The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-03

political work the freshman has PLAYED
a most important role. He has a gem
lus in statecraft; he studies the science
Iof government and he not only knnws
the principles of government, but he
mas very intimate acquaintance with
human nature, and he knows that GOV
eminent is administered by human be-
ings
TO the ministry also the Irish have
furnished many illustrious men.
| Whether we consider the indus
tIles OF the country, the work of
| the state, the work of society. the
work of the professions 0r religions
work, the lrishman can be proud of
the Irish people; and not only has tho
Ii!shman Deen prominent in the Cath
olic chnrch, but there is not a branch
OF the Christian church in which Irish
men have not been important factors;
SO that when you speak of the Irish
people 1t is not f1attery, il is not over
| praise, 10 say that our nation has req
son to be grateful for what the Irish
have done in this country.
But, my friends, there is a certain
| part of our work in which the Irish
man has been especially active. He
mas been lover of liberty (Applause.)
He has been a fighter for Justice.
| Continued applause.)
] On ST. Patrick's day I spent the
evening with the Irish Fellowship club
! or Chicago, and | heard some very eIo-
! quent speeches there, in which the
! speakers recOunted the sufferings and
tthe sacrifices of the Irish in Ireland ;
| and I was touched, as one must be
! touched, by the fact that after all
| these years of suffering and of fidelity
to their ideals they have not yet Sc
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by every right they are entitled. (Ap-
| plause) And yet as l listened to those
| speeches this thought came to me: Is
| 1t not possible that that very suffering
| has had It's fruitage in the advantage
| brought to other nations which have
felt the enthusiasm and the inspira-
! ton of Irish thought and Irish elo-
quence? / have wondered if our own
country has not been largely blessed
by the fact that the Irish here, feeling
the injustice done elsewhere, have been
such ardent champions of justice on
American soil (Applause); and may It
not be true that the blessings for
which they have fought there and
| which have been denied to them have
in part, at least, been enjoyed by us
and the people of other lands to which
the Irishman has gone. The suffering
| has not been entirely in vain; no Suf-
ever in vain. (Applause) l believe In
God, and ] believe in the justice OF
God: and if it be true that no drop of
water that falls from the clouds falls
in vain. then | cannot doubt that it is
also true that no tear drop that ever
fell from Borrowing eve fell in vain
| that no heart quickened in the cause
of justice has ever beat in vain Cap
plause), and that no longing after
rie ms no -atf
ing. If it be true that in the last and
final account all the struggles for JUS
tice and for truth shall have their
! weight and influence, what an enor-
nous credit there must be on the book
for the. Irishman! (Applause.)
ireIand's Fight for Justice.
AS a Protestant, am glad that Ire
lands fight has not been left to the
Catholics only (Applause); as a Prot
estant, 1 am glad that Ireland has had
an Emmett and Parnell. 1 am glad
that these men and other Irish patri-
OTIS who worshipped at different affairs.
| and lifted their voices to their Gre
atOr after other forms-I am glad that
these linked their destiny with their
Catholic brothers and, forgetting re-
/ ligious differences, fought for Justice
as between man and man. Great ap-
plause.)
Yesterday you were celebrating the
| landing of some Irish Catholics in
Maryland; and the Irish Catholic NAV
we'll be proud. not only of the begin
ming of that colony, but of what grew
out of that colony. They are justified
| in pointing to the CAROLS and TO those
| who with them planted there the idea
of religious liberty and of religious toll
erance. No church or creed has a mo-
nopOly of the doctrine that man shall
worship God according to the dictates
of his own conscience. (Applause)
I am glad that I live at a time when
there can be fraternity and fellowship
between people of different religions,
and 1 am glad that 1 live in land
where there is no religious test for Of
flee. 1t is one of the things that l
treasure with pride and satisfaction
that in all my political life have been
associated with people of every church
and every creed, and have not known
the difference between them in any
matters political. In my political work
| have found some of my own church
who were deeply sympathetic with
me; and in my own church / found
those who were bitterly hostile to that
which / advocated. / have found In
the Catholic church, aye, among the
Catholic clergy, as congenial ccmpan-
ions in every thought / have had In
politics and in everything that i have
tried to do as have found in my own
church. (Applause.) And 1 am glad
to believe that. each generation is
showing a larger liberation, a broader
sympathy and a more intimate CO.
operation between those, who. looking
to the same end and cherishing the
same ideals, are willing to overlook
the differences that separate US into
hostile parties or into different
branches of the church.
If, my friends, had not had an ap-
probation Of the work that the Cath
Ollie church is doing before / went
abroad. / would have been taught by
what 1 saw. for wherever L went
saw the evidences of Catholic devotion
| to Christian ideals.
Present Need Of World.
I believe that what this world today
needs more than anything else is q
conception Of life Go into different
countries. and you will find different
political needs, different social needs,
different intellectual needs, for each
nation has it's problems, and its people