The San Francisco call., 1906-07-02
MEMORIAL RESOLUTION
FOR MICHAEL DAVITT
Knights Of St. Patrick Express
Veneration for Deceased
Irish Patriot.

At a recent meeting of the knight.
Of st. Patrick the following resolution
was adopted on the deat,. of Michae
Davitt:
1T is not the tear at this moment shed
: When the cold turf has just been iait
That can tell how Beloved was the sou
that's fed
Nor how deep, in our hearts we de
plore him"
land has lost one of the greatest of hel
patroits. From his boyhood to his
death he devoted his life to the service
or his country with devotion, daring
sincerity, ability and splendid persist
ent courage that have never been sur.
passed. Born and bred amid suffering
ne early became familiar with priva-
ton. He heard a fathers imprecation:
on the system of government that mac
destroyed his humble home and made
him an unwilling exile, and he wit.
deserved. His hatred of tyranny anc
injustice drove him into the ranks oil
the revolutionary party, and In conse-
quence he spent the blossoming years
OF his young manhood in penal seryi-
tude, where he suffered all the horrors
and indignities which the British Gov
ernment infiicts upon Irish political
prisoners.
Imprisonment and suffering but in
tensified his hatred of the misgovern-
ment of his country, and he became. as
the London Times bitterly remarks
the most resolute and implacable
enemy of the connection between Great
Britain and Ireland that has appeared
in modern times
mainly instrumental in calling into ex-
istence an organization for the reform
of the laws governing the tenure OF
land in Ireland which quickened into
action the inert resoluteness of the ma
tion. nodded the divergent opinions OF
the people TO a, common purpose, and
through the forces which he thus
called into life, and which he so skill
fully and unselfsh1y directed, he com
PEELED the Government to finally grant
measure of land reform that will re-
soil to those who cultivate it. He lived
to witness the triumph of the principles
he advocated and for which he suffered
so much.
The distinction which he achieved
through the inherent force and nobility
of his character, the love of liberty.
broad and deep. which made him the
advocate of every people struggling for
freedom, the zeal and unse1ishness
which characterized his lifework and
the success which crowned IL, place him
IN the front rank OF the worlds great
reformers. Be 1t therefore
Resolved, BY the Knights of ST. Pat
rick of San Francisco, that we regard
the death of Michael Davitt as a. ma
tional loss to Ireland. His ardent pa-
triot!snl. his sincerity of purpose. his
lifelong. unswerving devotion to his
country, endeared him to the Irish peo-
pie the world over, who feel that in his
death Ireland has lost one OF the great
est of her sons, one of the most earnest
and vigilant of her defenders.
Resolved, That we express to his wife
and family our profound sympathy in
their bereavement, and; we pray that
God may give them strength to bear
with Christian fortitude their great
sorrow.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
spread upon the minutes of this meet
ing and that copy thereof. suitably
engrossed be sent to the bereaved fam
ily of our departed and revered friend.
r. C. O'Connor, Jeremiah Mahoney,
John Mulhern, Jeremiah Deasy, ]. s.
Cormick-Committae