The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-02-25
IDAHO WORLD.
WHO ARE THE AMERICANS TO BE!"

the tour OF the united OtaIeS edS1 "
the Rocky Mountains, says:
Year by year the towns grow more
and more intensely Irish. Already, O.
every four births in Boston, one on ly is
American. There are 100000 offoreigr
to 10000 native votes in New York anc
Brooklyn. Montreal and Richmond are
fast becoming Celtic Philadelphia
shades of Penn !-can only be saved by
the aldo the Bavarians. Saxon Prot
estantismis departing with the Saxons;
the revenues Of the Empire state are
spent upon Catholic asylums; plots of
city land are sold at nominal rates for
the sites of Catholic cathedrals, by the
"city step-fathers," as they are called
Not even in the West does the Latin
church gain ground more rapidly than
in New York city. There are $4,000
protesting Catholics in Boston.
When is this drama, of which the
first scene is played in Castle garden,
to have it's close? The matteris grave
enough already. Ten years ago, the
third and fourth cities Of the world,
New York and Philadelphia, were as
English as our London; the one is Irish
now, the other all but German. Not that
the Quaker city will remain Teutonic
The Germans, too, are going out upon
the land; the Irish alone pour in I'M
ceasingly. All great American towns
will soon be Celtic, while the country
remains English. A fierce and easily
reused people will throng the cities,
while the law-abiding Saxons who till
the land will cease to rule it. Our re-
lations with America are questions of
small moment by the side of this one
great question: Who are the Ameri-
cans to be?
In answer to the inquiry the follow
ing appears in the Chicago Times, from
the pen Of an Irish born citizen of that
great city of the Northwest:
1t must be very poor observer who
has not seen that, if one man foully
wrongs another, and the injured party
fully forgives the wrong done him, in
proportion to the fullness Of that for
giveness will be the hatred of the OPP
pressor for the victim of his oppression.
On this fact, and on no other, can we
solve the mystery of the chronic hatred
of our visiting John Bulls and their
sympathizers to Irish Americans.
"Who are the Americans to be y
This question is put in sober earnest
by Charles Wentworth Dixie, Esq, who
has passion for visiting Engish-speak-
ing countries, and who has recently ;
spent some months in our own, which
he calls "The Greater Britain" The 5
result Of his inquiries, personal or 9TH t
erwise, is, that he entertains no appre- I
tensions from the irrepressible negro,
but he has moral terror Of Irishmen t
They have invaded the country" he |
says, ''and taken it by storm The first |
wave of immigration has hardly subsid-
ed, when another larger and greater t
sweeps over it." year by year" he
continues, 'the native Americans of
Anglo-Saxon descent are crushed out
BY fresh swarms from the teeming hives
If Europe Out of every four babies
BORN in Boston, three are of Irish blOod.n J
know not where Mr. Dixie obtained ,
lis statistics; but the fact, if true, points
% an ANAL gamation of the two races
'ather than to the extinction of one of
hem. Mr.. Dixie becomes absolutely $
ragic while he describes what the ter !
'ible shhave done "Ten years since" '
lie says, "New York and Philadelphia e
we're as English as London; the one is '
low Irish, and the other all but Germ C
IN; but, even in Philadel phia, the Celts t
ire fast pushing out the Teutons." "AIl /
great American towns" he proceeds to c
state, twill soon be Celtic, while the S
country continues English" He antic- b
pates that "this fierce and easily-roused o
people will throng the cities, while the 0
aw-abiding Saxons will cease to rule" C
f there be any foundation for this state t.
nent, voyage across the Atlantic has Il
greatly interchanged the tastes of each
ace. The agricultural Irish have sud-
lenly become artisans and hair-dressers j
While the Englishman, who, from his
arliest youth, has worked at "the mill r.
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