The Irish standard., 1908-05-30

had to enlarge your army and navy.
and as you proceed the inevitable con-
sequence is apparent. The impulse
to-tlhere is a very expressive slang
phrase that you use here--I can't re-
call it, said the Cardinal as he took
a pinch of snuff made in Kilkenny.
Butt in perhaps, you mean," VEN
tured The World representative.
Yes, butt in-magnificently con-
else and expressive" resumed the Car
dinal. Your responsibility before the
acquisition of those distant islands
consisted in keeping your own house
in order, and in doing that so success
fully you had earned the admiration
of all mankind. But 1t is human for
a nation to over exalt itself in the
flush of victory. l notice that your
congress has not been swept away by
this trend of thought, and that, after
all. there is hope for America to
continue along its original lines of
material development.
ut is gratifying realization for
me to observe tiiAts one of the great
factors in your progress has been due
to the emigration from Ireland of it's
millions of. sturdy and devoted sons
and daughters. England in it's blind
persecution of our people did not FORE
see that it was Creating on this side
of the Atlantic an ireland greater and
more progressive than the little island
from which oppression had forced so
many Of its children to fee 1 well
remember telling Chief Secretary for
Ireland Forster, known in the early
days of the great land league agita-
tion, as 'Buckshot' Forster, that
should not be surprised to see the
coup de grace administered to England
in its declining days by the Irish in
America.
1T may not be that such world
event will take place in my time, but
I see already the signs of the certain
dissolution Of the British power. It's
colonies are restive. Australia is to-
day practically independent Of Eng
land and the trend is every moment
more and more. in the way of absolute
independence. New Zealand is car
rying chip on. it's shoulder. Canada
is enacting laws that show it's desire
to conduct its own business in it's own
way. In the great domain of the East
Indies they have not yet reached the
point where insurrectionaries are shot
to pieces from the .cannon's mouth as
it, the days Of Cawnpore, but the fires
| of rebellion are lighted and they're
hangin' men and women for daring to
counsel the never dying doctrines of
freedom. When England sits alone as
, a result Of the misgovernment of its
life-contributing possessions abroad, it
will be the day of reckoning which the
children Of the Gael have fought and
prayed for.
.AHO soy IudI " do iiIOSI IlSI1
whose sphere Of travel is limited, had
peculiar Impressions of America.
had an idea based on my childhood's S
absorption of the penny weeklies that
all Americans spoke with nasal
drawl: that they talked only of dol
! lars and dimes and stocks and bonds
lin word. that they embodied in
their person the attributes of their
business greatness. How agreeably !
have been disabused Of those impress
sions! have found since my arrival
people as warm. as sympathetic. as
surprisingly tolerant, as exists on all
, the earth. / have been overwhelmed
with your multifarious kindnesses and
amazed at your lavish hospitality. This
is a seasonable moment to express
my gratitude to your people for your
consideration Of one whose field Of
endeavor has been along a plane that
does not lead to the apparent, thing.
Of our existence"
] The Cardinal. in his inimitabls wsy.