The Irish standard., 1914-01-03

oSb SHolI Lluu vi lIlG CIdDIGr, SAID IN
part:
This meeting carries with it no DO.
litical or religious significance. The
Order to which the Genoese mariner
has lent the lustre of deathless name,
would be untrue to that love of Amer
lean institutions, which it inculcates
next to love of the Supreme Being
Himself, il for a single instant it al
lowed its patriotism to be cribbed,
cabined or confined within the narrow
limits of bigoted sectarianism.
The brilliant Mayor.elect, in whose
honor we are assembled and the dis.
thgulshed Jurist who was his oppo-
nent in the recent contest for the
highest honor within the Gift Of this
municipality, and many other distin-
gulshed representatives of every walk
in life who grace this board tonight.
are types of this Order and of that
citizenship which is our example and
our ideals, and il these ideals be trea.
sonable, then let our A. p. A. friends
make the most of them.
The Grandson of a Patriot.
II am glad to raise nv voice IN
unison with the other speakers to
hohor not only brother knight, but
10 acclaim as the Chief Executive If
the greatest American city. the grand.
son OF the man who represents nores.
tilah any other man in hundred
years, the embodiment of the spirit of
lreland's fight for Nationhood and
VINO sacrificed his life and his all and
went into exile for the Old Land in
"hlch ] first saw light. Liberty ia
sacred, said John Mitchell at banquet
III San Francisco sixty years ago: and
ireland is dear, and Justice is eternal.
ana my cause was, and is, and while
llVe shall be, the cause of Irish froo.
dom against English tyranny Tins
dld lreland's great patriot of '4S give
expression to the sentiment which EN-.
bodied his entire philosophy of life.
philosophy which must forever keen
the memory Of John Mitchell green.
Wherever Irish exiles may roam and
Wherever lovers of liberty shall be
gathered together.
History repeats itself; and it is no
very far cry from John Mitchell of AZ
hghting for his right to life, liberty
ana the pursuit of happiness, to the
John Mitchell of 1913 leading in tho
fight for good government here in
thls Temple of the Worlds Freedom.
where men of every race and creed
can walk erect in Gods free air.
thanks to the Colonists successful re-
sistance to the identical laws against
"hlch his grandfather revolted in vain
and thanks to the Washingtons, Jef-
1ersons, Adams. Patrick Henrys.
barrys, Moylans and Carols, and tho
other deathless patriots. the Mitcba,a
of 1916.
A Significant Fact.
1T is not without significance. but
rather portent Of happiest omen. that
the grandson of Irelands great pa.
triot should be elevated to the Chief
Maglstracy of the Empire City of the
western Hemisphere, at time when
the dark clouds which have hung
heavy over Innisfail are passing away.
ana the bright dawn towards which
all eyes have been so long and so
wistfully turned, is breaking over the
Old Land. When the mist of tears
That has bestowed the green fields of
Erin Is dissolving before the re-
splendent sun of Freedom, and the
time of the singing of the birds fs
at hand.
When. in 1S4S, John Mitchell stood
up In the dock to receive the sen.
tence OF exile to which tyranny con-
signed him for having loved his M.
tive land not wisely but too we'll, he
cried out to his countrymen in the
courtroom: Can l not promise that +
hundreds will follow my example, and (
Immediately the courtroom reverber-
ated with the thunderous rejoinder-
promise for me Mitchell, and for ma.
and for me- an
Love Of Country Our Motto. .
And now in this year Of grace
nineteen hundred and thirteen. where
ever and under whatsoever guise the !
issue Is joined; in the contest against.
the forces Of lawlessness and an
archy' IN the; struggle for liberty. h,.ss