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

the Irish soil, advocate the policy scsiled
. Home Rule )" still We must object to too
free q use of invective on the part of the
former.
If, however, we may have done an in
justice to the Irish World, let us make
amends by giving it's own version of it's own
acts and virtues. 1t says:
| Now, in reply to the STAR, we venture to say
| that there is not n man conducting a Catholic
! newspaper in the United States to-day that
| is not once that an occasion presented itself to
! us to make money. Had we 30 chosen, we
| could now be holding three OF four fortunes
in our hands; bat we didn't grasp them.
Some good people were vexed and astonished
ut the insult offered to the irish Eorld-a
paper. they said, which was recommended
done more, in one week, to silence the Harpers
than q hundred Catholic Rerietcs could do in a
year.
Nationality above faith |" Why, Mr.. Wolfe,
this Irisk World has done more for the faith in
any one single number than your anglo Catho-
Ito Standard has done in the whole course of it's
existenc.
The Irisa World. we venture to say, has done
more for the temperance cause than all its
only Catholic paper in the United States that
consistently refuses to publish liquor adver-
tisements) It has done more to colonise our
temporaIies have 1t has done moro to expose
| the frauds and evil doings of PROSECUTING asso-
Citations than all its contemporaries have. 1t
has done more for liberty and republican prin-
has, we need hardly say, dealt harder blows
against the Harpers, and has done more to
unite our people, and to pnt backbone into
them, than all our contemporaries have. And
ia Ia
its zeal for the Church before ecclesiastics-the
Irish World, we believe, does really more for
the faith than any of it's most " Catholic con-
Temperatures. That which it does, it does to
please God, not to hatter men.
The World may not care to fatter men,
but we wouldn't trust so sanctim onious an
individual a moment among the ladies'.
just hear the editor:
From the day the Trish World was started till
to-day-pow near fonr years ago-we have
never gone to one excursion, never to one
| picnic, never attended one banquet-though
| we have bad Invitations to scores of them
| never visited theatre, or o soiree or any other
place of pleasure, never taken glass Of liquor,
| nor even permitted ourselves SO much as the
| luxury of one cigar. There is not a clustered
monk in Italy that labors away, at his work
we are very far from considering ourselves jus
| titled. But He that judgeth us is the Lord"
Neither dc we want to be understood as con-
have not the least fault to fnd with those who
| do enjoy themselves at them. But we hate to
| see men who cant continually of the " materi-
alism of the age"-aud who seem to suppose
| that they and their sort alone are the only
| spiritualized beings upon earth-dsnounce
other men as "sinuers" who care less for the
pleasures Of earth and time than they them
selves do.
Will our pious contemporaries take gentle
| hint ] Will they pause another time, when
speaking of the Irish World, before they charge
| Mt hn hot Of 20
atty 7"
Now, would any man take the author of
the above for an Irishmsn at all, or if at all,
would it not be az the descendant of one of
Cromwells old Covenanters, and a de-
scendant in whom the puritanical traits of
his ancestor had reappeared with wonderful
distinctness7 However, after all, we arc
| glad to hear that our confrere does not
drink; judging from his language, we had
thought him quite incorporate.
The writer informs US in one of the arti-
| cles from which We have quoted, that his
name is Ford. But he certainly is none of
your shallow fords. On the contrary, hs is
deep, very deep, and sly withal. These
Puritanical old boys that won't drink a
drop, nor smoke a cigarette, are always
that way. But they know what they are
about all the time.
Seriously, however, we do not suppose
the editor of the World to be knowingly
actuated by any bad motives. What we
accuse his paper of is an anti Catholic ten
dency, which shows itself in gross. disre-
speet in matters that ought to be sacred.
which breaks away from the salutary
discipline of Church control, to be hurried
into the Wild e1travagsnces of-humau pas
sion and which,, under the pretense of
freedom, makes it a fanatic and firebrand.
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