The anti-monopolist., 1876-06-29
THIS IS FDR IRELAND.

We have been requested to publish
our remarks made at the entertainment
given last week in Saltwater, during the
state convention of the Catholic Tenn
perance Union.
The columns ofthe ANTI-MoNoPoL1sT
are so besieged with advertisers, class
that newspaper men have a weakness
'for-that we have not space for more
than the following concluding portion of
the speech:
"But fellow couutrymen let us remem-
Der that temperance is but the foundation
on which to build; that there are other
virtues to cultivate, that there are vices
and errors to eradicate.
There is the greatest Of all virtues,
charity. Let it teach US to be loyal and
true to one another. to be forbearing
with one another, to help one another,
to think we'll Of one another.
Cultivate it in your societies, in your
Intercourse with your brother Irishmen,
that SO we may eradicate the vice Of
\ Jealousy, mean. petty, ignorant, treach-
] erous jealousy.
/ 1t is our besetting sin, the palpable
/. and only enemy to our advancement.
4 We have inherited it from oppression
for it is characteristic OF bondage and
4 weakness, let Us drive it forth from
! amongst US, as unworthy of our free
dom and strength.
] | speak not to gain your applause
much as | value it, speak with a pur-
pose. Especially speak TO you the
You know full well the fatal evils that
division ard jealousy have brought upon
yourrace in the past crush them out,
away with them.
+ In you the young, my hopes for Ire~
land center. BE- tue to her, to her
i cause. BE proud Of her. Ay, you have
i isJ.right to be proud ol her.
ssShe is not Il dali nor Il coil Land,
/ She is a warm and bold land,
She is 4 grand old land,
This land Of nne'
No other lald has even inspired such
enthusiastic love.
No other p3opie have ever had nobler
examples OF pure unsellish loyalty and
love tor native land then we have hal
4 among cur brothers both at home and in
exile
AT the battle oi Langden in Flanders
in the year 1893, where Gas the historian
tells us) the French were again victorious
I with the irish battle cry. Remember
limerick Sarsleld. charging, At tae
head Of the Irish Brig ade. in hot pursuit
Of the fleeing Williamtes, fell mortally
wounded.
Pressing his hand against the wount
: he took it away dripping with blood ant
only said, oh, that this was for ireland
Pure, lofty soul. lllustrious warrior
hero and patriot.
He thought not, at that supreme mo-
ment. of the cause he had expoused in a
foreign land, he heard not the shouts o
= victory. he marked not the lleeing foe
he saw not the tair flag OF France way.
ing in triumph, over the field Irish valor
had won; with his tace,-that never
blanched before the foe,-whiteninr ia
death, he thought only oil YOU Erin,-his
Erin-his love, and with his hearts bloot
went out his hearts lament. ''Oh. tha
this was tor Ireland"
Fellow eonntrymen. Let us, ut .
humble distance. endeavor to follow th,
example of matehless fidelity and loy,
which the noble Sarstield has lett to us
In every virtue we cultivate, in every
vice and error we conquer, in every
generous impulse to stand by one anoth
er. in every pure aspiration tor the up
lifting OF our race, in every blow W,
strike ut the hcnd jealousy. discord
division, III every step we take onward
let us say. This IS ior Ireland