ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN TOLEDO.

FROM THE BUCKEYE GRANGER, MARCH, 1876.

The late St. Patrick celebration in Toledo was largely attended by natives of the Emerald Isle who reside in this place; they were accompanied by the Perrysburg Silver Band. The occasion was one of much interest, and closed in the evening with a public meeting in St. Patrick's Hall. Among the speakers was the Hon. J. M. Ashley, who delivered the following eulogium on the life and service of the "Great Commoner."

The next toast was "Daniel O'Connell," to which Governor Ashley responded as follows:

MR. CHAIRMAN, AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Before responding to the toast just read, I want to thank your committee for the very welcome invitation which brings me here to-night. When I came home night before last and found it awaiting me, I resolved that whatever else might happen, I would not repeat the "bull" which I committed at the O'Connell Centennial of last year, by unwittingly delivering a speech to the wrong audience. I made up my mind that whatever "bull" I might commit, it should not be by going to the "Opera House" instead of St. Patrick's Hall.

Mr. Chairman, it is fitting and proper that the sons and daughters of Erin, wherever dwelling around the globe, should come together, as you have come together to-night, to aid in commemorating and perpetuating the good name and fair fame of Ireland's grand heroes. You who have given three hundred and sixty-four days of the year to personal and material pursuits, can hardly do less than give one day for

old Ireland. I know there are those who say, that for foreignborn citizens to commemorate any day as you are now commemorating this, is but to promote strife and discord, and to indulge in sentimental speech which can do no good, and may do much harm. But if I read the past aright, it is to this love of sentiment in the human heart, that every land is indebted for the heroism and patriotism of its sons. To this sentiment the world owes its bravest deeds and martyrs' crowns. It was this sentiment which moved the great heart of O'Connell and made him consecrate his life to the cause of Ireland, and to the cause of liberty in every land, NOT FORGETTING THE FOUR MILLION SLAVES IN AMERICA. It was this sentiment of love for their adopted country which caused thousands of Irishmen, from Montgomery to Thomas Francis Meagher, to offer up their lives on the field of battle to defend and perpetuate American liberty. When this sentiment disappears from among men, patriotism will die in every land beneath the sun. As Father Hannin said to me a moment ago, "A man who does not love his own country, cannot love his adopted country," and I may add, nor any country.

When the emotions which in all times have moved the noblest and purest aspirations of mankind, move them no more-the mother will forget to love the child she bore, and both mother and child will forget to love the land of their birth. Thank God this can never be, with any race or kindred or tongue, and because it can never be, the sons and daughters of Ireland are here to-night with many a glad and tender memory to consecrate anew this hour with fresh resolves of fidelity to motherland. To enjoy and profit by the reflection which the utterance of patriotic sentiment gives, I accepted with pleasure your invitation to come here to-night. All the higher and better emotions which the love of country brings, are stirred afresh within me as I witness the glowing enthusiasm of those around me, who in their heart of hearts love Ireland and her historic heroes. Heaven forbid that any Irishman in America should ever forget the land of his birth; let him rather turn to her with deeper devotion, as he beholds her sitting in sorrow and sackcloth, waiting for another great leader, who like O'Connell shall sound the resurrection trumpet, and teach the world that she is not dead but living.

Mr. Chairman, the history of Ireland presents one continued succession of brilliant and wonderful men. Swift and Grattan, Plunkett and Curran, Burrows and Burke, Emmet and O'Connell, and a host of others familiar to you all, and whom I need not name; but pre-eminent and above them all, as a leader, educator and statesman, stands the name of Daniel O'Connell. No other name in Irish history has made so hopeful the Irish heart, nor so lighted up the political firmament of Ireland with democratic ideas. O'Connell found the Irish people broken, bleeding, disheartened, divided, and lifted them from their darkness and despair, until they could see the hopeful light of the coming morn. He united the discordant and warring factions and made them one; he educated the people up to a just comprehension of their power and dignity and responsibility. In short he created a public opinion, which breathed new life into the cause of Ireland. By his long-continued and able agitation, he secured for Ireland religious toleration, a free press and schools, and a representation in Parliament. With these weapons properly wielded the future of Ireland cannot be doubted. With these weapons she need no longer "supplicate," for soon she will have power to dictate her own terms, and the wonder of all this is - that O'Connell accomplished what he did as the apostle of peace. To the irrepressible Irish race he declared, that "no revolution was worth the shedding of one drop of human blood." He believed that every reform achieved by accident or by force, may be lost by accident or force; that only those reforms take root and grow which are born of reflection and planted with judgment, and are afterwards watered by discussion and education. He believed that it was best and safest to engraft the reforms desired into the national conscience, before attempting to enact them into national law--that only such reforms as were based upon the consent of a free and enlightened people could stand the test of time. His panacea was an educated people with a free ballot; and a government that should belong to no one person or family or dynasty, but belong to all her own children.

To me, these ideas of O'Connell embody the perfection of human statesmanship. Search all the past history of Ireland and you will find no record so clear and broad and bright as his. Carlisle says that "he is God's own appointed King whose single word melts all wills into his." What praise can exceed this? God grant that Ireland may again be blessed with a leader and a hero whose prudence and matchless eloquence shall equal O'Connell's, and such a hero and leader I believe she is soon again to have; a hero who, when he comes, shall complete the great work which O'Connell, dying, left unfinished, and thus prove himself to be the Christ of Ireland's political redemption, so that Ireland from that time onward shall stand forth erect and disenthralled, administering her own local government on the basis of liberty, federation and peace, as we do here in Ohio.

"And thou, O Ireland, green and fair,
Across the waters wild,
Stretch forth strong arms of loving care,
And guard thy favorite child."

CO-OPERATION AND PROFIT-SHARING!

COPY OF CIRCULAR ADDRESSED TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE TOLEDO, ANN ARBOR AND NORTH MICHIGAN

RAILWAY COMPANY.

GENTLEMEN: After careful deliberation, I have determined, with the approval of the Board of Directors, to submit to the stockholders of this Company, at the annual meeting appointed for Wednesday, April 20, 1887 (for their acceptance or rejection), the following propositions touching "profit sharing," in addition to the regular wages paid by this Company to each of its officers (except its President), and all its employees.

The direct allotment to the laborer, of a share in the profits produced by his labor, is a method of distribution as old as human history; a method older than the "wage system," and one for which we have the approving judgment of many of the ablest thinkers, both in this country and in Europe.

I propose for the benefit of all who now are, or who hereafter may be, interested in the prosperity of this Company,

Letter from B. T. Tanner, D. D., one of the Bishops of the A. M. E. Church. I was never more impressed with the justice of "profit (sharing" than in a conversation I had a few years since with a resident stockholder of one of the street railways of our city, Philadelphia, Pa. Said he, "A few years ago the shares of this road were valued and sold at $15; now they are worth and sold at more than $100 a share." The words had scarcely fallen from his lips when we began to think of the absolute injustice of the method which gave every cent of this silent growth to the capitalist; not allowing one penny of it to go to the laborer-to the driver and to the conductor, to whom its in. crease could in part be credited as justly as to the capitalist. When the shares were at their minimum value, they received their $1.50 or 2 per day as did the capitalist receive his 6 or 10 per cent. as the case may be. But in the course of years, when by the joint labor of the driver and the conductor, blended with the money of the capitalist, the value of the shares increased almost tenfold, what do we see? We see capital appropriating to itself that which should be common to both. This, we say, is manifestly unjust, and sooner or later this method of conducting business must be changed, and give place to a method more in harmony with what is right. These drivers and conductors were not the men they were when they first entered the employ of this company. They were older and weaker, and less prepared to continue the hard struggle for life. Had they been allowed to share in the silent growth of the value of the property they were laboring to create they would have been infinitely better prepared to enter upon the winter of old age. Governor Ashley touches the heart and interest of the toiling millions in the right place, in this and other addresses on this subject. B. T. TANNER.