The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-30

and churches and telegraphs and Saloons and society,"
and fashion, and civilization be? Nowhere. Man
would lie down in the and snap his fingers at pro-
gress He would grow into the mmoyabe from sheer
inanltion. AS it is now the angels who continually
whispering to they say when babies grnning
with the coc-and squirting to pick up the early
worm, the great incentive that to glory
Necessity is the mother of invention but hunger is
the mother of necessity.
Now that we have established the fact at least to
satisfaction that the people who have most to eat
the purest and happest and that the world is only
potato garden, we will come to business.
The first duty of is to root until his own wants
supplied. This is neither less than what
his brother Magrunther the hog, does But here man
bids good by to the "gutter roller" and shows his
higher nature by turning round and seeing that his
neghbor has his wants supplied ALSO The who
does not do this sleeps in the sink and
higher in the scale Of being than the brute.
The winter is coming. There is not Granny in
the poor mans shanty that will not cry out "here
am to his biting and insinuatng highness. In
mer require no fuel to keep warm. In summer
nature does not much food in winter We
all machines, you know Take in wood and water as
regular a steamboat We eat to keep up steam that
is to keep heat warmth, life in the system We must
burn more fuel in winter, to keep the winter out
We must consume more food ALSO to keep the lamp of
life burning.
When sitting by our cheerful fires, or round our
groanng tables and laughing Jack Frost tracing forests
on the window panes let not forget that the good
things eat are not of much importance to the family
who starving at the other side of the wall Do not
ater yourself that because you have supplied your
family with " wood and water" that you can draw
your white, ringed fingers through you patrarchal
whiskers, and say Lord, have done my whole duty"
The uncouth grizzly bear that hugs the hunter the
Rocky Mountains provides for his young In fact this
is instinct but to supply those who are not Of your fam
lily, and who are shivering and hungering in some
neghborng den spiritual and distinctive attribute Of
man and the charity of God.
Let every reader of our paper constitute himself
relief committee" this winter, and hunt up some I'M
fortunate being, and him her. You will not
have far to Co. especially in large cities God alone
only can see with his universal eye how many fam
lilies, I" too decent to beg" are looking to heaven
through the roofs Of tumbe-down tenements You who
think your lots unbearabe when you cannot keep up
to Miss McFlisy in the latest fashion, bundle your
selves up in your comfortable Clothes and go out among
the poor You will appreciate life far better afterwards
Do not fail to carry something from your oversocked
arders, and some of your widowed wearabes. But in
heavens do not insult God by offering tracts or
prayer books to hungry mortas If there is any heart
less mockery that dstaseul to true charity it is this
bursting riumphanty and vugarly into the houses Of
misery, and asking how their souls are? Never mind
their souls until you fill their stomachs. A hungry
man digest bread and meat but tracts and prayer
books are stones" and cannot be eaten. Do not give
food to the unfortunate you would throw sw hogs
There is certain way to relieve without offending
which the truly charitable always understand One