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Show SPOKANE, WASH. j Newsy Letter From the Northwest. (Special Correspondence.) Spokane. Wash., March 26. Members Mem-bers of tno iriSh-American association of Spokane ani a number of their friends did honor to the memory of Ireland's- patron saint at a dinner in Hotel Spokane the evening o;' March J6. E. Dempsie was toastmaster and presented each speaker with witty foreword. Former United States Senator Sen-ator George- Turner of Spokane was the first speaker, who, in the course of a brilliant address, revered the memory mem-ory of St. Patrick, saying, in closing: "Through St. Patrick the Irish people peo-ple wero serving God 400 years before Chrisiianity extended to their neighbors neigh-bors across the Irish sea. A civil, literary lit-erary and commercial life of their own flourish,., i before they were destroyed, bui the individualism of the Irishman cannot be destroyed. Tyranny has ex-i'ed ex-i'ed hini. but he has enriched every country e,n the face of the globe by his I wit ji n.l force. Also his literary at- lanimciits have ueen Known In every' lend. Distant nations have benefited hy Irish courage, and some day the Irishman will carry his nation forward and build up the arts and sciences for Ireland to stand first among all nations na-tions of the globe. Every nation is locking forward to that day, and let us prav that it will come soon. And when jr. comes, let two great nations celebrate the American republic and the Irish republic." Graham B. Dennis, in responding to the toast "America, Our Adopted Country," traced in picturesque language lan-guage the early history of the Irish people, and logically portrayed their characteristics in religion, literature, art and war, laying particular emphasis empha-sis to their social and political strength. He spoke of the American-Irishmen American-Irishmen and assurance of their manhood man-hood and being, and America as his adopted country; the transplanting from land to land, and in retrospection, where and whence they came, whither they are tending, and their impress upon civilization by their self-devotion and self-sacrifice: the affinity of th:; Irish character for mental, especially for religious, culture and learning, and the debt, of the Anglo-Saxon to the irisn for tne Christian religion and altogether al-together for letters; the final thraldom thral-dom of th-2 English, and in tiie struggle for independence and coupled with it. the immortality of Burke. Gratlan, Curran and O'Ccnnell, ably supported by Gladstone during his fife, and at thit day fostered by James Bryce. The speaker then told of America, the adopted country, of its dreamers who dreamed dreams of liberty; the transplanting of the Irishman to American soil; the America of centuries ago and the America of. today; the Irishman in his loyalty to American citizenship faithful to American institutions insti-tutions "and its traditions. He also paid tribute to Washington, Lincoln and Grant, to their character and manhood, man-hood, . portraying them as among the bright and shining lights in the constellation con-stellation of great men of past ages and country building as examples for present and coming generations to imi tate, ne cioseu wun a tribute and toast to Theodore Roosevelt, as president presi-dent of the United States. E. J. Connor spoke of the. Ubiquitous Irishman, saying: " 'Ubiquitous' means everywhere, at all places at one and theime time. God is everywhere. God is ubiquitous. So is the Irishman Therefore God is with the Irish. We admire His judgment in the selection of His friends. May our heavenly kingdom king-dom and His fulfil our expectations and our hopes." Responding to the toast, "The Ladies." La-dies." E. E. O'Connors told that in no . country and no clime has the influence of woman, shedding the rays of her he.nitv liw i-lt-tiitc 1-icv lni-o her truth, her chastity and honor and love of right been stronger or more potent than in that green isle across the seas and in the Irish race, and Ireland's sweet singers have sung the praises of woman in songs that w ill live forever. Other speakers were Professor J. A. Tormey, superintendent of city schools; X. W. Durham, editor of The Spokesman Review, Spokane; Alonzo M. Murohey, J. J. Browne, Samuel Glasgow, John Roche, Mayor F. L. Daggett, F. P. Hogan, P. F. Quinn, K. F. Cartier Van Dissel, M. M. Cowley and Jossph McCarthy. Music was furnished fur-nished by the Elks' quartette, Miss Lu-cile Lu-cile Palmer and Mrs. G. W. Manning, the last named singing "The Isle That'5 Crowned With Shamrocks." The Spokane society of the Ancient Ord'ar of Hibernians celebrated St. Patrick's day In Elks' temple, where ReA". Patrick J. O'Reilly, S. J., of Gonzaga college was the principal speaker, taking for his subject "The Early Struggles of Ireland." P. B. Keaney presided. Father O'Reilly dwelt at length 'on the career of Daniel "'Connell. of whom he spoke as tlv -reatest of all Ireland's great mer -p" one who had achieved the most fc nis native land, having done more than anv other tor the civil and religious liberty of Ireland. A panegyric on St Patrick was delivered by Rev. P. J. Mahoney, S. J., of the faculty of Gon-zaea Gon-zaea college. '. Spokane, Wash, March 26. Nearly $S,U00 was subscribed by men of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes at a meeting in the parochial school a few days ago. Rev. Father Louis Verha-gen, Verha-gen, head of the parish, opened the meeting, and Dr. Henry B. Luhn was made permanent chairman. Enthusiasm marked everv phase of the meeting. The campafgn .will be directed by the priests of the parish, Mr. Luhn and a committee of ten prominent Catholics. Father Verhagen hopes to have jthe church comnleted next Christmas. When completed the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes will be the largest in eastern Washington, and as substantial a structure as any in the United States. S V- The Gonzaga College Junior Debating Debat-ing society, composed of juniors ranging rang-ing betw een the ages of 13 and 16 years, has been organized. There 'are already fifty members in the society, and the interest is keen among the boys. The officers are: Moderator, Rev. P. J. O'Reilly, S. J.: president. Nelson Foster: Fos-ter: vice president, D'Arcy Brothy; recording re-cording secretary,. Lloyd Stanfleld; corresponding secretary, Dennis Dris-coll; Dris-coll; treasurer, Gordon Gonnls; librarian libra-rian Wi'liam Russell; sergeant-at-arms. Daf. Lavell: janitor. Ernest Deckr; advisory board, Neslir Foster, Fos-ter, Gordon Gonitis, D'Arcy Brothy, William Kussell, Ralph Sweeney, Burgess Bur-gess Gordon. , v Memorial services to commemorate the virtues of Dennis Clark and W. J. Byrnes were conducted by Spokane council Knights of Columbus a few days ago. The representation of lodge members and friends was large. Grand Knight Edward Q'Shea presided, in-trodicing in-trodicing E- F. Cannon, who told of the lessons intended to be taught the living. liv-ing. The male quartette, Messrs, Ghant Eatoft, Hill and Krantz sang "The Vacant Chair." Grand Knight "'Shea followed with a short address. Mrs. G. W. planning sang "After Toil- ing Cometh Rest" very effectively. The oration was delivered by Henry i:. Luhn. Tiie services were closed by Rev. Father Louis Verhagen. chaplain, offering prayers, members of the coun-ci coun-ci and friends joining in the responses. . Statistics of the religious census lately taken in Spokane under the direction di-rection of Rev. li. Edward Mills, show-that show-that in point of numbers the three-leading three-leading denominations are the Catholic, Cath-olic, the First Methodist and the First Presbyterian in the order named. These are the only denominations whose followers fol-lowers are in excess of 1,000. The first named having 3.S23, the second 1.47, and the third i.OPt. The other churches range from 947 tor the Central Christian Chris-tian to 24fi for the Fourth Presbyterian. The census revealed the existence of a number of small sects. There is a movement on foot to remove re-move the division headquarters of the Sisters of Providence from Vancouver, Vancou-ver, Wash., to Everett. Plans are also making to erect a beautiful building on the vacant grounds near Providence hospital, and a handsome new school building on the Riverside. This may result in making Everett the Catholic headquarters of Washington. |