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pie, when they went to America, divided them
elvea among the various parties, yet when, if I
find" good peoplo In the party opposed to me, "in
stead of discouraging me, it encourages because
, it gives us much to fight for in getting them
out of the other party into our own (laughter).
For if we had all the good people in our party,
'"" and all the bad people in the ' other party, it
might be bad for our country.
Mr. O'Connor haa Tnntinnd nnr nnnntrv nrwl
its position in the world. I am glad that the
popple of Ireland feel as they do towards America,
and I may say to you that in an absence of now
a littlo more than ten months, it has done my
heart good to find a friendly feeling towards the
United States in all the countries I have been in.
Nowhere did I find people expressing anything
but interest in the United States, and I want to
say this to you that it has strengthened me in
4 the conviction that the ambition of my nation
should be not to make people fear it, but to make
peoplo love it (appjause). If there be any who
tako pride in the fact that peoplo outside of their
land bow in fear before their flag, I take pride in
the fact that wo have a flag which makes them
turn their eyes towards Heaven and thank God
there is such a flag (applause).
I have been in attendance on the session of
the Inter-parliamentary Union; I have been inter
ested in its work, and I have taken great satis
faction in the evident progress of the peace senti
ment throughout the world. I am not an old man,
though much older than when I labored under the
disadvantage of being a boy orator (laughter).
I am still a young man, so young that I hope
that in the course of nature I may live to see
the, time when nations, instead of training people
to kill each other, will recognize that justice, and
justice only, can furnish an enduring foundation
for a nation, and wlli be willing that every ques
tion in dispute shall be presented for investiga
tion and deliberation, with the idea of settling
all questions by reason and not force (loud ap
plause). I have such faith in this sense of justice-
that I believe in the course of time every
question will be settled right. If I did not have
faith in jthat sense of iustice I could not advocate
aiiy refoVm, for it is 'only to the sense of justice
that God placed in the human' he'att that we can
appeal (applause), and it is because I believe "that
that sense of justice is to be found everywhere
I have hope that Ireland's appeal for justice will
be a successful appeal, and in the triumph of
justice you will be brought nearer and nearer to
gether, not only with those who live in other
parts of these islands, but with the people who
live in all parts of the world. I bqlieVo what a
great French writer said, and what Tolstoy repeat
ed, that the world is to enter upon an era in which
love and good will will tako the place of avarice
and greed and violence (applause). When that
time comes and we begin to examine and see to
whom the credit belongs, I believe you will find
that credit must be divided, and that some credit
must bo given to the people of America, who
have been pleading for justice, that some credit
must be given to the great leaders of Ireland who
have been pleading for justice, and that some
crcdltyes, some credit must be given to the
great English and great Scotch statesmen who
nave been pleading for justice (applause).
I am not here to make you a speech. I am
simply hero to acknowledge the courtsey that you
have shown to Mrs. Bryan and myself, and I thank
Bryvfnefd'w r' 'Conn haying included to.
5f,nnoin, hiB worda ot welcome (applause), for
she has been my companion in all my labors and
has not only shared all my joys with nTand hv
?olSSlled ?T t his rohbTd a?ldmy
spoken of her should be spoken bv an ,70rd8
tlomen i viee wltu 30nJ0 reVtoncTto "ddresa
you, becauso after tho two apeeches to which
have listened any words are superfluous and ?
that my colleagues of the Irish party and ImS
lng America within the last few years 1 r
have had the honor of being ehahmof twiffift
The Comnioner.
parliamentary party in the house of commons I
have gone as Ireland's ambassador to America
four or five times, and I have found fervent sym
pathy and assistance from all classes of the Amer
ican people (applause). It is true, as Mr. Bryan
has told you, that the majority of our -countrymen
in America belong to the great political party
of which ho is the honored chief, but it is true
also that sympathy with our country is not con
fined to that party, (applause). I have to say
for myself that when I have gone to America
as the representative of Ireland I have been re
ceived with equal generosity and sympathy by
the chiefs of the democratic party and those of
the republican party, and from no man have I
received greater sympathy and ldndness than from
that great man who, at the head of a different
party from Mr. Bryan, presides over the destinies
of America today (loud applause). The strength
of the Irish cause in America lies in the fact that
that cause is not linked to any political party,
but that it appeals to the broad sympathy of hu
manity and justice which guides all political par
ties in tho United States (applause). As in the
past, so it will be in the future, I have never in
America met a single Individual American who
was. tho enemy of Irish aspirations (hear, hear),
ave never ln America come across any man
of pubhc opinion, any newspaper of any political
creed that was tho enmy of Irish aspirations, and
I am perfectly convinced that when the moment
comes when our aspirations shall triumph, and
when Irish prosperity and Irish liberty will exist
on Irish soil in its full measure as completely as
they have been enjoyed by individual Irishmen
wherever they have gone throughout the world,
that there will be no quarter of the civilized globe
where that result will be received with greater
acclamation and universal rejoicing than in 'that
great land (applause). Aye, .that great land which
has' been-to us something more than a friend and
a sympathizer, that great land which in the words
of one of her own poets: -: .. -
"Whose tree latch string was never yet drawn in
Against the meanest child, of Adam's kin" .
(cheers); that great land which has been our
refuge and bur hope, that great land to which
we have looked in our sorrows and our triumphs;
that-great land which wp honor today by honoYihg
Mr. .Bian ; (applause). America is in the minds
and hearts of Irishmen at home all the time.
There is not a day the sun sets in the western
ocean that our people don't bless the name of
America (applause). We look upon her as- our
friend -in the. west; we look upon, her us our great
source, of. strength in our contest for justice to
day .(applause);; and all of us Irishmen in this
room are proud to have the opportunity of doing
honor to this great American, citizen who is
amongst us (applause). Speaking in the name of
all my colleagues, the freely-elected representa
tives of flye-sixths of the Irish peoplo at home,
I tender to Mr. Bryan, and through him to the
American people, the expression of our deep grati
tude and of our love and veneration (loud ap
plause). ,..,...
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan left shortly afterwards for
the continent.. .- . -
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VS AV I N G TH E YEARS"
Norbert Weiner,at eleven years a freshman
in Tufts college, is called the youngest college
student in America. He is the son of Prof.
Weiner, of Harvard, a Russian, and of an American-born
mother. When he was eight years old
he was reading Darwin, Huxley and Haeckel.
Referring to this Incident, the New York World
says: "Precocity id common in the childhood of
eminent men. Alexander Hamilton at twelve was
left in charge of a colonial counting-house and
at nineteen was a revolutionary leader. John
Stuart Mill read Greek at four. A remarkable
case of early development was that of the son
of John Evelyn, the diarist, who did not live
to fulfill his 'promise. At two and a half years
this child 'pronounced English, Latin and French
exactly and qould perfectly read in those three
languages.' Before he died, at five, he 'got by
heart almost the entire vocabulary of Latin and
French primitives and words and had
a strong, passion for Greek The early develop
ment pf musical talent Is a common phenomenon
among eminent cemposers. It is hot difficult to
prepare for college at eleven a precPcious child.
There are thousands of children who with private
teaching could accomplish the feat. As children
are commonly trained the forward ones are re
tarded by the average intelligence1 of larre classes
They lose little by the experience if the leS
from their light tasks Is devoted .to exercist nd
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generally graduate from our colleges at too ad
vanced an age." - '
It seems to be the opinion of many that itia
important to save some years in the college
training of a man, and so these would begin to
?". ftbe!ad,atAa YGTy early ase But is tnere "
not, in truth, plenty of margin at the other end?1
Those who advocate pushing the lad into life at'
an early age, seem not disposed to raise a pro
test against the tendency to push the man into
the grave when he should be in the very midst
of active useful life. We need not worry about
saving the years" while the lad is in his teens.
There is a better field for tho activities of in- .
teliigent and humane thinkers In the vicinity of
that system now being rapidly built up in thia
country a system which seeks to place the age of
thirty-five or forty as a limit to a man's power
and usefulness, Let us have a little less of the
anSm SK? doctrine fostered, by the trust system
and a little more of the fine sentiment put into
verse by Longfellow when he .wrote:
SnV0?, la,teJ Ah! nothinS is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles , '
X. nil GVa?a 0ediPu and Simonides ,.
Bene off the prize of verse from his compeers
When each had numbered more than fourscore"
And Theophrastus at fourscore and ten ' '
Had .but begun his 'Characters of Men.'
Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales,
At. sixty wrote the 'Canterbury Tales.' '
Goethe, at Weimer, toiling to the last,
? d 'Fausf when eighty years were past,
Tn.L 5hm We Slt idly d0WQ an y
Th ?JS??a CTe; ifc is no loneer day?
Cut o JJJath,ni?t y?' come; we are not iuito
nL? m labor by the failIne "eat; ;
Something remains for us to do or dare .
Even the oldest trees some fruit may' bear, v
For age is opportunity no less ,
Than youth itself, though in another -dress;
And as the .evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
JEFFERSON AND LINCOLN
. The Milwauk.ee Sentinel, a republicanl.'or'gan '
that may always be depended upon to support4
republican candidates and republican policies
no matter how bad, makes the following reference
to Mr. Bryan's repeated quotations from the
writings of Thomas Jefferson.
"Mr- Bryan somehow identifies the demo
crat c party with 'the people,' or with democracy
S,n rl ?road,eiLor PhilosPMc sense. Then how
about the affinity for tha't party of the old plan
S5'Mrtaye?ldJnff arlstcratic south, and of tho
solid south' today where social equality is ab-
SponiIr Fr hIS I(leal1f a real statesman of the
people Mr Bryan should have turned, not to tho
greatest democrat, the 'well born' Jefforson, but
to the peatest republican, a man cradled in tho
SLf a wandering settler, bred in toil andl
poverty, self-educated, self-made, a marvel of his-
rinZ'da aT1 WhTSf like America only has pro
ducedAbraham Lincoln."
twTe tSmm0n feels ently safe In saying
u Li T? iGSS thm six years of existencS
it has quoted more from the speeches and writ-
SSfffni braham m.coln tnan the Milwaukee
Sentinel has in the last twenty years.
During the last ten years Mr. Bryan, in his
public speeches and In his editorial writings has
referred to and quoted more from Abraham' Lin
fengtli of 11enMllwaukee Sentinel has in the samp
' T?G circ1ulation of The Commoner is. easily1
SEhJ ??eto ar?eii han that of 'the Milwaukee
SS1, But desp te this disparity in circulation
nronnCaHmmnmakeq Stltiel the fPllOWing
proposition: For every inch, column measure?
ment, that the Sentinel will dovptp Pto repriS
5S? tantl0ns from Abraiam- "ncoln furnished
by The Commoner, The Commoner will' devote
an inch to reprinting quotations from Abraham
Lincoln furnished by the Milwaukee" Sentinel the
quotations submitted by either party to be prop-'
erly authenticated by reference to standard' works
on Lincoln, and limited to not more than, twenty
four inches, column measurement, in any one"
week. Roth The Commoner and theSentinel are''
to give equal prominence on their editorial pages
to the quotations submitted.
If the Milwaukee Sentinel wants to circulate
among the people the views of Abraham Lincoln
on questions that aro as. pertinent today as they
were when -Abraham Lincoln was alive, the oppW
tunity is at hand. "
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