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Show !. Speech Woke TS.ern Up v i jj B Statohood hearings nro rather dull H I and prosnlc, ns n rulo. Members of B tho IIouso commlttco on territories go H down lo their room for the prolonged M Bossions with wry faces. Smiles don't H prcdomlnnti! In that precinct, but fl sometimes thoro Is n burst of eloquence B t I such nn happened tho other dnv when H : Dolegnto Hod ')'. hlnibclf a ' drriner," B was drawn ot on tho subject of fcr- H j elgn iKipulatloi.s. H ' "I might grow n little oloquont on B , j i ' that q'tiosllon no to forolgnors," hu do- H lA K4 clnrod In tho coufso of n hearing. "In t- (Ivf ithls 'grand and glorious country wo MB l3HlBk. uro " Amorlcars No matter wnether K 'V?'j l'-'n wuro orn auiidst tho marry HBk, ''iVBB -l-BBBBk fc'-; . . homes of Knpland. on tho sunny hills of Krance, u on tho hanUs of tho 1 !neld Rhino, or down by the Shannon's Shan-non's sldo, when wo como hero and lift up our hendi In fealty to tho banner ban-ner of tho free, then, as did tho Danes or old In Erin's Islo as to tho Irish, wo become moro American than tho Americans thunselvea, nnd ontltled to sharo In that blessed horttngo of liberty lib-erty that wns born of your fathors' blood and sanctified by your mother's tears, and dedicated to tho oppressed of all tho world." Tho territories commlttco gave tho Now Mexico... i!ii,'fato n round of Plaudits fur h - M.trutis and patriotic Hontlracnt Wnshmglon Post. |