The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-06
In EMMET'S MEMORY
WOLF TONE CLUB CELEBRATES
I21ST ANNIVERS4R YOF HIS BIRTH.
Address by Hon. Victor Bowling of New
York City-Members of Sarsfields and
Food Guards Occupy Boxes-TabIeaux,
liant Programme.


RecitatiOns and Songs Make n Brill
liant Programme.
One of the most brilliant affairs eve
given by the Wolf Tone club of this cit,
in honor of Robert Emmett was the Gel
ebration of the one hundred and TWEEN
Grand opera house last evening. TIT
house was packed, and with the big au
dience and decorations of bunting an6
American and Irish flags presented {
brilliant appearance.
The boxes were given up to those TAX
ing part in the entertainment and the
invited guests of the club, among them
being detachment from the Governor
Foot Guards, including Colonel John G.
Healy, Captain Morse and Sergeants
Doherty, Somers, Twining and Hendee
and another from the Sarsfields, in
charge of Sergeants Maher and Spen-
Ger, while the Hon. Victor j. Bowling,
the speaker of the evening, sat in an
other with a number of the prominent
priests of the city. The whole affair
was splendidly managed by an arrange
ment committee, under the chairman
ship and management of Richard j.
Maher and r. w. Foley, composed of
William F. Dwyer, John G. MCGOWAN,
John j. Brennan, George Stanford, Col
onel John G.. Healy and Michael B. Nc
Grail. The programme as rendered was
printed in full last week.
The principal event of the evening
was the Grafton by Hon. Victor J. Dow
| ling Of New York city, who was intro
duced by Chairman Foley and who
spoke in part as follows:
1t has been said that that country is
happist which has no history. Expert
ence teaches that every nation is held
to strict accountability for it's deeds,
and that violations of the moral code
and Of natures laws must be atoned for
by nations and peoples as well as by
individuals. The parable of the talents
is of general as we'll as of personal APP
pication, and that country, which, with
the greatest opportunity for doing good,
accomplishes the least in the develop
ment of Gods plan must speedily pay
the debt of nature in political death.
Search well the sources of history and
you will find that with all the worlds
great powers decay began when do
minion was most absolute and its ten
ure apparently most secure Offenses
against common justice, public virtue
and the moral sense caused the disaster
to which the very security guaranteed
by power so largely contributed. These
are all due to the temporary intoXca-
ton produced by unlimited opportuni-
ties either for good or evil, and the ina
bility to resist the temptation towards
the broad path, forgetting that justice
Is the end of all government.
That nation is the happest which,
with strength sufficient to defend it's
frontiers and watch over its citizens
when abroad, devotes itself to encour-
aging the industry of its people, to
ameliorating their condition and to
identifying their native land so thor
oughly with happiness and justice that
its wandering sons. no matter how far
their steps may lead them, will hasten
home to lay their bones in it's beloved
soil For neither wealth, nor power,
nor conquest, are the best fruits of gov
eminent but contentment, tranquility,
industry. When country passes be-
yond these aims, increased power may
be gained, but at the cost of increased
responsibilities and of increased desire
to shirk them. It creates governing
classes whose greed for gain is only
equalled by their thirst for luxury and
who speedily seek to crush out every
semblance of a right which may inter-
fere with their comfort or sway
AS the chain can never be stronger
than It's weakest link, so the wise states
man seeks in every government, repre-
or autocratic, to fuse the va
ried elements in community into one
mass, for every unassim-
Hated element is constant source Of |
danger and finder ready for the flame. /
And if he finds one intractable factor
he will welcome it's withdrawal from |
the body.
OF all countries on the globe, claiming
to be civilized, England has most dis
regarded this salutary doctrine. She |
to-day is seeking, as she has for CEN
turtles, to hold by main strength what
ever comes into her net. With social
structure tottering on its very founda-
tons at home, and open attacks on her
political system, only prevented by re-
spect for the temporary incumbent Of
the throne, she is relentless in her dis
position to punish every effort of col
my or unsubdued people to assert their
With bulldog tenacity
she holds fast to what she has, and
even when she realizes that 1t will tax
Ter resources to keep it looks around
or more to seize. From her insular
ISOLATION she has gradually been trans
ormed into world-power. Calculat-
ng, selfish, knowing no law save that
If the heaviest hand, she has appalled,
by her relentless warfare to
preserve and extend her possessions.
And yet, once gained, she has never
sought to assimilate them to herself.
Her colonies have simply been con-
tuered enemy whose spols were to be
pplied to the profit of the governing
lasses, while the cost of their subjec-
ion has been charged against the toll
ng masses whose burdens are already
90 severe. There is not to-day a sin
lie English colony which glories in her
ule, or which In time of internal strife
r foreign war could be counted as
5hole -souled ally.
And yet what is there strange in this
ecord, bearing in mind her dealings {
18th Ireland? Here is a people whose
aren't blood to-day flows in most of !
he races of Europe and whose nation