The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

WHICH OIlc uullOu Is uSuUflS lOr eX1SL-
ence, and another for pride and am
bition alone, the odds are with the
former
A SCHOOL BOYS GRAFTON.
What tho Cells Have Done for the
United States.
The following Grafton was recently
delivered by Edward L. Daley when
graduating from the classical high
school at Worcester, Mass.
Though every nation in Europe con-
tributed Drawn and muscle and brain
to the consummation Of the great work
Of making. this nation, no class con-
tributed more energetically than the
exiled Celt of Ireland and Scotland.
By the infusion of blood from all Eu-
rope, we have become the heirs Of all
the ages with all the traditions and
all the ennobling influences which anti
putty has conferred upon our Euro
pean netherlands. Gladly would we
extend our consideration to the land of
Lafayette-Celtic France, but time for
bids, and we can cover only the bene-
fits conferred by the lands of John
Paul Jones and Commodore jack
Barry, the land of the thistle and the
land Of the shamrock.
"Willing hands to toll,
Strong natures turned to the harvest
song and bound to the kindly soil.'
''Let us then take the Celtic claims
us presented by son Of the Gael, and
analyze them in the light Of historical
facts. What else bring the Celts to
the building Of this, the chosen home Of
libertys far-hung battle liner Time
forbids us to dwell upon her contribu,
tion thereto.
upon the fact that the Celtic Drawn
has been the supreme factor in the de-
velopment Of our vast material re-
sources, though we cannot forbear to
suggest that retributive justice, the
hand Of an ADJUST God, is seen in this
that England, the tyrannizer, the bull
dozer, the all but destroyer Of Ireland
is being Outstripped in the race for
commercial supremacy by Americas
abundance Of natural resources, devel-
oped by Irish hands. Suffice it to say
that, in addition to Drawn, the Celt
has contributed the inventive brain of
a Mccormick, whose reaper has made
possible the rapid development of the
West; Of Fulton, who gave the world
the steamboat, and Holland, whose
submarine boat has assured to us the
supremacy Of the seas.
AS the Celt has been called the
ideal soldier, let us next apply our
question to his share in building our
worldwide reputation for martial
valor. What has been that part? Ev-
cry battle field from Concord to San
tiago answers.
las the news of English defeat af-
ter English defeat in the Revolutionary
struggle reached parliament, a prom
inent member cried in the agony Of
despair: You lost America by Irish
men! and a colleague added: THE ma
jority of the American army are Irish
Celts.' The muster roll of Bunker
Hill, with it's 200 Irish names, Rocham.
beau's army at Yorktown, with two
Irish regiments, Puritan New England,
with one Irish Sullivan as governor,
and another as commander; Stark, with
his immortal utterance: We win to-
day at Bennington or Molly Stark's a
widow; Washington's staff, with it's
array of Irish generals Moylan, Hand,
Stewart, Thompson, Irvine and Knox
the Irish Montgomery falling for the
flag on the heights of distant Quebec,
Mad Anthony Wayne, charging up the
heights at Stony Point, Capt. jeremiah
O'Brien, winning the first naval battle
of the Revolution, Commodore Jack
Barry, mailing the American flag to the
mast so that it could not be hauled
down, John Paul Jones shouting def
antly from his sinking ship: We have
not begun to fight yet The Friendly
Sons Of st. Patrick contributing f1OS,-
600 of the 100000 subscribed to the
starving troops at Valley Forge-these
present an historical panorama which
has arrested the attention of succeed.
ing generations, and has shown. the
indomitable spirit which justified the
poetic defamation
"And we claim our right by peoples
fight, outliving a thousand years."
"But England had not seen the last
of her expatriated subjects, for when,
in 1912, she struck another blow at this
youthful republic, from the ranks of
the Irish Celt sprang Jackson, who re-
deemed our lost prestige on land when
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