Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-17

The procession moved west on DAILY
street, counter-marched on Daily to Main,
moved south on Main to Granite, east on
Granite to Wyoming, south on Wyoming
20 Park, and west on Park to the paroch-
ial school, where the first halt was made.
Inc procession was probably at it's best
Gu Park street, where it attracted much
favorable comment. The Boston & Mon
al band leading, played "Wearing of
the Green and to the inspiring music of
this characteristic air the sons Of Erin
marched proudly. The military bearing
OF the NleaSher Guards and Of the St.
Patrlck school cadets ELECTED m~uchpraise,
and the appearance of the Catholic
knlghts and various divisions of the An
Gent Order of Hibernians and other So
cietles participating was pleasing to the
military eye.
When the procession halted in front of
the Parochial school, the various organ
lzations formed in company front. facing
tne building, the cadets being accorded
the post of honor. The harp-emblazoned
nag OF Erin and the stars and strip9s
were brought to the front and center of
the column and were saluted simultane-
ously by the military organizations. The
Boston and Montana and opened the
school exercises by rendering Marching
through Georgia." while a special choir
OF students of the school suns "Colum-
pa, Killarney and God Save Ire
land,' in a manner that merited the ap-
plause bestowed. Then a procession of
girl students moved out from the institu-
ton and took a position on the stems.
Miss Ida Beffery representing the God.
dess of Liberty n Miss Mary Caffey
the Maid of Erin,'' both being appro-
priate1y costumed. They were followed
by 4S of the smaller pupils, girls and bows,
representing the various states and terri
tories. After another selection by one
If tho no rdC fho 4Io;n --x- f11
White and Blue" This was followed by
the principal feature of the exercises, the
Grafton, delivered by Lieutenant Edgar
Andrieux, a boy student of the school.
and whose address vas one teeming with
patriotic Irish sentiment, and was deliy-
cred in a manner that would have done
credit to one Of twice the speakers wears.
His voice was strong, but pleasing, and
his utterances We're heard distinctly by
everybody in his vicinity.
he sald, in effect, that while the Irish
heart in foreign lands, always learned
for the mother country, the Irishman was
always loyal to the land of his adoption,
ana While his thoughts frequently went
TO the green isle of Erin he was never a
traitor to the land and the flag which
gave him protection. Turning his atten-
ton to st. Patrick he said the patron
saint of Ireland was a hero from his boy
1000 to the grave. He dwelt upon the
6lOilouS dcHleVementS or st. Patrick, of
his work that would live forever, of how
the only weapon that he was possessed of
when he landed in Ireland was his mas
terly intellect, an intellect the results Of
which would live through all the coming
ages. He did bate for the souls of men.
and without shedding a drop of blood
rang the death knell of paganism in Ire
land, and planted firmly the cross of
Christ. The speaker compared the recep-
ton of st. Patrick in Ireland with the
manner in which other early teachers of
the faith were received in other lands,
and said the roots of the oaks of Germany
We're bathed in the blood of the pioneer
adherents of the church, n the first
teachers of the faith to visit England
were put to death, while st. Patrick was
received with open arms by the people of
Ireland.
AS a great scholar, he said st. Patrick
was one of the great factors of the up
building of Irish intellectually, and the
advancement of Irish culture, and the re-
suits Were SO widespread that when the
of Rome was ~decaying and
the Roman nation crumbling the Irish
We're a cultured people.
Where true Irish hearts beat, said he,
there you will find love of country and
men VINO will die in it's defense. Wash.
once said he had no soldiers who
followed the flag so faithfully, from Lex
to Yorktown, as did the Irish
volunteers. Irish blood, he said, would
flow for freedom, Irish tongues
and oppression, and Irish arms would