The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-19
MAY GOD SAVE IRELAND
JUDGE KELLY,S ADDRESS ON
"SOMN THOUGHTS FOR ST.
PATRTCK,S DAY.
WAS BUILDER OF A NATION
Some Irishmen Who Have Sold
Their Manhood for Mar
shaI's RntOn and Others
More CheRpIy

A large audience gathered at st. James
church, corner of Juno and View streets
last evening and listened to a very in
teresting programme. Mr.. Leo Drummer
rendered some very fine piano solos, Miss
Louise Taylor several violin selections
Messrs. French and Jackson sang a
duet. and Judge William Louis Kelly de-
livered an able address entitled ''Some
Thoughts for st. Patricks Day" The ad-
dress In part is as follows:
st. Patrick'S day, which we celebrate
is glorious festival of religion, and as
the years have gone by 1t has by COM
mon consent been made consecrate to
the undying aspiration Of st. Patrick's
children-the Irish race-for political
freedom. St Patrick is a colossal figure
IN history He is known chiefly as the
Apostle of Ireland, but he was really a
nation builder, as well as a church man.
The fifth century, In which he flourish
ed, required as leaders the highest type
mentally morally. physically. Ills CHIEF
aim. OF course, was the salvation of
souls, and these he won to Christ as none
other of any age. Since the latter part
Of the twelfth century, when Strongbow
planted first the English flag on Irish
SOUL that flag has never once been ac-
knowledged by the Irish people as rep
resenting in any sense their nation. To
them 1t Is now and ever was the flag of
the Sasenach. The emblem of the stran-
ger, the badge Of Irish servitude, the
symbol and the cause of Ireland's mis-
cry
True. at times, under varying condi-
tions, Irish soldiers in EngIand's service
have died for her; more the pity. Some
Of them have sold their manhood for her
marshais baton. and some have been
bought more cheaply; but never in all
these 700 years has the great part of
the real Irish nation warmed to Eng
land flag as the symbol Of Irish ma
tlonality On the contrary beneath the
accursed shadow Of that red-crossed ban>
ner the spirit of the Irish people, like
the shamrock without sun and water,
has withered and dropped, but, thank
God, 1T has never died. (Applause)
IF the demands of the Irish people
were not grounded in justice the strug-
gle for them could not have lasted all
these years. And the unansWerab BILE
problem is, that the English people ON
their part have been content that il
should keep up, especially in view of
the enormous expenditure of blood and
treasure 1t has cost them, and how easily
1t might have been settled. In the leXI-
con of the republic there is no such word
as federation" federation implies IA
vor. Men have rights, God given and in
alienable. They should ask no faVors
"These are the kind of men who In the
past proved their manhood and loyalty,
not by lip love, which is cheap, but by
sacrifice. which costs something We
justly can boast Of some Of them. They
are like that Irish regiment at Antietam,
1 believe, while holding: a position, the
key to the battle. In reply to an or
der from a general officer to hold that
post at all hazards, the colonel said:
Tell the general this regiment will not
leave this spot until every man is killed.
That sounds quite racy Of the old sod,
but Drawer speech was never made on
a battle field.
while opportunity and circumstances
have much to do with mems lives yet
we gather, as a rule, what we sow. You
cannot expect figs from thistles, or grapes
from thorns. And in after years when
you may see the full fruition of all our
hopes and the old land get back her
own, you will feel that each has con-
tributed to that result who has uttered
the prayer that went UP to God from
the Manchester scaffold, God save Ire
land" not in idle breath. but in splendid
citizenship and manly life"