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

ish war, which. he said, was forced on
the unwilling president by the Ameri-
can people in the cause of humanity,
but not for conquest. The story was
told of the course Of Dewey, which, he
said, was just what the course of every
American admiral should and would
be. He spoke Of the cooperation Of the
Americans and the Filipinos and the
treacherous conduct Of the administra.
ton. The treatment of the Filipinos,
he said, was the foulest act in Ameri-
can history. The speaker attacked
the governments whole course and
President McKinley's violation of his
own and the nations solemn promises.
Such base treachery, he said, could
only be wiped out by the election of
an honest, iicorruptible man as pres
ident, and that man is William Jen-
nings Bryan.
Our treatment of the Philippines is
on a parallel with Great Britain's treat.
ment of the South African republics,
and therein the American government
was guilty Of great moral coward
ice. 1t did not need armed interven-
ton, but n him. from friendly power
to England that arbitration would be
pleasing to this country, yet the Nc
Kinley administration stood by and
saw 100000 men landed to wipe out
the army of 10000 glorious Dutchmen.
Il want to see an American govern
ment," he said. 1--WE hear great
deal from Republican orators about
our great debt to England. You would
think England had saved us from a
great danger. Did we need help in
thrashing poor old decrepit Spain? No,
we did not. We want no unpleasant
ness with England, but we want her
to keep her nose out of our affairs. At
the only time in our history that we
needed help England was not ready to
proffer it. Germany and Russia were
then our friends. When both the con-
tending sides in the Civil War issued
bonds the Confederate bonds found
their ready purchasers in England,
and among the buyers was Lord Cecil,
now President McKinley's good friend,
the Marquis of Salisbury, while the
Federate government bonds went to
Continental Europe for q market.
When this, same Lord Cecil and his
fellow Britons We're getting ready to
make trouble for the North, the En-
peror Of Russia sent fleet of warships
into New York harbor and warned
England to keep her hands off"
"They declare the flag has never
been and never shall be hauled down."
he shouted. "Good God! we hauled it
down in New Brunswick; during the
Mexican war we hauled it down from
territory in the Northwest to make
England hold her peace; we hauled it
down from the heights of Mexico and
told the Mexican people to go in their
career and work out their own destiny,
which they have been gloriously doing
during the past twenty years; and the
other day Mckinley, with all his talk,
gave up 1900 square miles of Ameri-
can territory in Alaska because Great
Britain wanted the land. There's an
example for Won of hauling down the
flag. Thirteen hundred square miles
OF American territory pawned to Eng
land to keep her in good humor! There
is not another such dlsgraceful sur
render recorded in American history.
ITO justify the conquest of the Fill
ipinos, the Republicans do not hest
tate to blaspheme the memory of JEFF
ferson and other presidents under
whom the country has expanded. They
do not tell us that all our expansion
III the past was in the interest of peace
and all the territory we secured was
secured by peaceful methods. Expan-
sion, yes, it is an American policy. I
would to God 1 could live to see the
day when every foot OF territory be-
tween the Rio Grande and the Arctic
seas was under the American flag.
hope to see the day when we shall
nave no neighbor on the north threat
enlng us with her forts and her can.
non. And I believe the day will come
When the people of this great terri
tory will come under our flag willingly.
We will welcome every people who
come in willingly, but we want no
bloody conquest. We want to see orr
nag waving over no subject peoples.
mat flag is ours, although our oppon-
ents claim monopoly of loyalty to
It, We love it and want to live under
It, and hand it down to our children
with it's red, it's white, and its blue I'M
solled by the tears of an oppressed
race. We never want to see n shack.
led slave knceling beneath it's glorious
folds"
Mr. Finerty then took up the Sulu
treaty. by which President Mckinley
approves slavery and polygamy and
guarantees their continuance in the
Sulu archipelago, and his references to
President Mcllinley's attitude in this
matter were caustic and severe. Con-