New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-18

| land by Cromwell in the previous century These
IaGIs were established before a commission , ap,
the the & war ~ and the people who we're in rebellion
Great Britain has a rebellion her hands in any
part OF the globe she has difficulty in locating
the irish The first admiral in the American Navy
was Commodore Jack Barry. Irishman- A
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Michael J. Ryan. OF Philadelphia in speaking
| to the toast of THE Day We Celebrate" alluded
to the circumstance that however much his city
might be looked upon as being slow, and
sort of way station between New-Yorl1 and the
Nations capital, it established a Friendly Sons
Of st. Patrick Society a dozen years earlier than
did the metropolis. Proceeding Mr. Ryan said
that the Declaration of Independence in
the handwriting OF Irishman; it first
read and printed by an Irishman; a man Of the
same descent, he asserted published the first
newspaper in America; the father of the Amert-
can Navy Celt. and in similar strain Mr.
Ryan continued to show that the Irish had been
the pioneers in almost everything that is worth
preserving in history and around which were
woven the principles of liberty and freedom
MR. WISE ON EXPANSION.
''Oer County,. was the theme assigned 70 the
next speaker, John s Wise In part he said:
When most Of us here were children our land
stages. II was still a question whether our in
definite Constitution would survive the rival
structions placed upon it by antagonistic sections
and interests. Whether should live and die a.
organization So too it was stiii a problem then
whether ,he incongruous masses of humanity troop
ing across the seas 20 seek American citizenship
would catch the spirit OF our institutions and be-
rival and hostile factions. 1t was also problem,
ana one winch ts not YET wholly settled whether
the free democracy founded by our Revolutionary
sires would thenceforth be content to remain
powerful but isolated asylum for the oppressed of
strength. was destined 10 become the torchbearer
Thev have broadened 1nder the influence of eyanrs
startlingly unforeseen that they seem a mock
cry of the power OF human foresight. In not
anticipated yet filed with battles by sea and land.
and deeds OF personal herOism, marvellous any
@ 6lng recorded IN the me annals OF ancient chvalry airy
comparative insigniticance in international affairs
TO position complicated with every subject of
the nations of the earth
course m or concerning 1 the PoGy present or future
here in spite even of himself increase of uride
Increase of patriotism, increase OF faith in the
which We are proud to claim citizenship.
THE CITY AS MR. KELLER SEES IT.
John w. Keller Commissioner of Charities. in
the course of an address upon Our City said:
LatterIy there has arisen one Of those periodical
York, which are made by men so hysterical in
sight of New-Yors virtue. 1t is charged thar
this is the worst city on the face Of the globe 1t
that New-York to-day is worse than Sodom and
probably charge that the city is all sewer for in
its insatiate greed for nth il sees nothing bur the
through them But ask the bird that lives in
answer vii! be that it a beautiful place in which
it is JOY TO live For every morning, the rising
from its wings and lifts up all its soul IN the song
there is light and flowers and pure air and the
laughter of children al about it.
rat knows nothing of the park, but as between the
knowing Nev-York viii not accept the birds as
the most Just, as well the most righteous? But
hard for a citizen Of New-York believing in his
charge is made as that this is the worst city on
the face Of the globe. and that modern New-YOrk
is equal in vice 10 ancient Sodom and Gomorroh.
Let us look AT II with the calm reasoning Of men
New-York to-day is the greatest city but one in
the world, and it has achieved that greatness in
foreign capital With an ocean before her and
continent behind her it requires no prophetic
first city Of the world, the dominant. regnaut peer
people ever prospered where vice was greater than
virtue The very eIninence of New-York therefore.
is nor Of her greatness That her citizens are
proud We love her for her virtues. rather than
Is she yirtuous: Ask the whose life is pure
park Ask The man whose life is impure either
association of vice and he may give you the an
swer OF the rat OF the sewer There is vice in New
every village in the whole world and there is a
vicious impulse IN every human heart so long as
human Just long will they but
in a where the good in him is greater than
the evil we must approve him for the good and
pity him for the evil.
So with a municipality where the good dominates
the bad. we must give credit for the good and try
eliminate the bad The good far dominates
the bad in the city OF New-York. that every fair
minded son declare that IT is good city
Compare with all the capitals OF the world,
and you will find faunts itself less openly
here. and crime asserts itself less strongly here
than in any other capital of the world
Is our city well governed2 To this question
can only make answer for department OF
the government, and that answer is that whether
II is well governed not. il Is governed 10 the
best OF the ability Of the the head OF 1t,
and as fear investigation OF my Department
and as Will welcome any evidence of corruption
in my department. and as I know that there is NJ
corruption there that have been able find,
believe that the other heads OF the government
are running their department the best of their
ability. II there is misgovernment IN the smallest
particular II should be stamped out. but be not