The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-04-25


The next speaker was Rev. James p.
Cassidy. chancellor OF the Fall River dlo-
cese. who responded 10 the toast. "Our
Church" and said:
We have church i'm Fall River char
acterized by cosmopolitan memhershin
and wish to bring out the fact that n
The Catholic church wishes TO grow. and
VI the greatness OF the country depends
on It's power TO weld it's cosmopoIitan
population into an integral whole SO does
The church depend on its power TO do
50. and who better 60 aid than tho
knights OF Columbus, which Is bound TO
the church.
You can not turn back you can not
turn your faces unless YOU go back on
your Ideals. but a society that does not
follow its Ideals. though IL may become
great Is founded In vain and does not
sttain the results And IL your society
does not aid the church 10 obtain its
aesitmate rights, you viii come to
sarth. The church must get the men
and you as socety--must aid the churcb
10 secure the men"
National secretary. Daniel Colwer re.
spending to the toast Knights OF Colum
pus; detailed It's history. ideas ami
achievements and said:
I'VE do not especially entor ir,o ,,
Tics, but we are watchful and have mem
orles, and are liable TO state the ma,
VINO betrays his trust. III we would moro
oren vote irrespective OF party | tbinl,
We might accomplish more.
ne speaker then announced the 80 ooo
gift of the national council.
Gov. Utter said that he had resolved
iast week never again 10 refer To tho
etate as small but had something 10 saw
about the Importance OF small things Ue
SAID IL was enough for man chosen nv
free people not TO think OF party AMI.
'htlons but TO remind himself that he Is
chief magistrate OF the whole people.
An organization like this he said
should stand for two things. first To- snow
people who come TO II not to Join II 70,
Ma ,ney can get out OF II, but .or what
they can bring 20 IT,
IL should also teach the grace of Ohio.
oience. There is time coming in this
country when obedience TO law must prc.
Nail, and a society like yours can stand
rs bulwark between law and anarchy
Hon. James G. Monaghan OF Washing.
ton. humorously traced the discovery of
america To the Irish. He said that a
party OF tourists landed I'm Iceland. but
were not satisfied there and went to an.
other spot. which due regard for their M.
Tive land. they called Greenland. Then
Where was the Merry Macs" who landed
in massachusetts, and called n river there
the Merrimac.
To further prove what ne said he do.
clared that the FIRST thing nm Irishman
OLD when he landed I'm the United States
was TO join Tammany. q sure proof that
they were following their ancestors the
4. A. Maneys
He also said that the Narragansott In.
dams had but taken the name OF sorne old
irish sept
More seriously, he said that tho liber-
ties OF this country are In the hands o,
The citizens. and II all would go 10 the
polls as pure as they do TO the altar
liberty would be safe.
Other speakers were Eugene NcCiui-
cuddy. district deputy of Worcester on
good fellowship; John H. O'Brien OF Bos
Ton. on free government and the prin-
eiples OF the Knights: a homas r. Cooney
on Catholicism contributions 20 America,
James j. Conway on the religious press
Mayor McNally OF Central Falls on the
medical profession. and r. j. Thomas of
Lowell. on citizenship.
Among the guests were State Warden
n. y. Girard. T. X. Masterson X G..
Boston. District Deputy Thomas V. Kier-
San. STATE Advocate y. J. Murray and
T. a. Carly. T.. O. X, Of Norih Attic