The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-17
HURRAH FOR IRISH
Dave Leahy Inspired by st.
Patrick Talks.
Tells What His Followers Have
Accomplished.
MARK IN EVERY LAND.
Achievements of Irishmen Not
Limited to One Nation.
Shine in Finance, Literature
and States Craft.
MARK IN EVERY LAND.

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the soil of every land and sailed the wa
/ tiers of every sea- With the possible
| exception of the children of Israel nc
/ people have been such wanderers, and
wherever they have gone they have
carried his Gme and his memory.
There is no nation under the sun today.
where his coIors will not be seen. They
| have done some good in every quarter
! of the globe, and found some distinc-
| ton there.
when Napoleon lay dying upon the
island of ST. Helena, it was an Irish
man-Dr. O'Meara-who attended him.
In the court of Charles the Bald of
France-and tina was a good thousand
years ago-it was John Erigena who
said the things that were noted by the
wits of that age. The hand that struck
down the Great Bohemian of the thirty
years war-the famous Wallenstein-
was the hand of an Irishman. 1t was
Count O'ReiIly who built the fortified
tions of Havana for the Spanish, 14s
years ago. 1t was the sword of Am
brosio O'Higgins which gave freedom to
Chilli It was Admiral Lynch who de-
] Tended her shores. When the Duke Oh
Wellington went to Spain to thwart the
plans of Napoleon he found an O'Neill
secretary of war for that country. This
| gentleman had been captain general of
! Yucatan for Spain, as Juan O'Don-
oughue was the last Spanish viceroy OF
Mexico. In the meantime Juan Ber-
nardo O'Gabin was building up the
, Spanish educational system in the
4, West Indies Over on the other side of
the world the sons of st. Patrick have
not been idle. One of them built up
the financial system of Greece. another
/ fought bravely for Turkey and third
/ Helped to reconstruct the military sys-
tenn of Russia. Up in Austria DIR. Nc
Nevin was the court physician to the
, Great Maria Theresa And even now
they are doing honorable service in
i foreign lands@Count O'Clery as private
/ chamberlain to the pope. J. r. O'Con-
/ nell as governor general of Kordopan
in the Soudan, Richard O'Connor DIS
judge of the high court of Australia,
! William O'Connor in the service of tile
shah of Persia, Dennis ODonohue as
chief of the department of public in
struction in France, David O'Keefe Is
4 leader of the people of Tasmania and
! G NJ. O'Rourke as speaker of the hous'
of representatives in New Zealand. Sir
Francis O'Callaghan is the railroad
magnate in India, as Sir Thomas
O'Shaughnessy is the great head of the
Canadian Pacific in our sister country.
First in America.
''In the annals of America the sons
of st. Patrick have been in evidence.
Legend has it that st. Brandon set out
from Ireland many centuries before
4 Columbus set out from Spain and was
the first white man to set his foot on
the soil of America. Nine sons of st.
Patrick put their names to the Declar-
alton of Independence. James Nc
Henry-a full blooded I~ishman-was
George Washington's first military
secretary. John Barry was the first
admiral of our navy. Jerry O'Brien
commanded the Shamrock in the Rev
dictionary war and Admirals McComb,
! McDonough and Decatur did some
| excellent work for the new republic.
1t was Thomas Mexican who made
| Thomas Jefferson president of the
United States, and the battle of New
Orleans was won by General Jackson,
the son of an Irishman. Sam Houston
wen the independence of Texas and
often expressed pride in the Irish
blood in his veins. Staunton. Grant,
McFeeley, Sheridan. Phil Kearney,
Black Jack Logan, Stephen McGoarty,
| James Shields, Foresythe the Indian
fighter, Coppinger and keogh were all
either Irish or of Irish descent. And
it can not be forgotten that it was
Fred Funston, the grandson of DON
egal man, who captured Aguinaldo,
that 'Bucky' O'Nein of Arizona was
! Roosevelt's favorite at San Juan hill,
that a monument was erected in the
Philippines the other day to the grand
nephew of Robert Emmett. the Irish
patriot and that it was Reilly's bat
terry, commanded by full blooded son
of ST. Patrick that gave fame to our
country before the walls of Pekin in
the Boxer war.
I'm American business, financial
and Industrial life we have had many
honorable sons of ST. P@trick. A. Z.
\ Stewart was the dry goods prince of
his time Thomas Ryan is the finan-
cial genius of this day, Jim Hill is our
greatest railroad builder. Daniel O'Day
is a star of the first magnitude in the
Efl9nnPrV
is the most illustrious business man
of New Orleans. Colonel Saunders is
the great bank organizer of Florida,
John Mccall was thes constructor of
the New York Life and Alexander Orr
is now it's president. Cu6ahy Brothers
are great packers, Captain John j.
Healey was the commercial pathfinder
| of Alaska, the Alaskan cable was laid
Il by a man named Lynch and Mackay
I laid both an Atlantic and Pacific cable.
Il Samuel Bayne has organized more ma
tiona4 banks than any man il America
and George Whalen is the cigar king
of the country, George Russell and
Tim Sullivan are the cattle barons of
Thomas Waeshs Fair. Flood and
O'Brien were our greatest miners. Pig
Iron Kelley was the man who made
Pittsburg.$ and Alexander Macomb-a
full bleoded Irishman-is said to have
been the first millionaire in the United
States.
Irish as Scholars.
"In scholarship the sons Of st. Pat
rick have always been at the forefront
and many missionaries of learning
went forth from Ireland lin the dark
ages. In literature thew have made
their mark In America we find Irish
men active both north and south. Rob-
ert Alexander. the founder of Wash
/ ington and Lee university, was
among them, as were the late DR.. Har-
per of the University of Chicago,
Maurice Francis Eagan now minister
Ito Denmark. the late John Boyle
IO'ReilIy. A. D. Murphy the father of
the public school system of North