The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-08-22

one day, but am satisfied that the people
| Of ireland will cling to the Catholic Uni
versity with the same perseverance as they
/ have ever chung to their whole faith (hear,
hear, and cheers). If government dis
charges It's duties properly it will have very
| little time to teach boys. With or with>
out encouragement from the government
! the hopes Of Ireland are bound up in your
new Catholic University. Siuce | at
tempted to gather my thoughts together
/ in view of this topic, some statistics have
! been put into my hands. | have found
that in Ireland. what you called the
Queens colleges have already cost $500,
/ 600 sterling. But there is no account Of
what they have done hearl. In America
| had believed 1t was some of your bishops
or priests that had given Distinguishing
appeIlation to the system Of these collie
ges but find it was, 10 fact, an English
man who did so. | believe he WAS the
member for Oxford; and, probably, he
took alarm at the policy of the govern
ment which was to break down everything,
to mix up everything He knew Oxford
was not prepared for hat vet and, as |
am~Iatey informed, this gentleman, in bis
place in the House Of Commons, describ>
ed those institutions-theQ Ieen's Colleges
as a gigantic scheme Of goddess educa
ton loud cheerSl amvery glad it was
none Of you chri,tenei the production
but, for myself | must say that this gen
tleman employed an inappropriate word
when lie said " gigantic :" | would call it
a pigmy" system Of goddess education
laughter ana cheers F. And yet there is
distinction by which he could answer my
difficulty, and it would be this. lie would
look at the cost-that is gigantic laugh
ter | would look at the fruit, and The fruit
would be pigmy indeed renewed laughter
Altogether can only look at it as a pro,
fusion Of expenditure bringing forth tiny
mouse Of education laughter. Passing
from the subject, | trust to say that the
object with which | came here this even
ING was very different from what has oc-
cured thought should meet tie Cath
j, Ole Young Mems Society to congratulate
them upon the good which have been
told they are doing, sustaining each other
: in piety ard IN perseverance, giving their
spare hours to education and improving
their minds. That was my object and in
tention; and | had no other purpose or
object in view than to say to them a few
! words Of encouragement. intend to tell
! them how their countrymen in America.
! Of the same professions, occupation and
: condition in life also labored in works of
: this kind; and [ wished TO encourage
; them in that way-to tell them that Young
Irishmen coming to America, if they are
we'll inclined, ii they are sober; but,
5 above all, if they are unshackled by those
i would almost call them Internal bonds
: secret societies hear if they keep
enable chance of success for them in Amer
lea. But if they engage in secret associa-
tiogs, linked in membership with those
| into whose purposes and views they cannot
dive, then, / say, they had better stay at
f home. In America every avenue to emf
nence in this life is open. There may be
) more or less Of prejudice; there may be
a joke about the brogue, but don't mind
, the laugh. There is not an avenue to pre-
/ eminence that is not open 10 Irishmen as
, well as to the native born of the land.
$ There are two exceptions. The President
: and Vice President, by the Constitution,
: must be natives; but none Of you, | sup
= pose, would aspire to these laughter. |
. wish to correct an error that is commonly,
f and, | think, Intentionally, propogated in
r these coun tries-tLat the Irish who 90 to
| America fall off from their religion and
pass over to other creeds. That is not
true cheers can say, and | ain res
9 ponsibIe for what | say, that, in all my life
, in America, | never knew an educated
t Catholic to renounce his faith and en-
} brace another Ioud cheering7. But |
must say, and | say it as the communica-
/, ton Of information may be important, first
f Of all as regards myself, | would rot take
} upon my conscience the responsibility OF
inviting or encouraging any Young man or
y, man in Ireland to gut arr home, iflo
has one, to 60 to America. That is not
5 my vocation. If they do it, it shall be at
f their own responsibility. Reports come
! over here to the effect that this one that
, one, or the other is succeeding and becom,
5 ing wealthy. But on the other side, and
] it is trait peculiar to the Irish, if after
) they arrive they find themselves disap-
! pointed, they find it is not all the country
| they painted in their Imagination and an,
! ticipated finding, they get discouraged
That encouragement breaks them down.
2 That breaking down is followed by the loss,
I might almost say, Of self respect which,
next to the power Of faith and hope, is the
. sustaining principie and they sometimes
, INIT fru-t not in the Crannral y,.a,, n -