Daily globe., 1879-06-05
BISHOP IRELAND.
The Splendid Work He is DOiNO iM Ne,o
York.
New York World, June 3.

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Bishop Ireland, who proposes to colonize the
Northwest with Irish families from New York
and other large cities of the East, made an ad-
dress last evening before st. Pauls
Temperance Guild at the Church of
st. Paul the Apostle. Bishop Ireland is
a renowned advocate of total abstinence from
Intoxicating beverages, and in all the colonies
that he has established or will establish there
is not and will not be any place for the
sale of liquor. In his address, last even
ing, he devoted half an hour to total alb
stinence and a little more than half an hour
to the subject of colonization-a subject which
will be fully discussed at q mass meeting to be
held at Cooper institute next Wednesday
evening. Total abstinence, he said, had come
to be the rule and not the exception among
the farming districts of the North
west. In Minnesota one might travel for
miles and miles in the farming districts with
out finding man who was in the habit of
drinking Intoxicating beverages, and not a
drop of liquor could be found in all those re-
gions. Years ago, while in New York, Bishop
Ireland said, he visited the institutions on
Blackwelps Island and was panied to see that
SO many of the names over the cell doors of
the penitentiary were those of Irishmen. But
upon inquiry he found that at least three
fourths of these men had been committed for
intemperancc. When he went to Bellevue he
saw prisoners, many of whom were Irish just
starting for the penitentiary. II then made a
vow" said Bishop Ireland, "that SO long as /
had the power ! would speak for war against
intemperance."
Ireland said: ''The Irish are naturally an
agricultural people, and that fact made
ireland the home of virtue and morali-
ty and the stronghold of the Church. Almost
all Of Irishmen came to this coun-
try with virtuous intentions, moral courage
too LOTT
for ourselves and children. But the trouble
with us was that instead of pushing on to the
stopped stopped in in the he Cities, ] learned to to
drink rum, aud became the mere drudges of the
people. In America we had chance to be-
come owners Of large tracts OF land, but We
threw away the opportunity. A. few OF the
first enaigrants were men of grit, and they
forced their way into the West when there
were no railroads.
But they did not despair, and those men now
own vast tracts of fine cultivated land, live
in splendid houses and enjoy all the COM
forts human happiness demands. All the diff
6culties in the way of reaching the rich grain
lands have been removed, and nearly all of the
thousands of Irish emigrants who have arrived
in America during the past twenty years
have eaked out miserable existences in
the great cities of the East. Rut for many it
is not yet too late although others have died
poor and left their children to become
paupers. If the Irish people who are to-
| night swelte-ing in your tenement houses will
make up their minds to 60 West ard become
landowners they may in a few years be we'll
to-do farmers. Here in the city you pay rent
for poor apartments in tenement houses, and
never one brick will belong to you.
Another great advantage of the West will be
its moral effect on your children. The first
man who goes to a colony such as we are es-
tablishing is a priest, and he is always there
to send you advice, before you arrive and
to look out for your interests. tell YOU, Irish
men and Irishwomen, it is high time for you to
show the people Of America that you are des-
tined for something else than the slaves of the
taskmasters. sa 1t is notorious fact
in the West that the best and most
prosperous farmers there are Irishmen. Be-
fore many years have passed we may sec repro
duced in the West large communities display
ing all the virtues the industry and the piety
of our dear mother Ireland"