The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-07-29
Pilgrims Pray for Irish Patriot as
They File Past His Last
Resting Place.
Tone Was True Hero Who Loved
Right Principles Better Than
His Life.
His Memory Still Held Dear by the
Whole People of the Land for
Which he Died.

vi ocIo1uoJS July ., IOOh pltiSO Il1C
annual pilgrimage to Bodenstown
Churchyard, where lies the grave of
Wolfe Tone. Hundreds of the ex-
cursionists wore white badges on
which were printed in black letters
the words, Thou art not conquered
yet, dear land" The people formed in
ranks, two abreast, and marched SLOW
ly by the grave of the Irish patriot,
reciting prayers in Gaelic. Honorable
James M. Sullivan was chosen to de-
liver the address. He spoke in part
as follows:
We meet at the grave Of an exalted
one OF our kind more than century
after his death-we meet in the quiet
of this country graveyard beside this
old ruined church within whose walls
men and women Of other times made
their petitions and promises to God;
we meet in the midst of these graves
where lie the Wondering remains of
other generations who were born, lived
and departed since the day that the
gallant Tone was laid to rest on this
peaceful hillside. We come here as
pilgrims and not merely to do honor
to the memory of one who sacrificed
all earthly things for his country's
good, not alone to reverently uncover
in the resting place of his sacred
ashes and to thank God that one of
the torch-bearers for the goddess of
human liberty as she marches forever
onward and upward was of our flesh
and of our bone. We come for the ad-
ditional, the greater, the better rea.
son we are here that the whole world
may witness at this particular time
that we renew our vows to adhere
loyalty and steadfastly to the prin-
ciples of government that Tone died
for; principles whose application have
been the foundation stone upon which
has been built since his death in the
great Western Hemisphere the most
exalted government the world has ever
known-principles which repudiate all
kings, princes, and potentates, and
which, when the time arrives that
right will find it's way in this land,
will be laid as foundations upon which
q structure of government will be
erected, government of the Irish
people for the Irish people and by the
Irish people. We are here, my friends,
that the world may know we are still
worthy to honor the men who died and
suffered for this beautiful Motherland,
to send forth the message to every
land and cline where the cause OF
freedom has friend, that the pres
ence of an English king in Ireland, no
matter how worthy man he may
be, no matter how much homage the
British garrison in Ireland may pay
him, is still considered an intrusion
and all invasion by right-minded Irish
men as it was hundred years ago
when another George visited these
shores, and as it was seven hundred
years ago when Henry II. cast bis evil
influence upon our country. II Ire
lands attitude were other than this,
ireland would no longer be honored
as the great champion of liberty; she
would be disguised. There are those
who believe that the fire of Irish pat
riotism is burning low; there is no
flare to illuminate Ireland's sky at
this time, but the fire is burning deep
ly in the hearts of the Irish people,
feeding upon the story as it is re-
told to eager listening ears and ready
to burst forth an unquenchable blaze,
sweeping from mountain to valley,
burning away the barriers that separ-
ate our vale from a glorious future
Z of independence untrammelled by the
slightest restriction of foreign domi-
nation or interference. This passion
for Liberty cannot die, my
friends; it suffers many defeats, many
disappointments; it lives on forever;
generation hands down to generation
this ever-present longing for nations
right, from the blood which Tone split
with his fellows in '9S the men of '4S
ssprang.
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