The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-03-28

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CAA LCs lO"Is
we have all listened with interest and
attention,
Hallowed memories cluster around
! this day like ivy around some sheltered
spring. st. Iatrick's day has a double
charm. 1t embodies within it, the joys
and sorrows and the ]ongings and
hopes of race noted among men for a
deep love Of their country. There is a
luster in the Irish that will never decay.
We are told, nv friends. in narratives
how some pilgrim. crossing trackless
desert, came upon beautiful oasis and
there rested himself beneath the CRATE
full shade of the palm. The oasis was
as welcome to the footsore travellers as
st. Patrick's day is to the hearts of
Erin's sons and daughters.
The advent of this day is looked for
ward to with much pleasurable antici-
patton. We celebrate the Itch Of March
as a national holiday. Wherever the
exile OF Erin may be to day,
whether it be On the far off shores OF
the Amazon, or the river Nile. or the
blue waters of the Ganges, or the frozen
north or sunny south; whether it be in
the homes OF the rich or the huts of the
poor. every Irish heart beats III sympa-
thy with the sentiments of the day.
Father Murphy continued in an elO-
quent eulogy Of st. Patrick and his life
work for Ireland.
Hon. Cyrus Wellington, one Of MIN
nesota's Leading orators, delivered an
eloquent address On America" Here
it is in full:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: -- -Four
centuries haYe passed since the proWs
Of the Spanish CaraYels were kissed by
the Waves of the Western Seas.
We are midway OF a continent whose
mountains veined with the wealth for
which men strive and did, whose waters
Durdened with uncounted vessels, whose
cities linked in the golden chain OF com
merce, alike attest that these States
crystailized into this Nation, constitute
America, the guardian giant OF the
Western World.
This land is the haven Of hope to all
men. The German leaving bshlnd mis-
''exulting and abounding river,'' finds a
grander Rhine in the Hudson, the Ohio
and Mississippi.
The Scandinavian, lord Of his hearth
stone, as he looks at his fields, longs nc
more for the fords. the mountains and
| the dark liz forests OF his native North
| land.
| The son Of Erin turning sadly from
that Isle. where the turf is tinted like
an Emerald; where lone half the sol
has walked the rest as poets, patriots
martyrs, sages," and in whose bosom
rests the ashes Of Emmett, whose spiri,
still hovers there waiting for his epltapf
to be written, il cousoled by tht
thought that he is citizen OF the lane
to whose starry flag St. Georges cros
has twice in war been bowed.
This wondrous blending Of the fire O.
the Celt, the steadfastness OF th'
NJ orthman, tha endurance Of the Teutot
gives nerve and blood to mind and mus
Gle; it is joining Norman fire to Saxor
flame; it is the welding OF trlpit
chain of three fold might. and we have
a people, the most capable Of earth
whose achievements in developing tht
material resources of this continent
make state the deeds Of all the age!
past.
It is needless to catalogue Wha
America is; it to conquer distance anc
obliterate time; if to grow enormous il
dimensions and gigantic in strength; /
to pile up wealth beyond the wish o1
Midas, make true National greatness
then is America indeed great
But with all these causes for self.con
graduation may We not pause and ask
Have we not lost sight Of the prime
purpose for which this government wat
founded?
Is there not considerable clay mingl.
ed alike with the gold. the silver, the
brass and the iron of this glorious
image?
Celebrating the memory Of a Saint
who spurned the allurements of wealth
and tasclnations of power, to minister
to the needs OF humanity it is fitting
that we recogniz, higher standard OF
worth and grander goal of destiny thar
mere material advancement.
The hope of the ages. the aspirations
of humanity to day rests on America.
The MAGNIFICENT visions, the splendid
ideals of the political dreamers of the
past find their fuIfillment in the start
ling development of this Nation whose
government ''broad based upon the peo
ple's will' has intensified the energie'
of man until the year of the Now il
equal to the Cycle OF the past.