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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
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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
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strongest or honesty is keenest, or
justice is most merciful, there will be
found some lingering memorial of
Irish fidelity to the best tradition of
that heroic race.
And yet Ireland is called the Niohc
of nations. For centuries she has been
chained to a devastating juggernaut
of tyranny. A victim of the divine
right of kings, she has been sold to
the tnidianitcs of corruption and im
perial graft has encompassed her po
litical ruin. 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.
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