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Jf TUB COCONINO SUN. ST PATRICK'S DAY. vitality of the principle of freedom ' and the indestructibility of national Some Reasons Why the Approachine sentiment? The Ixmes of those mat Holiday IS Observed. tyrs who lived amid the scenes of battle Ve'e heard her faults a hundred times the and Of war, WHO sougnt to renuiie men new ones and the old, In songs and sermons, rants and rhymes, en- lawed Home fifty fold: Hut take them all, the irreat and small, and this wo'eifot to say: Here's dear old Ireland Uood old Ireland! Ireland! boys, hurrah! In Arlzonan hills we'll meet, from one brinht Island flown; Great Is the land we tread, but jet our hearts are with our own; native land to her rightful inheritance, who, when the solemn farce of trying them for a crime which jiosterlty will account a virtue had terminated, were assigned to and suffered an ignomin ious death- the Ixmes of those patriots may now repose in their graven far an ay: but we have still among us the Inheritors of their blood, their name And ere we sleep a restful wink, while fades the and their spirit. They failed, it.is true, in what they attempted to accomplish; and it is because of this sacred duty yet to be performed, as well a to keep allte the national sentiment, that the Irish people, In America, at least, unite annually in the celebration of St. Pal rick's day, to show that they btill accept the matlm that ' 'TIs better to have fought and lo-.t Than neer to have fought at all." sacred day. We'll toast old Ireland! Dear old Ireland! Ireland! boys, hurrah! To the lovers of Ireland to those who resent her wrongs, sympathize with her sufferings and laud her achievements, there can be no time more sacred than the 17th of March known as St. Patrick's day. To one conversant with Irish history and the efforts of the Irish race to burst the fetters that foreign force has im posed upon them and elevate their Only seventy years' have passed since Wolfe Tone answered the question why country from bondage and degradation sentence should not le pronounced to a place among the free nations of the upon him - only two-thirds of a century earth, filling a page In the world's his- since Binmet vindicated the cause of tory which no lover of liberty can read his country, and already what a host of without emotion and which excites imitators and disciples they have had! wonder, admiration ancj regret in the There is not a country iu Burope, there mind of every man with whom patriot- U not a nationality in the world no, ism Is not a reproach; to he who re- not ocu excepting our own that can mains, in the immortal words of Eramet, boast of such a collection of hero, "untainted by the foul breath of pteju- patriot and martyrs as the '"home of dice," the enthusiastic celebration of music, of poetry and of song.'' When this day by Erin's sons causes no sur- men can be found to suffer as they hue prise nor unfavorable comment. And suffered for Ireland, the ultimate trl why should not Irishmen feel proud to uniph of her aspirations cannot Ik-, observe llttingly their national holl- doubted, nor can the national faith lie day? Is there recorded a more signal despaired of while It haH champions so Instance than that which Ireland can numerous and so heroic. It is by ex furnish of the battling of a nation's ample that the great lessons of patriot hope, or the prolonged frustration of a ism can best be conveyed; and if the jR'ople's will? Can It lie denied that national spirit burns brightly in Ire-' the Irish ieople have given to mankind land today; if the spirit of her children the noblest proof the possess of the be still defiant, and unsubdued: if In the