The Irish standard., 1900-08-11

there? If so, what did he say? Did he
ever show you any little keepsakes or
war relics?
There is only one honorable war, and
that is the defense OF country and fire.
side. Then does the soldier rise to al
most God-like grandeur. Oh, my coun-
trymen! let us not lust for other peo-
pies lands. Better than navies, better
than gold. better than armies, better
than spccious demagogues is the knowl-
edge that the great American people
have the moral courage to halt and
undo a wrong-greatcr to their own
sons than to the poor black race of un-
stable Tagal people, Those whose in
terest it is to kill our republic and fatten
on its decay, the carrion feeders of the
spoil system, continue to exploit our
pride and say to us, eve have started
i'll, people will laugh at us OF we back
down now; we must go on" This is
lie! Does any one OF you hold man
in contempt who has the moral courage
to endure ridculc and undo his wrong?
II other nations misunderstood and de-
ride and spit upon us, there is yet a law
that Hickory Jackson promulgated at
| New Orleans for any future doubters.
have borne arms unwillingly and ig-
norantly i'll this unjust quarrcl-how
muchrcadicr would in a Just one. whcr
conscious right ncrvcd me to emulate
my revolutionary ancestry? II you cam
not do this thing, then lift up your eyes
and read upon the wall "Mcnc meme
tckcl uplarsin."
If any man tell you that the American
people have friends in the island OF LII
zon, outside OF the English and the
small Macabebe tribe (who are hcrcd-
tary enemies Of the Tagals). then he is
liar and the truth is not in him.
Now that you are all so cntlluscd, get
map and get some military friend to
explain to you the battles OF Caloocan
Malabon, and Talaidan River. The,
their whole army was driven over a
causcway on to the island of Malabon,
! where one platoon of high school cadets
could have held them. Look at the
map, read the story, then draw your in
ference. Does any one know why FL
well S. Otis was not relieved when the
whole army, as one man, cried out
against him, cursed him as no man was
ever cursed before, and as only his own
regiment, the Twentieth infantry, could
appreciate; when from Maine to the
GolIcn Gate he was known to be too
small for his job, when the Ground
robin" of the combined press was calm
ly ignored? Now let a fool in his folly
tell you somcthing-Elwcll S. Otis is
not small man. he is an able man, OF
very great executive abilities and very
poor Judgment; he knows army affairs,
but not men; is thoroughly convcrsant
with beans and gun dynamics, but not
with motives OF men and political tides
In other words. he is a soldier, Il good,
| thorough man-at-arms: for this he was
trained and this he is, and was not in
tended to be aught else. He simply
went ahead, obcycd his orders and kept
his tongue. II any one undertook to
help hold the umbrella, he sat on them.
The administration for reasons of their
own-of statc-wficl, they did not de-
sire to state, did not wish to conclude
the war then. Did you ever add two
and two? Do you ever think? Well,
now is the time to do some tall thinking.
While the lust OF battle is on a man
or a nation, they only feel, they do not
| think. We have felt enough, let us now
| lubricatc our mental machinery. In
the loud din of battle the voices OF rca-
son, philosophy, truth and cxpedcncy
are drowned All things arc opportunc
or not as to the time of their uttcrancc.
| Now let us great common people take
counsel with one another while our pas
| sons have cooled ere the coming po-
litical battle again heat our minds and
we are filled with the clamor Of partisan
unrcason; let us beware lest we court
the death Rome, Greece and others
have had from within their gates. am
| no partisan have no democracy, no
rcpublcanism, no popuism-l have
| only the Amcricanism that my grand
sircs OF '76 bcqucathcd me- When !
lose that, pray God the earth open and
swallow me up utterly.
Chief Baron Pallcs seems to be pa
trotic sort of an 1rishman in spite OF