The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-24

sert That Ireland must and shall b.
free!" Faith In God and it's religion
For ireland as nation and Ireland a.
Catholic nation are one and the same
They were one in the days of her pc
1tlcal independence, one in her exile
one in her hopes, shall ever remain b!
the sufferings that confirmed it and thC
blood that sealed it, one and the same
he then closed with an apOstrophe tt
ireland, beseeching her to retain hel
elevating influence on the materialistiC
world for on the last day when Other
nations appear old and decrepit before
the throne of God, she still young, by
her faith and hope, and dressed in gar
ments of purity will follow the lamt
and sing hosannahs to her eternal
king.
MIR. FANNING'S ADDRESS ON
MUSIC.
Ladies and Gentlemen-Of all the arts
music has the strongest and best effect
on man, because it comes closest to his
nature. 1t does not merely please his
! eye with a combination of beautiful
| colorS, nor his ear with a succession of
| harmonious sounds, nor his reason with
the clear cold beauty of truth, but it
enters into his inmost soul-thrills the
| very tibers Of his heart. 1t suits his
! every mood, his every feeling. In joy
! ~ CJOlCCO Will ullil, III sorrow II COLL
! forts him, in passion it Gains him, in
| love it exalts and ennobles him. in bat
tie 1t strengthens and sustains him
and always improving him, leading him
onward to higher and holier purpose,
driving away discords envy, strife
ming his soul with peace and love for
| his fellow men, lifting him in spirit all
most to the throne of God. And as it
IS with individuals so it is with nations.
MUSIC ciyilizes them, turns them front
the ways OF savage war to gentle arts
OF peace, drives away social discord and
brings about the unity of humanity and
the knowledge OF the brotherhood of
man. A great poet has said: Let me
put make the songs of q nation and 7
care not who makes its laws" He well
knew that he could do more good to
the people by his songs than by all the
laws he could possibly make-that if
the songs OF a nation were pure. her
laws would be pure-that if the nation
had good songs the hearts of the pee-
PIE through those songs would be
drawn to the nation, and that nation
would flourish. What has not THAI
grand melody, God Save the Queen. .
done for England? Who can calculate
the tlres OF patriotism that have been
kindled by the "Marsefllaise" I'M
France? Could we spare Star Span
Sled Banner" or Yankee Doodle" from
our own national history? No. Those
simple, yet noble melodies. are woven
about our national life as the vine is
woven about the oak roots among
roots, branches among branches. Who
ooes not remember during our late war
WIN Spain going to some public con-
cert ana hearing the Star SDangled
Banner played by a brass band or
sung by a choir? How every one in
the vast audience rose cheering to his
Ieet-hoW every heart throbbed with a
strange eXultatiOn-how every eve was
Il ana every brow burning with the
lever OF patriotism! Which of us under
the influence of the wonderful smell
would not have died for our country as
freely and gladly as ever martyr died
Tor molly cause? Whilst the music of q 7
hatlon may have a great deal to do !
with the making of its history. on the !
other hand, the history of a nation de- /
ternlnes the character of it's music. If
the national history be triumphant and +
sIoIlous, the music VIII be triumphant
a all glorlous-if the national history ba
5orroWful, the music will have ever y .
tlnge of sadness-if the national life [
mas been life of war, her music will /
De Warlike-if peace has been me ma.
-Ion portion then her music will ha (
luiet and peaceful.
Ladies and gentlemen. when we re-
view the nations of the earth each ono
seems to be pushing the other i'm tbe
ore 'front.' OF advancement. They have I
.nelr immense armies of able-bodied
men, their superb navies of s+eaIcIoS1
their broad acres we'll tf1iaT
oy hardy husbandmen, their schools,
llled to overlooking with brilliant
cnolars-foundries and factories and
'ailroads. 60 SAIu
Each nation seems a queen seated on
throne, with dfadem on her hroTy
,olItlhg proudly to her children and
nelP productions Each one, did I
ay An! no. There is one fairest I
ueen Of all, standing uncrowned he
fde broken-stringed harm. LOOKING
ad-eyed and lonely over countless
raves at her feet, far out over fbe {
Leak waste of ocean to every nation
the earth, and she mourns her chill
rem dead and her children exiled She I
as seen them for hundreds of wears i
erish by thousands through famine I
no sword, or driven into exile bv the I
'seL tlSss oppressor She has seen her I
IWs destroyed, her religion trampIed t
pom, her schools ruined, her fair fields S
armed into barren waste. She hos
zen her very national existence threat f
heo time and time again But she c
as survived 1t all through, with heavy e
cart; she mourns the past, vet she n
ses the future tinged with rosy hope. c
no she feels that she will one dav /;
IKE her place among the nations of a
10 earth, grandeSt, noblest fairest O
ueen of all. The struggle of Ireland b
as peen long one. 1t has been CEN Y
lrles OF cruel, heartless oppression \
'posed by unwayering, unfaltering s
nGying resistance. The Oppression +
lat mas ground other nations from the o
ICE OF the earth still finds Ireland al o
ost as fresh as ever. The sire NAV Il
e, put ne transfers the cause to. his a
N, and her exiles are not lost to her. ri
leir hearts-and if chance should n
me, their hands-are still hers. and G
er cause shall live till she is great. II
or1ous and free, first flower of the "
.rth and first gem of the sea- 81
10 my mind there are two things h
at Keep Ireland's cause alfve-her re n
zion and her music, Without these r.
e would long ago have been merely Y
memory in the minds of men. The ~
uslc OF ireland begins with the dawn ",
her history, and it has furnished n,
me of the most beautiful threads in =.
e warp and wool Of her sweet. sad y,
Dry. History tells US that Ireland y,
Is settled about the year 400 B. G nc
the Milesians, who came from h,
AIN These people brought with ~
en- 10 lnnistaul their laws, religion, M
anners and customs. Their laws al, =.
led the people into clans or classes "
CHI ruled by a chief on a system very ~
nilar to the feudal system of other ~
rts OF Europe. Each chief had his 20,
I'd, who lived at his palace and sang
heroic deeds of the chief and his IN,
ceStors. The bards were also the
;torians of the nation and the biob -.
tests of its pagan religion. They held l
exalted place in the law-making of g,
nation, and were most important 81
the battlefield, where they went be-