The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-11-24
The Career of Mathew Cummings Is An
Inspiration to Every Man Who Has
Irish Blood in His Veins
He Measures Up to the Standard Which
the Numbers and Influence of the
Order He Represents Demand.

The banquet and reception rendered
on last Wednesday evening to Mr..
Matthew Cummings, in recognition of
the honor involved in his elevation to
the national presidency OF the Ancient
Order Of Hibernians. was rendered
tho addresses Of tho distinguished
group Of after dinner speakers. by the
emphasis 'he event placed upon the
meaning Of the 1rish-American racial
strain In New England and by the
character OF the guest OF tho evening,
says the Boston Republic.
Mr.. Cummings career is an inSpira-
ton to every man in Now England
who has Irish blood boating out its
tumult and it's music in his veins. 1t
stands for work we'll done and for a
large and just view OF public ques-
tions,. in so far as they trench upon
Irish affairs or influence Irish -Aneri-
oan, development, 81 NE A toiler, who has
by sheer force of energy climbed to
eminences he has blazed d pathway
along which others Of his race and
creed may follow. Ie is a big man
in accomplishment. aspiration and
ideal-and his work has been done
with sanity and a. common sense that
made him conservatively progressive.
There have been times when d less
evenly balanced man would have done
much harm. Crises have arisen where
firmness and that charity which is the
fine flower Of the Christian lifo We're
needed Matthew Cummings has never
failed to measure up to the high stand
ards which the magnitude in number
and influence OF the order ho repre-
sents have demanded. 1t was g. real
pleasure to watch Governor Guild nod
an approving head rs Mr.. Cummings
outlined his program of action. it
was a. constructive document and when
the governor of great state, the
mayor Of a. mighty city and a. host of
representative men in the financial, So
cial and political world endorse 1t, 1t
means much to a man and to a cause
held sacred by thousands.
The Somerset banquet room forms
spacious and splendid hall, and it's
adornmcnts We're worked out in a key
of simplicity and dignity fitting tho
OCCASION.
The Cummings banquet may be said
to have opened new page In tho his
tory of the Celt in Boston. In the
heart of the Bastille Of the Puritan
hopes a company of Boston gentlemen
met to do honor to q. man who has
fought to make the Irish name a SYM
boil Of honor and good repute in the
commonwealth. His success was
granted. No lover of Irish literature
could have sat at tho banquet board
unimpressed.
Governor Guilds address attests tile
fact that oratory is not a languishing
art. The governor revived its best
traditions, giving to MS words a color
and glow that carried them into the
hearts Of all present.
It was pleasing spectacle-the
governor OF commonwealth dedi-
Gated to the things of the mind no
less than TO material success, refer
ring in eloquent terms to the value
OF Irish literature. That literature
should be given a place of primacy in
the life and thought of every Gael. 1t
| is "a thing. of power and of beauty,
| and when compared with great deal
of the writing Of today Is as an ocean
placed close to the Public Garden
pond, dimpling prettily in the sunlight
and prattling with oars.
Celtic: literature ranges easily
through the domain of pure fantasy.
of fable and allegory, of speculation,
of aesthetic discussion, of symbolized
fiction and Of verse. The voice has
spoken many tongues, but always the
accent Of the mystic has persisted, has