The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-16
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IRISH GIVE
BRYAN OVATION
Crowd Wildly Cheers His
Speech In Chicago.
TALKS IMPERIALISM
AND LANDL0RDISM
Stevenson Relates His Expert
enceS In Erin.

Stevenson and others made speeches to-
day at Sunny Side park on the occa-
sion of the annual meeting of the
United Irish societies of Cook county
The attendance was large, notwith-
standing threatening weather. Mr.
Bryan'S speech was first of the series,
but before he was heard the assembly
adopted an address from which the fol-
lowing is an extract:
within the year freedom has re-
celved desperate blows at the hands of
nations who claimed to be welded to
liberty, and we regret to say that the
Foreign policy of our own American re-
public has exhibited desire on the
part of our government to share in the
seizure of the territory, which is the
distinguishing mark of the nation that
throttled liberty upon this continent,
burned its capitol at Washington, de-
stroyed its archives and set the merci-
less savages upon defenselesS women
and children. scalping, burning and de-
StrOying them.
we are unalterably opposed TO anv
alliance, tacit or open, with any Euro
pean monarchy, particularly ours and
Americas bitter foe and shall resist in
every practical and legal way the impo-
sition of imperialism and militarism up
on-a-peOple cOnsecrated to freedom. and
in this spirit, and with an abiding trust
IN the good sense and patriotism of the
vast body of the American people we
commit as far as we may the fortunes
of the republic of America to the
strength and determination of citizens
born on American soil, aided by those
sons from other lands, who sought here
refuge from open tyranny, judicial
Text of Bryan's Speech.
Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows: II 90
not want you to think that my happi-
ness depends upon any public Office
within the gift of the people of this
country. 1 have higher ambition
than to be president great applause)
The man whose happiness depends up
on what others do for him NAV be
doomed TO disappointment, but if ones
happiness depends upon what he does
for others. he need not be disap-
pointed. (Renewed applause) l hope
you will credit me with the ambition
that is within the reach of every cit
izen of this land, an ambition which
all can entertain, and which, to my
mind, is higher ambition than that for
any office. and that is an ambition to
do what | can to make this nation so
great and so good that to be a simple
citizen will be greater than to be a
king in any other land. Great ap-
DiauSe)
Il am not here this afternoon to fat
ter your pride by telling you what the
descendants of Erin have accomplished.
l am not going to dwell upon the work
of the sons of Erin, because it would
take all the afternoon and leave me
no time TO speak of what the daugh-
terS of Erin have also done. Gaugh-
ter and applause.) The work of the
Irishmen in the development of this
country is too we'll known to need de-
tailed description. The people of your
race have given to the world the high
est samples of oratory; they have been
distinguished in poetry and in music.
in business and in craftsmanship; you
have had millions who have taught the
world how to live and you have had an
Emmett who taught the world how to
die. Cheers and applause.)
Origin of Name Bryan.
A voice: Your name should be
OBrien." daughter and applause.)
Mr.. Bryan: My friend has tried to
ingratiate me on to your favor by sug-
costing that my name is O'Brien and
not Bryan. If the gentleman knew as
much about it as 1 do he would know
that Bryan is the original name and
that 'O'Brien' is derivation. laugh
ter and applause.)
When Bryan became king, he put
on the 90 and the OBriens are the
descendants of the king while the
organs are the common people who
never got stuck up about relative be-
ing king. (Renewed applause and
laughter)
THE object of my speech is A practi-
cal one. l want to use this occasion
to point to a great lesson. I believe
the fact that this nation has here the
representatives of ali of the races of
Europe, gives it a peculiar advantage
among the nations. The fact that the
best blood of all civilized races mingled
here in the development of American
character enables this nation to turn
upon every question the light of uni
versal history and avoid the dangers
from which other nations have suf-
fered. (Applause) When a problem
arises in this country we can look back
and find what has been the experience
of others If we knew the history of
our own people only we would not be
so well prepared to detect danger be-
fore we suffer from it; but if any does
not know the growth of landlordism
and its dangers he has only to ask an
Irishman what iandlordism means and
he need not read history to find it out.
Great applause.) If any one wants
to know whether an alien government
is good. all he has to do is to ask an
Irishman what his opinion is of an
alien government. although the govern
ing power be separated from the coun-
try only by a narrow channel CAP
plause)
Germans and Militarism.
eff you want to know what mill
tarism means and what its burdens are.
all YOU have to do is to ask a German
who came to this country to avoid the
militarism of the old world applause
And so 1 might go through the various
experiences of other nations The fact
that we have here the representatives
of these people enables us to scent the
danger from afar and guard their ex-
periences. And / miss my guess if the
American people, thus made up. will
not develop civilization higher, great
er and more enduring than any civili-
cation which has proceeded ours.
Great applause)
when anyone tells you that we want