The Irish standard., 1900-09-15
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One of the Chicago papers contains
a long letter from Kfckham scanlan,
a Blaine Irish Republican, in which
he objects to the nomenclature of the
aristocratic Republican club Of Chi.
cago, before which Senator Davis read
his campaign speech and was hissed.
Scanlan is member Of the Hamilton
Club and thinks the name should be
changed Immediately because the VIC
tim of Aaron Burr's bullet was an
imperialist. He declares that Hamil-
ton is not the proper man to honor
during a campaign in which the Re-
publican party is charged with i'm.
perialism and other evils, like militar-
ism, which follow in its train.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
who has written the life of Hamilton
in the same strain that Roosevelt has
written the life of Cromwell, is given
by Scanlan as an authority for his as
sertions regarding the famous im-
perialist. He says that the life of
Lincoln is an indictment of the acts
and principles of Hamilton, who was
born under the British flag and always
loved and cherished the institutions of
Great Britain. He recalls the declara.
tion Of Hamilton in which he said that
whenever the United States wanted
territory they should first negotiate for
it, and If they failed by diplomacy
they should secure it by warlike
means. Exactly the instructions
given by Mckinley to the Paris peace
commissioners for the acquisition of
the Philippine islands. If Spain re.
fused to accept the $2O,OOO,O0O Nc.
Kinley would continue the war and
carry it into Europe.
Mr.. Scanlan quotes Senator Lodge
as saying: ''The republic Of Hamilton
was to be aristocratic as distinguished
from a democratic republic" and
Hamilton brooded over the dangers
of democracy and imagined himself
at the head of an army, playing the
part Of savior and establishing Il
government on Il strong foundation,
and all this years after the constit'l-
tion had been adopted. He was a
firm believer in the use of military
force against discontented bodies of
the people,"
Further on Mr. Scanlan shows that
Hamilton wished an alliance with Eng
land. On this point he says: "Hamil
ton, while opposing an alliance with
the French republic, sought to make
one with Great Britain, and President
John Adams in public manner de.
clared that Hamilton was acting in the
interests of England. 1t will also be
remembered that when war was
threatened, during Washington's adj
ministration, between the United
States aud England Hamilton brought
out diplomatic proceedings and after
failing to secure the appointment HIM
self had Jay sent as envoy to England.
jay negotiated a treaty by which
many of the contentious of the United
States in the dispute were waived"
A storm of Indignation swept over
the land on the announcement of the
terms of the treaty, and Hamilton was
stoned in New York by the people for
trying to justify the act. Perhaps
John Hay, who entered into a lnodus
vivendi with England on the Alaskan
boundary dispute and ceded {" terri
tory the size of Long Island, thanks
his stars that he escaped stoning for
hauling down the American flag in the
golden regions we obtained from Rus
sia.
The Irisll-American lawyer says a
great deal more in his letter that ls Of
interest at the present time. He says
Hamilton was an alicn having ideas
of government at variance with re.
publican Institutions. He was lover
of slavery. and his doctrines took root
in the South where slavery existed
In his last years his heart went whoJ
ly back to England and he regretted
the circumstances thas had made him
an exile in the Uni,ed States. AIl'.
Scanlan repudiates Eamilton's un-
American theories and teachings and
says: "When- the Declaration of In.
dependence is destroyed. when Lin
coins teachings and warnings are for
gotten and when this country deicr-
mines on a monarc!lic;ll career then
will the hour of Hamilton be reached
upon the dial of time"
Despite the note Of warming sounded
by Mr.. Scanlan ut the opening of the
campaign there is no Indication that
the name of the Hamilton Club will
he changed as requested by him i'll the
letter to it's president. He believes
that an immediate change of title is
advisable but his plutocratic associates
are of contrary opinion. 1t would
do no good to change the name now
Every one knows what the principles
of the Hanna-ridden party are. They
are eaxactly the same as We're advo-
Gated by Alexander Hamilton. The