Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-09
KNIGHTS BANQUET
NATIONAL COUNCIL
FIVE HUNDRED GUESTS ARE
ENTERTAINED
AN AUsPlCIoUS OCCASION
Fraternity, Patriotism and Good Fell
lowshIp Abound at Turnvereln
Hall on Occasion Of Honor
to Visiting Delegates

to Visiting Delegates
Fraternity, patriotism and goodfel-
lowship abounded throughout Turn
vereln hall last night on the occasion
of the banquet given in honor of the
national council knights Of Columbus
by Los Angeles council No. 621, and the
affair was the most enthusiastic and en-
joyable- of all the entertainments pro-
vided by the local council for their
guests thus far during convention week.
Five hundred knights, the pick and
flower OF the Catholic church of Amer
lea, gathered round the festal board
and partook of the hospitality of the
local brethren and participated in the
felicitating speech and song which went
to make the program for the occasion.
These knights, with the enthusiasm
of boys and the deeper feeling of men,
laughed and sang when the orchestra
played Hot Time" sang MY Old Ken
lucky Home" with broken voices and
tears in their eyes, sang Dixie with
their southern brothers in the spirit of
the south, and illinois with only the
feelings of the north
Enthusiasm with spontaneity re-
markable for it's depth and frequency,
repeatedly brought these knights to
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handkerchiefs.
Following the discussion of the elab-
crate menu Past Grand Master Richard
Dillon was introduced as POSTMASTER
by Chairman w. E. Hampton, and
there began the program of toasts
which lasted we'll into the morning
hours.
POSTMASTER Dillon Speaks
Toastmaster Dillon spoke on Patriot
ism" in his opening remarks. After
extending the welcome of the local
council and paying tribute to, the bal
comics filled with the weaker sex, he
called attention to the decorations in
the national co1ors, asking what more
worthy brotherhood existed under the
Stars and Stripes than the organiza-
tion of knights of Columbus, whose
tenets are loyalty to country. Then
holding high a glass of California vim
tage, he pledged the health and long
and Of the president Of the United
States.
In toast to "Our Country" John S.
Leahy, state deputy Of St. Louis and
the first speaker, brought repeated ap-
plause. He said in part:
Leahy's oratory
DESTINY holds for us Of the United
States population of three hundred
millions of people. On us depends what
these people shall be. Shall we bequeath
to them our golden heritage pass on
our priceless blessings?
"In the past century there have been
greater achievements in America than
the worlds achievements of the past.
We are a unique people. Gathered
together from all the peoples Of the
civilized world and partaking of their
best virtues, we hold in our hands
the realizations of the poets and the
philosopher. Peace, justice and liberty
dwells in our midst.
1.-THE one aim should be to preserve
these treasures. American citizens
should enter actively into politics of
the nation. The politician should be
put away and in his place there should
he tI,a cto of tho baIro
1--WE are here with some sacrifice. We
came to Los Angeles through the ef-
forts of a noble, true hearted knight,
Joseph Scott. In the history of the
United States there are two acts
the noblest of all. Nor are they acts
of blood. George Washington declined
a third term. You all know what Joe
Scott has done. (cheers).
"When I learned that he had refused
high office it came to me then that the
great necessity of the age is the build
ing up of sentiment, the incentive
which actuates every act that is good.
This is our nation. 1t depends upon
us whether or not we shall keep it,"
ANY speaker who mentions Joe
Scott's name again." said POSTMASTER
Dillon in introducing the next speaker,
twill have to leave off," Amid laugh
ter and cries for IScott, Archbishop
Montgomery of San Francisco was in
troduced to respond to the toast,
"From Within" His opening sentences
were cut off by applause and cheers.
Archbishop Montgomery's Talk
After extending a welcome to the
knights to visit San Francisco, the
archbishop spoke concerning the well
being of the order saying that 1t is the
experience of societies, as that of ma
tions, that there is an heroic age, an
epoch of development and then an age
of decline.
"As you grow in age preserve the
virtues of the heroic age you are now
in" adjured the the archbishop. "It
is difficult to keep up our ideals and
this must be your task in the coming
years. For the past twenty years the
idaaI of the KniQhts of Colupa h,tS bac