The Irish standard., 1901-07-20

got to do it, or it won't be DONE" and
then said, "Well, in Gods name, here
/ am (Applause.) I had to go to
Rome again and again, and travel all
over the States and all over Europe
to raise money and gather professors
and all that sort of thing, and can
tell you it was hard job. However,
with the blessing of God, we opened
the university in 1889, and there we
had classes in post graduate divinity,
and we gave degrees in all the facul-
ties except for that of doctors. We
had school of philosophy, great
school Of the pure sciences and applied
sciences, or technology, and school of
law, and for other things. In ten
years, before the providence of God
took me elsewhere, we had raised
100000 for the work, and 1 left the
university with splendid buildings
standing in property Of seventy
acres, within the limits of the city of
Washington, with magnificent en-
dowment fund.
Then our Holy Father said, "Come
over here to Rome" and l said, Gail
right, Holy Father, will do anything
you say" for 1 have always tried to
do what the Pope told me. When the
Pope told me to give up my diocese
and go to create a Catholic university,
1 said, holy Father, don't tell me to
leave where am; love it's people, its
Protestants and its Catholics, it's black
and its white; leave me where am,
and let somebody else do its work."
But he said, est is Gods WILL" And
then said, "Holy Father, 1 will al
ways obey"
Then, after ten years, the Holy
Father told me to come to Rome, and
l went. After being there three years
the bishops of America came together,
and on the death Of Archbishop Hen
messy of Dubuque, they sent a unani-
nous message to Rome, saying, 1--WE
want Keane to come home" cloud
applause.) And the Holy Father said,
eff you all want him can't refuse to
let him CO." And so there am. cloud
applause) In that great diocese Of
Dubuque there are $50 parishes, and
in nearly all those parishes there are
good Catholic schools. Wherever l go
as bishop, it is my study to establish
Catholic schools, and where such a
school does not exist, 1 say to the
priest, wherever you find thirty or
forty start school, and if you find any
difficulty in paying the teachers, send
to me and will help you" (Applause.)
Now I have given you the whole
story of my life from the day 1 left
Ballyshannon; and 1 hope when you
are telling your story in after years,
boys, it may be like mine in some re-
spects, and hope you have, us I have,
a love Of mother church and Of the
motherland; for thus you will develop
the highest type Of manhood. You
should always aim at those things that
make for the highest and the best,
higher and higher. One of the noblest
NOTICES in the United States is "Ex-
celsior," and my aim in life has been
to stir up the energies of the people
Excelsior-to go higher and higher. If
you want to succeed aim ut the high
est.
If fellow is sluggish and careless
and Indifferent he is never going to
amount ito anything Let your motto
then be Excelsior" and striving to
do the very best you are capable of do
ing, and the very best that 1 want
to impress upon you ito do is the very
best here in Ireland. (Applause) Fifty
years ago the providence of God scat
tered the Irish race SO that they might
plant the standard of the cross any
where.
They have carried the cross every
where and poured out their life blood
in order to enlighten the world, and
it was now the time to attend to their
own motherland, and the providence
OF God says to THE men of Ireland:
DO what you possibly can for the
honor, glory and welfare of your ma
tive land, and to you will fall part of
the great work of bringing about this
result in all its happy consummation."
do not see single boy here who looks
like stupid boy. l do not see single
boy here who looks like dunce-and
remember, Ounce can never amount
to anything in this world and amount
to mighty little in the world to come.
Naughter)
He is incapable of doing much good.
Again, l do not see any boy here who
looks like a lazy boy. The faces that
l see before me are bright and intelli-
gent looking and beaming with the
light Of trained and intelligent minds.
l don't see any boy here who thinks
he is only fit for trundling wheel
barrow. (Applause.) There are no bad
boys in this hall today. In America
one Of the greatest evils they were
battling was the ambition of those who
come from Ireland to start grog shops
This was class that was a dishonor
to the church in America, and they