The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31
The Irish World.


ism was all a sham put on to make money.
We may have been mistaken and unjust In
harboriDg the thought, bat it was based on
several considerations.
First, it was q charitable effort ON our
part to shield the Irish World from the
charge of insanity or stupidity. When q
paper prints such stoff as the following,
which horn of the dilemma must a friend
choose for itf The Irish World says:
II every man who parades on st. Patrick's
Day carried o rifle, and wore an Irish-Ameri-
can military uniform, our political status
would be unlimited. =.
We believe in the rifle. Moral suasion is
useless petitions are of NO avail speeches
at least in Ireland-are empty sounds. No
Home Rule" is a delnsion. Constitutional
agitation is q waste of words. O'Connell tried
it for forty. pears and failed. Experience
teaches us that it would be vain to follow in
John Bull, let us try what q rifle can do. Its
voice 10 ever potent with king. and tyrants.
If o petition were presented to the English
Queen for Irish liberty on the points of two
hundred thousand bayonets, we fancy her
most gracious Majesty would deign to receive
it. In America alone we can raise five hun
dred Thousand.
The Irish in America are fierce rebels ss
their brothers in the motherland.
Here Ia an individual who ooolly sup
poses that all the Irishman in America can
take to soldering without government to
legalize their acts, without q national
treasury to furnish the sinews of war, and
without qualm of conscience about their
wives and children left to beggary and
starvation. He forgets that they are men
of family, men Of industry, citizens of a
new country to which they owe their first
allegiance, and regards them crazy set of
exiles doing nothing but gloating over the
"heme" with rifles in their hands.
That he does not consider the Irish fully
alive to their duties in this regard is evil
dent from the subjoined passage:
We have the Ancient order of Hibernians,
the Fenians, the Sons of Erin, the United
Pasrioi the knights Of st. Pstr s the 81 Ar
ance of st. Patrick, the Irish Temperance So
cieties, and many others,-in all of which are
good men-men who would risk their lives to
fee arslendyes doing nothing to carry on
s ski Many Reaaers from Ieav ene
worth suggest o friendly union of all these
lrl8n 6OC16Cl6H, anu VIC heartily recommend It.
II each Of them would only appropriate one
Thousand dollars o year to sustain the action
we speak Of those who petition" England
for "Home Rule" for Amnesty" or for the
answered with contempt. Or if either of them
| would resolve itself into that skirmishing
| society we have in our minds eye, we would
hail it as the harbinger of q union that would
soon bring us that "twenty millions to gather
| the seeds of death for perfidious Albion ;"
| which Borrisoleigh" alludes to in our issue
| of May 2nd. 7
And again, hear the bloodthirsty man:
We want skirmishers, and we want an or
ganization that will maintain them.
Now, we ask in all candor, is this COM
patible with the theory of sanity in the
writer, unless it is pure " buncombe " to
make the paper sellf
Secondly, we could hardly believe that any
Irishman could be SO lost to reverence for
the clergy, and especially the Episcopal
dignitaries Of the church, as to make such
an attack az the World made on Bishop
Gibbons, in good faith. He might do it for
pay, we thought, but never out of genuine
disaffection aud enlargement from Catho-
lie feeling. Hear what the World has since
published in the same tone. 1t is from q
correspondent, but one apparently in full
fellowship. He says:
1t is the misfortune always that men, like
the Bishops of Richmond and Kerry, who are
very patriotic and devoted to the interests of
tho poor when they are simple priests, undergo
an entire change when they become invested
with purple and fine linen as " princes of the
Church. They no longer favor liberty and
self government, but are rather monarchists
and ardent admirers of the Queen of England
aud those of her ilk. The tone of the so-called
Catholic press, with few exceptions, runs in
the same key note. Even the pilgrimage peo-
pie have q touch of the snob mania, for they,
must go to HEoglsnd in order to be respecta-
bly, noticed by the press.
Now, We know that there is q small
school of young Ireland" ia this country;
that is to say, certain very poor Catholics
1rishmen, who have gone to such extremes
of independence that they have become
quite independent of the Church. They are
great critics. Nothing can please them,
and no subject is too sacred for very free
and outspoken commentaries from them
They have very little affection for the