The Irish standard., 1890-03-22

Why should 1. you wandering ask me. hold
| such love for an Isle so far
| Clear across waste Of water, cold and desolate
l9sS as a star?
Friend, that Island is my mother, from her Ter
81 tile soil sprang;
Generously my youth she nurtured and my lnl-
I $ Il laby she sang.
Mark me well, that mans villain, mean and
cold as clod Of earth.
Inwhose heart there's no affection for the land
/ n that gave him birth!
II cf it no tender memories up before his visio,
., springs.
Then the land that gives him shelter can expect
s. no love from him.
Ills a light and thoughtless question why love
4 the dear old sod.
Where my eyes first looked to Heaven and my
.$ dghtsome foot first trod:
Must man because he marries cease to love
and venerate
4. desolate?
the better son;
heApeD QEOCeEC our H1diu0alS IEOm MIN WHO Tor
Il mother love has none!
Wen I love this broad and noble land with love
as pure as gold
None the less because my spirit visits now and
It then the old.
Freely would grasp sabre, rally round the flag
ii of stars, @ W
No less ready for the reason that I'd shatter Ire
NuE land's haral
Mingled in the manly bosom is the love of
mother, wife,
SO my love for both lands mingle in the current
of my life.
Could you doubt our Irish fes.lty call the muster
of your dead;
Find field in all your history where no Irish
yalor bled!
Where their deeds no rays of glory shed around
| the starry hag
| From the plains Of Saratoga on to Lookout'a
+ brightest crag!
Ours nation large and lavish-generous as our
mother land: #
No cold shallow streams that barely covers self
ishness' sand.
And you ask the shallow question why cele
brate the day?
I Friend / celebrate no triumph won in battles
bloody fray
Triumph Of one kingly despot o'er another at
( the cost
EDf a hecatomb Of heroes and perhaps Of free
|S dom lost:
Nor ssdctory ienoble Of one faction. class ol
's creed III. z
While strife distracted nation wept the fratri.
cidaI deed!
'Tis not these my memory halloWs friend, it is q
sacred cause; 4
'Tis the bringing to people Christian light and
love and laws;
Gentle Patrick, the Apostle. brought no flaming
battle brand,
In his heart of peace the Gospel. and Sham
rock in his hand;
These the weapons that he welded, Ireland
bowed to Heavens sway,
Who'd object but British bigots If we'd cele-
brate the day?
For I've left my mother country, made this fair,
broad land my BRIDE;
Both Ill ever love aud cherish and defend
whate'er betide.
From her cliffs let Erin beckon, and hasten to
her aid;
Let caltif strike Columbia, from the scabbard
leaps the blade;
Ha! Inote your eyes approval. with my tenets
you agree.
Come, then, brave and free Anlericans-come
and celebrate with me!
'tThe benefits of A. O. H. Life In
surance," responded to by John Nc
CarthY. Esq, of saltwater, was de-
liyered in Postmaster McCarthV's most
inimitable manner. 1t was telling, in
structive and amusing. He eaid:
| If there is any subject less calculated
to stir up emotions Of sentimental
character than life insurance it must be
| the subject of grave stories. I believe
there is not member present or 9
member in the state but is fully inn
pressed with the necessity of his being
a member Of the insurance and there
are but two grounds on which you
could have an objection to the same
with any degree OF reason. First, car
I you afford insurance and second is The
| Hibernian life insurance of Minnesota
the cheapest you can OBTAIN? a.
! 70 the first I will say there is nc
| member present or in tne state toe
poor, or thinks he is, than he is toe
poor to have wife and family, and il
he has family. he cannot afford and
should not take the chances of having
them become objects Of charity or
friend and the public. There is not a
man amongst you whatever his SALARY
may be, whether it is one OF three
dollars per day, but will find at the END
of the year that he has lived up to his
income. and the result will be that he
! has saved nothing for. wet day, and
| the only difference will be that the
man getting the lalger salary has been
enabled to purchase the largest number
| OF luxuri6s during the year; but theiI
savings are approximately the same,
Thus if death should claim them at any
time what will become Of their children
lon whom the future glory Of the Irish
race so largely depends2 They will be
least upon the world without any pros-