The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-17

succumbed long since before the cruelties
and rnerciless tyrannies which have
failed miserably TO break Ireland spirit.
TO subiugate her will or TO how her neck
II Lecky the eminent historian. who
represented Trinity college in the I'M
perial Parliament. and himself con-
serVatiVe and supporter Of the Union,
says: The past treatment Of Ireland by
England has been tissue of brutality
and hypocrisy scarcely. if ever, surpassed
In history.
yet, what does the past Of ireland
show In face of all this brutality and
hypocrisy acknowledged by Mr. Lecky?
II tells or a race that has never decayed,
a people who have never lost their love
or abandoned their hope, nation whose
patriotism is as strong and bright ana
pure today as I'm the ages that are past
When Ireland's sun had sunk In dim
eclipse behind The blood stained hills OF
misery and death. when famine ana pes
thence hand In hand stallSed over her
green mountain sides and her shamrock
valleys. blehtng with their pestiterons
breath all that came in their way, when
foreign law and foreign oppression were
plantlng their cursed footsteps deep IN
blood and wei in tears-oh, tell me, IN
that dark night OF Irelend,s woe, did her
spirit shrink did her cheeks blanch with
fear did her soul tremble with terror
No no; with q smile on her lips she met
the grim spectre of famine and the DARK
ehoul Of pestence and conquered both
/ with her patience and her love; with
| look of scorn on her proud face she went
| to the gibbet and the rack ana snatched
! the sting from death ny winning the
! martyrs crown.
She was unconquered and she remains
| unconquered. with her proud spirit sun
! uubrolten as in the DAYS when Heremon
| and Heber the Ronlulus and Remus Of
j the Land of Fire hunted the wild deer
/ and the wild boar through the primeVa!
! forests of the Isle OF Destiny.
We are told that Ireland should not
! have self government. that she is not nj
| 10 govern he:esf. What? Ireland not fir
to govern herself! the land oi philoso-
| pliers and poets. of scholars and sages:
| the land whose genius has enriched all
other lands but herself the land that has
contributed so largely 10 the world
! civilization,
MOI m TO govern herself! Ireland. that
| held Faoft the lamp of learning when the
! rest of the world was in darkness, When
/ England her taskmaster today, was no
! further advanced in civilization than the
| Comanche Indians. Ireland, whose wise
men and scholars can be traced in tracks
of living light from the Loire 10 the
| Rosphcrus and the Black sea. the Nien-
nese woods and the Danubian plains
| from Holland dlkes TO Alpine craSs. from
Belgrade and Calcutta and round 10 ,ns
off isles of the Pacific and the far-away
capes OF Africa; Ireland, whose sons
| nave helped To build the world s great
ness ,ss and whose daughters have sancti-
fled il with their virgin purity
What has Ireland done for our own
| great Republic. w nat mas Slls lpI u'llS b
| Vyby she has halowed IL with her foot
steps. she has consecrared ii with her
blood.
worthy OF the sufferings and sacrifices
of the past: may Brin's star yet arise
above the horizon of liberty as beacon
light to the wronGed and oppressed OF
every cline: may she take her place
among the emancipated nations of the
world not the last nor the least, but The
foremost and best
Great glorious and free,
First flower of the earth
And first gem of the sen,