New-York tribune., 1908-03-18

tions. and there is many who has not been
May1ower
WELCOME TO FOREIGNERS
The Irish American has long been important
contributor TO our commonwealth Others are now
coming: how shall we receive them? Shame upon
e o k it has sa upon nn the the whose
cesors have been here for few years and he looks
dTeaded Upon Il not the abhered Ny friends We are
together here we have got to do something the
newcomer we have got TO make him realize what
our institutions! mean We have got 10 give nun na
afford to set himself aloof. and wnen we gather
IN or different ts nna n pay o bs ave ennobd
the fame OF ere9 let us not not forget that the the
have made to the life Of this country. and the test
of our right to exult in our ancestry Is what
vded WHAT .iisi shall we do? We VIII in the rs
place let it be known ~ to all h who heTe ha
this is a eountry, Of law and order der .,,,p o nrs-
| serve it? My. friends you can preserve 1t by
never asking Of government what you do mot nave
it by remembering that the greatest est enemy s oe Of
them ror his own beneat would give for
honest administration of the law and Vimdlca
them by impartial and fair working according e, 10
the intent of the Constitution and the statutes
han volumes of legislation or impotent schemes
for reforming human nature.
the things iotf that we need to emphasize are 50
automatic. That for which we stand is that for or
practice and actual life to live up those things
which in in public we pretend to honor o,. r,s
who came here from ireland and from Ger
now coming from Russia and Austria and italy
seek this as the land of opportunity 1t Is the ne
land of opportunity, but ii must be the land OF
law; it must be the land of fairness; it must be
the land of patience; 1t must be the land of rea-
SON; it must be the land where intelligence Is
dominant and where everything is done in a wa. way
which the community coming from our schoois
reinforced by study. can approve and take TO
heart because IT commands their Judgment
My friends, the United States are full Of men
that you cannot buy The community is replete
with men who will die for the flag. And they are
times harder Our great city is full of men who
public something for which they expect no return.
Let Us appreciate the work that is done by our
halls by our men in the administration of gov,
ernnent. who are really true to our deasi; t ti a 40
let us not fail on these anniversaries 70 tahe 49,, ~
ourselves the lesson to be derived from those noble
of the past who risked all that they m nge, eo
doing, shall prosper and attain
Major General ]. Franklin Bell was to have
spoken in reply to the The United States
Army" He unable to be present, however
and his place taken by Augustus Thomas
C. F. Murphy ". }. Conners and many mon
prominent in Tammany Han were present though
w Bourke Cochran not seen. Among those
at the guests table Archbishop Farley,
Bishop Potter Major General Frederick d. Grant,
Beth Low Justice FitzGerald. Justice OGorman
and ex-Justice Morgan OBrien- Others not at
the guests table Anthony N Brady. Arthur
Brisbane Philip j. Britt. Sir Purdon Clarke, J.
Sergeant Cram, Richard Croker jr, the Rev John
P Chidwick. John f. Carroll. Judge Thomas c. T.
Grain Peter +. Collier, John J. Delany Justice
Vernon NJ Davis Joseph P Day, William B. FL
lson John Fox Charles V. Fornes Sheriff Thomas
F. Foley, Frank J. Farrell. Hugh J. Grant. Nicho
las ]. Hayes. Thomas c. O'Suivan Daniel O'Day.
Eugene A. Philbin. Thomas F. Ryan, Oren Root,
jr, Herbert H. Vreeand and Thomas F. Walsh.