The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-11-03
ONE OF The LINCOLN REPUBLICANS
Asks Comrades to Rally to the
Democratic
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
The Real Issue is to Save This
Glorious Republic.

0AVA.AVN0 AAOHNOAASs
The speech of Capt. Patrick O'Eaf
rell of Washington, D. c., delivered
before an anti-Imperialistic meeting at
Cooper Union, New York, is attracting
wide attention in the campaign. 1t
was of very impassioned sort, and
Capt. O'Farrell says of his present po-:
sition: II am still a staunch Republic
can, and, for that reason, L am for
Bryan and liberty" He was intro
duced as lifelong Republican and
brave soldier, who served in the. Six
ty-ninth New York under Corcoran.
He spoke without notes, as follows
: ''While we have not an ideal govern
ment of our own, yet I contend that
we have the best system so far devised
by man to regulate our own affairs,
while we have the worst system to reg
ulate the affairs of others. You can
not govern foreign colonies or run
Imperialism with Republican machin-
cry. 1t requires king or an emperor
like the empress of India-whose rule
will be continuous, to do that. we
elect our executive every four years
and we change policies and officials
with every change of party.
eve appoint a postal agent or tax
collector at .Mindanao or Manila He
can't bring his wife or children there,
on account of the climate. He has q
four-year's job. He will try and feath-
er his nest before the other party
comes in; and when he does, he Will
be succeeded by another, who will also
90 into the nest -feathering business.
Great applause and cries Of '"Thats
so! You're right!')
81 now boldly state that this ac
auiring and keeping of foreign colonies
will bring disgrace on our flag and dis
credit on our Republican institutions.
When it comes to looting, swindling
and crookedness, the Spaniards were
not in it. with our fellows. said this
to a. United States senator (Senator
Hawley), few months ago, and he
exclaimed: 'Oh, Pat! don't say that
about your own countrymen.' I say it
advisedly, on good proof. Didn't we
rob and plunder our own countrymen
in the South during the carpet bag
regime? And after we had robbed and
beggared the whites, we then plum
dered our wards, the negroes, and loot
ed the Freedman's bank. This is no
reflection on the honesty of the Amer
ican people in general 1t only Illus
trates the fact that we cannot govern
honestly, even at home, by military
rule; and how can we expect to do it
abroad, in our foreign colonies, and
over a people whom we despise as q
subject race? If we continue In this
colonial-imperial business, I suggest
that we amend our constitution, 80
that the title of our president shall
read as follows: William Mckinley,
President of the United States and
Emperor of the Philippines (Cheers
and laughter.) Abraham Lincoln said:
we cannot last long half-slave and
half-free,' and now, at the beginning of
new century, we are going to be
half-subject, half-citizen.
II remember when I first saw the
sacred soil of Virginia during the late
Civil War-yes, the war for liberty. l
read sign on large brick building
in Alexandria: Price, Birch & 90.
Dealers in Slaves I remained South
long enough to shoot that slavery bust
ness to death. Oh, am awful proud
that was an abolitionist and Re-
publican in those days! tremendous
applause.) Those were the days OF
Lincoln and Liberty. Now, when.
walk up Pennsylvania avenue, look
! up at the White House and am car.
ried back to the days of Price, Birch
& Co., Dealers in Slaves and read
on the White House, in imaginary
lines: Hanna, Mckinley g. Co., Whole.
sale Dealers in Filipino Slaves! Great
applause.)
"There is another feature of this
colonial business that the country has
not noticed SO far. That Is the matter
of church and state. Mckinley Is try
ing to work the church, mean the
Catholic church-but. he 'wobbles' on
that, as well as other matters. What
he said last week he contradicts this