The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-18

the wrong. but there are some who ara
perfect Ajaxes in debate that say they
Will continue to debate the question
and stand against the conservation
program as long az their shoe leather
lasts.
What | want is an act of congress-
validating all the Withdrawals OF land
that have been made and giving me
power To make such further with
drawals as ought TO be made until
congress has determined the proper
disposition OF those lands
Meets Opposition.
The president said he was meeting
opposition from those who wish an
immediate disposal OF the land and
those who question the constitutional
power Of the president 10 make with
drawals.
President Taft's address at the BAN
quet of the Irish Fellowship club was
as follows
Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen OF the
Irish Fellowship club: IL Is two years
since | tasted the fine flavor of your
hospitality at a luncheon where my
stay was only too short for my pleas
ure. when your honorable committee
visited me. therefore. I yielded to the
temptation and agreed to again be-
come your guest when you should
meet to celebrate the day that awak-
ems the heart of every thorough son
I OF ireland.
ST. Patricks day In the morning.
never quite understood the signifi-
cance of the last words of the phrase
unless they meant the brightness of
the morning did not wear away until
long In the night of that day In the
spirit of those who are loyal to the
anniversary.
'On such an occasion 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 St Patrick played
in her civilization and development.
st. Patrick was born probably on
the banks Of the Severn at town
that he called Bennaventa. 3s9 years
after the birth of Christ He was the
son Of British-celt and Roman cit-
zen named calpurnus and his wife.
concessa. They were of the same race
az those for whom he lived and
died
Is Captured.
When during the mutation OF the
Roman empire, protection was with
drawn from Britain. young Patrick az
the age of 16 was captured by an
Irish maraading force and taken To
Ireland and there, for six years. In
the far western part OF connaught.
served In bondage as 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 province southern France and
In monastery but recently founded
on the island of Larinus. found refuge
In the cloister of ST. Honoratus, and
there became monk
After few years of monastic life
he returned TO Britain TO visit his
home and friends and while there he
definitely formed the purpose OF re-
deemlng the island of his captivity
'''ii pabhFI'0Ih anu bflU6lHk II HltnlI
the Christian church.
Firm Union.
st. Patrick introduced into Ireland
the Latin language. II became the
language of the church all over the
island and ii made union with Rome
that has never since been broken. He
laid the foundation of the culture and
the spread OF education and the de-
velopment of the liberal arts which
put Ireland in the forefront of ciyli-
cation for 900 years Her history
thereafter is a sad one Had the Ro-
mans conquered her as they did Brit
ain. had the Saxons followed and then
the Normans so as 10 make a homo-
geneous people covering the three is
lands with the same history and the
same interests and the same race, We
should not have the tale of sorrow,
of injustice, of outrage, of poverty,
suffering and neglect that fill the
pages Of Irish history from soon after
the Norman conquest of England Ia
the early days of the last century.
Certainly not until the 10th and
goth century have governmental meas
| ures been adopted in Ireland To better
conditions of the Irish people Dur
ing the centuries preceding the 18th
and clear back to the time OF Tudor
they have been subject 10 legislation
the whole purpose Of which was selfish
exploitation, not of the Irish people.
but of the dominant country The re-