Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-03-19
HAIL, ST. PATRICK.
Concert and Lecture at
LothrOp's Opera House.
GEN. BRENNAN'S GRAFTON.
Many People Observe the Anniversary
Of Erin's Patron Saint.

was faithfully observed In this city.
Lothrop's Opera House was packed with
| people last night, the occasion beiug an
oration by Gen. John M. Brennan OF
Providence and an entertainment of In
strumental and vocal selections. The fol-
lowing programme is sufficient evidence
that every number was heartily and en-
Enthusiastically encored:
PART FIRST
| Opening Chorus-"Let Erin Remember.
Moore
| Solo-"The Bard's Legacy. Moore
Mr.. Robert J, Casey.
| Piano Solo-"Echoes from Erin"....... Pope
Miss Clara X. Osfield.
| Solo-"Killarney,". .............,.......Mo Moore
Miss NJ. Mcnamara.
| Trio-"Meeting OF the Waters. Moore
Messrs. c. Appleton, w. +. Butler and X.
j. Casey.
| Solo-"Waiting". ..............G .Millard
Miss Mamie Demers.
Reading. ."The Sunburst Flag of Ireland"
Miss Lottie Largan.
| Solo-"St. Patrick's Day Song. Murphy
Mr.. William Butler
Lecture. ..............."The Irish Abroad"
Gen. John NJ. Brennan.
PART SECOND.
| Quartette-"Love's Young Dream. Moore
Misses Annie and Mamie McGinn, Messrs.
CD. Farnsworth ana X. j. Casey.
| Solo-"Fear not ye, o Israeli. -. Dudley Buck
william f. Rogers.
Reading. Incident of '9S. -
Miss Lottie Largan.
Solo-"An Exile from Erin. Moore
Miss Mamie Demers.
Solo-"The Wearing of the Green. "......-
Mr.. q. j. Farnsworth.
Closing Chorus. .."Hail, Glorious Apostle
Mr.. Quinn introduced Hon. Hugh j.
Carroll as chairman of the evening and
he made a telling speech as follows:
We haye gathered tonight to celebrate
the Irish national holiday. st. Patrick
Is not only the religious but the nation
al patron OF Ireland. We also celebrate
Emmet's day because of the fact that
Emmett represents the one idea which all
true lrishmen and their descendants keep
foremost in their minds-the indepen-
dence OF Ireland.
IL st. Patrick and Robert Emmett were
both alive today the world would see the
spectacle OF the Irish Catholic saint and
the Irish Protestant martyr working to-
gether. The best leaders OF Ireland have
been Catholics and Protestants who have
worked hand and hand for their nation
hood. Irish nationalists will not quarrel
on religious questions.
IL looked a short time ago as II
there was war of factions. Hot
blood was famed by interested parties in
60 flame. As one of the leaders, advo-
Gated modification which has been bred
in me from wide experience In Irish af-
fairs. feel that time has healed many
sores and that We must all again unite for
the cause Of motberland. The watch.
IL l. IL
scendants of Irishmen and women Is:
Get together" The time has arrived.
Let the sons OF st. Patrick and Robert
Emmett unite for the one object whic we
all have in view-Irish unity.
He made fitting introduction OF Gen.
Brennan and the latter spoke eloquently
as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Whether at home or In exile, in poverty
or In plenty, no matter in what country
or In what CLINE, his Irish heart beats
warmly for Ireland's patron saint. In every
Irish home tonight the father gathers
around him his children to tell them the
glorious deeds of q race unconquered and
unconquerable. To tell them Of a man
who quenched the fires of pagan sacri.
fee end Lit the flame OF Christian faith,
never to be extinguished until the con
summation Of the world. Never did a
people receive richer inheritance; never
was an inheritance Imore gratefully re-
ceived or more Loyalty or proudly kept.
Unselfshly IL has sent its ministers into
every quarter OF the globe, armed only
with the beads In one hand and shamrock
IN the other. The little blade OF grass
making clear the doctrine OF the Holy
Trinity has brought comfort and conso-
latioD to the exile; has cheered the irish
soldier from FoDtenoy to Appomattox.
Yet, singular as 1t is, and however
strange 1t may appear, the Irish people
for fifteen centuries have been pursued by
their enemies with a relentlessness that
knows no ccasing, and at times with a
wantonness that knows no pity. Their
enemies have even followed them down to
this enlightened 10Th century, and even
now at the threshold of the twentieth, IN
happy, proud America, demand the reason
OF their being here. Its enemies fight in
darkness and propounded the question
only through an oath bound and cowardly
society composed OF still more cowardly
towards.
No true American, familiar with the
history of his country, ever asked II and
apologize. They shed their blood upon
every battlefield, from Lexington to APP
pomattox, In order that the government
might live; that the Republic might still
be the home OF the emigrant and the asy-
lum of the exile. The ancestors Of their
enemies in America were on the other
side; cowardly enough to escape the bay
onet there, they cannot escape the scorn
and contempt of an enlightened and
progressive people. 1t is amusing, but
perhaps not an instructive study, the rise
and fall Of what is called and known AS
"knownothipgism" In America. I speak
of II only because within its folds can be
found the enemies of the Irish. IL por-
tends fight against the Catholic Church,
but It's real antsgonism is against the
Irish as people.
II is enough to say for the church that
IL has successfully withstood the assaults OF
all its enemies for 10 centuries and will
until the end OF time. II has confronted
the sword with the cross, and the battle
has been won. Knownothingism will
never find the church I'm better condition.