The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-28

Ism as the nOcKS OF tOoay) against tne OaSsenacn aer
wards The candidate for the priesthood in those days
required spirit to face DEATH and money to take him
abroad Consequently the priests Of old were the sons
of the best families in the land and they joined the
Church for the glory Of God and the sal0otion Of heir
people, They WERE in the best Of the word gentle
men well priests
How is it to-day? Let any reader, who doubts our
statement hunt up the record Of his next clergyman
and see if we do not facts In day. it does not
require much nerve to become priest One-half OF
our Irish cergymen have been educated at the peoples
expense They come into the Church for their and
their families ACKNOWLEDGEMENT No wonder that so many
poor scholars" as they are termed look upon the
priesthood as the acme of all glory. AS common men,
they are poor and despsed, kicked and abused After
crawling two or three years through college at the
public expense carefully sitting in their breasts all as
piraons for Irish liberty if they have any, they grad
uae priests to be courted and aered and you rever-
enced and Father Patted and caubeens hudded under
oxters in their presence The transformation IS COM
plete He that was slave and kicked and spat upon
comes out tyrant at whose frown the children hush
and the old trembe. He call robbers and swim
ders and there is redress He insult wives
and children, and must not reort. Heaven, he can
blacken characters and lie down before the very
people for whose elevation have worked and dream
and sacrificed time and the that should to feed
our children and we cannot complain. He is the an
oined of God and we are nfdes and swndlers 1t the
Fenans on the high road Ireland independence
why do the bishops and priests of Ireland commence
a new movement? IF we wrong, and they know
better way to save people, why not in the name of
our suffering country say SO and go work AS it is
now they are like the dog in the manager, they will
neither free ireland themselves allow anybody else
to do it. Is it for the glory of the Church that ireland
shall be kept in the d" press" and that the foreign
Church wants new blood they down the
chine of misery and force the people out of the country
Are not our readers thoroughly aware that it is the
bishops and priests of ireland who govern and hold the
country for England? Are they not aware Also that
if the bishops and priests of Ireland like the men
of DID, about whom they prate much, that England
could not hold Ireland year? They preach us long
about Fenian disasters when they themselves
helped to bring those disasters. Why the fact
of the matter is that Fenianism has not face to
face with the English soldiers yet for the priests have
stood between the with their scowng faces turned
on the Fenians We have been fighting the priests for
the last seven years and Heaven only knows when
will get shot at the English.
There certainly is work enough for the priests with
going out of their road to encounter Fenianism Is
it not strange that the drunkard the forncator the
wifebeater the gambler, the murderer, all attend
church, and welcomed while the doors are shut in
the faces of Fenians They orm ont Of the church,
and afterwards call ifdes because do not go
| church.
There are thousands our poor people landing weekly
at Castle Garden New York. Is there single priest
to meet those simple and innocent Irish girls in the
strange land and convey them to a place of safety?
Does enter into the head of emgrant to seek
for reliaf from, So # that