The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-07

goerdon of dutifuf attention in tho past
year to learning from the hands of the arch
bishop. At the close of the proceedings
his Grace made long speech, occupying
fully forty minutes. Amongst other i'm
portsnt points regarding Ireland, her lang
mage and her religion, he obeerved-rising
| to the height of most persuasive eloQuence
But what are these young girls, On young,
So clever, SO well trained, to do after they
will have left the guardian care OF theee
good Sisters who have taught them and
watched over tbemf 1t has been all very
well for these innocent girls up TO the pres
emit They have been ut school they have
learned their daily tasks. and advanced in
knowledge and piety. They have acquired
| abifs OF IL ostry; but after they leave the
school, after they quit the home of the
nuns, what are they to do Turning 10
the priests present, his Grace coptIn ued-
That ia the question for you ana me 70
solve. II Is question for all the priests
Ard tishop- OF Ireland. When l ask what
are these children 10 do, / ask what are the
daughters Of all tne mechanics in Ireland
the daaghters of the small farmers and OF
humble artisans in town aud country, aad
of others of the same c!ass-to do when
they leave the schools taught by the reiI-
gious Z 1t is, indeed, great and lmpor-
tan, auestiou-one that is bound mp with
the interests and the objects of religion. At
home they have NO work to do. Some few
may go TO service or be appreueiced to
trades, bpt for the great body of these poor
girls there Is no work at home. Are theyito
grow up in idienees Are they TO stand
still ito sit down and do nothing They
cannot. IL is not right-it is not natural.
Hence they depart in such vast bodies to
Americas; or they are exposed TO many
temptations at bone, or in Eogiand and
Scotland, from the poverty of their position
and their unsettled dependence on othere
for meaDs to live. Irish girls in America,
xvha 70 fha which
the good nuns have taught and which eur
holy faith puts before them, are the glory
Of Catholic Ireland in a foreign land. To-
fortunately, from the oppressive force of
temptation and seduction and their own
poverty, come arr fo1na who do not pre-
serve their early innocence. And thls
class become outcAst, and they turn ont to
be she very worst. The higher the virtue
and the better the training, the greater the
fall aud generally the greater in crime and
the deeper II degradation ID the fallen vic
tim. Lucifer once the brightest
amoagst the brightest; after the fall he
ia chief amongst the demons. Thus it Ia
with our young people who go to America.
They are as rule, all good; but unfortu-
nately many fall away from the path of
virtue. To what is this owing7 To the
temptation that besets their path. If they
could only stay at home, the great evil,
which is after all greater than L have said
and mere extended, would be removed.
They would not require to go to Eogland
or to Scotland il they had only employment
at home. But they have, at the present
day. no employ nent at home. After they
leave school they must either emigrste or
sit down idle at home. They have no in
dustrial pursuits to engage their attention
and energy. They do not even know the
names of those works of industry in which |
their granduothers were wont to be en-
gagged some sixty years ago. and before the |
i e hon fl,l
young girls were in the habit of attending |
TO the sowing ADD planting of hax; of
pulling 1t when grown; sleeping the crop |
spreading 1t; putting 1t to bleach and
dry; then scutching it in its various
stages; and after that numbers used to as
sem BILE together in the village home, and
sp-nd the evenings IN The productive bar
uIouy of thu spin niDg wheel and the naerNg
snDg Such were toe habits of 1TelaDd's
dang bters, of tie peasant or the working
class, come sixiy or Eeveoty years ago.
Now all that Is changed. Yhe young girls
OF the present period never saw sp'nErng
wheel They do not know what II ie- They
rarely hear the name pronounced II will
soon be aut!gEe thing concerning which
some Antiquarian will publish i;ems that
NAV prove it to have been the most won
deIful contTivanee of the past century.
Bot as sIgn Of industry it has been ban
ished from the homee Of the people. How
is a permanent mod. ot Industry to be sup
piled to- the people, To the girls OF young
women who have left sehool7 How will
they be employed at bOme7 How will
they be effectual!y kept from America,
ard from the degrading temptations that
beset their path in the land of the exile aud
of the strsnger7 Howl By Home Rule,
and by Home Rule alone. (Here the an
dieuce cheerNd his Grace and repeated the
applause). I his is a most serious question.
1t concerns Us all. 1t is allied with
eligion-"Religion, clear and undefiled
before God and the Father is this: To visit
the fatherlees in their tribulation, and keep
oneself inspected from the world" The
best of all ways to assist those children,
some of whom are fatberless, and to help
them in a permanent way, is to give them
employment suited to their taste, as girls
have in Belgium and France. Continued
employment, however, all of this class
cannot obtain in Ireland, as Ireland is at
present governed. We have no factories,
no lace working. We have no fostering
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