The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-18

west'-and the part that ST. Patrick
played in her civilization and devel-
opment.
| "St. Patrick was born probably on
the banks of the Severn at a town
tcalled Bannaventa, three hundred and
eighty nine years after the birth Of
Christ. He was the son of British
celt and a Roman citizen named CAL
ipurnius and his wife. Concessa. They
were of the same race as those for
whom he lived and died.
| Captured BY Mauraders.
| when, during the mutation of the
Roman empire, protection was with
drawn from Britain. young Patrick
at the age of 16 was captured by an
IRISH maurading force and taken to
Ireland. and there for six years, in the
: far western part of Connaught, serv-
ed in bondage as a herdsman.
Escaping from the island on ship
from Wicklow harbor after the six
years, he landed in France somewhere
near Bordeaux. and wandering across
the then desolated face of Gaul, he
reached Provence, in Southern France,
and in monastery but recently found
ed on the island of Larinus, found re-
fuge in the cloister of st. Honoratus
and there became monk.
after a few years of monastic life
he returned to Britain to visit his home
and friends and while there he definite
lily formed the purpose of redeeming
the island of his captivity from pa
ganism and bringing it within the
Christian church.
! est Patrick introduced into Ireland
the latin language. 1t became the Ian
Iguage of the church all over the is
,land and it made a union with Rome
that has never since been broken
"He laid the foundation of the Gull
ture and the spread of education and
the development of the liberal arts
which put Ireland in the forefront of
lcivilization for a thC1sand years.
Her history there .fter is a sad one.
Had the Romans conquered her as they
did Britain; had the SaXOns followed,
and then the Normans, so as to make
a homogeneous people, covering the
three islands with the same history
and the same interests and the same
race we should not have had the tale
tof sorrow, of injustice, of outrage, of
poverty, suffering and neglect that fills
the pages of Irish history from soon
to the early days of the last century.
"Certa My not until the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries have govern
lmental measures been adopted in Ire
land to better conditions of the Irish
people. During the centuries preced-
ling the nineteenth and clear back to
the time of the TudOrs they have been
subject to legislation, the whole pur-
lpose of which was selfish exploitation.
not of the Irish people, but OF the DOM
inant country. The result has been
that freshmen have gone to other coun-
tries
In all our wars the Irishmen have
;been to the front-in the revolution.
in the war of 1912, in the Mexican war
land in the civil war. They are natur-
ally a warlike people and their patrio-
tic love for their adopted country made
them soldiers in the army of the union,
than whom there was no more daring
or more effective.
For this club you could have no
Fellowship club, for if you called it
! Fellowship club it would be a reasOna-
BILE presumption that it must be Irish.
81 am glad to be here. 1 am glad
| to feel the inspiration of ones kind
| that permeates this entire country and
l shall long carry in grateful remem-
ibrance YOUR cordial greeting"