The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-08-03
FINERTY AT OMAHA.

FINERTY AT OMAHA.
The Irish Nationalist Trounces Jehn
Bull.
At the eighth annual festival of the
Church Of the Holy Family at Omaha,
on July II, Colonel John F. Finerty,
Of Chicago, delivered an address on
America and Ireland" He was intro
duced by Mayor Moores as an old
army comrade and one of the best cor
respondents connected with the Union
army. In the course of his address he
said:
do not be deceived by the stories
in the press of English liberty. She is
hypocrite, worse than Russia. She
breaches God and morality-she prac-
tees murder and robbery. She is the
same England she always was, the one
that is now fighting the Beers is the
one who turned loose the red Indian
on the inhabitants of the Valley of
Wyoming in Pennsylvania. She is the
one who impressed American seamen
until she was driven from the sea.
Pakenham and Wellington were Irish
men by birth. Pakenham was one of
the six men in the Irish parliament
who sold that body to England for a
commission in the English army. 1t is
this same England that we are fighting
morally, if not physically, today-Eng-
land, the land Of Wherefore, who
maintained slavery in the West Indies
as long as it paid her. who encouraged
the American abolitionists until the
Civil war was precipitated and then
gave aid and support to the confeder-
acy. When General Sherman reached
Atlanta he found that most Of the can.
non which had been firing upon the
Union soldiers bore the crown mark of
an English arsenal.
England claims that she helped the
United States in the war with Spain.
This is a newspaper lie. There is no
official record that she ever did any,
thing for us. But we must not forget
Russia. When England hurried her
forces to Canada after the war Russia
sent fleet to New York to let her
know that if she interfered in Ameri-
can affairs the Russian bear would put
its head into the English honey pots.
'"The present premier of England,
then Lord Robert Cecil, bought $780,
600 of confederate bonds and other
Englishmen bought these bonds, but
the United States could float no bonds
in England.
The Beers are now teaching England
something she has never known before
Her commanders have made the Brit
ish generals question whether they
are generals or drivers for canal boats.
| would be pleased if Ireland could
take up the battle now being waged
by the Beers, but this is impossible as
the Beers have land over which to re-
treat, while Ireland is under the Brit
ish guns. We hope for war between
France and England and if France
the old friend Of liberty-should land
men and arms in Ireland, every Irish
man worthy of the name would take
up arms for his country.
"The time may come when there will
be war between England and the
United States and if this ever happens
I hope that one Of the conditions of
the peace will be cession Of Ireland
to the United States. If this country
can manage islands in Asia it can es-
tablish protectorate in Europe.
II could wish that the United States
would have assisted the Beers. For
the first time in it's history the United
States has not held out hand to peo-
pie struggling for liberty. We gave
asylum to the patriots Kossuth,
Schurz, Meagher and others. do not
criticise men; crfticise policies. The
American who does not sympathize
with the Beers should be buried in the
same grave with Benedict Arnold
when he dies.
'"I am proud to say that from the
days of Lexington to the close Of the
last war the sword of Ireland has
flashed on every field and the blood OF
Ireland has been shed in defense Of
American liberty. The spirit of liber-
ty can never die in Ireland as long as
one Irishman lives. We are opposed
to England because she is hypocrite.
because she is a tyrant. We are an
American people. We are not Anglo
SaXons. Sir Walter Scott says in his
novel Ivanhoe' that one OF the dis
tinguishing marks of the Anglo Saxons
in England was the wearing of collar
to shoW to what Norman lord they be-
longed. The Anglo Saxon superstition
is an absurd fraud"
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