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melodies were in perfect accord with the
patriotic emotions OF the audience. Les
sor's full orchestra OF IL pieces FURNISH
ed the greater part OF the music. Miss
Hazel Morgan, as accompanied, perform
ed in her usual fautless manner.
The program in full was as follows:
"Dreams of Erin" .....,......,...DeWitt
Orchestra.
Mother Machree,"
Mrs. NJ. Carney.
Irish Airs" (medley),
Orchestra.
Irish Chivalry, Salvation Of the Ma
ton" Thomas A, Mullen
"Old Irish Dance" Crio) alderman
Violin, Lillian Masner; flute Mary Mag
ner; piano, Hazel Morgan.
Bohemian Girl .....................Bal fe
Orchestra.
"Macushla" ..............bertha Denning
Irish Melodl D" violin solo)
(a) Snowybreasted Pearl.
(b) Coolin.
(c) Come Back to Erin.
Lillian Magner.
| Songs OF Erin" Orchestra
In the boxes and on the platform were:
Mayor James r. Burke, the Revs. PEN
ders, Plamondon Lacouture, Kearney,
ellis, Kennedy and Cassidy; Colonel w.
J. Nicholson and Captain c. G. Harvey
of Fort Ethan Allen r. r. Wright state
president of the Ancient order of Hiber-
mans, and Mrs. Wright: T.. r. Corley,
grand knight OF the Knights of Column
bus. and Mrs. Corley; John j. Boland
president of the Catholic club of tho uni
versity; Joseph NJ. Flynn, president
of the local division Of the Ancient Or
der of Hibernans; r. A. Delany.
chief ranger of the Catholic order Of
Foresters; Captain and Mrs. Ira L.
Reeves. Mr.. Mullen, the speaker of the
evening, was introduced by Mayor Burke.
MIR. MULLEN'S ADDRESS.
Mr.. Mullens address was delivered in
the most eloquent possible manner and
was punctuated with applause. He said
in part:
1t Is not my purpose in speaking to you
tonight to lay stress upon St Patrick,
nor upon ST. patrick's day nor upon the
history of ireland. But | will call atten-
ton to the fact that the Irish have always
been noted for possessing chivalry in the
broadcast acceptation of the word.
| am often asked what ! consider the
capital weakness of vice, the cardinal sin
of to-day. particularly as we observe it
in America. And the answer is, irrever-
ence. trreverence--not wholly with regard
to sacred things, but taking the form
of a disregard of law and authority.
The Irishman Of the generation now re-
firing had so much respect for law that
he viewed with awe and reverence any
thing that symbolzed authority. To him
the policeman was an object of respect,
because the policeman represented the
majesty Of the law. Does the young
man of to-day hold the law in as high
respect as his immigrant father? / doubt
it very much.
But there are two classes of persons
Lmore entitled to our loving regard than
any others-woman, who makes the home
and is queen therein, and the child, the
hope and promise and pledge of the per-
petuity of our institutions. 1t would he
well for US for a few minutes to consider
the place that woman occupies in the d.
vine economy, as giving reason for the
regard in which she should be held by
man.
There Is a disposition to belittle woman,
to sneer ut her qualifications and to as
sign to her a subordinate place in the
scheme of things But we must not for
get that from her very creation from the
side of Adam she has occupied a position
of equality with man. An old theologian,
in speaking OF the creation of woman from
the side of Adam, says: Mark well, God
took woman not from mans head. because
she was not to he his superior. He did
not take her from his feet because she
from his side because she was to be his
equal"
have read the history of the seven an
Client monarchies. know well the history
of Greece and Rome and the later repub-
lies of Venice and Genoa, and my study
leads me to the Irresistible conclusion
that as the women of a country are. Sc
that country will be. And when man for
gets his respect for woman nay more
when woman loses her respect for herself
political disintegration begins. political
dissolution follows, and the historian
takes his pen In hand to write the decline
and fall of that people.
At this point the speaker combatted
the theory that the school IS the corner
stone of the republic, advanced the belief
that the home is the real cornerstone
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institution Of the divorce.
Mr.. Mullen then took up the subjec,
of the reverence due to children. He
showed that Pompeii and Herculaneun
came to their fail because by their vices
they set a bad example to the rising gen
erations. lie called attention to the utter
necessity for adults to teach the young
what is good, by precept and by example
He drew on the Scriptures for illustra-
tons of the truth OF this He showed
that if the republic is to endure as ~
, IL trust it will the present generation
must transmit its precious inheritanc,
, untarnished to the next.
He denounced the attempt to teach
, eugenics In our schools, a course which
! he termed las illogical as it would b,
to teach spelling properly by setting
list of words mispelled over against Z
list, of words spelled properly" He founC
as a remedy for the immortality said tC
{ exist among the young, proper teachinl
e in the home and the use of the con
| fessional.
I He spoke about the sacrifice which tn,
Irish father and mother coming to thi
) country without any education made t,
4 supply the education which was deniec
them He told of the numerous instances
: Of chivalry which history records of tn
Irish, and of the high regard which tn
= Irish have for woman.
4 The Grafton closed with an exhortatio,
= to keep well in mind this respect 70
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