The Irish standard., 1910-11-05

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SEES; no Virgil immortalized his voy-
age although his course was new
one while Aeneas followed waters
cloven by many prows; no Cameens
him DER the virgin
ocean although he was the inspired
of Vasco de Cana; but, in another
place and in other company, an epic
more martial than the Odyssey, more
beautiful than the Aeneid, more sub
lime than the Luciad commentaries |
his deeds and his prowess and is !
sung to the strings of lutes celestial !
His sovereign ordered monument to |
be erected to his memory, and there
was inscribed on it the words: "To
CASTLE and Leon Columbus gave a !
new world" But Columbus work was
destined to be for no one country and
for no one people, but for all nations
and for humanity. This anniversary
of his discovery is not confined to
CASTLE and Leon. The whole world
joins in the chorus of exultation, and
the leading voice is not a European
one nor any dependency of Ferdi-
nand or of Tudor Since his discov-
cry not only has the range of empire
but the eyes and hearts of the world
have taken their course towards the
setting sun. At his death history add
ed another name to the scroll of her
immortals. No mere slab but New
World is his monument. Upon the
eternal granite of her hills is in
scribed his name, upon the hearts of
the noblest of people are recorded
his virtues.
Columbus died at the moment Amer
lea began to live. He died without
knowing the significance of his work
He had scarcely passed away when
many Prov was gilded by the west
ern sun, when every breeze that
ruffled the broad Atlantic carried
bone and sinew to the discovered
land The result of his long vigils
and earnest yearnings added a new
sphere to geography, new and
brilliant page to history.
Great events always happen when
they are needed most. The deities
immortaliZed by the poets had fallen
from their positions on high Olympus,
people had even dared to scott at the
gods of the Pantheon, when the MAJ
arine came and the true worship tri-
umphed. Ere this true spirit CT
Christianity was succeeded by an in
tolerent one a new world was given
to humanity and to God The hardy
Puritan, flying from the fanaticism of
Europe, launched his Mayflower and
landed on Plymouth Rock And even
before him came these successors of
Columbus, the Catholic missionaries
who, in search for souls, planted the
Christian civilization at Saint Angus
tine and Santa Fe, and carried the
banner that fell from the lifeless
hands of Columbus, the banner Of
Christ, from where the Father of
Waters rushes DER the Falls of st
Anthony to where he ends Ions
career at the city by the gulf.
People heard of this Ethiopia where
fruitful fields and free affairs spoke
to the inhabitants the prophets ex
hortation: BLESS the Lord thy Goo
for the excellent land He hath giver
thee" Thither they tiocked and they
found that it was indeed blest by
God-that He not dealt thus with ev
cry country. They found that the
savages of the New World were kind
er than the kings and mobiles of the
old. And so the human tide KEEP
coming, and sought not the histori,
land of the Montezumas, nor thu
boundless forests of the Canadians
but this temperate region where in
dustry has secured it's reward, wher,
art and science and letters hav,
flourished. where the wand of progress.
has called forth all that can ministe
; to the use, the comfort and the lux
ury of man. Although other portions
of this continent excited the ambitio,
of the antiquarian, here we find tn,
eliminating glory of the great dis
coverer; here we find what maj
dreamed of for centuries. the Eldorad,
of the West, where many who cam,
in the famine ship, deformed by labo
and broken in spirit, the victims O
tyranny and caste, saw their children
born of liberty and love, grow sym
metrical and fair, intelligent an,
free; here we find the long-looked TO
Atlantis where not only can gold b.
found, but where for the first tim
since man has kept a record of event
the heavens bent above and domed
land without a serf, servant or
slave.
And how like the struggles an,