The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-02-11
Letter from the Venerable Patriot, oNeill Daun
on Home Rule.
WHAT TIE CHURCH HAS GAINED AND WHAT
IT HAS LOST BY THE DIsPERsIoN OF THE
IRISH.
To the Treasurer of the Home Rule League,

My Dear Sr.-I enclose yO1 my sub
scrIption to the Home Rule League for the
year 1877.
The new year opens well for our cause
! Tho countes of Waterford and Sligo are
/ showing that the determination of the peo;
| pie To recover their stolen national right ol
domestic legislation s siudestrnctibe. The
choice which | anticipate the Waterford
electors will make Ot Mr.. EsmOnde Id highly
| gratifying. Not less so the assured succers
| Of Captain King Hanna IN igo. lie was
one OF our sccretaIies at the memorable
| Conference of 1879 and We viii not soon
forget the able, SPIRITED, ard patriotic part
which lie :hen took III our proceedings. He
Is just the sort of a man that Ireland nee dis
to act in concert with the band who, Ii, der
Isaac Butts admirable leadership, support
In foreign legislature her inteIeasbie
claim to lone Rule.
Among the encouraging incidents of the
past few weeks is the address of my most
venerated friend, the illustrious Arch bishop
of Tuam. His Grace's words on the occa-
sion to which 1 refer have attracted much
| attention, but not more than they we'll
merited. AS Christian prelate, sOlictous
for the interests of religion and morality,
he has pointed out the miserable wreck
which emigration from Ireland 80 frequent
ly made OF the poor souls and bodies of the
exied Irish girls whom the legislative
union has deprived of the Industrial re-
! sources in their native land.
Z" At home," says the Archbishop, "they
have no work to do. Some few may go
to service or be apprenticed to trades,
but for the great body of these girls there
is no work at home. Are they to grow up
in idleness Are they to stand still ito
sit down and do nothing They caunot.
1t is not right it is not natural. Hence
they depart N such vast bodies to Ameri-
Co."
His Grace then alludes to the temptations
they encounter IN their exile, whether III
England, Scotland, Or America; tempta
tiOns to which they too often yield wnen
pressed by dire want and deprlvod of tne
sacred influence OF horne ard It's protective
associations. "Uow," asks His Grace, ,'"lan
they be employ ed at hOmeP How Will they
be etfectuaily kept from America, aud from
the degrading temptations that Oeset their
path in the land of the exile aud the stran
ger How ~
And he thus answers the question: By
Home Rule, and by Home Rule alone"
The legislative union, as we are all aware,
was conceived in spirit of envenomed hos
tiity to Ireland; and one of it's principal
objects WAS the destruction of every Irish
industry that could be supposed to interfere
with the rival industries of Great Britain.
This object has been etfectually accom-.
plished Its success was foretold by the
Chambers of British manufacturers who as
9 mbled in London in 1885 to oppose the
commercial propositions of that year, which
they deemed too favorable to Ireland; they
anticipated that legislative uAlou would
crush out Irish rivalry, and they therefore
frankly declared that it would, If effected,
" remove all difficulty" The Archbishop
of Tuam sees that the destruction of our
nascent manufacturing Industries has not
only made havoc OF our material interests,
but, by driving great masses of our people
into exile, also occasioned the loss OF num
hGAp INN nTfo al ,Ila ~ f,iT,,vI
he says it is a solemn question of religion.
Among the various Obstacles Hone RI
lers have to encounter are Protestant n,
try ard Catholic fauaticism. Your autl
| Irish Protestant hates Home kGie fr".m I,
vague apprehension that If it were c0Cc,d 4
ed tie lrlsh Catholics would do aomeI hIu z
indefinitely terrible to their Protestant
! country men. Those whom &C Influences can
! not be reasoned with. The Irish Catholics axe
| termed by the Protestant Parneli, in hiS
" Historical Apology" I" the only sect whC
ever assumed power without exercising
vengeance ;'and the liberal spirit which he
! thus attests Is c0piously manifested in out
own day by the readiness with which oul
Catholic cUuntrymen confer municipal and
parliamentary hoDOrs Oh such Pro estants
as have earned popular confidence by their
utility as citizens, or their proved sinceIity
as Irish patriots. Yet, notwithstanding g
| these proofs that fair play aT1faround is the
| DrllC.UlS OA " ulSu luo AIl5u ShGuOllC6 &C
the Protestant bigoS perseveres in his hos
tility to the national aspiration for Homo
| Rule.
But Home Rule is in equal disfavor with
some Catholics whose religious enthusiasm
is said to be overwhelming. These amiable
zealots look with sublime equanimity at the
plunder of Ireland by the dishonest and
exhorbitant taxation introduced by the
Union, and the decay of our native indus
! tries because IriShmen and Irishwomen,
I when expelled from the land of their hlrtl
by the accursed system that robs it OF thl
means of supporting them, become apas
! ties Oi CathOlicity Ia the lands u W hich
| they omIgrate. II the once busy looms in
the Liberties of Dublin are iGie, If the
streets that formerly were the homes OF
profitable industry have sunk into squalor
II districts of the cOuutry once populous
hs 'e, been turned into =. deserts, we are
rejecting that IN Yorkshire, or Glasgow, OF
Illinois, Catholic church spire points t.
heaven, and that Irish emigrants form, OF
have formed, the nucleus of the congrega.
tian. Home Rule would put stop, it is
thought, to this apostleship. By keeping
ITISh wealth at home it would keep the
apostles at home. These Catholic enthus-
lasts cannot deny that under Home Rule