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

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Till, goaded by ambitions sting,
The hero sank into the king:
Then he fell-so perish all
Who would men by man enthrall!'
(Applause)
Austria, for genera tons, refused to
liberate Italy-''the Roman eagle
chained'-and refused her ancient
rights to Hungary. In the pride Of en-
pire, she, too, despiscd nationality; but
she and Prussia, after having robbed
little Denmark, Quarreled over the
spoils and came in conflict at Sodowa.
Austria was beaten and the rationale
ties We're again avenged. Hungary
assumed her proper position as an
equal partner in the empire; the Slavic
states obtained partial autonomy and
Italy became free "from the Alps to
the Adriatic,' completing at Custozza
the work begun by France at Magenta
and Solferino in 1879
Turkey refused just concessions to
her Christian provinces, until Christcn.
dom was aroused to the situation by
the indignant cloquence of Gladstone.
Russia, wthoutopposition from Europe,
crossed the Pruth. artl before the cam
paign ended, her soldiers pierced the
Shipka pass, and the car dictated the
freedom of Bulgaria and its oppressed
sister states, within sight of The spires
of San Sofia.
Napoleon III. and his imperial tool
and victim. Macmillan, cast vicious
eyes on the struggling republc of
MeNlco, and invaded it with Il power
llll army OF French and AustrianS. But
Mexico found its Lincoln in Juulcz: IFS
Grant in Escobetlo and its Sherman in
Poriirio Diaz. Our Civil war ended,
we sent gallant Phil Sheridan (ap-
pause) to the Rio Grande. with an
army at his back. At sight of him.
trenclman and Austrian fell back
from our frontier, and soon put the
ocean between them and the wrath of
America. MaNimilan, more noble ana
generous than his scheminy ally, Nj
pofeon the Little, set his lite upon the
hazard Of the die, lost, and the fusilutic
or Quretaro pealed above his bloody
fall. Here, again, nationality triumph.
cd over empire, and Mexico found in
DlaZ what America found in Wash
ington-;l father of his country. Gan.
plauSe.)
England, in her pride Of power,
sought to bully the South African r.
publics into submission to her will, as
she had sought, more than IL century
before, to bully the American colonies,
but the Beers, like the Americans, all.
swered with the music OF the rifle, and,
after an unrivalcd resistance, the Boer
has won from the Enylisllmun aim st
everything he fought for, except abso
lutte independence, and that too, with
the freedom of I'LL South Africa, will
come as surely as it came to the United
Colonies (Applause)
Cuba, for sixty years, fought gal
liant battle against the might of Spain,
and, although but Il Spanish colony,
she had ever the heart of nation. At
last the heroic devotion of her SONS,
as we'll us the crimes OF her oppreSsors,
stunS America to action, and Cuba is,
at length, Il nation bound to us for
ever by the ties of gratitude ana con-
tiguity. (AppauseD
lie hoped he would not offend by
wishing that our policy in the Philip
pines had been us wise, as broad and
as generous as it was in Cuba, but,
whether he offended or not, he would
speak his mind. He was addressing
the young legal intellect Of Nebraska
assembled before him. The profession
of the law carried ever with it in
America the probability Of Legislative
and governing position. 1t was posi-
bic that among the graduates, might
be Il future president, or secretary IF
war, or even general of the army. Gap
plausc.) Many good lawyers had also
made good generals. They certainly
furnished most of our chief mags-
trutes and lawmakers. 10 them,
therefore, it was germane to present
the Philippine question, which would
have to be settled by them il not by
the elder generation. They were, he
SAW by the composition OF their names,
made up of men Of all races. What Il
tribute to American freedom, when
that freedom was unsullied! They be-
longeu to IL nation where all men were
citizens-there We're as yet no subjects
and SO might it remain forever.
(Cheers)
No Englisllman would willingly call
himself Frenchman, u Frcnchmun
an EnSlishman, or Il German either
one. The lrishman was offended If
called Briton, and the Pole, if called
Il Russian, and 50 on to the end; but
all races had come here voluntarily to
be citizens, and every man of them, of
whatever race, gloricd in the name of
Americana! QLong continued applause)
That, better than all else, showed what
liberty, equality and fraternity meant.
The name american" covered every
thing, and to keep that name unsullicd