Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-19
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
How 1t Was Celebrated In
Los Angeles.
A PARNELL RELIEF MEETING.
Speeches by Hon. E. f. Spence, Hon.
H. T. Hazard and Others.
$1,000 Collected.
A PARNELL RELIEF MEETING

st. Patrick's day fell on Sunday this
year. The religious aspects of the day
were duly celebrated in all the Catholic
Churches, but its temporal phases were
made a special order for last evening,
when a rousing meeting for the purpose
OF raising something substantial for the
Parnell Relief Fund was held in Turner
Hall. The affair was in charge of Mr..
D. NJ. McGarry, and Hon. E. f. Spence
acted as chairman of the meeting. There
were on the platform during the per-
formances besides those named, Rev.
Fathers Meyer and Dockery of st. Vim
cents College; Hon. John Bryson, Sr.,
Mayor of the city; Hon. Henry T. Haz.
ard, Mayor-elect; DR.. Den and several
others.
Mr.. McGarry explained to the large
audience assembled, which filed all
parts of the hall, including the galleries,
the purposes for which they were come
together. He then introduced MIR.
Spence as master of ceremonies, who
made thoroughly characteristic speech
full of wit, humor and point-showing
him to be fully entitled to take part in
the deliberations of any assembly of
Irishmen. He said that it gave him
much pleasure to preside at any meeting
the object of which was to ameliorate
the condition of any portion of man
kind. He had not looked for this honor
at this time; but few days ago he
was approached by Mr. McGarrv.
who came from the County of
Cork, close to Blarney Castle, where
he evidently had often osculated
that celebrated stone whose smooth
touch impsrts the fatal gift of flattery-
fatal to the victim to whom it is applied.
Mr.. McGarry had said that the meeting
was to be addressed by lawyers and
divines. To this Mr.. Spence objected
that these were professions in which
men made their living by talking, where
as Mr.. Spence got his bread by keeping
silence. He would be at disadvantage
in the company of men whose forensic
eloquence made grave judges and hard
pated iurymen believe black was white,
and of reverend gentlemen whose chas-
tened but impassioned rhetoric was
wont to melt the stony hearts
Vi hlAhOl6J dlOClU b1oJ WOI0 tuOEt VI
Los Angeles real estate agents, or bank
from the pages of an old book whose
name ne had forgotten, and copy of
which he had not seen for many years,
to let his communications be merely
yea, yea, nay, nay. In these times of
financial depression the directors of the
bank had taught him to let all his ora
tions begin and end with the monosylla-
bic nay. To all this Mr.. Nc
Garry had stated that Mr.. Spence
would be required merely to read
the programme seriatim from
printed slip. On this understanding he
was here. And it may be added on this
same principal of the great superiority OF
golden silence over mere silvery speech,
Mr.. Spence proceeded during the even.
ing to make at least ten speeches of 20
length each. AS they kept the
audience in roar of laughter all the
time they lasted, he was forgiven with a
hearty good will.
Having, in a capital address, explained
that he could not speak, the witty ex-
Mayor at last gave the Mayor-elect an
introduction to the audience, and at the
same time an opportunity to make his
speech.
MR.. HAZARDS ADDRESS.
Mr.. Hazard proceeded to say that from
the printed programme and also from
Mr.. Spence's opening remarks he had
been led to believe that he was to be the
first speaker OF the evening. Mr.. Spence's g
speech, however, had demonstrated as a
fact that this view was entirely an erron-
eous one. He then went on to say that
Ireland to-day was to be congratulated on
the course she had been pursuing
in her efforts to secure the right of home
rule. She was to be congratulated on
the wise course her great statesmen had
right. Mankind loves the cause of hu-
manity, the cause of equal rights to all.
The failure to convict Mr.. Farnell has
done more than the implements of war
could do for the cause of Ireland. 1t is
upon the perpetuity of American, prinei..
Piles and institutions that the cause OF
Ireland depends. America has proved
that a Republican form of govern
ment may be stable and endur-
ing. Let every lover of home-rule
in Ireland hold fast to his fealty to the
principles of the American Union. Our
ideas are already all over England, and
pervading the minds of all classes. Like
the Banyan tree, whose branches bend
to the earth and take root again, SO ouI
principles have been spreading to all
parts OF the globe and taking deep root
everywhere. On the scroll of fame in
the years to come, in letters of gold, will
appear the names of Ireland's grea
heroes, like the names of America
great iberators. AS we revere the
memory of Washington and Lincoln, 81
will be revered the names of Parnell anC
Gladstone.
MR.. HANRAHAN's SONG.
At the close OF Mr.. Hazards eloquent
address, Mr.. Hanrahan favored thu
audience with song, which took so wei
that in answer to thunderous applaus
he sang "The Shamrock of Ireland"
MR.. LYNCH's REGRETS.
Mr.. Joseph d. Lynch was on the pro
gramme for speech, but it being utterly
| impossible for him to appear, his regret
were presented to the audience through
Mr.. Spence, as chairman OF the meeting
MR.. sPRoUL REcITEs.
The next thing on the programme wa
a recitation by Mr.. j. V. Sproul. Th
gentleman chose a poetic effusion tn
theme of which was the flag of gree
Erin. 1t was a glowing tribute to tn
''Sunburst," and was given in a mot
spirited manner by the declaimer. Nj
Sproul was most vociferously cheered.
MR.. BREzEE's REGRETS.
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