The broad ax., 1913-03-22
Governor William Suzer
Of New York Spoke
at the Banquet
AT THE CELEBRATION DAY MONDAY EVENING
MARCH IT, AT WALDORF HOTEL NEW YORK CITY

liberty and patriotic fervor. General
washington gave orders for celebrat-
ing the day in 1850, at MorristoWn,
New Jersey. We read of his dining
with the Friendly Sons of Saint Pat
rick. where the triumphant demOe-
racy'; 'the American President; 'our
Army; 'our Navy; 'our heroes and
our martyrs; were hOnOred with
hearty toasts.
''In those days, as today, the Irish
people were known for their joyous
dispositions; for their hearty aPpre-
citation; for every kindness bestowed;
for their reverence and veneration for
the good and great; and for their am
bition to achieve industrial and politi-
cal freedom and independence.
"Irishmen have never believed that
government is a compact between those
who govern and those who are gov
erned. They have always been imbued
with the spirit of the Declaration of
independence that the people eomPos-
ing any country constitute the sover-
eign power; and that governments only
have a right to arise through a com
pact of the people with each other.
''Irishmen have ever believed in gov
ernments arising out of the people and
not over the people. They have never
ceased to protest, and never will cease
to protest against government by con-
quest. No country has more unhappily
illustrated the evils of government
founded on conquest than has Ireland.
"The old-time spirit of l776, which
wrote the Declaration of Independence,
which declared that all men are created
equal, and endowed by their Creator
with the inalienable right of life and
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
gives rise today to the sentiment for
Home Rule, and to the demand that the
people of every. community shall have
the right to govern their own affairs.
'Let me say again what have often
said before that I am now, always
have been and ever will be, firm be-
Hever in Home Rule-in the doctrine
of the right Of the people to govern
themselves. In my opinion every com
munity of men inherently possess the
right of self-government, and its de-
NAL has ever compelled the friends of
liberty to seek through the most heroic
struggles to attain this right when
denied by despotie rulers.
"The establishment of the United
States has shown that the people can
be trusted with self government. The
eyes of suffering Ireland have ever been
fixed on US with Joy and hope, where
every man is a sharer in the direction
of government he feels that he is a
partieipator in its affairs not merely
on Election Day, but on every day in
the year.
ga government of the people is the
only government which is not eternally
at war with the rights of man."
"Saint Patrick was a Home Ruler.
He stood for local self government. At
no time can we more appropriately look
forward to visions of a more perfect
State, dealing out even-handed JUS
tiee to all, than upon these annual eele-
brations of Saint Patrick s Day, when
we rejoice that thrones are erumbling;
that King craft is passing away; that
the aristocraey of idleness is vanishing;
that industrial slavery is going the
way of ehattel slavery; where the
homes of the working people will be
supplied not only with the neeessaries
of life, but with some of its luxuries;
where honest work will reap its just
. reward; where society viii see no hon
est girl driven by poverty to the des-
perate choice of suicide or shame;
where the shadow of the gallows will
no longer fall; where we shall see no
more oppressed, humanity's outstreteh-
ed hand-but where love will reign,
and in every heart shall shine the
I bright star of hope eternal"