The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-30
Postmaster Farley
 Pays Tribute To Erin
GIOrifes Liberty Loving Spirit of Sons of Irish;
 EuIOgizes Wandering Lust of Early Explorers z

diers in the Revolutionary army were born in Ireland; they moi only swelled. the ranks, but they lead the ranks, and no fewer than ninteen generals in the Continent | tai army were Of Irish birth or blood. The first armed attack for American Independence on land was made by Major General John Sullivan, and the first armed ate tack on sea was made by Jeremta h O'Brien. No wonder Lord Mout- joy arose before the English Par liament to explain the cause of England's. defeat in these rec markable words: America was lost by Irish emigrants."
 Irish Editors < It is rather interesting to note that the first daily newspaper in America the Pennsylvania Paeket'' vas edited by John Dunlap of Philadelphia, who was born in Tyrone, ireland in 1747s 6iThc first American writer in Political Economy was Matthew Carey, born in Armagh in 17G1;-the first Presbyterian church in New Eng land was founded by James Mac Greggor who was born in Ireland in 1677: the first Republican Methodist church in North Caro-. iina and Virginia was founded by James O'Keliey who was born fl, 17S5. The first Roman Catholic Bishop, John Carroll, was a couy- in of an Irishman, Charles Carroll of Carrolton, who was one of the Catholic signers of the Declaration or Independence, the wealtiest of those who signed it and the one destined to outlive all his fellow signatories. It was this same Charles Carroll who laid the fou.l- dations of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad when in his ninety first year. And to come imm ediately up to date, there are sixteen ancient Irish names mentioned in the new senate, and sixty-nine in the mem- bership of the New House of Rep- resentatives, an excellent progeny or the ten Irish who signed their names to the Delcaration of h. dependence. 9,-
 O'Rcilly These and other great contribu. tions of the nationIess nation mak- CTS have found their poetic expr.s- l sion in the language of one of Ireland's exiled songsters, John Boyle O'Reilly:
 No treason We bring from Erin-nor bring we shame nor guilt!
 The sword we hold may be broken, but we have not dropped the hit!
 The wreath we bear to col umbia Is twisted of thorns, not bays:
 And the songs we sing are saddened by thoughts. of desolate days. D But the hearts we bring for Freedom are washed in the
 surge of tears;
 And we claim our right by a
 Peoples fight outliving a thousand years"
 When we understand the deeds or those who have gone before US, then we shall be better able to understand ourselves; when we understand ourselves, we shall bet ter realize what is expected of us ana better prepare ourselves for II: Where there is so much un- kindness there is need for kindly people. Where there is so much sciIisnness there Is need for the unseltisn. Where there are mon who are so often guided by self interest, there Is need of those who nave passion for principle. Where there is a disposition to give a man number instead of a name, tnere IS need of people who prize their independence. Where there IS justice, there is need of a people who have justice bred in. their bones such as the Irish. If you point the finger of scorn at a few cases of political injustice among the descendants of the lr- ish, may l ask why are you so scandalized? Why do those few instances of political injustice stand out so conspicuously. If it be not. because you expected something better of them? The measure of your scandal isH the measure of the high repute in which you hold theml The few pieces of counterfeit money must not blind Us to the value of money. There Is no escape from thefact tHaI we are what we are today, because Ireland loved Justice. New CT in an hour of danger to the republic has she failed to rush 10 its defense. And never, in the ordinary affairs of life, taking them one after another, has she failed to measure up to the highest standards of private and communal obligations. It is our duty then to place before the present gener- ation the record of the past, and to recall the deeds and devotions of those who were consecrated to a strict and impartial justice. Per- haps we can do no better than to seek out the foundation of their love of justice and build upon 1t. It Is all very well to be modern, but the modern has been built up- on the past. And just as per- son cannot think without going back into the storehouse of ilis memories as the basis of new thoughts, so neither can a nation think without going back into it's national experiences for the basis of It's newer achievements. .Trndi- ton is a memory. The waters 0f Greece and Rome wash upon the shores of modern art and law: Sd