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Rh "Our foreign ministers sailing out of the New York harbor past the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World " should go with instructions to educate the na- tions of the earth upon the American Financial Policy. We should negative the self-interested influence of Eng- land, and speak for industrial prosperity.

"We are now the ally of England in the most cruel and unjust persecution against the weak and defenseless people of the world that was ever waged by tyrants since the dawn of history. [Applause.]

"Our people are losing each year hundreds of mil- lions of dollars ; incalculable suffering exists thoughout the land ; we have begun the work of cutting each others throats ; poor men crazed with hunger are daily shot down by the officers of the law ; want, distress and anxiety pervades the entire Union.

"If we are to act let us act quickly.

"It has been truthfully said :

"It is at once the result and security of oppression that its victim soon becomes incapable of resistance. Submission to its first encroachments is followed by the fatal lethargy that destroys every noble ambition, and converts the people into cowardly poltroons and fawning sycophants, who hug their chains and lick the hand that smites them!"

"Oppression now seeks to enslave this fair land. Its name is greed. Surrounded by the comforts of life, it is unconscious of the condition of others. Despotism, whether in Russia marching its helpless victims to an eternal night of sorrow, or in Ireland where its humiliat- ing influences are ever before the human eye, or else- where ; it is the same.

"It is already with us. It has come in the same form that it has come everywhere by regarding the