The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05
CONFORMATION.

CONFORMATION.
.There was Kerry priest" began
Nod Shea "an' he had fashion OF near,
in, confession with slate an pencil an
he'd write down every sin, an the price
of It onnosite. "Well one day pig
mountainv fellow came to his duly an
saws he. i bruk mans head last aoi.
low Eve That's ninepence, says tno
nr;est II cut the tail ov Larry heilys
cow. That's a shillin'-oh, begoo'
sh;llin, that ISL And down it went on
the slate. i nearly murthereo me WIZ
twice. That's thruppence 70 on' 40
kilt an Orangeman.' 'Whoo says 'r tne
priest. rubin out everything na'
clanes out all the rest "
The above, which appeared last week
in the selected matter OF the st. faul
DISPATCH. is fair specimen ofthe klnd
Of current English literature in regard 10
the Irish people and Catholic clergy
which was circulated, broad cast in this
country long before the Irish exodus hao
set in. in full force to these shores.
How life like those characteristic traits
of the "big mountainy" Irishman. i
bruh a mans head 81 nearly murther-
ed nv wife twice" This could have
been put stronger. for instance instead OF
nearly numbering one woman twice he
could have been made to say that he
murdered two women outright
Doubtless the charge would have been
only Mruppence more for though the
nriest CHARGED the penitenta shilllp tor
cutting the tail OF Larry Kellys COW his
.baroes for wife murder was only Mrup-
pence.
Absurd. you say. Yes reader very
absurd without even the redeemlng lea-
ture OF wit or humor, but, remember
that sucb absurd, low thrash was accept
ed as graphic sketches OF Irish character
Law and clerical, by the English speak,
ING public, very few years ago, ana
that, even now editors select such, as
lively reading, for their columns,
Another generation may pass away
before we have got rid of the Stereo-
typed newspaper paragraph lrlshman'
or tho STAGE Irishman. kind Of mali
cious idiot, who with q broad grin on
his face is continually on the look out tor
head to smash.
It really does net make any difference
when those. carecatures become extinct
If ever. During the peninsular war; the
English people were educated with the
most absurd notions of the French. Ii
was popularity believed that Napoleons
favorite diet was the blood of infants
and the common Frenchman, was re-
carded as half dancing master, half devil,
who was continually taking snuff and, a:
Hood has it, putting his shoulders into
his ears.n You can travel now from
London to Paris in twelve hours ant
still this picture of French character il
the popular one among the yoemeEry oil
England and may be fifty years henbe
SANDER, especially national SANDER /
longlived.
There was Il time when those Englisi
ISLANDERS on French character did goo'
work in England; but in the case OF tn
Irish. how diabolical the SANDER when
poisoned the ears and sought to harde
the hearts of the people among whon
they sought refuge from unparallele
wrongs.
Only think of t,hunted and persecute
with nothing but life left they lande
upon these shores to find the land file
with evil reports against them; the
were, according to the English chror
icles. industriously circulated in tn
country, ungovernab;e, thriftless, blood
minded, ignorant and superstitious,the
mast time was murder for which the
priests would absolve them tor sma
sum of money. their religion was idol:
trous. This was the record they four
before them.
Their hereditary enemy had antic
pated the escape OF portion OF that ra
he had failed TO destroy or absorb, by ii
ing the ears of the people to who's
shores they had fled, with the vilest sla
ders aginst them. And what means hi
they to refute those lies SO we'll col
cocted by malice and hatreds
God pity US they had meme; nay, Il
mode of life they necessarily fell in
produced results that gave cole
leg of truth to some of those stories.
Poor to restitution but with streng
and capacity for manual labor scarce
equaled by any other race. they rushed
the public works, they huddled togstht
they burrowed in shanties rather tn
live in houses, in order to make none
to hoard il up. and then when the fe
precious dollars, saved by privations,
were gathered the money was sent-w