps and shall feel sat
istied, if / can but gain for myself the
same expressions of good will and love
that he gained in the hearts of all
whom he knew. In celebrating your
10th anniversary you have every rea-
son TO feel satisfied with the progress
you have made, and in keeping UP the
membership of the society under all
your trials, you have done well.
hope that you shall continue to be on
with your good work, and if you sue
coed in but keeping one man away from
drink in your future existence, you viii
be doing a good and charitable work"
A song by John # Reardon was we'll
received.
A letter was read from his honor
Mayor Rufus 3. Dodge, expressing re-
greet at inability to be present
In response to the toast, The ma
ton John Francis O'Connor said in
part:
] say that our country is the nation,
the one and only nation, that the world
yet knows. Which OF the nations of
the earth will challenge the assertion
All may, but which will prove it? Is it
Russia, with her absolute and auto
cratic czar? Is it Germany, with her
hardly less absolute and autocratic
kaiser; Germany that makes every
man soldier and every woman a farm
laborer? Is 1t Italy, with her bankrupt
treasury, and her Milan massacres ?
Italy, that in her desperate effort to
keep abreast of the great powers of
Europe in their God-accursed militar-
ism, robs her peasantry of their last
sheep pig, goat and hen, and merci-
lessly slaughters her freedom aspiring
worlSingmen? Is it France, with her
per-absolute and autocratic army
France, that abandoning God, following
bowling to and adoring Matthews pre-
sents the tragic spectacle Of a country
where the deaths outnumber the births
Or, lastly, is it England? Is it that
country that has ever boosted most
loudly Of happiness and freedom, the
while she had the least of both; hypo-
critical England, frowning upon and
brow beating when not crushing and
slaughtering the weak, England, whom
four of the greatest sons she has given
birth to in this century Carlyle Rusk
in, Arnold and Morris, have arraigned
as cruel and heartless stepmother to
her own poor children; England, whom
the Christ-like son Arnold described as
country with ''materialized upper
class, vulgarized middle class, and q
hrIIf a lived lnxxypr n ,,
whose lower class, Huxley, the great
scientist, declared that their lot in life
was worse than that of the South Sea
Islanders; England of whom the most
eloquent voice of this century, in the
words of Arnold, made this dire pro.
pnecy: Her tendencies and aims, hel
view of life and her social economy
would be found congenially all the
prose, all the vulgarity among man.
kind, and would invade and overpoyye o,
all nations; when the true ideal woul6
pc lost, general sterility Of mind anC
heart would set in" England thai
mas ever boosted of its Intelligence AND
education, when until 1870 her land was
without public schools. and half a
whose children at the same date. ac.
cofdlng to Montgomery, the English
historian, could neither read nor write
england, that boasts of freedom Will,
she still enslaves and Expresses ireland
ana india, and is at this very hon
Dutchering the Beers: England tha'
boasts Of happiness when, / repeat. hel
greatest sons declare that the poverty
ana vice, the utter misery and wretch,
eoness Of her lower classes are a dis
grace to Christianity and civilization
ana would shame even savagerv anf
Darbarism itself-is this the coun+r,
that VIII presume to compare hersel
with us?
It is the Filipinos now, it will be III,
Chlnese next. Think not that l am act,
ing in the role of a prophet The ex.
pdhslonlsts themselves openly proclaim
T. we are conquering the Filipino,
4 Tor their own good, to bestow mo,
them the sacred gift of freedom" IN,
sulieiess and unsophisticated amonf
the expansionists say and really believe
ana the sophisticated and guilefuI loud
~ applaud the utterance. But the hoI,
ana honest eXpansionists declare tina
we are conquering the Filipinos for n,
such reason, but simply and solely a
stepping stone to the possession of ;
| part OF China when the dismember
ment OF that empire takes place
Yes, they frankly declare, I'VE ar
now, as the nations of Europe, engage,
| in the gobbling-up' business. We mus
be in at the death of China We wan
and intend to have our share of he
| rich and juicy carcass. Spells, spoils
spoilsl Gold, gold, gold! The spoils AM
| gold OF China!" this in substance, tn
! Boston Herald, the foremost and mos