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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1908)
TUESDAY, MARCH 17, IMS. . - . .... r.isxV 4 AMI V " " ' t TIliS MU11JNLNG ASTUlilAJN, AS'lUtim. uunu- . . m. E P b. w d la fr We Have Received Our New Assortment JARDINIERES and FERN DISHES In Matt Green. , . . See Window Display A. V. ALLEN SOLE AGENT FOR BAKER'S BARRINGTON HALL STEEL. CUT COFFEE. PHONES 711 AND 3871 BRANCH PHONE713 THE IRISH MELODIES GALORE CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH AND HISTORY OF SAINT PATRICK IN ST. MARY'S HALL. The celebration in St. Mary's Hall last evening was so well attended that the capacity of the building was tax ed. A most pleasing program was carried out and was as follows: "The Rose of Ireland," Master ,F. Lindstrom and Mrs. M. Brooks; "Isle of Beauty, Fare Thee Weill" Mrs. Charles Abercrombie; "The Meeting of the Waters," J. Moore; "The Shoogy Shoo," Miss C Kearney; ora tion of the day, by W. R. McGarry, the well known lawyer of Portland; "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls," Miss Kate Shively; "Holly Malone," N. Johnson; "Kathleen Mavourneen," Miss Lena Benoit; "The Son My Mother Used To Sing," Mrs. J. H. O'Connell; medley of Irish airs, Mrs. Charles Abercrombie. The address of Mr. W. R. McGarry was listened to with the closest at tention and was as follows: About 1500 years ago a child of Norman parents was sent into this world to become the greatest stand ard bearer of purity, justice and mercy that has ever consecrated a personal endeavor to the moral ad vancement of the human race. This child was St Patrick. And lie came at a time when the old world was just energing from the clouds of pagan corruption when thrones had crumbled away in civic rotteness when ancient dynasties had sunken into fugitive slavery and the princi ples of civil government were melt ing into universal barbarity and crime. The period of his birth was very much like that when the Savior of men began his glorious regeneration ef humanity .and the face of the civil ized world, outside of a few ancient cities, resembled that of America when the aborigines divided the land into warlike tribes. Ireland was then the home of the Druid and, was peopled by men and women of Carthegenian origin. The climate then, as now, resembled that of Western Oregon; and the soil, so rich and productive, furnished an en during and attractive incentive for the people to cultivate, in pastoral simplicity, the higher faculties of the mind and the heart. The mountains, alleys and waterways were and yet remain the most picturesque that ever beautified the world. It was a place so full of mystic glories, of poetic revelations and of imaginary tyrsts that poets, philosophers and patriots sprang like the native verdure into vigorous and aggressive prominence among the tribal bands of European savages, who were sunk in universal ignorance and superstitious gloom. . St. Patrick came to this ancient people as a little captive lad and be gan his probationary career as a slave among the Four Masters. He became acquainted with their manners, their customs and their habits of thought, and when he subsequently completed a theological training, he returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary and in a few years left behind him a name over when historians have marvelled and scholars have speculated and statesmen have pondered and theol ogians have meditated and to which the whole world will for ages yet to come look up with reverential awe. Now what was the secret of this wonderful achievement? It was not because he had built up a great dynasty. Not because he had great military genius. Not because he had built up a great government on the ruins of the poor man's liberty. Charles the Great and his dynasty are forgotten. Who ever hears of the military exploits of Verres? Who reveres the memory of Louis XIV? Yet these men, in temporal majesty, towered above this simple ecclesiastic as St Helens towers above your Co lumbia bar. These men were creatures of pomp an power and remorseless greed who believed in the theory of might over right and looked upon the poor and the unfortunate as so many beasts of burden to be worked to death so that they might revel in luxury and power. These men believed in keep ing humanity in ignorance so that they could claim a divine right to rule and impose this impious superstition upon the people they enslaved. They fomented racial hatred, so as to fur nish an excuse for the butchery of war; they kept up an incessant war to furnish an excuse for standing armies; they maintained their armies to furnish an excuse for taxation and they employed taxation to enrich their treasury, by the plunder the peo ple and cover the whole world with misery, ignorance, poverty, despond ency and human degradation. They left behind them castles and forts and monuments and they made of the world an unholy sepulchre for the burial of liberty and human love. In the world's chronology of moral de formity they furnished the apothesis of governmental corruption and re veal to the whole world the character istic and fundamental weakness of graft and tyranny among the social institutions of civilized man. On the other hand, St. Patrick en couraged the people in learning. He taught them to look upon ignorance as a mortal sin and as a civil crime. He converted then into the belief that happiness consisted in so using your own so as not to injure another in the exercise of his rights. He taught them that the liberty of the poor was better than the license of the great. That there was perfect equality in his scheme of human liberty and that everybody was equal before the law at the throne of impartial justice. He taught them that human government was instituted among men to restrain the criminal and protect the honest and the weak from the rescality of de signing power; thaf a public office was only a public trust and that an honest official was the noblest repre sentative of God. In a word he taught a simple lesson of civic virture and erected in the hearts of man a gov ernment of moral principles that is as vital today as it was when Ireland became the moral and intellectual mistress of the world. This was St. Patrick's great work. And this it is which keeps alive his memory and LATEST IIJ SUITINGS Having returned from San Francisco with a splendid stock of spring and summer suitings of the latest style and having spent several weeks in studying the fashions prevalent in that city, we are now more than ever in a position to give thorough satisfaction to the most fastidious dresser. NOT IN WORDS, BUT IN DEEDS. HAUTALA & RAITANEN Tailors, Corner Eleventh and Bond Streets mukes his conversion of Ireland the common heritage of all mankind. The precepts he incolcated and the prin ciples he established have been car ricd by Irishmen into, every land under the sun and wherever equality and justice have received their high est governmental sanction the scel has been planted ages ago by the pa tron saints of Ireland. The scholars of Ireland began in the fourth and fifth centuries a propa ganda against the ignorance and superstition of continental Europe. They began by educating the knights and barons in principles of chivalry and reverence of female virtue. They instructed King Ariovistus among hi Germanic retainers. They educated Charlemagne and his tributary princes and thus laid the foundation for lit erary supremacy and political freedom in France. They cultivated the gal lantry of chivalry and the poetical spirit of Andalusia from which has flowed the rich imagery of Cervantes, the graceful poetry of Camoens, the inspired eloquence of Castlear and the intellectual glory of Spain. From the village of Tours to the fertile vales of Samercand, they have given names of Irish comenclature to the most important points of continental Europe. They navigated the earth and visited the American continent when the rest of Europe was worship ing mythological deities in their for ests and mountain fastness. And it was for these services to the world that Ireland has for ages been called "The Land of Saints and Scholars." And when the so-called Reforma tion began its work of fury, and re ligious frenzy overspread the old world with the miseries of persecu tion and the barbarity of intolerance, the Irish swarmed to America and again renewed their splendid propo ganda in behalf of human liberty. The Declaration of Independence is an evidence of Ireland's contribution to American civilization and is the crown ing glory of a race of people which has been a vicarious sacrifice in be half of mercy and justice among the political institutions of the world. And let us observe who were those great men who clustered around our rranwins and our Jeffersons in the hour of national deliverance and who bared their rugged hearts to the bayonet of the oppressor and staked their earthly fortunes in the sacred cause of freedom and the holy name of American independence. There was John Hancock, the Irishman and Edward Rutledge, the Irishman, and Thomas Lynch, the Irishman, and Mathew Thornton, the Irishman, and James Smith and George Taylor, the Irishmen, and there were George Read and Thomas McKean, two more Irishmen; and there was Charles Thompson, another Irishman, and William Whipple and Robert Treat Paine were also Irish, and Thomas Xelson of Virginia, a descendant of the Strabane branch of the O'Neils, was another Irishman; and there was Charles Carroll, who when he came to sign the Declaration made sure that no innocent man would hang for his share in revolutionary warfare and with patriotic gallantry and heroic indignation, enrolled hjmself as "Charles Carroll of Carrolton," an other Irish candidate for slaughter! Now what do you thing of this list of Irishmen whose names are found on the Declaration of American Inde pendence? There were only thirteen revolting colonies. There were thir tcn Irish signers of the Declaration. And it was an Irishman who first publicly read this celebrated docu ment and proclaimed American inde pendence to the world. This man was Col. John Nixon, a cousin of Thomas Nelson and who up to the hour of his death was a member of the Sons of St. Patrick. Is this not a glorious contribution for a nation o feixlcs to bestow upon the American people? What other country can make such a splendid showing? And is it any wonder that when an Irishman steps upon Ameri can soil this soul become emanci pated, that his manhood walks abroad, that his spirit thrills with enterprise, and that his heart swells with patriot ism and he becomes the warrior, the statesman and the heroic defender of his adopted country's honor? From Lexington to Gettysburg; from Santiago to the embattled walls of Pckin, wherever American arms have shown into triumph and in lus ter, the Irish patriot has elevated his conquering brow and embellished the splendor of American achievement. Wherever human misery sends forth its cries or human sorrow moans be neath the iron foot of oppression, an Irish sword leaps from its scabbard to Irsh sword leaps from ts scabbard to vindicate the cause of freedom. Wher ever fraud or chicanery of hypocracy go forth to entrap the unwary, an Irish lip will somewhere curl in scorn and expose the base imposture. Wher ever truth is mightiest, or virtue is One of the Important Duties of Physicians and .. 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It would take a month to recount her grievances and then only touch the high places of criminal avarices, baronial greed and legisla tive ferocity that smell to heaven for revenge. But I wjll not weary you with such revolting details, I will merely give you a side-light on one of her mildest reasons for pressing her claims to home-rule. Yon understand that when we elect a legislature we do so only for pur poses of legislation. It would be criminal and unconstitutional for that legislature to pass an act declaring Oregon a part of Canada. But sup pose our legislature would do so and that Canada would take military pos session of our state, disarm our pco pie, appoint our governors, over throw our laws and confiscate our property? Wouldn't you resist such an act? Wouldn't you denounce it as an unholy usurpation and resent it as an unconstitutional and cowardly as sassination of national integrity and individual liberty? Of course you would. - And that is just the manner in which the legislative union of Ire land to England was accomplished. For over a century the people of Ireland have been subjected to a sys tem of carpet-bag legislation that has undermined her national exist ence, desolated her homes and scat tered her inhabitants to the four winds of the earth. Men, women and children have suffered the horrors of barbaric greed and starved in the very sight of plentyv Almost alone the Irishman is the only alien in his own country and martyrdom has been the fate of her noble sons and daugh ters. I need not tell you that such a manner lacks every clement of the sacrament and becomes a mock-marriage of such international interest that it compels the whole world to mourn the unhappy fate of Ireland. . Yet I do not despair of Ireland's ultimate resurrection. There is an in stinct in the hearts of men which tells them of their ultimate glories and sublimer destinies. The great god of battles is not always clad in the full panoply of war. His victories are not always accomplished amid the roar of battles and the lightning flash of arms. He sometimes comes with the olive and cypress as a messenger of peace and harmony. He sometimes overcomes the tyrant by satiety itself ami he disarm the oppressor with the scorn of an indignant world. Kitg land has lung felt the bitterness of liVr folly ami public opinion is raiting aloft the standard of local self gicrn uu'itt in Ireland. The world ha been enriched by the majesty of Ireland', courage, the force of her incessant agitation, the perpetuity of her moral principle ami the sublimity of her national ex ample. There is hardly a public question which ha agitated our own people for the last hundred years thai has not been thrashed out on the field of Irish oratory and the simple lessons that St, Patrick impressed upon the early inhabitants of Ireland arc flourishing in vigor today among all the liberal institutions of civilized society. Perhaps it has been well for hu inanity that Ireland has been oppres sed. Perhaps it was the design of Providence to thus scatter her peo ple throughout the world and thereby occasion' the universal spread of moral principles in government. Per haps the martyrdom of this Emerald Isle has after all been designed for universal good and that the achieve ments of Irishmen in other lands will more than compensate her for all the sacrifices she has made in behalf of purity and justice. And yet I should like to sec Ire land reconstructing anew her great republic of Utters. 1 should like to 'c her, again expanding by her men tal touch the fraternal Intercourse of titan; and 1 should like to see her once more brightening by her smile the spirit of domestic bve and lifting by her example the aspiration of hu manity into communion with eternal truth, where the angel of peace in her white robe of innocence may kneel at the cradle of awakening liberty and liis the pale lips .( sorrow into rip ples of eternal joy, ami 1 devoutly hope that the day will soon come when all her sufferings will melt into benedictions and all her prayers will rrystalic in splendor to glorify the crown of her triumphant martyrdom. Mr. William Campbell of McCreedy & Campbell Milinery Store, 400 Washington street, corner Tenth, Portland, Oregon, was in town yes terday on business connected with their grand spring opening which takes place on March 19, 20 and 21. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. 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