The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-03-01
An Eloquent Appeal for Humanity, Justice
and Right Which Deserves
Careful Perusal.
For us the Man is More Than the Citizen
and Humanity is More Sacred
Than Nationality.

and heroic deeds wherever spoken or
done, fill us with enthusiasm and
| gratitude.
Many causes, of which the Christ
tian religion is the deepest and most
far-reaching, have led to the wider
views and more generous apprecia-
| tiveness Of modern men. In looking
to the Heavenly Father they are drawn
together and held by ties, consecrated
by Faith and approved by reason.
Science which deals with laws that
are universal, that act alike upon the
farthest star and the grain of sand
at our feet, on the race as on indi-
viduals, promotes this catholicity of
feeling and of interest. Our machine
ry, too, in bringing the ends of the
world together, facilitates the inter-
course of the peoples of the earth and
thereby weakens their immemorial
prejudices and hatreds. The COM
mercial interdependence of the nations
has like tendency: while the con-
stantly increasing influence of woman
makes for larger sympathy and love-
No great movement can now long re-
main within the boundaries of the ma
tion in which it originates. The ques-
tions Of education, of labor, of the
rights of woman rouse attention and
discussion in every civilized country.
A new discovery and invention is at
once heralded from land to land. The
telegraph and the printing press medi-
ate rapid and continuous interchange
Of thought throughout the world, and
thus help to make us all, in a way
never before possible, citizens Of the
world.
At the present moment America, II
simple truth may be uttered without
incurring the suspicion of conceit,
represents the general sentiment and
tendency of the modern age more
than any other country. Here the
national feeling is larger and more
hospitable than anywhere else; here
men Of all tongues and races more
easily find themselves at home than
anywhere else. No other country is
so attractive, no other affords in such
fullness opportunity of endeavor, no
other insures such complete civil
and religious liberty. Nowhere else
is there so much freedom from abuses,
which because they are inveterate
seem to be sacred; nowhere else is
there so much good will, so much
readiness to help, SO much general in
telligence, such sanguine faith in the
ability of an enlightened and religious
people, who govern themselves, to
overcome all obstacles, and to find q
remedy for whatever mishaps or evils
may befall them.
Here, too, more than anywhere else
possibly, men feel that there is a
higher love than the love of country,
that the citizen can serve his country
rightly only when he holds himself
in vital communion with the eternal
principles on which human life rests
and by which it is nourished. The
Americans loyalty to his country is,
first Of all, loyalty to truth, to justice,
to humanity. He feels that it's insti-
tutions can be enduring only when
they are founded on religion and NOR
ality He is less inspired by the for
tune of the republic, it's material
advantages and possibilities, than by
it's spiritual significance and destiny
He is indeed, filled with sense of
gladness when he beholds it's stretch
from ocean to ocean, from the lakes
to the gulf; when he sees the northern
pine salute the southern palm as
fellow citizen, when he looks on its
prairies teeming with harvests suffi-
cient to feed the world, on its noun
tains and plains filled with silver and
gold, iron and copper. with coal and
oil. But he is less impressed with
this geographical and material great
ness and splendor than by the intel
lectual and moral conditions which
America presents. Nature is fruitful
in vain where man is contemplate.