The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-02-22
TWISTING TIE LIONS TAN.


atty struck a sympathetic chord in the
American heart. Had he omitted any
reference to Prince Henry and con-
fined his remarks to Great Britain his
speech would be applauded through
out the length and breadth of the land.
What he said about the double-dealing
of Pauncefote and the funkyism #
Hay was true in every respect. The Re-
publican papers have made him tar
get for abuse and ridicule for uttering
such American sentiments; but the
more they find fault with him for
scoring the Secretary of State and the
British Ambassador the more popular
will he become with the American
democracy Of both North and South.
If he is the son of an Englishman and
the descendant of English aristocracy,
us an imperialistic organ says, the
more credit is he entitled to for his
robust Americanism. A Republican
paper of Paducah, Ky, the home Of
Mr.. Wheeler, stigmatiZes him as q
snob and demagogue, but he said
nothing that he has any cause to
apologize for. The members of his
own party in the House applauded
him, and he expected no cheers from
the opposition benches. To give our
readers-an idea of his harangue we
select the following passages:
II have read with lively interest
the recent exposure and criticism III
the press of the attitude Of Great Brit
ain and the other European powers
toward the republic during the war Of
1898. Divisions of public sentiment
among the people Of the United States
are to be desired. But until the i'll
auguration of the president III 1897.
there never was any division of senti-
mcnt upon one great question, and
that was the splendid isolation of the
republic and it's fixed determination to
hold aloof from all entangling alli-
ances with foreign powers. Then the
belief and fixed Judgment of well-nigh
every patriotic citizen was overturned
and for the first time we witnessed Il
president Of the United States, aided
and eggcd on by pitiable tiunky in
the state department, stretching his
arms across the water to embrace the
-
pie
"From that hour until now, we
have made ourselves a laughing stock
at every court in Europe, because of
our hunlyism, our truculency and the
disgraceful sycophancy of the repre-
sentatives of the republic at the feet
Of Great Britain; and now, when it
serves the purpose of some other great
nation. the pitiable spectacle is pre-
scented that we have been hugging to
our bosom during the last five years q
nation that has systematically and
persistcntly attempted to destroy the
liberties of the American people since
the battle of Yorktown. We find now,
despite the fact that the present adj
is afraid, even in the face
of it's great majority, to ask an appro-
priation of 100000 or 100000 to pay
some shoulder strapped and goldlaced
nunky to cross the water and bow the
knee and kiss the hand Of some Eng
fish king; that while this very pitiable
spectacle is being presented to us, it
is being heralded abroad that, in 1898,
when we were seeking to strike the
shackles of serfdom from off the heels
Of Cuba, that nation was then secretly
in our own capitol attempting to form
Il coalition Of the great powers of the
world to prevent that interposition.
And it has not caused ripple in
diplomatic circles. 1t has been the
boast of America, diplomacy to the
contrary Notwithstanding, that when
our state department said no., we
meant no. and when we said yes
we meant yes 1t remained for the
present and the just closed Repub-
lican administration to inaugurate a
system of European diplomacy, with
a kid-gloved, velvet-tongued gentle
man, who had to travel out of his way
to find a response to Il plain cate
gorical question.
I'VE are destroying the integrity
and the pride and the intelligence ana
the honesty OF that great department
OF the government. l have respect for
the present occupant of the White
House, l frankly avow; l think he is
LOO honest to be palatable to the aver
ago Republican partisan. ~ little
Quixotic, it is true, hasty tempered,
luli blooded, and not exactly desirable
TO many OF our citizens, and indulge
the hope, that that lingering element OF
Amerlcanism will induce him at the
first opportunity to boot out that man
in the state department who, in my
Judgment, has brought us 10 this hu-
initiating condition.
England Il friend of the United
States! would To God she were, bul
what u spectacle have we presented
i'll order to be able to boast that we
have the friendship Of Great Britain
and have become world power.
Never before in the history Of the re-
public has there been Il struggle for
freedom OH the part OF any people that