Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-18
H!IBERNLANS
BANQUET AND
CHEER 7OASTS
ADDRESS BY RT. REV. THOMAS
]. C0NATY
SUGGESTION OF REELECTION OF
ROOSEVELT APPLAUDED
Reference Made to Warships in the
Pacific-Mayor Harper Praises
Los Angeles Public Schools
for Efficiency

dress by Rt. Rev. Thomas j. Conaty
q. D., who responded to the toast "Tht
Day We Celebrate" An interesting in.
cident was the applause given a decla
ration concerning President Roosevelt
and reelection, made by Senator H. w
Savage, who spoke to the toast 1.-THE
President of the United States" Intro
duced as the sage of San Pedro,
Senator Savage said when about to con.
clude his speech:
Il hope-and 1 know that you agree
with me--that Theodore Roosevelt. oul
beloved president, may beIspared to bs
again nominated and reelected presi'
dent of the United States"
The statement was applauded witt
notable vigor, as was the declaration BY
Senator Savage that President Roose
welt "has quieteG Japan by sending the
hattleships from the Atlantic to the Pa.
cifc, thereby confirming the old adagi
that an ounce of prevention is worth q
pound of cure
At the suggestion of the toastmaster
John w. Carrigan, three hearty cheers
were given for President Roosevelt.
In responding to the toast "City ot
Los Angeles" Mayor A. c. Harper de-
cared that Los Angeles has no knock
ers," that every citizen is a booster. >.
Los Angeles for it's efficiency, and paid
high tribute to "thac old Roman, Jo-
seph Scott" of the board of education
Banqueters Welcomed
The opening address was made by D.
f. Mclaughlin. chairman, who las
PRESIDENT of division 1 of the grandest
and best organization on earth," well
coined the banqueters and introduced
the toastmaster. The following was the
program:
Opening address, D. F. Mclaughlin,
chairman; 1.-THE President of the United
States" Hon. w. H. Savage; vocal solo
The Wearing o. the Green" Leo V.
Mclaughlin; California" Thomas P.
Higgins: recitation, "Erin's Flag" Miss
Catherine Creed "City of Los Ange-
les" Hon. A. c. Harper; cornet solo.
John p. Haley; 1.-The Ancient Order of
Hibernians,' D. F. McGarry; vocal solo,
.'Kathleen Mavourneen," Miss Marie
Whalen; "The Day We Celebrate" Rt.
Rev. Thomas ]. Conaty, d. D.; vocal
sclo. Arthur e. McDavitt; 1.-THE
Ladies'" William Joseph Ford.
Bishop Conaty's Address
In answering the toast, 1.-THE Day We
Celebrate" Bishop Conaty said:
t.,
of the worlds noblest characters as
we'll as one of religions greatest sue
cesses. 1t commentaries the life and
deeds of a chosen apostle of Christian
ity who with the message OF good tld-
ings led an entire race out of the dark
ness of paganism into the full light OF
the highest Christian knowledge. AS a
character he has been famed for unset
fishness, courage, sacrifice, duty. A
In,
stincts. he gave to the race to which
he was sent as a missionary long life
of unstinted service in obedience to the
religious mission which had been i'm
posed upon him. Greatness, after all,
is not in wealth nor in world conquests;
true greatness is in honorable manhood,
in. Godlike goodness which leads man
to spend himself that others may see
the light and know the truth. st. Pat
rick. the apostolic, self-sacrificing, un-
selfish missionary of the truth and of
goodness. belongs to all men. He is
one of the worlds true heroes, one OF
humanitys noble sons, one of life's
highest inspirations.
A Day of Double Joy
"St. Patrick's day for us brings the
double Joy of religion and motherland
symbolized in the cross of Christ and
the shamrock of Erin-God and coun-
try. On a day like this we may be
permitted to indulge in the pride of
tracing our Christian lineage across
fifteen centuries of vicissitudes, OF
triumphs and defeats, of joys and sor-
rows in the native land and in the
adopted lands. We may be permitted
toeboast of fidelity to the faith which
st. Patrick preached to our fathers, a
faith which makes our people excellent
exempIars of the most unfiinching de-
yotion to the Roman Catholic church.
There is not in the history of Christian
ity a victory so complete for the Chris
tian faith as that which st. Patrick
witnessed in his own lifetime.
"As ireland had received freely from
ST. Patrick the message of redemption,
SO she prepared at once to send
the world her saints and
her scholars as monks and nuns with
the same message to the nations that
were rising out of paganism into the
fullness of Christianity. One of the
wonders of Christian missionary life is
found in the absolute acceptance of the
SO short a time, and the establishment
of Christianity throughout the length
and breadth of Ireland without the
shedding of drop of martyr blood.
Prosecuted by England
There is a page of deep sorrow
when we recall the time that England
turned from her obedience to the
Catholic church and in the spirit of
great revolt began its ages of religious
of the Irish. To the hatreds
of race were added the hatreds of the
old religion and then were enkindled
the fires of persecution which for
three centuries were never allowed to
be extinguished. In all the history of
civilized nations it would be hard to
find q parallel to the story of perse-
cution on the part of the governing
power, and fidelity to faith and prin-
ciple on the part of those prosecuted.
The statute books tell of the penal
code and history records the rigid,
stern application of that code to the
lives of the people. the conflscation of
property because of religion. the en-
of the child to change his
religion and inform upon parents in
order to possess their lands: the trans
planting of the Irish to almost unin-
habitable tracts, and the expatriating
Of the Irish as slaves to foreign colo
nies.
Martyrdom and Massacre
"The free gift to some of the mean
est and lowest elements of English
life of the homes and lands from which
the Irish were dispossessed; the mar
-yrdoms, the massacres, the famines
the exiting, are all chapters which, un-
we know too well. A ma
ton boasting of it's civilization, prid-
ng itself on the right of private judg-
ment in religion. glorying in its