The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-03-07

terlzed the Irish struggle under the
bloody determination policies of Crom-
we'll and Queen Elizabeth and from their
time on down was contrasted with
that of other weak nations subjugated
by strong and merciless and greedy ad-
versaries. Ireland, declared the speak
er, had never yet yielded and would seek
vindieation of her cause at the hands
of Ireland's God.
AS to the part that Emmett played in
the struggle, the speaker declared that
history would record Wof-Tone as the
sturdy patriot Daniel O'Cennell as the
peoples tribune, Parnell as the sagac-
ious moulder of policies of the Irish peo-
pie. but Robert Emmett as the glorious,
self-sacrifcing martyr in Ireland's noble
cause.
Assemblyman James Hamill's Grafton
on ''The Life of Emmett was one of his
best efforts. 1t was calm yet i'm
passioned review of the martyrs life,
the whole brilliant story succinctly told
with telling effect, interesting in detail
and punctuated with rhetorical flashes
and flights of oratory. 1t was followed
by Madame Flavelle's.song, "She's Far
from the Land Where Her Young Hero
Sleeps"
The whole audience joined in the ma
tional anthem, "God Save Ireland
The resolutions adopted after dealing
with State Secretary Hays reversal of
the policy set forth by Washington in
his farewell address advising against en-
tangling alliances with the Powers of
the Old World and denouncing the pro-
posed arbitration treaty with England as
a thiniy disguised alliance, publicly
avowed by its English sponsors to be the
first step to an open alliance, sets forth:
eve protest against the scarcely veil
ed hostility to Russia displayed by Secre-
tary Hay from the very beginning of the
present trouble in the Far East We
charge that his demand for the so-called
open door, his recent treaty with China,
his ill-timed sending of consuls to
Manchuria after his encoura cement of
Japan had made war certain, and his
note to the Powers after the outbreak
of hostilities, using deliberately vague
language about 1ocalizing the wars and
the administrative entity of China, were
all intended to afford pretext-f for an
tagonizing Russia in the settlement that
is to come and for armed interference if
English interests should require it.
'We deneunce as base and dishonora-
Bile the campaign of falsehood and mis-
representation carried on against Russia
by large portion of the daily press. in
slavish imitation of the convicted forger,
the London Times and the worse class
of English journals. This scandalous
propaganda has for its object the crea-
ton of such antagonism as would secure
popular approval for armed support of
England when she is enforced to throw
off the mask and go to the rescue of
Japan. We denounce above all the at
tempts to falsify the facts of history
by denying that Russian fleets in Ameri-
can waters in 1863 prevented English
Intervention in favor of the South-a SER
vice proved by the official receptions to
the Russian officers in Washington and
New York, by the mission headed by
Gustavus Fasa Fox, assistant secretary
of the navy, sent by our government to
Russia in 1866 to thank the Gar for
this service, by the statements made to
United States Minister Andrew G. Cur
tin by the Emperor Alexander and
Prince Gortschakoff and by the declara-
ton of the Emperor to Wharton Barker
in 1879. Russia's friendship was again
forcibly demonstrated during the Span
ish-American War, when she refused to
join the combination which Lord Paunce-
fote was endeavoring to form against
the United States and which is now
falsely represented to the American peo-
pie as combination frustrated by Eng
land, whose Ambassador had actually
proposed it.
'We therefore strongly insist, as
American citizens who believe that re-
publics are not ungrateful, that the sym
pathy of the people of this country in
this crisis in the Far East should be on
the side of Russia, the age-long friend Of
the United States, and that no single
step should be taken by the Administra-
tion that would place us in an entangling
alliance with any power whatever
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