The herald., 1912-03-21
a NOTABLE EVENT OF ST. PAT
KICKS DAY IN ALGIERS, AT
ST. MARY'S HALL.


Oil of Daniel o'ConneIl, the Gift
of M. S. Mahoney, to Division No.
g, Ancient Order of Hibernians.
Daniel O'COnnell, the great Irish
Lfberator, was born in County Kerry,
Ireland. in the year A. D. 1915 and was
a Junior contemporary of Henry Graf
tan. John Philipot Curran; all three
great lawyers, orators and statesmen,
and leaders of the Irish bar. Daniel
.O'Connell attended school in the Coun-
ty Cork, Ireland, and afterwards at
tended the colleges of ST. Omer and
Douai, in France, where he cultivated
that religious training which shaped
his future life. These years in France
had another effect in forming his judg-
ment on political questions of import
ance. He was an eyewitness, or sew
eral occasions, of the follies, the ex-
cesses and the horrors of the French
Revolution; and these scenes not only
increased his love for his Church, and
increased the courage of his religious
convictions, but strongly impressed
him with the dread of anarchy; of pop
ular movements, resulting in blood
shed, and of commrnistic and extreme
social views, which characterized him
in afterlife.
To these experiences, also, we may
partly ascribe the reverence for law
and order; for the rights of property
and personal rights, which he sincere
" felt. And the greatest ambition of
his life was to secure for the people of
Ireland the Heaven-born right to wor-
ship Almighty God accoding to the
dictates of their own ideas; and under
the forms most agreeable to them;
and he became the leader in the strug
gle for Catholic emancipation, in which
he was victorious and history will for
ever record him as the Father of Cath
Ollie Emancipation in Ireland. A nota-
BILE fact, in accomplishing such great
results, is that it was done without
rioting and bloodshed. He organized
the people and forces Of Ireland, under
his leadership, that at the supreme
moment, they stood as one man, and
thereby rendered their demands of the
British Government irresistible. He
would accept no compromise, and his
terms were an unconditional surren-
der to the wishes of the people of Ire
land; full Catholic emancipation or
nothing. He was a born leader, de-
scending from the race of Celtic chiefs
who were great in war; greater in
peace; and greatest in their love for
God and country. They represented
the scattered forces of the greatest
of the Greek and Roman warriors. The
methods of organization adopted by
O'Connor, and its success, is an exam
day, in their struggles for justice and
right against the warning elements of
capital arrayed against them; for If
they, under similar leadership, stand
together as a unit, they can also rem
der their demands irresistible, and
that too without rioting and bloodshed.
Mr.. Mahoney presented the picture
in short, but neat address and among
other things said that in parting with
1t, he parted with something that
money could never buy from him; and
while it was always a source of pleas
rue and inspiration to- him to look upon
1t while in his home, he frequently
thought of how much more pleasure
and inspiration it would be to others,
while hanging on the walls of the
meeting room of Division No. 9, and
that he hoped that the Division would
cherish and protect it and that the ex-
ample of his life might always recall
in the minds of Irishmen and the sons
of lrishmen Of Algiers, for all time to
come, of pleasant memories of the EN-
erald Isle and the great man of Ire
land.
The picture was received by ]. H.
Lewis, on behalf of Division No. 8, in
a few eloquent words and a rising
vote of thanks given to Mr.. Mahoney
for the gift.