The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-18
LISTEN TO COCHRAN
ERIN'S PATRON SAINT, ST. PAT
RICK, Is FITTINGLY EULO-
GIZED
IRELAND TO RISE TRIUMPHANT
Five Thousand Hearers AppIa I'D
the Speaker to the Echo
DweIIs EIOquentIy ON
< the Church.

Yesterday was st. Patrickis day, and
on all hands the shamrock SO green
testified to the warm corner which is still
kept in the heart of the Irishman for his
dear native isle across the sea. Last
might more than 5000 men, women and
children gathered in the Exposition
building to celebrate in fitting style the
anniversary of the death of Erin's patron
saint, the story of whose lifework and
the mention of whose name excites the
intense enthusiasm of Ireland's sons and
daughters, no matter how farafrofn home
they may have strayed. The flea ture of
last nights celebration was the eloquent
and impassioned lecture of Hon. w.
BoirIe Cochran, of New York. who had
for his theme, ''St. Patrick, the Original
Architect of Popular Government" The
majority of the audience were Catholics,
and his glowing eulogy of the church
reused them to enthusiasm, but those
who differed from the opinions he eX-
pressed likewise fell under the influence
of his imprisoned utterance as he spoke
of the wrongs and struggles which his
loved country had undergone in the past
and from which it would, he stated, yet
rise triumphant and take her proper
place among the nations of the world. He
said. in part:
The festival Of ST. Patrick is the
most ancient festival of purely ma
tluAidi CHARACTER 0nflSIenuOIn. 1t was
instituted before either France, Spain,
austria or England had assumed an in
dependent existence, and even before they
mad acquired the names by which they
are knowA now. 1t was LOO years old
WREN Mahomet penned the Koran Ii had
been observed for six centuries before
William the Norman descended on Eng
iiSh soil.
1.-The mission Of ST. Patrick was not
marked by the destruction of villages or
the laying waste of churches, but by the
establishing of churches and schools he
founded the mission of peace which he
preached. And ireland today does not
celebrate as her patron any warrior or
destroyer. but the missionary who was
the apostle of peace, faith, ChriStianity
ahu learning. In peace the mission flour
lshed; the dews and showers of heaven
refreshed it, 1t typified the valor of man
and the purity of woman, and its fruits
will be enjoyed by the world until the
regeneration of mankind shall have
taken place.
To-day before countless affairs in every
quarter of the globe millions of human
belEgs have Frustrated themselves in
worship and thanks 20 God for sending
Patrick across the sea to plant the
Seeus OF a new civilization, and tonight
all over the world the hearts of brave
men swell with patriotic emotion and
the eyes of pure woman are moist with
tenderness and love as they gaze on the
shamrock of Erin.
4, l wish tonight to consider Patrick as
me Denefactor of the whole world and
why lrishmen and men of all nations
ShCuld love him, and to testify the
weight OF obligation due him in this conn
4ty, Tor to the conversion of the Irish nv
81 Patrick was due the awakening of
iSuIopc which led to the STRUGGLE for
freedom until 1t eliminated triumnbant.
~ Ia the democratic Institutions Of thie
blessed and thrice happy LAND"