The Irish standard., 1902-07-05

al lotEiN bN some who dare TO call
themselves Americans? Have we not
i'll our country today some yruvcllny
S!'oilGlh'S WHO are only at home
when basking in the sunshine of regal
ppWrr while IN ignorant mob stands
aWrd by the tinsrl and mummcrics of
Il coronatinn? The Tory spirit that
Slrirkrd above the clarion tone that
called millions to join for indcppn-
drncc;" tile spirit that tried to weaken
the power of Washington in the field;
the spirit that claimed that blood was
thicker than water: the spirit that op-
posed Patrick Henry and james Otis
Tile spirit that called the con-
vention :lt Hartford is the
same spirit that tolerated Il few months
ago at the banquet OF the Society of
st. George in New York City, the
toasting of the health of lInyland's
king before that Of the president Of
the United States Ii is the
same spirit that finds rxpr, ssion in the
Sycoplhlny of some would-be Alneri-
cam nristoclrltS who today would break
the era of good feeling between the
people of this country and the denoc-
racy of Europe.
Not only are the mn,lcrn Tory Amer
ic;lrS willing TO ape tie manners and
dress of the crctr nriStoclacy of Eu-
rope, but in order to give themselves
standing in the waiting rooms of the
court of ST. james they even attempt
pHblic'' by the pirate Of nations. and in
their slavishnrsS permit their wives to
buy hospital ship for the only dan
gcrnlls enemy this country ever had.
\ ricll En%lishGnn, Cecil Rhodes,
seeing the bmsrnrss of these trucking
Americans. and believing that they
represented the sentiment of the people
Of this country, bcuuc;lllcd millions
for the education of about Il hundred
undergraduates ut oxford university,
50 that they might come back here in
due time TO poison The very fountains
Of popular government to implant here
the seeds Of that imperialism which
would tear down the institutions and
rear in their stead the :lccurScd sys-
TEN Of monarchy that has been a
blight to the human race. When we
read thnt educators i'm American col
I,tr t,I 81,
who in building an empire pulled
down two rcpublicS.-wllcn the public
press prints tire gllsh of these cIucat-
orS without Il word Of condemnation
thinking men begin to feel that we
are drifting away from American
ideals. ] b pc no college men within
the range of my voice will ever ac-
crpt a scholarship at OXford-because
the American young man who is SO
fnrgetfu of American ideals rs to buy
his education at such Il price would
br. If opportunity offered, another
Hrnrdltt Arnold
i'llc American school is the place for
the American boy. 1t is tile laboratory
III which are compounded the human
ingredients Of our body polite. The
american university. with it's splendid
rrrriclllum IFS modern equipments and
its American ideals, is the place for
'hr Undergraduate.
Not only should the American stu
dent attend the American college for
his O"'n sake, but he has duty to
perform towards the fOreign-born citi-
zen who has come here to live and
sends his SONS to American schools and
colleges, that they may become worthy
# the heritage that is ours.
The Europeans still come to our
shores; as i'll the spring time the cata-
racts leap down from the mountains
'and ll!e streams rush cut from the
valleys and the rivers roll ON to the sea,
so cGme the Teuton and Slav, the
Scandinavian and Latin, the Calt and
the Saxon, to unite and cOAleace in the
body polite of America: 70 preserve
and protect the institutions Of the only
real republican government in exist
ence; to keep alive the ideals that make
this nation the hope Of tie human race.