The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-19
DAVID B. HILL
SPOKE TO IRISH.
Felllcitates Them on Re
publican Government.
BEST IN THE WORLD.
He, However, GrIticises the Admins
tration's Policy.
SYMPATHY FOR The B0ERs.
EXPRESSES Surprise at the Supiueness OF This
(ioyerumert's Action While the Little
Sister Republics Are DESTROYED.
Tribute to the Kindness OF
Heart OF Harrison, Whom
Nation MourEs.
He, However, Criticises the Admins
SYMPATHY FOR The BoERs.
lEr Assocl.tea Press.0

>-rv- vop1S March lS.-About two
hundred people sat down at the ln..
second annual banquet. OF tue o. :at,t
rick's Society in Brookls .;e,,
president p. J. Carlin. of the socle.s
,,a,1 ,,,ith him at the guests table eS-
C.nv.rno1. David g. Hill, Controller bifo
color and about dozen others. ooN
erno,. Hill made the principal speeei W
tho evening He said in part
.-r,var,r Cr.,e American re1oices III 'he
fact that he lives in Il repuohc.
D,1bli, form Of government. "herepS .ne
ncople rule not directly as III d osiio
racy. but indirectly through thelr enosen
CONSERVATIVES, under a written consul
.,,t;on wherein popuIar rights as we'll as
governmental powers are clearly oei'ieu'
constitrtes the best form OF government
eyer devised by man. The distinctions
which exist between our form OF govern
men1 and that of monarchS. liihlleu -
otherwise are particularly emphasiLeu III
the recent address to Parliament OF hlhS
Edward VII. the new King OF Great
ritain and ireland and Emperor or IN
dia.
..He assures Parliament that My rela-
tions with other Powers continue to be
friendly; he rejoices that the capitals OF
the two South African Republics are III
my possession and he trusts tnat my
troops will deal effectually with the
forces of the enemy.
such expressions sound strangely upon
our ears in free America. Here we would
tolerate no such assumption OF superior
ity and power as those terms imply. 10y
atty to ourselves-to our constituted, but
NO. inherited authorities.
THE BOER WAR.
.,rhe srpineness of this great republic
in the present emergency. while Witness
ing the destruction of two struggling re-
publics in South Africa, and q substitu-
ton of a monarchal form of government
in their place, is almost incomprehensi-
BILE.
IF it be urged in defense of our ma
tiona! lethargy that the Monroe Doc
trine did not see objection to the de-
struction of republics elsewhere than
OH this continent, it may we'll be an
swered that neither did that doctrine
contemplate an attempt upon our part to
extend our jurisdiction into the Pacific
seas.
But whether it can be seriously es-
tabished that there rested upon this
nation the positive duty of active in
reference in the first instance to pro-
tect its two sister republics from an
Inhalation at the hands of monarchial
government, it is suggested that at least
it was our national duty to insist that
the alleged grievances of Great Britain
which formed the preteNt for its war
fare upon two weak republics SHOULD
have been submitted to arbitration be-
fore hostilities We're actually opened.
T-ARTLY- DECLINED.
1T is a singular circumstance that
aside from a, mere formal tender of
the friendly offices CT this Government
to the respective belliSerents (Which
Great Britain promptly and rather tartly
declinedl there has been manlfeStl-
ton of our national interest III the out
come Of the struggle; there has been no
protest raised against the cruel consum-
nation of the wrongs; there has been
permitted in Congress not even "a mild
expression of sympathy for the struS-
cling republics and they have been con-
fronted not only with cold neutrality,
but with a manifest-indifferen to their
fate, and there has been an apparent
abandonment of the new American doc
trine which was proclaimed SO vigorously
and effectively in 1888.
But whatever may have been the atti-
tude which our government has felt con-
strained to assume, there has never been.
the slightest question OF the sentiments
of the generous and warm hearted Aneri-
can people upon this subject. Their hopes.
their prayers and their sympathies have
been with the gallant Beers in their
unequal contest with British ,nsurpation.
HARRISON'S SYMPATHY.
II do not violate any confidence when
l state that at an interview which l had
ut Washington on December Sth, last,
with ex-President Harrison-onc of our
greatest lawyers aud statesmen, whose
recent death the whole country is now
lainenting-n discussing sonic constitu-
tional questions not now necessary to be
mentioned and reference having been
made to tie South African struggle, he
suddenly turned to me and with much
feeling and lnpreSsiycnesS said: Gov
ernor Hill. I am an American and my
sympathies are with the cause of the
Beers | cannot help it, 1t was an Inn
promptu expressions of patriotic senti-#
ulent, creditable nike 10 his head and
heart, which Shall always remember.
1T is difficult to trace TO any one cause
the marvellous success OF the United
States. The high standards OF national
honor and integrity by which our rela-
tions with other countries have been con-
Quoted have undoubtedly contributed
materially to our enViabte reputation
abroad Our country's influence is not
measured solely by the strength of our
armies and navies. The almost uniform
policy of national unselfishness has made
a deep impression upon the governments
OF the world.
THE zIRISH.
at has ever been our pride and our
boast that we have cordially welcomed to
our shores the oppressed of every cline.
Immigration has done much towards
building up our waste places; towards In
fusins new blood III our councils; to-
wards strengthening our resources and
5 increasing the volume Of our good citi-3
zenship.
Especially has the patriotism, the en-.
thusiasm and the industry Of our irish.
fellow-citizens. native and adopted, con-
tributed much to the progress and the
greatness of orr nation. Irish soldiers
nobly exhibited their American loyalty
not only during the war for the Union,