The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-31
THE IRISH IN AMERNCA.
TAKE THEM WEST"
q Hard Crit icism But Worth BEADING.
" MALACHI Is DEAD"
from the Boston Pilot !

" MALACHI Is DEAD"
From the Boston Pilot
We take the following article from the Chi
cago Times 1t is hard criticism nearly ev-
cry sentence cuts. But there is matter in it
worth consideration. At any rate, after all
the sweet nush in the way of criticism that
Irish people a.e accustomed to, regular slash
ing analy sis like this is refreshing There are
! some gross exaggerations in the article: but
we give it without shortening:
It is a curious fact thar, while every other
immi grating nationality has combined its peo-
pie in the United States into colonies, bought
lands and implements for them, received them
at the wharf and led them blirdfolded through
the dazzle of the great cities, to the borders of
| the fragrant praries, before bidding them
| looIz-that the Irish in the United States have
permitted their millions of country-people to
arrive here like steerage cattle, then sit down
in the slums OF New York or Chicago, or go to
| the waiting devil of 6"ink and iudiscretion,
and thence to poverty, to misery and the Jai!s.
The Irish are a boastfnl people. They arc the
braggarts of tho earth, Just as tie Germans
are elrths egotists The Irish will prate about
Ireland and the Irish wEen they are unable to
talk upon any other subject: A drunken fol-
! low, after beating his wife black and. blue has
faply to make q FIVE minutes speech aront
Brian Boru, to feel himself c hero, and induce
his victim to consider him one. The patriot
ism of the Irish people is a hereditary curse to
| most of them. 1t is patriotism run TO seed.
1t is q curious and subtle element in the uni
versal Irish character, and like all impalpable
I good thing, if it could only be turned to very
good account In the hands of the unscrupu-
ious Irishman in the United States, it is an
the hearts the SIMPLE and devoted irish
masses in the United States, it is an atmos-
mosphere of intoxication in which fancy gags
the mouth of reason, and there is no Present,
but only the Past To the demagogue, Irish
patriotism is active force which he directs
for his personal benefit; for the people it is an
opiate under which they sleep, and dream, and
are robbed.
, Now it is all very we'll to let Erin remember
= the days of old, ere her faithlcss sons betrayed
her; when Malachi wore the collar OF gold i
! which he won from the proud invader. But
that is Il long time ago. Malachi is dead, ana
i his bones are rotten. Her faithless sons have
+ betrayed her with increasing vigilance and un
- errng regularity. There is no nse meddlng
= longer with Malachs ashes; sprlnslIng them
!, on traitors heads docs neither kill nor cure
If he wore a collar of gold j. was no specia
credit to them, and the yoke that lrelands
neck has borne for seven centuries ought &c
make that insignia of royalty easily forgotten
a What the Irish in America need to do IS &c
Il forget Malachi, and consider the lilies IN the
10 western fields where they can array them
81 selves more comfortably, if less Gorge9nsil
:. than Solomon, if they will only toll lttl'
IL and spin. The Irish in America need TO turn
III ,rcir backs on the past, if, in no otuer way
e they can look squarely At the present. II TIL
IL demaen&nes will ouly cease Dragging ano ~
IS Brian Boru. and begin to consider seriously
", tts quest i0;i of Irish colonization in the ives
=, they may yet entit!e themselves, to the re
}! spect, if not to the gratitude OF the lrsh PEG
O. II is already the eleventh hour Of the qnes
TX ton. Inc Germans, the Scandinavlans, an
eT thc SvveGcs settled it Il quarter of a centni
W ago. ...,
er TN. thick steady streau of Irish immi SrI
IS ton was pouring into New York long heior
nc Prussiau despotism rendered German lninlISrt
TIC ton significant. But the cursed quarrels {
at irish leaders the unfathOmab!e seltShneSs
M almost every man of that blood that mas ri'
ais den to prominence on lrinh BACKS the Je'l
on ousy of every detnagogue towards every otht
ID. leader whether delnagogue or not the treaci
no ery of weak, of avavicious, and OF aspirin
Ia Irishneu in every movement OF whicn na'lo'
re- ality WAS conspicuous element, have Coz
mr. sriret constantly to defeat any and every
her fort toward II genuine aud trust" orthy coIon
or yatiun. Ia Cacr, Feniac ism has rendered IRE
7lll leadership" so despicable aud disreputap
elt' that at time for ten or fifteen years "ou
TOO the formation of a colonization society III
law lecu feasible, for no decent IrIsnnnah u'i
DIN nariI his name amongst the list of thieves al
Ssa- tcalawars who would seize and occupy Z
fes pTcsideat's chair aud crib at the treasury.
=, OF tths rorues could have been kept out, the
the cietv might have been formed. There ha
aud always been able and honorable men ready
ten nnder axe it-men qualified for the Work u
, to Casserly, of New York, and Donahoe, OF 81
exc ton; bat the pirates were certain 10 seize
l by ship an hour after the launch !,
y to There seems to be prospect at last u
thy something will DO done. One need only 10
s as Of New York and Chicago to wish that
who something be done quickly. Prominent III
lsly, men in Dublin and Cork are understood TO
in correspondence with reliable and prosp
ma Irishmen in the east and west, with
view to form an International immI grants
you ciety which shall do for the Irish what
her German-Americans have been 90 long ana
my efciently doing for the Germans; IL
yon association be contaminated 1t VIII nDt
as a the property of u decaying Fenian CLIO
e. "a there are certain Irishmen in Cblc