The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-15

that presented by this increasing canker OF British material
civilization There here oo the cost protection would
90 far to ameiorahe conditions which render it necessary
but the ambition is the sole and leading idea of
existence and surrounded by population whose wants
are uncared for and for whom the institutions of organ
zaton of labor-which will yet be found necessity after
some terrible catacysm has occurredis hoped on as the
dream ideaoogs this huge commercial agoy still floats
with ruin yawnng under her in those depths of want and
ignorance by which she surrounded Now and then plank
goes the burst in it is repaired there is Chartst
riot it is repressed buta storm long gathering yet dsdaned
with Inflated security will night and then we
shall the wreck and the wrecker and the dread triumph
of those grim nnumerabe of the population danger
more imminent than any French invasion For time
past the authorities have been strengthening the denses of
Dublin Castle and to-day four 27pound howitzers have
been placed in the upper and lower castle yards
The latest scheme emanatng from British source for
the improvement Ireland and which has been much
mented here letter to the London Times signed Ali
quis who proposes that the dangerous Irish element in
London and the other cities shall be transferred to Ireland
and set to work to cultivang the waste lands Whatever
the actual extent of those be- they would require be
multiplied by considerable figure to supply employment
for the anti-English population in question.
1t is gratifying to find from of your late articles in
THE IRISH REPUBLIC that you about to establish Irish
Libraries throughout the towns and cities of the United States
Considering the paramount importance, both in national
and general point of vew of good collections of books it
should be of the first objects of the inhabitants of every
and village to possess good library. In the old
days of emigration the characteristics of different nations
were illustrated by the first structures they erecedhe Eng
lish built tavern the French heater, and In the
present condition of the great of emigration and in
the settled state of civilization the migrating popua
tons would act its spirit by making the establish
of library among their earliest acts of settlement for
however necessary to the moral of community
the religious elements will continue be- the library, as
has been well sad will be the true temple of mankind in
the progressive future which all rational place
before them At present. when books be cheapy pro-
cured from Europe not speak of American reprints such
collections be easily made. In Europe the system of
penny libraries rapidly expanding both in civic and rural
regions By subscription of sixpence monthly,
munity of hundred can, within six months form nucleus
of the chief books which they require improve themselves
in any special VOCATION lay in of general knowl
edge Nothing is cheap the requirement of IDEAS
if only people heartily disposed enlarge their minds
or sensible enough know that the greatest of all pleasures
are those which found in weseected literature The
poorest communities have but to aot couple of cents
week from the spent other refreshments procure
those refreshments for the mind whose effect perpetual
which form constant materials of power and happiness with
in themselves, and raise them in the rank of spiritual
beings The elfmposed tax for that purpose is insigni
cant the results both to themselves and their country i'm
mense Nothing is truer than the man knows the
greater better and happier he becomes and the great nstr
ment to effect this end is the ibrarythat bank in which
the intellect of the whole human is capitalized and in
which may be said to feed the essence of men,
Among the Irish populations in America the formation of
libraries WILL doubtless be easily effected for other
have greater love of literature and appetite for knowl
edge need scarcely say that this passion for such among
them it is dates back to the earliest ages of their history
is unnecessary to recall the fact that both in relands
Pagan and Christian periods of the greatest which
the Celtic kings and chieans waged with each other were
caused by the seizure destruction of their nestim
able DOCKS tribe general histories historic or imaginary
POEMS Such b is to be found in the annals of
any other peoples and not the least among the circumstances
which rendered their hatred of the Danes mpacabe was
tlu c,1odL L.. Il.