The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-05
EX-CONGRESSMAN LENTZ POINTS
OUT DUTY TO THE ADMIRERS
OF EMMETT
is CANADA A MENACE TO US?
If Not, He Declares, the English
Charge Against the South African
Republics Is Poorly Founded
and Ridiculous.
TIME FOR ACTION AT HAND

CHICAGO, March 4-The woes of Ire
land and the wrongs of the Beers were
kindred tol, -cs at a meeting of the Irish
Nationalists, held in this city tonight.
The meeting was primarily held to pay
tribute to the memory of Robert EN-
NETT, but the South African war occu-
pied almost an equal space with the Irish
patriots III the addresses that were made.
The chief address of the evening was
made by ex-Congressman Lentz, of Ohio.
Judge Edward F. Dunno, of Chicago,
presided and made a stirring address in
praise of Robert Emmett. Speeches were
also made by other local speakers.
EX-Congressman Lentz spoke as fol
lows:
1T was the hope and prayer of Robert
Emmett that he might sometime look
down with complacency on the destruc
tion of the perfidious government which
sets man upon his brother and lifts his
hand against the throat of his fellow.
Thus we see that in the clear vision and
inspiration Of prophecy it is possible that
Robert Emmett saw through the thick
veil of 100 years, from 1903 into the year
1903, and in some miraculous prescience
fathomed and foretold the ruin and de-
struction of the British empire IN her eff
fort to murder and assassinate the. Dutch
republics of South Africa.
Bismarck is said to have predicted that
South Africa will be the graveyard of
England.
And when we review the miraculous
resistance which the $1,000 Beers have
made for two years and half against
the barbarity of the 100000 British SOL
diery we may well say: One with God
IS a majority. And we may we'll reJoice
tonight that the spirit Of Robert Emmet
is happy as he looks down upon the hu-
initiation and degeneracy of Great Bri-
4oi 11at bo .
handwriting upon her wall: Meme, meme,
tel1el, upharsin.
THE soul of Robert Emmet is today
the inspiration of the soul of Paul Krug-
er. The soul of Robert Emmet aches and
bleeds in sympathy with the Christian
patriots of the Philippine islands, who
fought so long for life and liberty, and
sought to institute new government,
laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form
as TO them shall seem most likely to ef-
fleet thir safety and happiness
THE soul Of Robert Emmett aches and
bleeds tonight in sympathy with the
cries of the orphans and the tears of
the widows made by the barbarity of
Great Britain in the land of the Beers.
And if the Irish Nationalists, proud h@irs
and descendants of Robert Emmett, and
If the American patriots, proud heirs and
descendants OIL the spirit Oh w dSnlnSuOn
Franklin Paine, Adams and Jefferson,
are true to the teachings and the patri-
otism of the great heroes of the past,
they Will look about them and see what
opportunity is at hand for them to make
some little sacrifice on the altar of lib
erty, in grateful memory of those who
r-isked and sacrificed their lives that
free government might yet be the boon
ard blessing OF all mankind.
'"The issue of the day and the hour is
the attitude of the national government
at Washington on the question of the
survival or the destruction OF our sister
republics in South Africa.
If the craftsmanship of the country Will
allow, without protest, the young man
hoCd and the young womanhoOd of this
generation to grow up a stupid and tor
pid witness of Englands assassination of
the Beers, our generation will go down In
the history of the world as the period of
decay and dry rot, as the period of transi-
ton from the Lincoln age OF liberty and
growth anu glory to the period that Shall
be known as the age of brass and iron
an age of government by force; an age
of empire; an age of darkness; an age OF
despair and oblivion for the hundreds
of millions of American subjects whose
low receding brow will turn their hope
less eyes forever upon the dust of the
earth and never lift them again witt
courage and ambition to an inspiring con
templatior of the stars and planets Of
Gods universe.
1t England can justify the barbarouS
war she is making against the Beers OF
the ground that she cannot afford to al
low a republic to be established across
the Vaal river, then the people of the
United states cannot afford to allow {
monarchical institution to strengthen it
self across the Detroit and St. Lawrence
rivers If England is right in South Al
rica and if the government at Washing
ton is right in its policy in the Phllp
nine islands, then much more justhablt
will be the people of the United States b'
in insisting Immediately upon the annex
alton of Canada Mark you, l say-1f- =
and I saw il without if at least sever
feet high. Jefferson was right in th'
theory that we could rot afford to ALLOW
a foreign government to establish itself
across the Mississippi; if Great Britain
cannot afford to allow republic to es
tabIish itself across the Vaal river, then
fer,fold stronger are the reasons and th'
arguments why the United States canno
AFFORD to allow the development Of Can
ada in any other capacity than as par
nf the United States of America.
The Mcnroe doctrine reaches north ant
south to Cape Horn. Why should 1t no
reach east and west to Ireland?