The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-22
TRADITIONS OF IRELAND
 AND IDEALS OF HER PEOPLE
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 welfare hereafter, Be temperate now for the honor, the happiness, the im- mortality of your country, act honest ly and truthfully to one another, watch, wait and leave the rest to God.''
 These also are the sentiments Of this organization and under them it has and will prosper.
 Does this gathering mean that we, the descendants of Ireland's sons and daughters, love not this 'our country, this the best land of all? Does it mean that we are less loyal to every act and every conduct that goes to make up good citizenship? Does it mean that because we love old Erin, her history her songs, her sorrows and her joys, makes us less true to those principles of government upon which this nation has been builded and has succeeded?
 No! million times No For this was my country to the son of Ire- land way back in the days when Que bee fell and the military life and his- tory of America began. It was ''my country with Sullivan, Wayne, Moy- land, Proctor, Clinton, Jack Barry, the OBriens, McDonalds and Stewards in the days when the colonists struggled for liberty and freedom. My coun- try" it was to all of Irelands sons when the fields of this land were still untitled, when her towns were rav- aged, when hostile guns were trained upon her villages. when all the forces were pledged for her destruction.
 She was my country to the sons of Erin in the early days as she was
 my country later when the desert was reduced to cultivation, when up-l on the banks of rivers whose waters knew no sound or sign. of life. except the canoe Of the Indian bent upon plunder and destruction Irishmen were building the foundations for those mighty marts of industry, upon whose pavements the feet of millions beat today, hurying at sunrise to fruitful labor and returning at sunset to well earned rest
 throes of war the union was endanger- ed and the blood of Irishmen contrib uted to that noble tide that wiped the stain of slavery from that flag and made this land free for every living, brea thing human being.
 She is "my country to Ireland's sons whenever danger may assail her, whether it be from incorporate polit- ical proposals, whether it be from wild theories subversive of all government, or whether again in the providence of God any combination of farces shall bring hostile ships upon the sea to cause danger to her integrity.
 My country" she will remain to all Irishnen and sons of Irishmen who have helped to build her greatness and spread her glory.
 My country she will be to future generations of Irfshmen and their off, springs, who mindful of the glory that Erin's sons have achieved for this land, and the services rendered, shall live and die with the spirit of nation ality ever before them, and the feel ing in the bosom of each, that the call of patriotism is addressed to him alone, no matter whatever difficulties surround him, whether it be loss of or loss of popularity, his eye must remain upon his duty alone and emulate the noble Jack Barry when he said, ''If you or no man re- main faithful I will be found when ever patriotism calls me, wherever duty points the way, whatever it may cost, for no other reward than the glory of this land peopled by the fam flies of Irishmen. the guiding star of the Irish people all over the world and of Irishl11en struggling to establish up- on their own soil institutions of lib- erty, of justice and of progress which | in this country have made a splendor and a glory that guides the footsteps of mankind to peace and prosperity and happiness.