Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-23
PreInte Addresses Great
Audience In knnnnz CITY

btsungufrhed Pretnte Addresses Great
Audience in Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 22.-Archbishop
Ireland OF st. Paul addressed an audience
Of l5,toO people in Convention hall in this
city tonight upon the subject The Re
public OF Washington" United States
Senator Warner acted as chairman and
introduced the distinguished prelate.
More than 10000 tickets had been sold,
and thousands of people came from Kan
sas and Missouri cities and towns to hear
the lecture.
Archbishop ireland said In part:
Democracy has won in America and
through America II has won in the whole
world. America is truly the providentisl
tory. l believe in providential nations.
Even as l believe that God rules over men
and nations, so do l believe that a divine
mission has been assigned TO the republic
OF the United States. The mission is to
prepare the world, by example and moral
Influence, for the universal reign OF human
liberty and human rights. Even in WASH
ington's day, the spirit of America, borne
to their homes by the soldiers of La
Fayette and Rochambeau, mad FASTENED
the revolution in France. There, indeed,
liberty was defeated at first by the wild
excuses of its champions; but 1t never
afterward ceased it's struggles and today
France Is a well established republic.
Meanwhile other countries of Europe were
being influenced by the example of Amer
leveling their institutions Spain and Italy
have reached the very confines of the re-
lament which "a Hohenzollern fears and
obeys. in Great Britain and ireland tue
suffrage is almost universal; in Belgium it
| is entirely so; and now Russia is yielding
to popular clamor and adopting a consti-
| tuition to take the place of irresponsible
autocracy.
mentous fact that this republic, its growth
and welfare, its aspirations and hopes
are in the hands Of the people, dependent
to supreme degree upon their viii and
| their actions This is the result of popular
suffrage, the result of the vital principle
of the republic that all it's citizens--one
and all-are monarchs entitled to speak
imperatively before the electoral urn and
there to decide who shall enact laws, who
shall execute them, to determine In effect
what the laws shall be under which the
republic is to prosper or to decay.
Let the country always elect as It's
guardians its best and worthiest sons: lie!
voters seek them out and give them honor.
Incapable men should not be chosen still
less, dishonest and immoral men. The party
PshSd be on overwhemSd in
defeat, and taught the stern lesson that
insult is never offered with impunity to
the sacredness and purity of the republic.
choosing America as their home be per-
vaded with the spirit of our institutions,
be made Americans in mind and heart.
While We seek to AmericaniZe immi-
grants may it not be well to guard some
Americans against being foreigniZed? They
are not Americans, except inasmuch as
they draw their gold from America. who
colonize the so-called American quarters
in the capitals of Europe. Nor arc they
Americans who glory in importing for
eign fashions of language and dress, and
who are willing to pay treble prices for
the ornaments of home or person, merely
fabrca ton. They are surely not Americans
who covet above all that is American, for
eign titles for their fortunes and their
daughters There is room among Amer
leans for the work OF Americanization.
Personal freedom, personal initiative I'M
trammelled personal action-lim!ted only
by the rights of others and the security
of the public weal-these are the vital ele-
ments of American democracy and OF
American prosperity. Let them ever be
held sacred. and America lives and reisns.