The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-19

Pats and our whisky drinking shilleahtwirlng faction
fighting baboons and is quite willing that we should be
Judged as nation by such representatives Few of our
people have ever thought while laughing at and toer
ating the stage Irshman, that they setting up
model man by which they themselves were judged
One of the greatest impediments to any reformation
in the habits of race has been the Intolerance shown
to any man or body of men who run counter to our
preiudces While the world has been ringing Its
changes on our folies and aiings no man OF our
had the pluck to arragn us before the bar OF
sense and point out errors and the proper
remedies We have felt in short career as public
journalists what it is to speak out boldly and condemn
errors which we know could not be denied. We entered
this work after painful experience OF the short
comings of portion Of the Irish race and we will
continue to point out error matter who squrms or
wnces under the LASH
We have been driven to this very plain talk on read
ing over the following report:
The Chicago Superintendent of Police has handed in his
quarterly report ending September 30th.
The nationates of offenders follows: Americans
68 Canadians 70; French, 95; Africans AZ Danes 6
Germans 949 Bohemans 3d. English, ZIG; Italians, %
Russians A Swedes 49, Indians Prussians g. Welsh 10;
Norwegans 148; Scotch a. Irish, 3,69s!
1t useless for to close eyes to this dgraceM
c for it has been read by every citizen in the State
and have all been or less condemned for the
brutes that ms) represented country at the police
court Let us waive all false modesty, and come at
once to the Cause and then let us if there be
remedy
We can safely say that nine out of ten of these Irish
ofenses can be traced to DRUNKENNESS It is unusual
for sober Irishman to violate the laws of proprety
n I IT, J,;xl +lo devil
takes possession of him and while under its influence he
punges into naturally duck seeks water
We can also conscentiousy say that of that SOBER
malignant cold-booded crime be laid at our doors,
such as dsgraces other natonaes and shocks humanity
To commit crime, Irishman has to drown his con-
science in whisky, and forty himself in madness, IN
order to work himself into criminal mood. Whisky,
hen IS the basis of Irish crime. Ren,ove the cause, and
you apply the remedy. Every man, woman and child
of our race is interested in this for it affects the whole
| In Chicago the Irish about onetenth OF the
whole population and supply the police report with
one hundred and sevenyfour offenders more than all
the other natonalities together. About one out OF
eight of our people have reported at the police court
during the month of September What applies to
Chicago it is feared applies to other cities equally as
we'll The Irish citizens of Chicago will compare favor
ably with any portion of our people in America.
Leaving the national disgrace of such record out of
the question: let us think for moment of the terrible
misery that lies under the vail of this report Think OF
the ruined lives and the darkened homes. The waing
of the hungry children The shivering household,
crouching in the lonely shany, waiting for the heavy
step of the drunken father The solemn boom of the
court house bell tolls out one two and three, and still
he does not come. One by one the ragged children
drop off into hungry Sleep and the sad mother and
neglected wife is alone, like ghost above the wreck
of her buried happiness But all is not lost while 'l'
paleaced woman has resisted the voice OF the temper
Alas it is when she looks drunken into her HUSBAND