The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-04-27
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RS GLORIOUS HISTORY.
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III W GOuksgttSft4S1EAyliiS liz VII A4fsiAu Auny
repeat nav as ever what u ohm Boyle.
sO'Reilly Has said iii his own grand way:
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The sc RsaI }ay Il, ge b broken but We
& - edf thorns, not bays as5 :. {.
And the songs we sing are saddened by
A Ail the songs we sing are .saadsned by the
stiying 9a taaEsad e yssI Rxoples sn'
- wiling hands st to ii 1''>'tts -
Strong ns t.,res turn to the harvest song.
and bound to the kind ely SOIL
Bold pioneers for the wilderness, defenders
The sons. Of a race OF soldiers who never.
Young hearts with duty brimming-as faith
Their truth to me tffeir witness they can
not be false to you
: Did oportunity present itself 1t would
be found that the grand old Celtic blood
courses as warmly and as freely in our
veins today as ever it did in those of our
fathers. The existence Of this spirit is
made manifest in the fact that there are
today up to 400 companies of the Hiber-
MAN Knights and Rifles trained and
equipped in all the exercise and require
ments that go to make up the citizen SOL
der lneir number is rapidly increas-
ing and we trust the day is not far dis
tant when every division of the A. O. H.
Of America will he able to muster cred
liable company or drill corps from
amongst their young and active mem
bers.
The spirit of mutual support and en-
couragement is another of the features Of
this organization that deserves special
attention and prevails to an extent
unknown by those unacquainted with
the order and its members. It is a ned
full and essential factor in the success and
welfare Of any society, and to it in a
large measure is due the wonderful
growth and development Of the A. @. H.
in the past. 1t is the motive on which
depends our continued prosperity and
growth, and all the faithful members can
best advance the interest of our cause by
endeavoring whenever opportunity pre-
sents itself, to practice this principle Of
brotherly love and be unto each other
brothers in fact as we'll as in name.
For the advancement and in the cause
of Our Holy Mother Church this society
nobly done their part; and true to the
traditions of our order the "Soggarth
ArgOon" can always command our moral
and financial support in the furtherance
of his holy mission. He always holds q
warm corner in our hearts and we are
proud of the fact that we have hundreds
of good priests active and interested
workers in the ranks of Hibernianism.
Even bishops have held the office Of
county delegate and at the present time
the Rev. F. P. berwick holds the office
of state secretary of the order in Mime
sofa.
The connection between the society in
this country and In the old land is now
as always, warm and sincere; and while
exercising in the fullest degree the free
dom of separate and Independent organ
izations, the bond Of brotherhood is
thereby the more firmly secured and
unity holds by its golden links in one
grand body the entire membership of
the A. O. Hin the New World and in the
Old. -.s
It is in this way that it so completely
satisfies that indescribable longing with
in the Irish heart that entwines the
wreath OF Ireland's shamrocks amongst
the stars and stripes of our own beloved
banner. While exercising and asserting
our rights as citizens Of this free land
in the fight for whose freedom and in the
development Of whose prosperity we
have never played the laggard's part
never can it with truth be said, that in
the prosperity of the new land we have
forgotten the old.
No! perish the thought! The fire of
our patriotism and love for old Ireland
burns as brightly today as when with
heavy hearts our fathers babe adieu to
her emerald shores. In all her strug-
giles for liberty, in all efforts for self
government this society and its members
have ever been ready to- furnish the sin
ews of war" and by their moral support
and financial assistance have rendered
across the sea in their undying fight for
the God-given blessing of liberty and
self-government.
IT there be any of our fellow citizens
who question our right to aid our friends
in Ireland in their struggles against the
despotism to the overthrow Of which
America owes her freedom prosperity
and progress, we say to them in the
words of the adopted son Of Washington:
Americans, recall to your minds the
of! that heroic time when Irish
men were our friends and when in all
the world we had not friend beside;"
or, as the poet gracefully expresses it
lit is well, aye well, old Erin! the sons
yo1! give to me
Are symbolled long in flag and song--your
s,1nburst on the sea
All mine by the chrisn1 Of Freedom, still
yours by their loves belief,
And the truest to me shall the tenderest he
in a suffering mothers grief
"A PERILoUs ADVENTURE.
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out by the Northern Pacific Railroad in