The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-03-19
KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK
Continued from First Page.)

You will have a keener conception of
the vastness, the Importance and signi-
ficance of our commonwealth of sover-
eign states.
You will more fully understand the
dignity and the grandeur of American
citizenship.
You will more loyalty appreciate the
privileges and the powers of the Ameri-
can citizen.
Absence makes the heart grow fond
er, fonder of our country's veal.
For year and a half and more 1
have dwelled with the sturdy, thrifty
and liberty-loving Hollanderst Their
country and the character Of its people
were pithily and eloquently described,
centuries ago, by William the Silent
in the fiery threat he hurled in the face
of the invading Spaniard, 1--WE will
break down our dykes and give Hol-
land back to the ocean, rather than
| surrender our liberties"
The descendants boast the spirit of
the ancestors. These brainy. brawny
people have always been the friends of
the United tSates.
| They love us because the Dutch
blood is part Of the marvellous assimi-
lation Of bloods which contributes to
the ruggedness, the hardness and the
healthfulness OF our population.
| They love us, too. because they see
prospecting here the principles for the
maintenance of which the Netherlands
We're saturated in the blood of the
brave. The tree of civil and religious
liberty fiourishes here with abundant
foliage and choicest fruits. God grant
that this happy condition may con-
tinue. In this land of intelligence and
goodly feeling bigotry cannot usurp
reason. Prejudice cannot destroy the
common sense of the American people.
In times of national trouble and ma
tional affiiction, in times Of sorrow and
Of sadness, in times Of darkness and
doubt, when the United States was
obliged to seek foreign sympathy and
foreign favor Holland always proved
| herself responsive.
The first foreign funds loan to the
newly constructed republic came from
| the Holland traders.
Holland was the first foreign nation
to salute the American flag. Old
Glory's first foreign salute came from
the mouth of a Dutch cannon. Richly
do the Dutch deserve the handsome
tribute paid of Benjamin Franklin,
I'm love of liberty and bravery in its
defense, they have been our greatest
example"
My first weeks abroad were weeks of
gloom and weeks of sadness. I was
stranger in a strange land. The people
were strange, and the customs were
strange the language was strange. 1
yearned for the land and the friends
from which the ocean divided me.
One day in this mood of temper,
shortly after my arrival in Amsterdam,
I approac hed my Office. bright and
CHEEKY vision dawned upon me. The
sight that met my gaze l. shall never
forget II was the queens birthday. In
honol cI the event from the consuls
flag staff Old Glory proudly fioated.
My countrys flag was there. The effect
was electric. My exile's soul was filled
with joy, my heart beat fast with glee.
Distance seemed annihilated, exile end
ed. I felt myself back again in my ma
tive land with the friends OF lifetime's
making.
Our flag is beautiful at home. Abroad |
it is endowed with transcendent splen-
dor. The red seems more brilliant, the
WHITE anu LIlG DluG lONGll6IJ Tie
stars brighter 1t floats boldly and in
spiringly in the foreign wind. 1t waves
defantly in the foreign breezes. 1t be- |
speaks to the. traveller not only the
guarantee of protection but also the |
power to protect. 1t proclaims the his |
tory of 7O,0000OO peoples, working out
their common destiny for the betterment |
of humanity, for the weel of mankind.
Sweet land of liberty to thee I speak |
Loved flag starry ensign of freedom, |
tits thee 1 praise! Dear country, dear |
est flag, God bless you both.
Mayor A. C. Hedrick then responded |
to the toast "The City of New Haven" |
and was followed with some interesting |
remarks by Father Lilly, o. p, of st. |
Mary's church. Colonel N. G. Osborn /
then responded to the toast "The Press"
and Attorney Harry w. Asher next |
made a most excellent address on Era
ternal Greetings" The toast "The La
dies" responded to by DIR. M. c. O'Con- |
nor, closed the regular toast life of the |
evening" although short speeches We're |
made by others. Mr.. Sheehan and |
others sang several entertaining songs |
during the evening, which were much /
enjoyed by those present.
The following were among those pres
ent: Charles e. Carroll, John W. Sill |
son, John ]. Splain, James Kane of |
Meriden, Edward McGovern, DR.. Louis |
Gaynor, James Kelly, A. w. Flynn,
Patrick Rowley John M. Burke, M. f. |
Sullivan, TT. Campbell, Thomas Rourke, |
Frank Carroll John ]. Kennedy Will |
liam S. Lucen, Thomas j. Lynch, James |
Reynolds, John Cox, Captain Lawrence |
O'Brien, p j. Harrity, William F. Shan |
non, DR.. E. G. Madden, William Hyland, |
Henry G. O'Sullivan, Samuel Colwell, |
James A. Hynes, John J. Brennan, G. T. |
Driscoll, James A. Douglass, Joseph |
Molloy, William Crowley, William
Moran, j. ]. Hogan, F. H. Pagan, d. r.
Walsh, Harry Asher, James j. Kennedy, |
p. ]. Cronan, David Callahan, Cornelius
Stanley, James e. McGann James |
Wrinn, Bernard Heating, Thomas Bren-
nan, James A. McEnerney, Peter Rey-
nOldS DR. Robert J. Barry Charles Har-