The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-17

| not yet unfOlded but wh1cn is DeiieVed
by us all to be the future metropolis OF
Montana and perhaps of the great
Northwest. In this city that is but a
dozen years old. a village that sprung
from the ground in this valley and
now numbers 1000 souls in population
for every year of its existence, we
claim the palm for growth and wealth
over all in the United States. Our
business men know no failure; no
financial panic disturbed their founda-
tions and to-day they face with the
brightest anticipations a future that
gives promise Of surprising the past in
prosperity.
Rev. Father II. B. Allaeys spoke of
"Liberty-Not License" AS his text he
took the Declaration of Independence,
the greatest exponent of liberty the
| world has ever known. 1t declares
that among the inalienable rights of
man are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, such as are dear to the
hearts of all men. In the Irishman
there is always a buoyant spirit of life
and tonight anew is felt the enthusi-
asm of youth for that noble isle, sur
rounded as we are tonight by her elo-
quent and brave sons.
I'm liberty we have duty and duty's
pleasures, the rights of man and the
joys of conscience, restrained only so
far as might conflict with the liberty
license there is freedom but not lib
erty; license allows men to do as they
please without regard to others or the
effects of their deeds upon others. Lii
cense is selfishness. liberty is generos-
ity. Anarchy and crime demand IL
/ cense, for a price, the bigot asks for
license, but the best citizenship. the
truest men ask only liberty, which
/. needs no law. Liberty as defined by
the Declaration of Independence. by the
FATHERS of the republic is that to which
man everywhere is entitled and when
ever these rights are encroached upon
II is the right of that people to take
such steps as will win them"
Sald Col I. O'Leary, who was next
called upon to respond to the toast.
our Citizen From Ireland" GAS 1
understand this toast it means l shall
say something about those men who
have adopted this country or been
adopted by IL and have made Ii their
homes. Some of them aided materially
in making possible United States and
in maintaining the nation afterward
. First we know of Capt Michael O'Brien
and his brothers. who struck one of the
first blows for liberty in capturing the
English sloop of war Princeton in Ma
| chlas bay. The arms and ammunition
they captured there were used by Major
Mclaughlin and General Warren in the
battle of Bunker Hill. There it was that
Warren fell an Irish patriot. Foremost
in citizenship were the Irish militia Off
GERS of North Carolina who, at Meek
lenburg, in June, 1875, framed and
passed the first American declaration of
independence. The Pennsylvania Irish
brigade, under the command of General
Anthony Wayne, won their citizenship
in the battles of the revolution. Cen
eral Steven Moylan and his dragons,
the Montgomerys, the Sullivans, the
1fV.t
great war.
Mann, the swamp fox of South Car
DINA, won his citizenship from the de-
feat of the troops of Tarleton; Morgan
at Cow Pens.
ETHAN Allan, at Ticonderoga, cap
tured his citizenship in the name of the
Great Jehovah and Continental Con-
gress;' at Bennington John Stark won
his citizenship and Molly was not a
widow. Two-thirds of the revolution
airy army were citizens from Ireland
Nine of the signers of the declaration of
independence thus became citizens.
I'm the darkest hour of the revolu-
ton, when Washingtons soldiers were
freezing and starving, when to mount
the guards 1t became necessary to bor-
row shoes through the camps the Irish
merchants at Philadelphia purchased
their citizenship by subscribing $500, 900
to furnish supplies to the army, and
made II possible for Washington to
make his crossing of the Delaware and
his attack and capture of Trenton and
of the Hessan forces. Henry Knox ac-
quired his citizenship by serving as
chief of artillery. The first regiment
of the United States regular army, I'M
der command of Col. John Hand, were
the first to swear allegiance to the
United States as a government, and
thereby became full citizens.
ss(Nnn p1Odnro Tnhn Rarfsu aarnad hic
citizenship as commander of the United
States navy. John Carroll of Mary
land earned his citizenship in securing
the alliance between France and the
struggling colonies. and in sending the
armies and navy of France to aid them
in securing their independence.
"All of these became citizens before
citizenship was valuable, while IL was
even dangerous to be allied with the
weak foe of a mighty and powerful en-
pire.
Perhaps they receive less considera-
ton for this since they were fighting an
ancient enemy; but II made them no
less true American citizens.
After the attainment of the indie
pendence, their services to the republic
being no longer necessary to build up
the country they had helped to make
free. they entered private life and be-
came governors. legislators, Judges.
lawyers, merchants and citizens; but
when the country again demanded their
services, in 1912. some of those who had
fought i'm the revolution, and others,
more recent emigrants, commanded and
served in the United States armies with
equal honor as in the former war.
Stewart, McDonough. Porter and 9TH
ers made glorious records.
Again. in the Mexican war, the new
emgrants served with equal honor.
Again. in the war of the rebellion,
the emigrants from Ireland organized
in brigades and regiments, and of every
company they formed a part, until
nearly one-half of the entire active
force of the Union armies were Irish or
of immediate Irish descent.
They won their citizenship on every
battlefield. To-day In the states of New
York, Massachusetts. Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are preserved
the green flags followed by Irish emf
Grants earning their citizenship. one