The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-06-28

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would say, because it would be COW.
ardly to omit saying it, the United
N States to the Philippines. prolonged
applause)
"Woe,' wrote Mitchell, the brilliant
Irish revolutionst, "woe to the nation
n whose books are kept by stronger
nation
"But," many would argue, 'these
small states are not fit to maintain
themselves.-they are not fit for self
government"
These arguments belonged to tyrants
who wished to destroy liberty, or who
felt called upon to offer some apology
to mankind for having destroyed it.
(Applause)
So Gessler might have replied to
Tell; or Edward 1. to William Wallace;
or the Duke Of Alva to the Dutch; or
the sultan to the Greeks; or Elizabeth
to O'Neill Of Ulster; or Lord North to
George Washington and the continent
tai congress; or the Hapsburg to the
Hungarans; or Macmillan to the
Kruger Great applause) But the
soldiers Of liberty ever rose against the
tyrants, and, although one effort, or
ten efforts, might fail, in the end they
triumphed, OF else their principles
would triumph. (Applause)
Napoleon, the greatest of modern
drous statesman, unfortunately for
himself and for France, placed empire
above nationality. Born OH a small is
land, he had no pride of birth i'll being
Corsican, and he did his utmost to
be a Frenchmall, but he lacked the sell
timent of the French for liDerty-a
sentiment that war and glory might
for time obscure, but which lived
eternally in the heart Of France. Gap
plause.) lie used tie valor of the
French and the Italians, ut the outset
of his career, for liberty. In that name
he descended, in 1896, from the Alpine
crests and swept, by Il military CAM
paign unequaled since Hannibal, the
Austrians out of Lombardy. In that
name, also, Il few years later, after
having made the pyramids OF the Nile
and tie sacred foundations OF The
Mountain Of the TRANSPORTATION trem-
BILE with the cannon Of France, he de-
scendeu by st. Gothald IN tile Austrian
flank, and, at Marengo, slnote hllas
to the earth as he had Wurnzer ut
Mantua. (Applause)
AS ambition had made him consul
for life, so it also made him emperor.
Empire became his idol. He dett sted
the small nations that barred his i'm
peria progress. lie marched upon
them. Until after t'riedianu lie was,
perhaps, murc sinneu against than
SHINING by his fellow-uespots. But he
betrayed, in that campaign, The nation
ality OF Poland, and, in the next year,
laid violent hands on the ancient ma
tionalty OF Spain. 1t might be that
he would have given to the Spanlards,
through his brother, Il better governor
and Il better government than the
Spaniards could give themselves; but
they did not want his brother or his
government, and all Spain, prince,
priest and peasant rose in heroic re-
sistancc. This was the beginning OF
his fall. lie conquered the Austrian
once more ut Wagram, but Spain Sill
blazed behind him and sent the clouds
Of her war smoke, dark and threaten
ing, across the Pyrenees-the smoke Of
volcano i'll which was destined to
perish 100000 of his bravesu soldiers
the victors Of Ulm, OF Austeritz, OF
Jena, and of Eriedllnu.
He, i'll the pride Of power, trampled
on the sentiment OF Germany, North
and South, until he forced that false
alliance which made Prussia, Austria,
Bavaria, and SaXony furnish him with
contingents to prosecute his mad CAM
paign of Russia, where the curse that
DufStlcu NlElElcS NIL. VI oW cuCll uIoo
pursued him. How vain was the SUI
perhumiln valor OF the French against
the vengeance OF God and man! They
fought us soldiers had never fought
before. Nearly one hundred thousand
OF the dead Of both armies strewed
the funereal slopes Of BOrOdmU-thut
field OF which Ney and Mulat were
the paladins--;,nd Moscow was won!
The contlngr ation-kussian by design
which followed appalled, even the COIL
QuerOr, and the retreat, from the
kremlin to the Rhine, through frost
and SNOW, and blood and tears, and
rags and misery, which followed the
conhagration appalled, The weird, and
made even history grow pale. Two OF
the allies whose sentiments lie insulteu
turned upon him in his fall. The sue
ceeding year all Germany united with
Russia against him, and Austria and
Sweden followed the example. He had
lost all fOothulu i'll the hearts Of the
German people because he would not
respect the national sentiment. De-
spite his military genius and tile gal
lantry OF his troops he could not avert
the disaster ut Leipsic, and could but
postpone the reckoning at Fontaine-