The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-23
REPUBLIC OF
 WASHINGTON Eloquent Address of Archbishop Ireland. AMERICA HUMANITY'S HOPE The Providential Nation of the
 New Era.
Divine Mission Has Been Assigned the United states, and its Citizens should Look to iys Accom-
 plishment.

Kansas City, Feb. 22.-Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul addressed an audi ence of 15,000 people In convention hall in this city tonight upon the sub ject "The Republic of Washington" United States Senator Warner acted as chairman and introduced the distin- guished p-elate More than 20,000 tickets had been sold and thousands of people came from Kansas and Missouri cities and towns to hear the lecture.
 Democracy has won in America; and through America it has won In the whole world" said the Archbishop. "Amerca is truly the Providential na- ton In this new era of the worlds his- tory. believe In Providential nations. Even as I believe that God rules over man and nations, so do | believe that a Divine mission has been assigned 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.
 America does not live for herself alone; she holds in her keeping the destines of humanity. No Monroe doc Urine confines her democracy within the Atlantic and Pacific shores. And wherever democracy reigns. America reigns; for America was democracy's first home and 1t is from the fullness of its life in America that 1t has spread It's charms across seas and oceans to the furthermost ends Of the earth.
 Tt behooves us, fellow Americans. to consider we'll our responsibilities.
 In Hands of People.
 Let us understand and realize the momentous fact that the life of the Re- public. its growth and welfare. it's aspirations and hopes, are in the hands of the people. dependent to a supreme ,NG tg &hD Aua,ff af ,1rs. sufs-age.
 ''Let the country always elect as it's guardians it's best and woFthiest sons; let voters seek them out and give them honor Incapable men should not be chosen. still less dishonest and immoral men. The party that places dishonest names on It's tickets should be defeated.
 Care should be taken that foreigners choosing America as their home De per- vaded with the spirit of our institu- tions, be made Americans in mind and in heart. Efforts to concentrate imann- grants in social groups and to retaTd their Americanization should be steadi- ly drowned down.
 There are in America self-coustitu- ted leaders of foreign born citizens who speak of Americanization as term of reproach; with such general public opinion should deal severely. Nor should immigrants be prematurely au- thorized to vote. Due respect for Amer ican citizenship ought to guard against a reckless extension of 1t to men com ing to us from other lands.
 while we seek to Americanize imnli- grants, may it not be well to guard some Americans against being foreign ized? They are not Americans, except inasmuch as they draw their gold from America. who colonize the so-called American quarters in the capitols or Europe. Nor are they Americans who glory In importing foreign fashions of language and dress and who are will ing to pay treble prices for the orna- ments for home or persons merely be- cause these ornaments are of foreign fabrication. They are surely not Amer jeans who covet above all foreign IT. ties to their fortunes and their daush- ters.