The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-16
SPOKE 70 THE FRESHMEN
BRYAND AND STEVENSON AID
DRESSED HIBERNLAN sOCIE-
TY AT CHICAGO
SOME BRIGHT wITTIcIsMs
Presidential Candidates. Address
Was Punctured With sparkIes
of Pleasantly Which Evoked
Laughter and Applause.

CHICAGO, Aug. 15.-Col. William
]. Bryan and Mr.. Adlai E,
Stevenson, and others made speeches to-
Cay al Su':nysi.le park. On the occasion of
the annual meeting of the United Irish
societies Of Cook County. The meeting
vas presided over by Rev. F. L. Rey-
nolds, and the attendance was large, not
understanding threatening and stormy
weather. Mr.. Bryans speech was the
| first of the series. but before he was
| heard, the assembly at the suggestion
| OF Judge M. Cannon. adopted an address.
from which the following is an extract:
| Within the year freedom has received
desperate blows at the hands of nations
| who claim to be welded to liberty, ana
| we regret to say that the foreign policy
| of our own American republic mas exhib-
| lted desire on the part OF our govern
rent to share In the seizure of territ Dry
which Is the distinguishing mark of the
nation that throttled liberty upon this
continent, burned it's capitol at Washing
ton. destroyed it's archives and set the
Inerc1leSS Indian SavageS upon defenSeless
women and children, scalping, burning
and destroying them.
I'VE are unalteIably opposed to any al
Lance, tac1t or open, with any European
monarchy, particularly ours and Ameri-
| cas- bitter foe; another shall resist IN
| every practical and legal way the impO-
sition of Imperialism and militarism upon
I people consecrated to freedom, and In
| this spirit, and with an abiding trust in
| the good sense and patriotism of the vas
BODY of the American people, we commit
as far as we may the fortunes of the
republic of America to the strength and
can soil, aided by those sons from other
lands who sought here a refuge from
open tyranny and judicial misconstruc-
ton"
MR.. BRYANS SPEECH.
Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
81 do not want you to think that my
happiness depends upon any public oflics
country l have higher ambition than to
be president. Great applausc) The man
whose happiness depends upon what
others do for him may be doomed to dis
appointment, but If ones happiness de-
ponds upon what he does for others, he
need not be disappointed. Qenewed ap-
plause)
II hope you will credit me with the
ambition that is within the reach of
every citizen Of this land, an ambition
that Is within the reach of every citi-
zen of this land, an ambition which all
can entertain, and which, to my mind,
is higher ambition than that for any
office, and that is an ambition to do
what l can to make this nation so great
will be greater than to be a king in any
other land. Great applause.) l am not
here this afternoon to fiatter your pl1de
by telling you what the descendants of
Erin have accomplished. 1 am not go
ing to dwell upon the work of the son
Of Erin, because it would take all the aft
ernOon,and leave no time to Speak of what
the daughters Of Erin have also done.
Laughter and applause.) The work of
the lriShmen In the development of this
country is too well known to need de-
tailed description. The people of your
race have given to the world the highest
examples of oratory; they have been dis
tinguished In poetry and in music, in
business and In craftsmanship; you have
w he
how to live and you have an Emmett,
who taught the world how to die. Cheers
and applause.)
BRYAN AND O'BRIEN.
A Voice-Your name should be O'Brien.
Oaughter.)
81 atiate me into your favor by suggest
ing that my name is O'Brien and not
Bryan. If the gentleman knew as much
aP Bggan IS the do o as %Sqd n snUw and
'Brien" a derivation. applause and
laughter) When Bryan became king he
put on the o." and the O'Briens are
the descendants of the king, while the
organs are the common people who never
got stuck up above a relative being
king. Renewed laughter and applause.)
tical one. want to use this occasion
to point to a. great lesson. 1 believe the
fact that this nation has here the rep
-Iesentatives of all of the races of Eu-
the nations. The fact that the best blood
of all civilized races mingles here in the
development of the American character
enables the nation to turn upon every
and avoid the dangers from which other
nations have suffered. (Applause.) When
problem arises in this country we can
look back and find what has been the
experience of Others. If we know the
history of our own people only, we
would not be so well prepared to detect
If any one does not know the growth of
landlordism and its dangers, he has only
to ask an Irishman what landlordism
means, and he need not read history to
find 1T out. Great applause.)
IF any ore wants to know whether
an alien government is good, all he has
to do is to ask an Irishman what his
opinion is of an alien government, al
though the governing power be separated
from the governed only by narrow
channel. (Applause.) If you want to
know what militarism is and what It's
burdens are, all you have to do is to ask
German who came to this country to
avoid the militarism of the old world
(Applause.) And so might go through
the experiences of other nations. The fact
that he have here the representatives of
these people enables us to accent the
danger from afar and to guard against
their experiences here. And 1 miss my
guess If the American people, thus made
up, will not develop civilization higher
greater and more enduring than any civ
il1zation which has preceded ours. Great
applause.)
when any one tells me that we want
to initiate Anglo-Saxon civilization, / tell
him than an American civil ization is high
er than any other-no matter what 1t is.
Great applause.) / do not mean to say
one word against Anglo-Saxons. l have
not word to say against the CeIt, the
Latin, the Greek or the Teuton.
BEST OF THEM ALL.
But do believe that the American. in
whom are combined the virtues of them
all, is the greatest citizen the world 4Nhs
ever known. Great applause and cheer
iLg), and that the civilization to be &c
veloped here will lift humanity to a hign-
er plane than 1t has occupied in the DAYS
gone by. (Renewed applause.) Some peo-
| pie fear that these elements, brought in
from the old world, will not properly
mix here. They are mixing and thew viii
mix, ard let me show you what 1t is thai
mikes them and makes them one We
are quoting Abraham Lincoln now more
than he is quoted by the party which re
led to its first victory, and in reading a
little book recently prepared by DR.. Tay-
| lor and Mr.. Fulf1ller, a little book that
| Is simply a collection of Lincoln sayings
on political questions, I ran across a pas
| sage which I thought appropriate for
this afternoons gathering. He was
| speaking of the Declaration of Indepelid-
ence He was speaking of those who in
h0 az l1 do to