The Irish standard., 1899-10-28
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS.

INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS.
The Mckinley organs of expansion in
the antipodes are assiduously applying
the most offensive epithets to the Re-
publican leaders who stand for the
American Constitution and the Declare
ton OF Independence. Such noble
Americans as Senator Hoar and ex-Sen-
ator Boutwell, OF Massachusetts,, ex-
Speaker Reed and Senator Hale
OF Maine, ex-senator Edmunds
and Senator Morrill, of Yer
mont, ex-senator Sherman OF
Ohio, and many other distinguished
native American statesmen who have
been lifelong members OF the Repub-
lican party OF Lincoln are now stigma
TIED as "copperleads and traitors" and
said to be in their senility, because for
sooth they will not relinquish their prin-
ciples of true Americanism and endorse
the colonial policy OF Mark Hanna and
his man Friday, who by the grace of the
plutocracy now steers the ship of state.
Carlyle in his worst fits of indigestion
was never more cacophonous than these
ancient birds OF i'll omen," says the Chi
cago Tribune. And then it says that
Senator Hoar, the Gladstone Of Amer
lea, from his long-continued loquacity
has impressed the people with the belief
that he has lost his usefulness.
When our statesmen begin to grow
intolerant and assume to know it all /;
when they become impressed with the
conviction that all wisdom is going to
die with them; when they demand I'M
mediate acquiescence in all that they do
or say, and scod like shrews and with
the fury OF intolerance when they are
not gratifcd, that is sign that the vet
cram is tagging superfuous on the stage
and it should be the signal for his retire
ment,' says the Chicago organ OF i'm
perialism and spoliation
Say what it will OF him the American
people honor and respect George F.
Hoar's noble utterances in behalf of lib
erty and independence for the oppressed
Filipinos. To show that though phys
ically lie may be in "the sere and yellow
Leaf but is far from being the mental
imbecle that the administration organs
represent him to be, we give the follow
ing views on imperialism expressed by
him recently in Washington as the pres
ident of the Unitarian Council which
was in session:
II have no faith in fatalism, in destiny,
in blind force. I believe in God, the
living God. 1 believe in the American
people, a free and brave people, who do
not bow the neck or bend the knee to
any other, and who desire no other to
bow the neck or bend the knee to them.
II believe that the God who created
this world has ordained that His chill
drcn may work out their own salvation,
and that His nations may work out their
own salvation by obedience to His laws,
without any dictation or coercion from
any other. l believe that liberty, good
government, free institutions, cannot be
given byany one people to any other, but
must be wrought out for each by itself,
slowly, painfully, in the process of years
or centuries, as the oak adds ring to
ring. l believe that republic is greater
than an empire. believe that the
moral law and the golden rule are for
nations as we'll as for individuals. I be-
lieve in George Washington, not in Ma
poleon Bonaparte; in the Wings OF the
Revolutionary day, not in the Tories;
i'll Chatham, Burke and Sam Adams,
not in DR.. johnson or Lord North.
believe that the North star, abiding in
its place, is greater influence in the
universe than any comet or meteor. I
believe that the United States, when
William Mckinley was inaugurated, was
a greater world power than Rome in the
height OF her glory, or even England,
with her 100000, 900 vassals. believe
whatever clouds may darken the hor-
lion, that the world is growing better;
that today is better than yesterday, and
tomorrow will be better than today"
Any American who finds fault will,
Senator Hoar for preaching such Cos
pei OF liberty must be a Tory and a
monarchist in disguise. II believe that
republic is greater than an empire"
says the American statesman. II be-
lieve that the British government is as
good as ours" says Mark Hanna. We
do not envy the American, native-born
or adopted, who believes what Mark
Hanna says and calls Senator Hoar an
old fogy for preferring a republic to a
monarchy. The men who side with
Hanna and abuse Hoar are menace to