The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-02-11


social degradation and the loss of their souls
and those of their children as the imeUitaIle
results Of their deplOrdble Increment.
The large majority of the Irish come abso-
lutely penniess; and hence they cannot
reach the Interior of tho country, and are
obliged to look for the cheapest lodgings
| in the cities-and every one knows that
such place are the haunts of vice. The
consequence is, heg and their children are
lost to morality, to society, to religion, and
! finally to God"
Yes. Mutitudes of our people, when
forced into exile are lost 70 God, hut then
| the hideOus sy stem thai has forced them
from their homes and consigned them to
| eternal perditiOn must remain IN uncheck
ed opeIation-fJr, look yuu! some of
the emIgTsnts ha g built churches i'll Ohio.
and New York, and otter places. The
| Bishop "f Toronto goes on:
From our own experience, during
missionary career of eighteen years IN va
rInus portions of r gees from Texas to
| haine-ani of late years III mapy parts of
Canada, we consider the illustrous Bishop
of Charleston, Right Rev. DR. Eogland,
| the directors of the Propagation of the
Faith in France in 1888, when be said the
| loss of Catholics to the Church in America
could be estimated by millions. He esti-
mated the loss of souls in his own diocese
up to 1888 to Re $4,000. The
|
| New York and the other seaboard cities is
prodigious. Many of them are destitute of
| means aud friends; they are obliged by
their poverty to take situations wherever
they can get them, and as soon as possible.
Hence, they fall-not an easy prey either,
hut after many strugCles-intO the thou
sand snares which prohigate cities throw III
their way. 1t is humiliating, in
deed, to ace numbers of poor girls, innocent
and guiieioss, sitting around IN those large
depots in seaport cities waiting to be hired.
Men and women enter those places and
look around to had out the glrl tuat wonld
apparently answer thelr SeGVce. How
| many of them found the protection OF the
wolf is known ,n' 10 God"
The Bishop ut Toronto makes t"is re
mA:EHHie statement:
Ii all the Irish VITA their Iescenlauts,
h al preserved tn. jati, the Gumber Ut Ca
tho'ics III America would be double whatit
ia at pres sant at the lowest possible catcula-
ton"
l.have quoted the above striking passages
to expose The true nature Cf that unhappy
fanatlcIsm that gratities it's anti Irish pre-.
judices by opposing or at any rate with
holding assistance from Home Rule, on the
ground that Catholicity in foreign climes is
gamer by the scourge which drives Irish
men and lrishwOmen out of their own coun-
try, and understanding to the episco ,Oal
authorities have cited-sends them in vast
numb bers to the devil.
Fortified by the unim peachable testimony
of the Bishops OF Toronto and Charleston,
shall now quote the following statement
| from a New York correspondent of The
| Field, who subscribes himself " E A. G. :"
and whose account of the Irish in America,
although anonymously given, is worthy OF
| credit IN 80 far as 1T harmonz9S with the
stHtements supplied by their right reverend
| lordships. The letter of 'E. A c." is dated
at New York, October II, 1873 and was
nm is n he ,1 Z hn SrI, rT No
Der in that year. Speaking of the popula-
| tiun of the United States, this writer says
Moro than one fifth Of tho people had
| Catholic parents, and yet less than one-tenth
| Of the Ct ufch sireugt h ot the country is to Q
! found IL ChaC dcn"mIn alton, notwIUhs,and-
! ing na Carncs'ness and energy on the part
! o. pIieste, nuds, etc, which has caused not
Is NIT" tEe1idatIon in the racks of so1e of
thalg opponents. Orangemen, Bible, tract,
ard missionary societies, and all ochrr or
| EanzLfioGs for tho salvation OF poor Pa
pIst9, here Is an eXColienG idea for yOu |!
Just Thick tor a moment how many Uuou-
sand pounds every converted Irsuman in
the old country has cost you, then turn
you. funds trOm tGeir present us%s to the
purposes of emgCati"n, and will warrant
that for every three guintas thus expended
| on lrish Catholics you shall turn two Pa.
tricks or Bridgets, or two Of their children,
from the errors of POpery. There is no
other modern process OF conversion that
can begin TO compare its results with THE"
You, Mr. Treasurer; do not belong to the
Catholic communion but know you will
agree with me in thinking that it ia both
painful and humliating that men who con-
slider it vitality important that Catholics
should preserve their hereditary faith, are
still so blind to facts as to fancy that Ca
tholicity is gamer by emigration. Surely
the multitudInous deseTtIons from the
Church should diseochant them from the
fools paradise which they appear to oc-
cupy witt such pious complacency. Those
desertious wou!d not have ocCGrr, d if the
emigrants had possessed an opening for
their industry in Ireland; and it is precisely
tbs want OF Home Rule that drprive7 them
| OF t. at domestic opening for their industry.
The Union has thrown Ireland into tho
clutches of II jealnus and uuscrupulous
rival and by Ite inevitable operation she
is robbed OF the means that Providence has
bestowed on her for the austentation OF her
lnhabItants. There is something abhor-
sense, and to religious sentimemn en- ,coEmIm{02p3 n {23
fanatical folly thai would perpetuate the
| Union scourge on the land the Lord our
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