The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-08
THE IRISH.
AT HOME AND IN THIS COUNTRY

AN ADDRESS By GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN, RECENT
LY DELIVERED BEFORE THE EMERALD
BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION AT CHICAGO.
General Logan said:
FELLow-crTIzEss OF TUE EMERALD BENEFICIAL
ASSOCIATION:
Although under some obligations to be
present at another point to-day, | found it
impossible to forego the pleasure ofmeeting
my Irish friends upon this occasion, in
response to their very cordial invitation to
participate with them in the present ccle-
bration, as also to address them upon such
topics as grow out of our mutual interests
those interests which tie together all indi-
viduas who are united by principles of
morality and bound in sentiment 10y the
broad fact Of common citizenship.
In hastily running over the constitution
and bylaws of your association, l learn
that its prime objects are Of the most
praiseworthy character, comprehending in a
few words the cultivation of Christian vir-
tues and morality, and the practice of
mutual relief and charity among your
members, entirely ignoring the disturbing
question Of politics. You are banded
together for the promotion of those lofty
attributes of personal character which so
eminently distinguish the progress of our
age. Your object is not TO give illustration
OF the truthfulness Of the poets words, when
he exclaimed:
Mans inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn"
but to paraphrase those words into living
demonstration of the fact, that man
humanity to his fellow creatures robs sick.
ness of its pains, poverty of its sorrows and
society of its false distinctions.
One Of the most remarkable sentences in
your constitution is that which adopts the
motto
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY
as chief object Of your utilization. In
this motto are embraced the ideas of faith
in Him. who is the creator of all; hope for
the future life and charity toward your
fellow men-thrcc virtues worthy of the
highest human ambition. With such a
declaration of principles and purposes, in
which the good is emulated and the bad
disavowed, your association must at once
enlist the respect of every right-mnded
man, and claim the sympathy of each citizen
who values order in society, Justice in his
relations with his telow-man, and liberty
for himself and family.
Submitted to the bar of such tribunal,
the objects Of your association can only meet
with the general Endorsement due to that
which is invested with every feature fworth
as well as cXpediency; that in which there
is everything to praise and nothing to con
dcmn. The age has zone by fortunately for
Us, when every man was sort of moral lsh-
mul, with his hand raised against that Of
every other man, Despite the croakings OF
cynicS, the world does progress and great
advances have been made within the past
two centuries towards much higher type
of humanity. Let scientists quarrel as they
will over the question Of mans origin from
the lower orders Of animals but what our
age proclaims is the tnct Of
A MORAL REVOLUTION,
through which the man of the nineteenth
century is as far elevated above his repre-
scntatiyes of the middle ages as was the
latter above the barbarians, who attempted
to smother the first Pickering light of Il
dawning civilization. Every church spirc
in Christcndom rises in testimony Of thi.
fact and every organization fashioned upon
the principles Of high authority and human
brotherhood, such MS yours Is one of the
foundation stones upon which rests securely
the temple Of modern progress
If, then, the objects of your society are SO
far above the reach of challenge, the meth.
ed by which you seek to accomplish them
must be no less so, CNrpng ihult-iindcrs
there are ready to argue in such cases that,
if the spirit of association be good, the ms.
ISOLATION itself must he bad, because it is
exclusive and confined to the particular per.
sons constituting the membership. The
iallacy of such an argument IL shown IN n
thousand of the most commonplace matters
of life, and is illustrated by the domestic
affairs of the family AS well as by the higher
policy Of the nation. The efficiency of asso.
catcd effort has ever been recognized as the
first step toward accomplishment of pur.
pose. We are all familiar with the story of