The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-04-10

the immortal Vicar Of Wakefield, the
author of 'Tristram Shandy'--havs
they lacked. the. balance. measure, pa
thence requisite to. high success? And
the mother in historical romance OF
Sir Walter Scott-to her distinction
let the Wizard Of Scotland testify
Without being SO presumptuous,' he
writes, as to hope to emulate the rich
humor, the pathetic tenderness, the
admirable truth Of Castle Rackrent'
and the Absentee and Belinda and
'Ormond,' I thought that I might at
tempt for my own country something
of the kind that their author has SO
fortunately achieved for Ireland Their
author. an INSTRUMENTATION and bred.
Maria Edgeworth. Why need more
than mention other writer's. too, to
, whom though perhaps mot great. CIV
ilization has owed great peals Of laugh
ter, the creators of Handy Andy and
Harry Lorrequer' and Charles O'Mal-
ley? IS
Passing to orators and statesmen,
and jurists, Burke in his noble defence
Of the American Colonies at the time
OF the Revolution, Sheridan in his inn
parchment of Warren Hastings, Graf
tan. Curran. o'Connell, the Earl of
Dufferin, Parnell and Redmond, Earl
Cairns and Russell of Killowen.. Us
there in them only the spirit Of asp!''-
alton and gayety ?--none of the patti
ence and balance that makes indlvid-
ualism social power? g..
In music and in art. is Ireland alto
gether to seek? The Celt, indeed, has
produced no Beethoven, no Brahms;
but music Of the heart he has not
lacked. Who that has heard the melo-
dies that have filed this hall tonight
their note Of fervent tenderness, of
haunting melancholy, their murmur Of
memories in minor keys. their sudden
ecstasy-who that has heard them, will
yet, avouch that grander strains awak-
en- sincerer laughter or prayers or
tears? Nay, after all, do bethink me
of one musical composer Of Irish blood
who has in no negligible degree affect
ed the mood Of his day--the author of
Patience and :Mikado,' and also the
Lost Chord; a musician of the 1ridicu-
lous and also Of the sublime. The
surprise some to hear, was also Irish
In part; he In whose fashionings of
marble and bronze the lineaments of
Lincoln and Sherman defy the corrod-
ing finger of time-Augustus Saint
Gaudens, born in the Irish capital Of
Dublin, Of an Irish mother. His faith
er was Basque. No drop Of the creep
ing Saxon in Saint Gaudens-whence,
then, the patience for the. prolonged
dealings Of spirit with matter which
his plastic art demanded? Was that
altogether BASQUE? ,r g..
s"And,shave the irish utterly, lacked
\ hatc steadiness ana sanity, that fsdel-
lily to faqt, that are ,the' scrip and staff
= science?' Hardly; for who is It
that the rhetorics tell us was Father
of Chemistry and Uncle to the Earl of
Cork'-an 1rishman, Robert Boyle. And
what name stands in higher. rank
among the scientists Of. later times
than that of John Tyndall, the mighty
physicist, the dauntless and unwear-
led explorer Of the misty bourne where
mind and matter. meet. "a; ..
I'm war, who conquered Napoleon?
An Irishman., Who was, late, the
commander in chief of the English
Army? An Irishman. Lord Wolseley.
Who. is the present. commander? An
Irishman. Lord Roberts. Who were
the other generals Of note in that war
that must always consider unrlght-
eous, the Boer war? Irishmen Kelly
Kenny and French. And to what iron
general was entrusted the task Of Sc
curing the fruits Of victory. Lord
Kitchener, an 1rishman. 1t was Pyr-
rhus who said: Give me an army of
Roman soldiers and will conquer the
world And In their heart of hearts
the English say: Give us Irish gen.
erals and we can conquer the world.
What names, in craftsmanship and
war have Irishmen made in the cent?
nent of Europe-the MacNahons of
France. the O'Donnells Of SPAIN the
Taafres Of Austria? All these have
shown that 'skilful and resolute appli-
.ance Of means to ends which is needed
both to make progress in material: civ
,ilization and to form powerful states!'
who wrote the first Declaration of
Independence in the United States?
Irishmen Of Mecklenburg. North Caro-
lima. Some say they were Scotch
Irish. but what matter, they. were, Of
that yetus ct major Scotia. ireland A