The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-18

fight nation which held with them
common faith. There were some who
had yet to learn the true sublimty of
Irish character and how high they hold
the ideal of duty.
Read the roll of those who We're with
Dewey at Manila bay, who went with
HobsOn on that night of danger UP I'M
der the grim walls of old MORO, who
fell in front of the firing line at San
Juan and Ell Caney or who but yester-
day fell in the far off Philippines and
dying waved a soldiers farewell to the
flag of the free-read the record as it
stands, | say, and in the answer that 1T
gives let the tongue of the slandered be
silenced and the bigot be stricken
dumb
The speaker then sketchpd briefly the
aims and objects of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians He said it was the pre-
vailing impression among those who
contemplated joining a fraternal order
of this kind that the greatest benefit
that would acrue to them from their
membership would come when they
were away from home among strang-
erS.
He reminded his hearers that the mis-
sion of the Ancient Order of Hibernans
was higher and grander than that OF
any fraternal order on the globe and
the place where its members could eX-
pect the greatest benefits to be derived
from their allegiance to the order was
at home.
! 1.-THE greatest good that will ever
| come to you from such an order as
| this" the speaker said. "is not from
| what the order will do for you, but
| what you do while you are enrolled un-
| der its banner. He that said it is bet
| ter to give than to receive sounded the
1-n, l,, 4 oh, tfj nt,,,
! nal sentiment and proclaimed the fun
| damental principle of mans association
| with man beneath the banner of broth
! erhOOd. The members whom you meet
| in the lodge room may not vote for you
| in elections. and your business may not
| thrive because of their support, but
| when the darkness of sorrow mantlcs
your home or when you stand on the
| shores of the dark river and look out
upon its tossing foam and feel its icy
spray upon your brow, then, when
earthly things are floating away on the
tide of time, the record of your life and
| the allegiance of these true and trusted
friends will be the golden key that will
| open the palace of eternity"
History has never marched down this
| valley in the shadow Of these towering
mountains which guard your city's
gateways in their stately pride. YOU
| have no Fanueil hall, no Bunker hllli
no battlefields beloved by the graves
| of heroes, or monuments of massive
| bronze to tell where martyrs fell. These
things are past and gone, but tod ~
we stand beneath "a roof within th'
giant fortress of another and a never
war.
Il see the herald star of the Eas
brighten; ! see the white tents on tn
| battlefieldS of the future. In the nam
of Unity, Friendship and True Chris
tian Charity the marshaling armie
come. From the school houses nois!
with the hum of childish voices; from
and colleges fitting young men and wo
men for the demands of maturer year
and the duties of noble citiz nshiD
from the great libraries filled with tn
productions of enlightened genius
from the churches where the love G
Christ is preached to eager ears; u
from all over this broad land the GO
hOrts of this new crusade are march
ing, by speech and song. by pre"er
and example, to conquer and regenerat
the world.
There is more war, more lighting, bu
it is a battle of thought and deed, an
on the lifted foreheads of the victor
| CLEAN the laurelS Of love and truth.