The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-02-03
Rev. Father Harrington, of Ascension Parish,
Welcomes the Distinguished Guest
in an Eloquent Address.
What the League Has Accomplished in Stem
ming the Tide of Anglicization, as
Clearly Told by DR.. Hyde.

name for national extinction, and when
you in America understand that-and
shall fail in my mission tonight If
| don't make you understand it-then,
know you will Join us in saying to
the devouring demon of Adjudication
whose foul and gluttonous jaws have
swallowed everything that was hered-
ltary. natural, instructive, ancient, in
tcllectual and noble in our Irish peo-
ple-our language, our songs our in
dustries, our Dances and our pastimes
i know and say that you will plant
your feet firmly and you will say,
Not one step more, demon! Back.
demon! You shall never swallow one
single mouthful more of the possess
sf"ns of Irish Nationhood (applause).
The movement on which we are en-
gagged tonight is not the movement Of
Il few faddists. 1t was thought to be
SO. That time has long gone by. So
far is our movement from being a
movement Of insignificant faddists
that papers in Dublin. which are at
daggers drawn amongst themselves, are
at once in championing our cause.
Churchmen like the Archbishop Of
Dublin and the Cardinal Archbishop
OF Armagh are with us; even the or
gan of the independent Orangemen
who seeded from the main body said,
just before 1 left Ireland, that it was
a movement which no Orangeman or
Protestant need be ashamed to join
(applause). The Protestant Bishop of
Derry (applause) at a church confer
enco spoke to the Northern Protest.
ants most sympathetically about us,
only the other day. The leader of the
Irish Parliamentary Party has him.
self on many occasions spoken of the
Importance of our work. and, what is
Irish.
One of the most remarkable of the
Gaelic League festivals ever held in
Ireland was held in August at place
where you know the River Bann runs
into the sea- Toome Bridge, that for
generations upon generations had been
the battle-ground Of Catholic and
Orangeman; and what do we find?
Under our aegis. Catholic and Orange
man came into that place in a spirit
of brotherhood unexampled in that
part of the world ever before, and
could not tell which was the most
numerous at it (applause).
SO, you see that we are no clique.
we are no faction, we are no party.
We are above and beyond all politics,
all parties and all factions offending
nobody-except the anti-Irishman-
daughter and applause). We stand
immovable upon the bedrock of the
doctrine Of true Irish nationhood-an
Ireland self-centered, self f-sufficing,
self-supporting, self-reliant: an Ire
land speaking it's own language, think
ing It's own thoughts, writing it's own
books, singing it's own songs, playing
1I'o OWA SiIiCo, weaving lis own COATS,
and going for nothing outside of the
four shores of Ireland that can pos
sibly be procured inside them Zap
plause).
The Gaelic League is founded not
upon hatred of England, but upon love
of Ireland. Hatred is negative pas
sion; it is powerful-a very powerful
destroyer; but it is useless for build
ing up. Love, on the other hand, is
like faith; it can move mountains;
and. faith, we have mountains to move
daughter and applause).
The characteristics Of this Irish race
Of ours are lightness, brightness, wit,
fluency and an artistic temperament.
The characteristics Of the Teutonic
race are an intense business faculty,
perseverance and steadiness in details;
and in America you have ELECTED
magnificent blend of both qualities In
that free and noble race whose sons
or whose adopted sons and daughters
I see before me tonight. But mark
this: neither race can, with any suc-