The Irish standard., 1904-05-14

bred historical limitations which mako
IL narrow and characteristic narrow
III It's welcome of foreigners to our
shores' narrow in world sympathies.
narrow in its trade relations with the
peoples OF the earth. l think that was
not the exact language used here yes
terday, but the spirit was the same
NO Irish need apply Whenever INV
friends on the Republican side take
that as rule of action it is id,a +o
quarrel with them because they take
the second step and want to deprive a
man or entry into the grand arena Of
benefit which America furnishes to the
world in its very civilization and of
which it availed itself in it's national
need, When during the war the govern.
lleht wanted all such volunteers us II
could get. Applause.) 1t asked no
questions about nativity then. s"~
"Mr. Speaker, say, the leopard can
not change his spots. Here is sig.
nificant Illustration, strange in anneor-
ance though it is in that it comes from
the state where the battle of Gettys-
burg was fought. The gentleman from
pennsylvania (Mr. DalzelD, who made
his eloquent peroration TRADE yester.
day against foreign-born hoodlums.
does not live far from the field of Get
tysburg. During the last war the Six.
ty-ninth Pennsylvania, Owens Own
as 1t was called, an Irish regiment, was
IN evidence in defending PENNSYLVANIA
soil. AS man Of Welsh descent | am,
glad to see the old Welsh name Owen
at the head Of the regiment; but the
thing l wish you to note now is this.
that the great majority Of it's members
were Irishmen, nearly all Of them.' MS
l read in Alexander II. Stephens pic
torial Historic Views in which he
quoted the statement from federal
officer, Mr.. Wilson:
The only thing throughout that day
that met the elan Of the southern chiy-
airy headed by Picket in the grandest
charge the world ever saw was this
brigade of Pennsylvania Irshmen.'"
1T strikes me, my friends, that it
comes with a strange ring for a man,
even on that side, but Pennsylvania,
the hearthstones of whose people those
lrlshmen protected, to have uttered
these words which were uttered by the
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr.
DalzelD on yesterday: If there be
any hoodlums among u.s. he said, they
are not the product of American soil,
American institutions or American civ.
ilization.' The old know-nothing cry,
America for Americans American
soil for American Institutions Mark
that fact gentlemen!
"Now, Mr.. Speaker, think 1 have
right to speak upon this subject
without being charged with personal
motive. There is not drop Of blood
In my veins that does not come from
the English-speaking race-Scotch,
English and Welsh. am, of course,
proud Of my race-proud as the Ger
mans are and ought to be Of their race,
as the French are and ought to be, as
the Poles are and ought to be of their
race
"N1r. Speaker, my people came to
America in the latter part of the sew
enteenth century, and if chose could
'out-America' the gentleman from
Pennsylvania, suppose. represent
a constituency 96 percent of whom are
nativc-born. His is exactly the Ian
guage Of old know-nothingism. His
language was followed by loud and
long-continued applause on the Repub-
lican side.' That is the significant
fact. Federalism had to drop allen
and sedition laws because .alien and
sedition laws scotched though' they
did not kill federalism. Know-noth-
ingism was stamped into the pretense
of non-existence by the horse sense of
Americans. The historic child of both
the Republican party-through it's
chosen Nmouthpiece, amid uproarious
applauseA re-echoes their voices
"Can Il e leopard change Its spots?
Is there pt historic, scientific, fixed
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