The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-17

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 Eggs were selling at 44c ( butter at from 70 to 54 cents a equalled by the United States of America, only if our country had put in the field 4.250,000 volunteers We had a total of something less than 100000. There were s.763.O00 un- der the colors when the armisttce was signed. But they were not one-halP volunteers. We elected to make con scription the main element in form ing our army. ConsCription was never applied to Ireland. Every man from that country was 9 volunteer. More than 400, ,O0O Irishmen all told fought under the British colors, but little Ireland with her population of 4,381,O0O furnished 1S1,Oo0 volun- teers for the cause of democracy and liberty.
 In our own forces the first man to be killed was the Irish-bIooded boy, John McNamara of Pennsylvania, killed on April ', 1917, guarding bridge at Reading, Pa The first to be killed abroad was the Irish-blood- ed officer, pr. William T. T.zsin- mons of Kansas City. The first enlist ed man to fire a shell at the Germans was the Irish-bIooded John H. Pitt man, of South Bend, Ind. Among the first three enlisted men to fall in ac- ton were Gresham, the English de- scended American, and Hay, on Nov. 2, 1917. the Scotch descended Amer1- can. The third was the Irish -blooded Thomas P. Enrtght of Pittsburgh, Pa Gems. James W. McAndrew, Hugh Drum, John F. O'Ryan. Francis J. Herman, John P. McMahon. Michael Hines, Frank MoInt%tre and several others give an Irish look to the men in high command, while Admirals Griffin and McGowan remind us that the navy wes represented as to Irish Americans from the high posts down.
 Have Kept Their Faith.
 The Irish have carried the faith of Patrick around the world. Their great churChmeu, bishops and pnests have mado their mark in every coun- try that the Irish have entered. As in South America, Irishmen fought for liberty, and great names like O'Higgins are revered, 50 are great Irish churchmen like Father FaIkiner of Patagonia and Father Field in Paraguay remembered. Here, great churchmen such as Cardinals Me Closkey, Gibbons, Farley and O'Con- nell, with numerous archbishops and bishops and priests have led their people, preserved the faith, aided the country, taught obedience to law, as sisted in maintaining peace and order and have infused that spirit of ser vice and sacrifice, which is funda- mental in the Catholic re zion into the preservation and defense of this country and its institutions of liberty.
 Irish love of home, Irish religious feeling, Irish eXaltation Of female chastit- Irish generosity to suffering humanity have ever distinguished the Irish race. Irish sacrifice to pre- serve religion, Irish devotion to na- tional ideals. Irish tenacity to the love of liberty and democracy have leavened the world. Irish love of learning has made the sons of the Irish leaders in professions. Irish initiative and willingness to labor have made Irishmen great builders. indus trial magnates, explorers and nation makers Irish genius for govern ment has brought Irish -bIooded Pres idents, like Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Grant. Mckinley, Arthur, Roosevelt and Wilson to the great post of Presi- 1 dent of the United States. Irish music has softened and enthraIed and captivated the world Irish humor has made the world a brighter place and Irish literature. from Swift, and Sheridan and Steele and Goldsmith, | From Moore and Weaver, Griffin. | Yeats. Russell and many others has softened the manners, or stirred the 1 pulses OF enthralled the imagination so as to make civiliza ton more last | ing.
 British Liberty.
 Modern Ireland holds the spirit of the Irish race. Modern Ireland looks 1 at the subjugated BeIgians emerging from the night Of oppression; of divided Poland being reconstructed as a nation; Of liberated Ukraine; of Alsace-Lorraine, happy in restoration | to France; Of Serbia and Afontene- | gro coming into the dawn of ne"- nb- | erty; of CzechO-Slovakia, new among | the nations of the earth; of Jugo- SlavIa, created by the aspirations of i the Southern SIavs and the willing ness Of the United States and the AL lies to give self-government to peo- ples who desire that priceless boon. | And holding out its hands in appeal to the victors in the Great War, Ire land asks that civilization and justice i combine to inspire in the hearts of the statesmen who are deciding the l fates of the nations of the world that | Ireland. for 750 wars under alien rule ha freed from that domination and | '-r-4 she rise in the western sea "a nat'on once again " inalienably gifted 7r-'th the right to life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
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