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 a banquet given at the Audi
tOrium hotel tonight by the Lincoln
club in cOmmemoration 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 vitally 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
principles of democracy must remain
with her. The flag must mean equality
before the law in civil and political rights.
1t matters not what a 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-
petual 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
always calls for an answer-are children
to be made to walk as adults? Are pop
ulatlons incapable of sef-government to
be allowed, for their destruction. its priv
ileges?
No Abiding Dependencies.
But when the time comes that such
populations have ripened into self-goV
erning manhood, the rights of that man
hood should be theirs, and meanwhile the
mission of the flag is TO hasten them to-
ward such manhood. The day must be
rrrI,n if1A1.i. IN.o
states, when our island possessions will
be states. Abiding dependencies cannot
be the appendage of republic.
the America Of LiEcoifl's day. This is
as it should be. great nation cannot
but grow, occurrences will come to it,
to grow. It is for humanity that freedom
loving republics grow. 1 rejoice in the
territorial aggrandizement 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
ity with myself and my fellow Americans
shall be the reward Of their loyalty and
1.-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
and we have no jealous eye as she enters
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 1t 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
unconsciously perhaps among such enc
mics, weakening by false, doctrines or
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
TT is not for us to dedicate to conse.
crate the memory of Abraham Lincoln
Nothing that We can say or do can
make MS 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
fun measure of .deyotion 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 E. Foss
The day was quite generally observ-
ed as 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
ory of Lincoln. In many churches
memorial services had a large attend