The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-04

he lived 1t was unlawful for an Irishman
to send his children to school or church.
Laws forbade him to participate In trade
and he had neither constitutional nor
franchise rights 1t has been stated and
is believed by many that British influence
and domination are but other terms for
humanity, civilization and refinement but
the history Of English government for
the past 700 years proves this to be false.
That government Is now wasting lives
and money in South Africa because the
franchise and tax laws are not just In
that country, but for years the franchise
and tax laws enforced in Ireland have
been anything but just. Even in 1879 the
franchise laws in Ireland were such that
only those who were paying taxes on
certain amount of property could vote for
members Of parliament and out Of 1000
families in a certain district but 104 per-
sons We're eligible to vote. These were
the franchise laws of England in the end
Of the nineteenth century. We can i'm
agine what they were at the time In
which Emmett lived. Emmett with utter
disregard of his own personal safety gave
his life for his country and at the foot Of
the scaffold abjured his countrymen not
to write his epitaph until his country was
free. His grave is still unmarked, but
his epitaph is written upon the hearts of
his countrymen and Is on the lips of the
sympathizers Of human liberty. We owe
1t to his memory to hasten the advent of
that day when we can read the epitaph
over the grave of our departed hero
Miss Stella VerVais, Miss Steiger and
John 4. Gehan contributed vocal solos,
and Leo Drummer plano number. T. r.
{ Kane in an eloquent and forcible address
paid growing tribute to the memory of
Robert Emmett, and during his remarks
was cheered to the echo. He said in part:
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to one who sacrificed his life that his
country might be benefited. There is a
custom among grown up men to measure
efforts by results. To understand Rob-
ert Emmett we must go black to the age
in which he lived. A constitutional mon
arch and despot was on the throne. I'm
der his reign the people of Ireland had
neither constitutional rights nor liberty.
No man was safe to speak, act or i've
Republics were being formed in the new
and old world. 1t was very different in
the closing hours Of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. At the close Of the
eighteenth century republics were being
formed and in the closing hours of the
nineteenth century civilization quietly
looks on while a republic is being de-
stroyed. Robert Emmett, endowed with
all the gifts of intellect, organized So
ciety, under the name Of United Irishmen,
which had a membership of 100,0 900 Irish
men without regard to creed. He was
exiled from his country by reason Of his
connection with the society and spent sew
eral years on the continent with but
one purpose in view-that of freeing his
native country. In 1903 he returned to
Ireland and attempted to seize Dublin
castle, expecting to have help from the
French emperor. He failed, and many
of his colleagues were shot down by the
Irish constabulary. He was captured and
suffered death on the gibbet. England
has filed her pages In the history OF the
world. She has brought light to dark