The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-13

CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-Archbishop Ire
land, of st. Paul, was the guest of
honor at banquet given at the Audi
tOrium hotel tonight by the Lincoln
club in cOmmemOr3tion of the ninety
fourth anniversary of the birth of
Abraham Lincoln. In an address on
gramme for an address, but illness kept
land said:
The republic that Lincoln saved. How
she has grown. And as she grows the
more beautiOuS she seems, the more win
ming are her graceS. the more soul en-
trancing her claims to our love and our
devotion. The republic is what she is
because she has vitality remained what
of the people, for the people and by the
people. This is what she must remain
If she is still to live and reign. The vital
with her. The flag must mean equality
before the law in civil and political rights.
1t matters not what mans place of
birth, what his religion, what the color
of his face. If he is an American citizen
the laws of the land must shield him. the
favOrs of the land must flow upon him.
ITO announce, for instance. that the
citizen who is black must not aspire to
a political office, must not approach the
ballot box is to war against American
institutions. To hold populations in per-
petuaI tutelage, whether on our imme
diate continent or in islands beyond the
seas, is to set aside Lincoln's principles.
Delays may be cOunseled; often delays
should be cOunseled; for the question
always calls for an answer-are children
TO be made to walk as adults? Are pop
ulationS Incapable of Self-government to
be allowed, for their destruction. its priv
ileges?
No Abiding Dependencies.
But when the time comes that such
erning manhood, the rights of that man
hood should be theirs. and meanwhile the
mission of the flag is 10 hasten them to-
ward such manhood The day must be
PXnPRfaH nTh a
states, when our island possessions will
be states. Abiding dependencies cannot
be the appendage of republic.
THE flag has been carried far beyond
the America Of Litcoln's day. This is
as it should be. A great nation cannot
but grow, occurrences will come to 1t,
beyond its control, that will compel it
to grow. 1t is for humanity that freedom
loving republics grow. l rejoice In the
territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT that has come
to America, and no fixed limit would
dare to put yet to further such aggran-
dizements, but always and everywhere
would l hold out to new friends and new
brothers the hope and promise that in
due time. fullest civil and political equal
fly with myself and my fellow Americans
shall be the reward Of their loyalty and
THE United States is by force of ire
vocable events an international power.
She cannot isolate herself: Her interests
are amid all peoples and their interests
are amid her people. Our pride in our
growth is that she grows in greatness
into new spheres of duty and responsible
ties. Our prayer is-may she ever be
at peace with her sister nations of the
world; be it not her to provoke them to
anger and enmity. But, We insist. other
nations must honor and respect her as
she deserves.
Must Maintain Our Prestige.
mo foreign nation, no combination of
foreign nations is to be allowed to turn
her backward from her traditional poll
cies. restrict her legitimate field of in
fiuence or hurt in the smallest degree the
prestige OF her name This we cannot
permit Our loyalty forbids that we do
And while we will not submit to IN
references from the outside, let her con-
fine her energies within her own BOSOM
and see to it that we ourselves be not
unconsciousy perhaps among such enc
mics. weakening by false, doctrines or
perilOus practice the current Of her life
blood, rendering her less strong, less bold.
less American. The republic is committed
to our love and our care. Let US be loyal
to her. This is the lesson Of Lincoln
day.
1T is not for US to dedicate. to conse.
crate the memory of Abraham Lincoln
Nothing that We can say or do can
make his memory more sacred, more
valued. 1t is for us to be dedicated to
the ideals which that memory holds cut
to be dedicated to our duty as Ameri-
cans that we take increased devotion
in the cause for which ne gave the last
full measure of devotion that we here
resolve that he shall not have lived and
died in vain; that this nation shall. have
not come. forth IN vain from the terrible
ordeal of the Civil war and that the
government of the people, by the people
and for the people shall not perish from
the earth
Among the other speakers were A.
j. Hopkins, James A. Trautman, KAN
sas; ]. Wesley Hill, Pennsylvania, and
Congressman George z. Foss.
The day was quite generally observ-
ed as a holiday and patriotic observ-
ance was general among all classes.
Memorial hall in the public library
building was thronged with veterans
assembled to pay homage to the mem
DRY of Lincoln. In many churches
memorial services had a large attend
ance