The Irish standard., 1900-01-20

Thinks OF the time when, by the Gauges
flood,
Her little playnates scattered many
bud
Upon her long black hair, with glossy
CLEAN,
Just dripping from the consecrated
stream;
While the young Arab, haunted by the
smell
OF her own mountain flowers, as by
spell
The sweet Elcaya, and that courteous
tree
Which bows to all who seek its canopy,
Sees, called up around by those magic
scents
The we'll, the camcls, and her fathers
tents
Signs for the home she left with little
pain,
And wishes cen its sorrows back
again
at is the American who has no heart
who has no thought beyond putting
dollar out at mighty interest-who has
no zest for any other book than his
easy accountant or his soulless ledger.
who hates the Irish for their generous
qualities, their infallible religion, and
their inveterate democracy-the Amer
lean who, as Sidney Smith said, has the
Ten Commandments written on his
face, and looks so virtuous that he
might commit any crime and no one
believe in the possibility OF his guilt
(Roars OF laughter.) 1t is he alone who
regards with cod-liver eye, nutmeg
nose, Maine liquor law howl, and
Cromwellian depreciation, the love of
Ireland which the Irshman brings with
him to America, which he cherishes
here in every vicissitude OF his laborious
life, and with which, whether he be in
rags or in purple and fine linen, whether
he is digging for gold like a drudge in
Montana, or spending it like an Irish
prince in New York, he celebrates ST.
Patrick's day. loud and long con-
tinued cheering)
George Washington did not think it
incompatible with his Americanism to
become member of the Friendly Sons
OF ST. Patrick OF Philadelphia, and
drown the shamrock with that convivial
brotherhood, and do it honestly like
noble V,rginian as he was. loud
cheering.)
"Henry Clay did not think it incom-
patiblc with his Americanism to wet
his clay with the Irishmen OF Kentucky,
when he sat down with them in Louis
willie on such another anniversary as we
row celebrate, and fervently wished
that his stalwart state had been blessed
with such a snakeexterminator as Ire
land, through centuries of reptilian eN-
purgation, has proved incontestibly Our
benefcient apostle to have BEEN loud
laughter and great cheering.)
Let the marowless bigot, then, carp
and deprecate-let the hungry Puritan
with his nasal music importune the
God OF blue laws to save the Yankee
nation from the witchcraft OF St. Pat
rick's daughters and deviltry OF ST. Pat
rick's sons. Loud laughter) st. Pat
rick's daughters and ST. Patrick's sons,
like the faithful Kent, will pursue their
old course in country new loud
cfeering.)
Grateful and devoted to his country,
in which, as Thomas Davis finely
sung
There are lands where manly toll
Surely reaps the crop it sows-
Glorious woods and teeming soil
Where the broad Missouri flows.
(Cheers.)
"Where Charles Phillips grandly said,
the oppressed OF all countries, the
martyrs OF every creed. find refuge,
their industry encouraged, their picty
respected, their ambition animated.
with no restraint but those laws which
are the same to all, and no distinctions
save those which merit may originate. ,
| (Cheers.) Grateful and devoted to this
country in which the fortunes OF their
race have in countless instances, been
resplendently redeemed-in which so
many OF them have risen to the highest
stations and been greeted with the ap-
plause of the nation-in which the name
of Montgomery is Immortality identified
wit hthe military enterprises-that OF
Fulton with the scientific. and that Of
Emmett with the forensic glorics of the
republic cloud cheers)-grateful and de-
voted to this great country, the Irish
people in America will not, and can not,
forget the land of their birth, their SUI
fering. their dearest memories and
proudest hopes. loud cheering.)
"I'm bidding you long farewell,
My Mary-kind and true!
But I'll not forget you, darling!
In the land I'm going to;
They say there's bread and work for all,
And the sun shines always there
But I'll not forget old Ireland
Were it fifty times as fair
Enthusiastic applause.)
but whilst they will not. and can not