Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-03-18
SAINT PArRIcK's DAY.
A Cold RRinstorm Enterferes
Win fhe GpIebraffOun.

WITH Nnt CtAeDh6AADAs
The celebration Of Saint Patriek's
Day yesterday began with mach prom
Use. A large number of people congre-
gated in the streets to take part in the
celebration, but the lowering clouds and
the beginning of q cold rain drove the
majority Of the people to their comfort
able homes. Not so the Ancient Order
Of Hibernians. They never turn back
from any duty, pleasant or otherwise.
Accordingly at li30 P. M, with the flag
of Erin floating in primal beauty, as it
has often foated in battle for freedom
on many bloody field. the Ancient
Order, in their beautiful regalia, placed
themselves in line Of march, preceded
by squad of mounted police and the
City Band, and notwithstanding the chill
ing rain, proceeded over the following
line OF march: Down Main street to OF.
vera, down Olvera to Alameda, thence
along Alameda to Aliso, up Also to Los
Angeles, along Los Angeles to CONNER
oial, up Commercial to Main. down Main
to Third, up Third to Spring, up Spring
to Turnverein Hall, where the following
exercises took place under charge Of
Terence Cooney, President, and John
Filbin, Vice-President. On the stage
were Fathers Carew, Peter Yerdagner,
Howe and Smith,
The exercises we're introduced by
Father Carew in few appropriate re.
marks. Father Carew was followed by
the principal orator of the day,
j. G. DAILY.
Mr.. DAILY said: We are here again,
and our meeting means no harm to any
one. Bound together by the most sound
'ties; by the inspiration that one sorrow
ing soul ul,affords another, and those that
do not comprehend the Irish heart can.
not understand the emotions aroused
by this recurring anniversary. To-day
the Irish exile visits in fancy the scenes
of his early days. He roams over her
mountain sides and through her verdant
wales; all the associations of Joy and
sorrow are awakened. Amid her shaded
hills, where smiles the shamrock all day
loug, he hears the songs of his own
green isle.
A glowing tribute was paid to the
constancy, affection and gratitude of the
Irish character, and Mr. DAILY grew
very earnest in denunciation of that ele.
ment of Americans who denounce in
wholesale terms the Irish race He said
that English influence had followed the
poor Irish exile to his adopted home, had
perverted history and set the Irishman
in false light, but the position of Ire
lands sons in America was as fixed and
immovable as the star of Caesar. An
account of the immigration of the Irish to
this country from the earliest period was
given, the part taken in The early strug-
gle for independence, 1912, the Mexican
and Rebellion. Mr.. DAILY claimed that
the allegiance of the Irish WIS unsullied,
that their heroic achievements had not
been excelled by the bravest of Ameri-
cas- native sons. He said that the sons
of Ireland and America were united in
the grave-that the daisies of spring
arose from their commingled dust;
that, as sharers In their trials and dan
gers embodied in and cemented to the
country by the blood of hundreds of sons
and fathers, by the tears of widows,
mothers and orphans, no man should
burl at them the epithet of alien or for
eigner. There is no danger that the
future republic OF ireland will annex or
attempt to subjugate this great country
that offered them an asylum in their
hour of need.
The speech Of Mr.. DAILY was received
with great applause. After music by
the band, Mr.. w. J. Smith, of New
York, was introduced and spoke briefly
on the duty of Irishmen to the land of
their birth
At the close of the address of Mr..
Smith the band played "the Harp that
once through Tara's Halls" and the
meeting adjourned.
In the evening there was social
meeting at the rooms of the Emerald
Club in the HERALD building, aud music,
song and patriotic sentiments ruled the
hour till the noon of night. Although
the rain fell chill and heavily on the
outside, the joyous company within, with
their warm patriotic hearts, paid no heed
to the outward elements, but enjoyed
the life giving joys of music and song
and patriotic story to the fullest extent,
aud thus closed a very genial and de-
lphtful entertainment,