The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-11-03

ulau eHpefOfS, Out, at the same llme,
the most dangerous.
"yust look at President Mckinley,
making tracks on both sides of the
stream. We find him last summer, at
the Catholic summer school at Platts-
burg, New York, holding forth and
telling the people there about the flag,
and you would actually think he was
born next door to the blarney- stone.
Next week we find him at Asbury
Park, N. Y, preaching to the Metho-
dists about piety and patriotism. And
the next week we find him executing
a treaty, offensive and defensive, with
ers"ltan of sulu, whereby he recog-
|n -, merry, polygamy and the re-
lig. ~ff,A,lMahomet.
."To crown all; we next find the pres
identof the United States going on his
knees to the Pope of Rome, and asking
him to help him out of the difficulties,
which neither his generals nor his
peace commissioners could do. He
holds several secret sessions at the
White House with Archbishop Chap
ellie, the papal delegate, and commits
sions Father McKinnon, ostensibly as
chaplain in the United States army,
but actually as the secretary of the
papal delegate, and sends both, in
princely style, to Manila, to negotiate
with the Spanish archbishop there as
to the confirming Of Spanish friars and
monks in their profession Of some 2O,-
100000 or 30,ooO,0o0 acres of the best
lands in Luz6n and the other islands.
This is the first time in the history of
the United States when the president
dared to interfere in the matter Of
church and state. What right has our
government to summon Or invite the
papal delegate to aid or assist us in
settling our political affairs?
Il feel keenly on this subject, know.
ing that there are so many gentlemen
OH this platform who, if they should
speak as do, would run the risk Of
being called A. P. AS But I, as a
Catholic, lest there should be any mis-
take, a Roman Catholic who lived in
Ireland until I was man, and un-
derstand all about landlords, the
church and state, the glebe, lands, and
the established church, don't want to
see any church going into the land
lord business in the Philippines or
anywhere else under the protection of
the American flag. tremendous ap.
plause)
'The student of history knows well
that it was the ownership of land by
the church that was one Of the causes
of the bloody revolution in France and
it enabled King Henry VIII. to sue
ceed in his so-called reformation in
England. Daniel O'Connell, my Illus
trious countryman, used to say: We
take our religion from Rome, but not
our politics. Keep the priests poor,
and they will he always the friends Of
the people, Landed property has al
ways been the curse of the church.
"In conclusion, appeal to my old
time Republican friends-yes, and to
men Of my own blood and race; yes,
and to the Germans, and to all others
who came here to seek that liberty
which was denied us in our own ma
tive lands; yes, and appeal to my
old comrade soldiers, who marched
with me to Appomattox; yes, and the
general whom 1 served under, whom
am proud to see on this platform to-
night. (The speaker-her0 here seized
Gen. McIvor by the hand. The great
audience seemed to catch the inspira-
tion, and fairly jumped to their feet.)
Eyes, l appeal to my old comrades,
who did the fighting, not to the car
pet -baggers,' who did the robbing.
(Cheers.) Again I appeal to my old
time Republican friends to not bother
themselves about tariffs. In this cam
paign the battle-cry is Republic
versus Empire! That should be the
thought uppermost in the mind Of
every citizen from now until the 9Th
of November.
"The trusts and few milionaires
have the Grand Old Party by the
throat. These corrupt, unscrupulous
politicians have shunted it from the
constitutional track. Let the plain peo.
pie, the common people, the sovereign
people-Republicans and Democrats
rally to the standard of William j.
Bryan, who is a brave and courageous
man of the Lincoln type-an American
who believes in American principles,
and is the same to-day as he was four
or six years ago. You and may diff
fer with him about dollars and tariffs,
but we admire his courage and his hon
esty, and we will stand by him and
make him our next president. Tire
mendous applause.)
"Emeline, didn't it vex you to have
to give the census man your age?"
"No, indeed; I've kept it dead Sc
cret SO long that 1t was a blessed re-
lief to get chance to tell It,"