The San Francisco call., 1896-03-18

citizens OF kindred race and color. English
Statesmanship, SO called, found way to null
MY the provisions of the treaty of Limerick
guaranteeing liberty of conscience, and found
way to turn back the wheels of human prog
ress and liberty; but that cannot be done in
TINS land OF the free hearts hope and home,
Gods own garden land of human liberty.
Here all true men help to develop the higher
ana better standard OF manhood whose abiding
place is to be in this vast western world OF
oursE
In this land liberty OF conscience shall not
be disturbed until some ruthless vandal of the
future shall scale the lofty crown of Month
cello, and with impious hand disturb the sa-
cred ashes OF the dead and erase from its gran
lite block the epitaph OF Thomas Jefferson.
author OF the Declaration OF independence
and OF the statute for religious liberty"
Put lreland's fate in the hands OF the ad-
yanelng democracy OF Great Britain, already
alive 10 the laborS that lie between 1t and Its
ultimate triumph. Ally the Irish cause with
the party of popular rights. OF course this
movement will be opposed by those who dread
the power of the masses. and who fear to en-
trust them with the political power which be-
longs to them. 1t will be opposed by the TITLED
aristocrats who demand as an hereditary en-
and lust at the expense of the toiling millions.
do not fear the ultimate result OF the strug-
gle. The cause of human progress and human
liberty will triumph; the Irish nation will be
emancipated.
AS we stand here tonight, linked in septi-
ment with the living millions OF the Celtic
race, we LOOK WIN reverence upon tDe GdellC
race and the Gaelic faith. Glorious Gaelic
land, too long hast thou been chained to thy
noun tain rock, the bound Prometheus OF the
nations Too long have the vultures OF for
eign hate and religious rancor gnawed upon
thy vitalsi Full we'll hast thou guarded
through the centuries the sacred fire secured
from heaven and spread by thee among thy
fellow peoples of the earth. In the tullness of
time new Hercules has come to thy deliver
ance.
Oh, glorious Gaelic faith ingrsin beyond
the blood into the spirit and the utmost at
tainable reeesses of the Celtic soul, thou hast
preserved the race for the hour OF deliyerance.
And as we, living children OF the race, wait
and watch for that hour of deliverance we
may imagine that out OF their Gaelic heaven
. the ancient heroes look down upon us to-day
with infinite tenderness ana love for the chill
dren of their race in whom neither time nor
men could destroy the national character and
the national piety toward the immortal dead
who puilr up that character stronger than
ribbed steel and stsncher than the bedrock of
the world.
And the countless saints of Ireland and the
scribes and teachers, the high-souled bards
and dauntless chieftains look on. Aye. all the
empurpled legions of our martyrs through
every century, who lived and died for the old
faith and the preservation of its glowing treas
ures, all these stand together in paradise and
view this scene with boundless sympathy.
They recognize now that vast, patient, cosmic
justice of God which makes the very tongue of
the oppressor the broad channel by which the
whole world is iIed with the "ardors and fan
CleS ana Sympdtn1eS nall QlVl0e OF the Op-
pressed Gael and by which his faith, his
strange, mystic, spiritual sense, his high tena-
cious idealism, his deathless chivalry, his dar-
ing, his valor and almost feminine delicacy of
feeling, are borne abroad and mingled with
the best elements OF humankind
D. Manlloyd then sang Moore's minstrel
Boy" accompanied on the piano by Sydney
Hopecraft. Mr.. Manlloyd has silvery,
ringing tenor voice, which displayed its
power and range to great advantas e in the
old song. AS an encore he gave Joseph
Murphy's pathetic ballad, "a Handful of
Earth"
The orchestra rendered an arrangement
of kathleen Mavourneen" with varia-
tions, which was followed by the Last
Rose of Summer" charmingly sung by
Miss Black, who gave in response to cor
dial recall The Four-leaved Shamrock. !"
John McAuliffe followed in Kathleen
Matourneen," with 1.-The Cruiksheen
Lawn" as an encore. Miss Roney next
sang 1.-THE Bells of Shandon," accom-
panied on the piano by Miss Giorgiani,
and to such purpose that nothing less than
THE Star-Spangled Banner" would sat
isfy the audience.
Then came "The Dear Little Sham
rock" sung by Miss Kirby, and a fine
rendering of "Come Back to Erin" as a
quartet, by the Misses Sullivan and Black
and Messrs. Manlloyd and Woods, after
which the programme ended with bril-
liant and ornate fantasia on American and
Irish National airs by the orchestra.