The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-14
JOHN F. FINERTY.
The Famous War Correspondent
Delivers a Magnificent Address
at the Worlds Fair
ON lRELAND's DAY, SEPT. go,
"The I1ishma,1 in Lands Other Than
His Ow1.,' is His Inspiring
=. Theme.

His Ow1., is His Inspiring
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The following is a verbatim report o
the eloquent address of John r. Finert!
on Irish Day at the Worlds Fair:
Is it necessary to say to this great au
diepcs why the Irishman is a dwelle,
within s+~oo~.e gates in every cline:
With tbe advance Of civilization, tht
voice OF the innocent has been heard Il
accusation of the guilty, and the naughty
stride of tIazen oppression has been
checked. The stubborn democracy g!
Britain have been conquered by tbs
moral might Of an unarmed people
strong in their sehse OF right and Justice
and the British peerage, almost alone
presents the shameful spectacle of per
petuating the brutal despotism OF the
dark ages during the closing decade OF
the Nineteenth century. Their policy
pursued with marvellous ;nalignity, from,
1859 to 1888, has made the lriehman,
whether as soldier, statesman, mer.
chant, Or toiler. familiar ia every land
end on every sea. Of this ''all Europe
could the proof Afford in the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries, and the
two Americas in the nineteenth. Nor
have nlen OF the race been meaniy rsp-
resented in other quarters of the planet
1t vas not until the spirit OF religious
raneor allied Itself with that of racial
hostility abo1ls the Elizabethen period of
the Reformation, that tho Irishman be-
gan. 70 make his mark, outside his own
island in the modern history of the
w3rld. AS an evangelizer he was known
TO ancisnt Europe, and the traces of his
footsteps are still deep in the soil of
France AID Germany, Of Italy and
Belgium But the modern Irishman, in
the first days Of his exodus, carried the
cross upon his swort.. 1t would be- i'm
possible to follow his heroic footprints
through all the :yindinga of mis- martial
career, but may be pardoned for calling
in evidence the statements OF eminent
persons, not OF his blood, who have borne
testimony TO his deeds Of daring and de"
votiop.
Sir Walter Scott, in his fascinating
Legend st Montrose," makes Captain
Dalgetty, that typical soldier OF fortune,
say of our warrior countrymen: II ones
saw brigade of Irish, at the taking of
Srankfort-upoa-the- Oder, stand to it
with sword and pike until they beat off
the Blue and Yellow Swedish brigades,
esteemed as stout es any that fought un-
der the immortal Gustayus And al-
't'hcIgh stout Hepburn, valiant Lums
dale, courageous Monroe, with myself
and otEer cavaliers, made entry else
where at point .ot pike, yet, had we all
met with such opposition, we had re-
turned with great loss and little profit.
Wherefore, these valiant Irishes, being
ALI put to the sword, as is usual in such
cases. did, nevertheless, gain immortal
praise and honor; SO that, for their sakes,
I have always loved and honored those
of that nation next to my own country
mon OF Scotland''
The Irish military exodus which fol-
lowed the surrender Of Limerick, in
1851, gave to all the werlike states of
Europe the keen sword and dauntless
hearts Of the flower of Irish chivalry.
No picture of the awful day at Neerwin.
den would be complete lacking the fig
ure OF Sarsfield, the exiled Earl Of Lucan.
charging home the scarlet ranks of Eng
land at the head OF the Irish Foot Guards
and French Household to the thunder
ing cry OF Remember Limerick
before which King Williams flag went
down; Ssrsfeld fell in the moment of
victory, pierced by mortal wound, but,
even in that moment Of glori, agony,
while the world was fading from his
sight and eternity opening to his vision,
he thought Of the far off island for
which he had so nobly fought, and hold
ing his life blood in his hand, exclaimed, !,
."Oh, that this we're shed for Irelandl'' 8
The warlike family Of Lacy alone gave
three 1narshals to the European armies
the conqueror of the Crimea, who won
the highest military reward given BY the
Gear; Marshal Count Lacy Of Austria, so
highly distingu guished J in nearly all the
battles Of the Seven Years War, and
Francis Anthony, Count Lacy. who died
captain general Of the Spanish Army Of
Catalonia. 81
JYlhlsn the cannon of the great Freder-
lex thund dered around historic rague,
s1in ltes most devoted dafender was was
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