The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-05-14

dreams?' 1 ask this question:, one
of whose ancestors Wore the kings uni
form against French and Indians. and
afterward the continental uniform, in
which he battled against king and col
onialism for American liberty!
"Now, then, Mr.. Speaker, l am no
provincialist. am intensely a south
erner and intensely American, but, per-
haps beyond that to a large extent Il
cosmopolitan. know the German peo-
pie. 1 have studied with them, danced
with them, slept in their houses, eaten
their salt, and love them. What does
the distinguished gentleman from the
st. Louis district of the great state
of Missouri NIr. BartholdU think about
being one Of the only possible hood
lums' that can he furnished in Ameri-
ca? (Applause.) What does the dis
tinguished gentleman of Swedish an
cestry who represents so nobly and so
bravely and intelligently upon this side
of the house a district in the state of
Minnesota, Governor Lind think of
this federalistic outcropping? ZAP
plause.) What does the gentleman
from a Boston district who bears the
Irish name of one of the ablest and
bravest and noblest soldiers of the revo-
luton, General Sullivan, think of it?
(Appause.)
Now, let us go on. The gentleman
from PENNSYLVANIA said:
"'.rhey are to be found, rather,
among those Adventures who, having
left their own country for their coun-
can politics prolific source of notoriety
and pelf; men who, without conscience
and without conviction, lind an oppor-
tunity now With one party, now with
another, TO find Il market for their pecu-
liar wares, among which is not rcspcc-
liability
oh, this stlpposition that because !.
man left Europe and came TO America
he must have left his country for his
country's good" Why, even the 1O,-
100000, more OF less, of descendants
OF the Mayllower pilgrims know better
than that, at least So far as the May
flower fellows We're concerned. They
say that they left their old country for
tile worlds betlcrment. They say that
they left for the purpose of developing
Il new world and giving it to religious
and civil liberty and to the White mans
civilization. They will tell you that
they left because conditions at home
free and follow his conscience than
they could be even in the wilderness
among the wild red men, and because
they could better there take their
make Il new civilization out of the will
derness in the presence Of savages car
rying the white mans flag farther and
farther in this world, and higher and
higher, than to have remained back at
home amidst oppression and all that
was narrow, chauvinistic and wrong.
(Applause)
Il love la belle France, too. l have
danced With her girls at the vintage;
noted that, noble or peasant, the
Frenchman is always polite and apt to
Scarron. What does the gentleman
from Louisiana (NIr. BroussarD think
What does the gentleman from South
Carolina (NIr. Legare), the descendant
of the Hugenots, think Of the know
nothing renaissance!
MIR. Speaker, l have good deal of
impotence with 'hyphenated Ameri-
cans l do not know what a German
American is; do not know what an
Irish-American is: do not know what
an Italan-American is, or what Il
what German is, what a Frenchman
is, what an Italian is and what an
American is, and l know, moreover,
what an American Of foreign BIRTH no
longer hyphenated. except in popular
and newspaper phrase mongcring, but
devoted to the free institutions of n
free country that he came to volun-
tarily and not by the accident OF birth
is, and | know what they have done
in the history of this country Why,
gentlemen, l mentioned General Sulli-
van. l might mention Commodore Bar
n.y. l might so back to revolutionary
days and recall him who distinguished
himself in the person of Koslsillsllo. l
might go back to Puaski's time and
in him learn to love the men of the
knights republic-Poland. | might 60
back to Lafayette's day if 1 chose, but
I need not go that far.
"Who are your bravcst and boldest?
Who made the twenty-mile ride down
the valley, wonderful, but the subjecr
of overboasting? Phil Sheridan, an
Irshman. Who was the one man in
the federal infantry whom Stonewall
Jackson ever met with nearly equal
forces that he did not rout in almost
no time? Shields, at Fort Royal, with
his Irishmen. My friends, where are
the great orators Of the world-Burke
and Curran? Where are the great