The Irish standard., 1894-05-19

OF ennODlng End eleVatlng, such / take
it, are the fundamental ideas on which
your ancient organization is based. il
the past you have been the solid nucleus
on whom the motherland could count TO,
sympathy and help; you have been the
hither- Erin, the Ireland over Sea, where
the dictates of the tyrant did not run
whence the eternal reaction went forth
and where the literary propaganda fol
freedom was carried on with such vehe.
mence and genius that We have won with
the pen and the tongue what our ancestors
battled for in vain with the sword. But
this is only the first step in the rehab.
of that brave island people,
which has SO long withstood the shocks
OF. adversity, just as its girdling granite
walls have breasted for ages the impact
OF old ocean. There is another step now
before us, and it is to give back to the
Celtic race the world of ancient glory, OF
which centuries of contempt and neg.
lect have robbed it, Times change, and
the day has passed when our name was a
byword and scandal in the haunts Of
men. Slowly but grandly and unfailing
ly we have fought our way up the steep
and painful heights of hate and prejudice
end routed FROM their ancient strong
holds all those powers once leagued
against our name and fame. In all this
you have had large share of glory, and
when the annals Of the decline and fall ,f
the cruel British imperialism
Of former days shall have been
written by some Celtic Gibbon of
the future; when We take up again the
Irish annals where the wearied hands Of
the Four Masters dropped the pen, the
name OF tbs Ancient Order of Hihernians
will be emblazoned upon one OF their
brightest pages. What spectacle for
the world Of the power of Celtic endur-
ance, aud the mighty strength that slum-
bers in organized manhood, when it is
hashed across the wires that 100000 men
Of Irish blood have decreed that their
mother tongue shal! live, and live, too, in
their midst wellsprlng to all time of
the holiest and highest suggestions for
mankind. It will be told in the halls OF
Oxford, and on the banks of the Seine,
and among the thoughtful students OF
the German fatherland, to whom We
own an indellble debt of gratitude for
their sheltering care of our dear old
tongue. 1t wlliEbe ecnoed in distant
Italy, and In the Eternal City itself,
that at last the children of the Gael are
arousing themselves from the long night
of slumber and preparing for Lew and
peaceful conquests in all the provinces
of thought wherein once before they
were schoolmasters of the civilized
world. But above all, will this noble
act be, told in every sweet valley and on
every fair hill of holy Ireland, and it will
iinfnae fresh ardor into the brave, hard
battling people, and it will fire them
with fresh respect for themselves and
their cause, and teach them a monu
mental lesson of unity and make them
feel, as few other acts could, that theil
brethren the wide world over are il
deepest sympathy with them, and will
cling, while blood flows and hearts beat
to the spiritual Inheritance of the Cel1
his Christian faith and his love o1
learning, of which so much is imbeddeo
forever in his venerable ancient tongue
Right Rev. Bishop Richard Scannell
of Omaha, then delivered the following
speech in the Celtic language:
A Dhaoine Caisle ma h-Eireann: Bhi
athas NOR crm an la faoi dhelridh an
uair thainig litir, no sgriobhadh, 9
Dochtuir o Cathain, an oeann leighanta
dan chlaiste NOR Washington az rahh
liom 90 raidh sidhse Sean Ord na
h. h-Eireannaigh chum cathaoir Gaephilge
az chuir suas aims an chlaiste sin
Deirim go raidh athas NOR orm Or alta
cionn agus gradh agam air mo theanga
nadurtha fein. Is so an Ghaedhealg al
dteanga dhuthohais-- s--teanga ar n-aiths eac
agus ar maithreac, an teanga do labhai1
Padraio agus Brighid agus Oolumcille
an teanga do labhair Padrsic Sairseal an
aice caithir Luimneach, an teanga dc
labhair Donal O'Oonail tire talamh na
h-Eireann. Lis teange binn, mills, teanga
ma Gaedhilge. Budh breagh agus budh
mhiiis ma sean rannta do chualadar al
n'althreacha fad shinn ann Eirinn
tsSeaghan 0 Duibhir an Ghleanna,' .
sGrainne Mhaol, " "Fainne Geal an Lac =
ssBanchnoic Eireann Ogb, "Druimthionn
DOM Diis," agus leitheid. Lsbhrann
an Breannach agus an Frainceach, agus
an Garamhanach q dteanga fein. Oia an
chuis na labharmidne CLAIM na Gaeidhi]
teanga na Gaoidhil? Ne full neart
agus nnisneach, agus airgiod agaidhse
chum an cathaoir 80 do chuir suas, agus
ar dteanga nadurtha do ooimeud na
beathigh? Ommhnnighidh sidh air
blur n-ainm, Sean Ord M b Eireannaigh
40 f3almhin. aCh Efreannaiph gan faar10a