The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-03-12

THECROss AND THE HARP


According to the New York Herald .,the Irish
and Irish-American parade in New York City on
next Thursday st, Patrick Day will muster
sixty thousand strong military and civilian And
what does all this meant 1t means that the glory
of Ireland is not merely national; it like her
faith. Catholic and Worldwide It is written in
the legends and traditions of her past;sit is in
scribed on the erunbIng ruins and Fdecayng
monuments of her former grandeur, and it is
preserved to us in her ancient monuments and lit
erature 1t endures IN the fame of her .baFds, In
the prowess of her chieftains in the hefois her
patriots and the memory Of her martyrs.i- aa-
1t lives in the eloquence of her orators, the
exquisite fancy of her poets and the force and bril-
ianey of her writers. Her painters and seulptors
have made it enduring canvass and in monu-
mental marble. The virtue and constancy of her
daughters the wit and valor of her sons will long
preserve and perpetuate it in the faith that has
. consecrated her past and the patriotism that
Eliminates and guarantees her future.
If, on next Thursday, In every quarter of the
wordld thousands of American and British=born,
subjects celebrate St. Patricks Day with no loving
feeling for England and no respect for the hated
Fed which they would fan sink beneath the green,
this was an oppression so unjust, SO complete, so
calling, that it made Fropde with all his bigotry
and sympathy for England, stand aghast and has
arrayed the consciences of enlightened men the
world over against nation which saw the cogency
of liberal arguments everywhere else but in Ire
land and amongst Irish Catholics t-asE
What was patriotism In Poland, what was noble
in Italy, what was. sacred in Hungary, what was
Justice in Greece in Ireland was lisIoyalty dis
honor, political sacrilege and unqualified treason
In all the Affections Of the people the Irish priest
was afflicted and Then in their own country, every
avenue to distinction, to honor, to aught but
CALLING serfdorn and peonage- was closed against
Them, the Roman Catholic Church threw open her
honors to the Social outcast and to the officially
prescribed. ssfsr's =a7 =z a IN
Her priesthood was within reach of the son of
the Irish peasant. He might, with every hope of
success aspire to her bishopric arehpiscopal sees
and even to the honors of the cardinalate;s there
was no barrier between his low estate and princey
rank in a church much older1and more respected
than the Royal caste of Great Britain The Church
did for the Irish peasant in the 18th 18th and 18th
centuries what she did for the creature of the soil
in the Feudsl ages in the times of the barons,
standing between him and their brutality, between
the worlds contempt and his own helplessness. She
net only braved for him, but suffered with him,
the violence of power and the oppression1o of the
strong And let us confess with honorable pride
that the Irish Celt has repaid the Church with
gratitude, for in no part of the world may the
traveller go without finding stalwart men and pure
women, with Irish names, upholding Christian
principles abandoned by other nationalities. era +
In the great New York parade on Thursday
these sixty thousand men of Drawn and muscle viii
march under the banners of the Cross and the
Harp, indissoluby united and symbolizing the indie
sructibe union of Irish faith and Irish patriotism