The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-18


a hcvy Of her fair friends, the Spanish
wife Of General sickics; the Prince and
Princess tsam Snlm, a beautiful woman
and graceful rider whose devotion TO
the Empress Carlotta In Mexico redeem.
ed all the ecccntrieitics OF her earlier
tareer. IL was a most brilliant and eN-
traordinary spectacle on the grim fields
Of war. 1t was Joyous beyond belief,
nor was it disturbed by any shot or
demonstration on that day from the
other Ade. The constant war of the
iicld batteries was suspended.
Not one solitary picket fred a gun.
The river flowed in peace. We all felt
the reason. There were many Irish
men wearing the gray on the other side
of that narrow stream. 1t is the mis-
fortune of race that has no nation
atty of its own to fight in every coun-
try's quarrel and waste itself in many
a cause, and the Irish blood has water.
ed laurels for many crown of glory,
on the battlefelds of the nations. But
the armies who we're to meet so soon
on the dreadful field of Chancelors-
vile, kept the peace in honor of the
day, and the airs OF Dixie and the Star
.Spangled Banner, Erin 90 bragh, Tara y
Halls and the Wearing of the Green
were echoed and answered from the
lines Of the blue and the gray across
the silent water and peace prevailed
upon st. Patrick's Day.
Among the argonauts of California,
and the islands of the Pacific, led by
the lure of gold, in the depths of AZ
RIGA, in the mountains of China, ana
the coasts of Alaska, Siberia and Jap
an the sons of st. Patrick have led the
hosts of prospectors and miners, for
gold and silver often to send largely
of their winnings to repair some old
church or to build new one in their
old parish in the island of the saints.
We of the West know many of these.
| John Mackay and Jim Fair, Flood and
o 'Brien of the Comstock, Marcus DAILY,
John Caplice and Thomas Cruise of Mon
tana, Casey and Sullivan in Colorado,
| Burke, and Sullivan and Sweeney and
| Patrick Clark in the Occur d 'Alenes
Johnny Healey of the Klondike and
host whose names fill the history of
California; John d. Ryan, now the pres
ident of the great amalgamated com.
pany, names that fill the pioneer pages
of the great record of mining in the
West, were all sons of st. Patrick and
lovers of his day and of his name. Nor
was, it in mining alone but in cattle
and wool and railroad building, the
erection of cities the opening of farms
and the making of States, in all these,
they were pioneers, and the names
which carry the baptismal waters of
St. Patrick's priests will go down for
ever in the American story of the con-
quest and development of the West.
The efforts of sons of Ireland were
not confined to material work alone.
In spiritual and educational efforts they
were in the front. 1t sometimes seems
as if the miseries of the island made
| it preserve out of which saints and
missioners were to follow their great
exemplar aud go out into all countries.
{ They have certainly done great work
in the United States The first mis-.
sioners in the southwest were all
Spanish, and the great work of early
days in the northwest was done by
French and Belgians, but the Irish fol-
lowed in great force and with mighty
power The greatest intellectual and
moral force in the Northwest today is
John Ireland of st. Paul, and his young
er disciples fill most of the bishoprics
in the West. What they have done in
these Islands is known to you better
than TO me; but / am sure they will
do their share and leave their mark
in the building up of good government
and the creation of patriotic sentiment
in this beautiful country as becomes
all children of Erin and sons of st.
Patrick. .rti