The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-09-25
TO CAESAR THE THINGS
THAT ARE CAESARS

ment was not associated with ours to
come here and clasp our hands.
1t is not an offensive statement to
make on any American occasion to
say that our traditions, opposed as they
are to monarchical forms of govern,
ment, condemn all monarchies. be it
Germany or Great Britain, and that
therefore, every American citizen true
to his American ideals is compelled
to admit that all subject peoples with
national aspirations by nature and by
God have right to be free. John
Wanamaker recently stated that the
United States should purchase Belgium
for one hundred billion of dollars.
Pray, what claim has Belgium upon
American benefaction? What has Bel
GUM ever done for the United States?
1t is strange how it did not occur to
Mr.. Wanamaker that right at this mo.
ment when England needs funds so
badly that Ireland might be purchased
for five billion of dollars or less. Ire.
land has done much for the United
States.
1T has sent willing hands to toll,
Strong natures tuned to harvest song
and wed to the kindly soil;
Gold pioneers of the wilderness, de-
tenders in the field.
The sons of a race of soldiers who
have never learned to yield;
Strong hearts with duty trimming as
faith makes sweet the dew,
Their word to me witness. Columbia!
they cannot be false to YOU"
1t is strange how Mr.. Wanamaker,
who has made much money by Irish
American employees, forgot the one ma
ton of Europe which has been strug-
Cling for her liberties for eight hun
dred years, which has endowed our
republic with its exiled glories, and
whose purchase could be effected at
cheaper price while the proceeds of
which might also at the same time save
the liberties of England, whilst one
hundred billions of dollars paid over to
Germany could give Germany war
chest which would assure the crushing
of Great Britain.
AS Celt who was born in your
country of American-born parents, 1
rejoice that this war has brought me
nearer to my Teutonic fellow citizens.
l rejoice that it has opened my eyes
to the fact that there are men Of Eng
lish blood who are devoted to the
ideals of Washington, the greatest Eng
lishman that ever lived; who are able
to keep commercialism where it be-
longs, and who have deep sympathy
as did Jefferson with nations which
are struggling to be free. have con-
sistently endeavored to expose the
Carnegie Peace Movement because
out of the mouth of Carnegie, out of
the mouths of Elliot, Root, Choate, Nc
Donald, Huldane, Rhodes, of every
proponent of the movement, came
words of aggression, of domination, of
tyranny, of war.
Universal peace won't come with
brass band or by the power of money.
1t will not come upon the vaporings of
imperialistic dreams. 1t is not
mounted upon the engines of conquest.
1t will not be established by aid of an
international police force, or by the
creation of considerations, or by the
creation of arbitration tribunals which
are subversive of our sovereignty and
cur constitution. If come it ever will,
1t must take its root in the hearts of
men and it must by doing to others
as we would be done," as nations and
individuals, and finally by rendering
to Caesar the things that are Caesars
and to God the things that are Gods"