Show ST PATRICKS DAY AY i This is Irelands day 00 Her true sons eons and faithful Calt ful daughters wherever found Cound consecrate this day to memories memorIes mem r rlee ies lee of ot sweet b to the history and ami the hopes of her people And there Is ia something in the experience i of or Ire Ireland Ireland ireland land in her pathetic struggle for lib liberty libarty arty erty art against the power from which this republic so narrowly escaped aped which linds linde a no sympathetic chord in every true American Am heart Through seven beven centuries this ule e for fo independence has bee been going on for seven sen centuries the tyrant power has hae beat the tze patriot down for seven centuries this devotion to liberty and to 10 motherland has h s never waned tan Floods of f tears have not washed It out Rivers of or blOOd bf have bave not carried away its Ita strength str Storms of sighs have shaken sh ken it but it stands today like a z I oak Impoverished insulted in bondage and in rags the motherland is still be beloved beloved loved of her sons eons and nd daughters daughter Out of her leers tooru teara she shu smiles Upon tho rack of or she ha sung of or liberty and andor of or hope Sho She haa has worn th manacles of superior civilization while teaching the world the magic of science and of ot song She has played the harp with handcuffs on and carved her name nome with the sword of oC courage upon the tablets of every leading le na nation nation nation tion of the earth The proud spirit of her people has never nevet been broken The heart of ot Ireland is true as steel st t The r has not stripped the I Gael of hie his sacred belief in the tio t e rights and m traditions of his country From treachery to the latest I whine of an n Anglicized Irishman from invasion to Tory threats there thero has ns been no no faltering In the avowed purpose of or Irishmen Irl for Cor generations to secure in independence dependence for their country some sometime sometime sometime time somehow There are hundreds of thousand of American citizens of Irish descent Tb In freedom They Tiey T oY came here to worship wor hip at the shrine of lib liberty libert erty ert e are r e bound bo nd vp tf y and 80 so is Ig their posterity U d of oC this republic And so MO the scoffers ae what interest Int tt have haie they tiey in Ireland now wh What ve Americans to do with Ire days dAS a d hopes ho hop and political con eon conditions In Iii the very nature of oC things the Am American Anrica 1 h hert art should beat in unison with very every people struggling for Cor liberty rt slid and J should applaud encourage and if it possible assist every attempt at popular l government wherever made Wi wl ilo not appreciate I fully fUll the bless 10 ini IDId of If liberty Unless we feel teel an Inter Interest est eat and take a pride in the development in other lande Janda of the republican prin principles we WI profess and practice er over the t he be messes masses are oppressed by b in invaders vIers we Tie naturally sympathize with wiCk the tho oppressed ed We Ve have hae not forgotten our own wn trials our own experience ex with rulers our own need n d of ot aid and encouragement our own obliga obligations obligations to outsIde sympathy when we dr v f back the invader whenever a n patriot fails falto in for tor the Independence of or his p pe lie pl ph M whatever his hie faith fa th his hie tongue his bis JI lineage or his color it H is I the way of his 11 republic to mourn for tor the imm vr to the cause c use she represents and an typifies t It makes no difference nc whether blond runs out upon the snows of or orland Poland land or his takes flight among the shades hade of or classic casIc Greece whether his last breath floats into eternity on onan onan onan an Alpine breeze or the axe oka or of a cruel and corrupt ministry descends upon his head in suffering Thin Erin America attests at attests tet tests ts her love for fer liberty and her sym sympathy pathy pet by for the one who fell In ire JI trying to obtain the independence of oC his peo people lilt When this republic can ain not do this It will be when honor and self seli sel respect ore are dead d d When a nation which achieved He Its beloved freedom by b sacrifices of blood and ami treasure drawn from its own people and from other lands forgets to o feel el for others it jt will wll be time to re ze remove move moe from from the harbor of or our oU national metropolis that colossal emblem emblom that appropriate gift of or the land of I ILat Lafayette Lat Liberty Enlightening the World In the dark days preceding Amer m wh Benjamin min Frank I I I i Un lin was looking everywhere h ere for far f or friends and sympathizers for tO the te colonies he visited Dublin and met the leading patriots of ot the Irish parliament pa Writing t to American leaders he said saidI I find them deposed to be friends dl of or America in which I endeavor to confirm them with the expectation that our ocr grow growing growIng ing log weight might In time be thrown in their scale and by joining our interests Int rests with theirs a more equitable treatment from England Engrand might be obtained for themselves as well as for us In 1775 Chatham defended the col colonies colonies colonies onies and said Bald that Ireland was with America to a L man In that same ame year the continental congress Issued an address to the people saying You have been friendly to the rights of or mankind and we ve acknowledge with pleas pleasure pleasure ure and end gratitude that the Irl Ti nation has produced patriots who have highly distinguished themselves In the cause of humanity and of ot America We Va know that I you are not without lt your grievances We WeI sympathize with you in your distress We e I hope hopa that the patient abiding in the weak may not always be forgotten and God Go grant that the iniquitous system of ex cx extirpating extirpating liberty may soon be defeated Americana who know the history hl tory of their country know that leading Irish Irishmen Irishmen irishmen men of that time stood on the floor Of Or Orthe the English parliament and defended the rights and liberties of the colonies Irishmen art are friends of the They know what hal oppression oppre lon means meau They stand up for liberty It Itis ItI ItIs is t the prayer pray r of every ever mother the high I resolve of every boy In Ireland to do something for lor liberty somewhere that sometime it may return like bread brend cast upon the waters 0 S 0 S The anniversary celebrated today is i of or sectarian s origin to bo be sure rere But nut the blending blendin of this observance v ith the national spirit of or the people is more poetic I than political it is unique and harmless The Irish Catholic under understands understand understands harmleS stands stand the relative relate allegiance he be owes to hie his government and ad to his hu h He does dos not wish and would not con consent consent consent sent to the of any church within the state He has suffered from such a system too much already When Ten the Catholic parliament assembled in 1689 under James Jame one of or the first meas measures meas measure ores ures ure enacted provided for perfect re religious liberty and tolerance in Ireland Liberty Libery of conscience cc ft 1 1 a principle Im lot bedded in the foundation rock of or our government goern ent It I cannot be disturbed There is none to disturb it It Its guaran guarantees guarantees tees will wi live Jve while the republic lives But But there tere is a Tory spirit growing up in the land land It I has haa ha nt nOt numbers but power ower It I Is an y of financial financial combinations It I scorns the and loves money It I looks on independence as a Jest t eats the de declaration declaration which Inspired our forefathers to rebellion as an obsolete instrument and sets UD un UI new Ideate ideals Ideal for tor American citizenship But this menace to liberty will pass It I will wither In the fierce fire fre of freedom fredom lighted on Bunker Hill Hi which is burning yet and still will wi burn bur while fathers faters t ach what sons sono should learn There will wl be no retrogression Hu Ha Human Human Haman man liberty Ubert seldom dom moves backward It I may may find obstacles obstacle but they hev will be brushed brushe aside Monarchs on find ways waya to stop mop the wheels of progress Despots In popular pOP lar governments like this are of few days and full tul of trouble They can cannot canot not ot long Ions over and misrepresent sent t te e people ople in this his land of the free tree heartt hert boDe hODe and home hom The cause of humanity will 1 triumph In the end The Irish nation naton will wl be emancipated ted The he American citizen will trill make a new declaration of inde independence Independence independence Tories will wi have to seek the security of oblivion lust for land will wl bring bing its Is own punish punishment punishment punishment ment In this country will willbe willbe be humbled wih with disgrace Might can cannot cannot cannot not decide deide questions of right and ar be sustained in the court of reason r non American sympathy goes out to Ire Ireland Ireland Ireland land It I always s has and it I always will wil But the American heart hear throbs in the bosom sm of the tEe masses it is i the ticker r that beats beat in the te breast breSt tf i f Tory Tor ism imAnd im And so f it I is that millions of oC loyal loval American citizens as loyal loal as Sullivan and Montgomery of the te revolution as loyal as Phil Phi Sheridan Sherdan will link their horta thi this day with wih the living millions of the Celtic race to do reverence to the memory merol and traditions of or the Gaelic faith and the glorious Gaelic land |