The Irish standard., 1904-01-30
M'ADoo ON IRELAND.
10 Country In Europe as Loyal to
THIS Country.

no Country In Europe as Aoyal "
THIS Country.
At dinner given recently in New
York by the American Irish Historical
society, Mr.. William McAdoo, the new
police commissioner, made these OBJ
servo tons:
"You know the objects Of this So
ciety and it has been a great regret to
me that these objects have not been
forwarded better. I believe that this
society should have many branches
and with such splendid material else
where all of us are anxious to see it
grow and have branches started in
Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.
If we take hand now we can have
more than treble our membars. We
owe it to our race to do this. Our OBJ
ject is to vindicate, illustrate and set
forth the part which the Irish have
taken in the formation, preservation
and continuance of this American re-
public.
''The Irish have been more handi-
capped than any other race that ever
landed upon these shores. They had
gone through seven hundred years of
struggle. Condemned to be illiterate,
hampered in their conscience through
enforced bigotry, libeled in literature
and caricatured on the stage, the poor
Irishman put his foot on the American
shore armed with nothing but his vir-
tues and defended simply by his cou-
rage. His first act was to preserve
this country. He filled the army of
Washington. An Irishman struck the
first blow on the sea. But, unfor-
tunately, in the history that follows
Irish names have been obscured and
lost. There are millions of names that
have been Anglicized out of all recog-
milton of their Irish ancestry, and the
glorious part their ancestors played
has been either forgotten or malicious
ly destroyed. No country in Europe
has given such glorious support to
this republic as Ireland.
II claim for the Irish this: That in
the performance of their duties of citi-
zenship there are none so undertaking
ly loyal to the principles of the Consti-
tuition as the Irish are. If you raise
the moral issue to touch the consci-
ence of the public there are no citizens
so quick to feel it and so ready to re-
spond as the Irish.
Gentlemen, the Irish are on trial
now in this country. This is the first
age when Irish genius has had q
chance to win on it's merits. We will
be judged by what we do here. We
must not be allowed to suffer by the
act of any Irishman. The worst
enemy of the Irish in America is an
Irishman who proves unfaithful to Of
fetal trust.
1--WE are to preserve the true history
of our people in the United States We
are to teach the third and the fourth
and the tenth generations that they
are not only the descendants of a
proud and glorious race of the Old
World, but that in the new land from
the days of O'Brien of Machias, they
may be proud of their forbears and
feel that the Irishman in the United
States not alone stands for the flag,
but that in his citizenship and in his
fidelity to official obligations shall be
accounted among those who have not
only raised this country's material
greatness, but have also helped her to-
ward higher moral ideas.''
DR.. Andrew M. Sherman, of Norris
town, read a paper on Captain Jere-
miah O'Brien of Machias, ''the first
man to haul down British flag upon
the seas"
The new officers of the American.
Irish society chosen are: William Nc
Adoo, president; Gen. James E. Sulli-
van, Of Providence, R. l., vice-presi-
dent general; Thomas H. Murray,
Boston, secretary general; John E.
Linehan, Concord, N. H., treasurer
general, and Thomas B. Lawler, of
this city, librarian and architect.
Felix Carbray was elected vice-presi-
dent for Quebec, and DR.. Michael F.
Coke for Dublin, Ireland.
Rev. Henry A. Brann, D. D., Record
er John w. Golf. Thomas n O,Sulli.
van and Thomas F. Smith were elect
ed members of the society.
Domino Fortune Telling.