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The Celebration Conducted
 Mainly bg Pres. Taft II WAS HIS BUSY DAY
President Admitted That He Had Learned Much First Year-He Pays His Respects to the States men Correspondents"

Chicago. March 17.-St. Patrick was notably remembered in Chicago today, the brunt of the celebration falling up- on President Taft, who was a thor oughly tired man when his train left tonight for Rochester, Ky.
 During the day he spoke to the members of the Chicago Newspaper club, the Traffic club, to mass meet ing. to the members and guests of the Hamilton club and twice at functions provided by the Irish Fellowship club, his host for the day.
 In these speeches, the president. whose ease in oratory was quite gen orally remarked. touched upon states men correspondents" who colored the facts to suit their views and to the railway men of the Traffic club he ex- pressed his trust in the sense and justice of the American people He averred he had learned more in the first year of his administration than he could hope to assimilate in the next three.
 President Taft's address at the ban quet of the Irish Fellowship club fol- lows: Tt is two years since | tasted the fine flavor of your hospitality at luncheon where my stay was only too short for my -pleasur When your honorable committee invited me. there fore, I yielded to the temptation and agreed again to become your guest when you should meet to celebrate the flo. rlI,sr f, Ft If every true son of Ireland.
 "tSt. Patrick's Day in the Norm ing 1 never quite understood the sig nificance of the last three words of the phrase unless they meant the bright ness of morning did not wear away until long into the night of the day, in the spirit of those who are loyal to the anniversary.
 "On such oCcasionss as this. ones mind turns naturally to the history of that beautiful island-'with her back toward England. her face to- the west and the part that SSPatrick played in her civilization and development.
 st. Patrick was probably born on the banks of the Leven at the town he called Banavem Tabernia, 3S9 years
  son of Celt and Roman citizen, Cal pornius and his wife Concessa. They were of the same race as those for whom he lived and died
 When. during the mutation of the Roman empire. protection was with drawn from Britain. young Patrick. at the age of Is was captured by an Irish marauding force and taken to Ireland, and there, for six years in the far west ern part of Connaught, he served in bondage as a herder.
 Escaping from the island on ship from Wicklow harbor after 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 a monastery but recently founded on the island of Laurinus he found refuge in the cloister of St. HonOratius and there became a monk
 After d few years of monalStic life, he returned to Britain to visit his home and friends, and while there he defin- itely formed the purpose of redeem ing the island of his captivity from pa ganism and bringing it within the Christian church.
 St. Patrick introduced int oIreland the Latin languages. It became the language of the church all over the island and made d union with Rome that has never since been broken. He laid the foundation of culture and q spread of education and the devel- opment of liberal arts. which put ;, of faix tion for d thosand years.
 Her history thereafter is sad one Had the Romans conquered her as they did Britain; had the Saxons followed and then the Normans. so as to make homogeneous people, covering three islands with the same history and the same interests and the same race, we should not have had the tale of sorrow. injustice. out rage. poverty, suffering and neglect that fill the pages of Irish history from soon after the Norman con quest of England to the early days of the century.
 Certainly not until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have govern mental measures been adopted in Ire land to better the conditions of the Irish people. During the centuries preceding the nineteenth and clear back to the time of the Tudors. they have been the subject of legislation, the whole purpose of which was self ish exploitation, not of the Irish peO- pie. but of the dominant country.
 In all our wars Irishmen have been to the front-in the revolution: in the var of 1872: in the Mexican