Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08
which he had come to live in our days of civil

which he had come to live In our days OF civil
strife? Let Chicamauga and Antietam and
South Mountain and Gettysburg answer.
By heroic deeds and heroic words Ireland has
brought all lands under obligations. Now she
sits in the shadow of death, the scenes of 1876
about to be repeated unless relief comes speed
lily. A brief picture of 1916 in Ireland:
'As we passed along, groups Of squalid be-
lngs were seen at road corners or running from
the multitudinous houses. hovels huts, or cav
the streamlets' hides, to see the meal go
past them under the protection of
bullets, bayonets and cavalry swords,
on its way to feed people beyond the
mountains hunger stricken like themselves,
but to whom they would not let it go if bull
let's, bayonets and cavalry swords were not
present. Famine! father, mother and two
children came SHIT r while . 20, into the street
at N isht to lie down on the pavement. They
came from neighboring town, they said, be-
cause they could get no food there.
About o'clock the woman went to the door
of d house adjoining and begged a piece
of turf to make fire in the street, for her
husband was dying. 1t happened to be the
house, the temporary lodgings of a naval Off
Ger of her majesty's service. 1t need hardly
be said that the request was at once complied
with and the turf was given. About 10 o'clock
the poor woman came to the door again,
begging for another piece of turf, for her hus-
band was dead and they were lying beside the
cold body. The officer went out and found
this to be the case, and he proceeded to ths
constabulary nation, but the cOnstables would
do nothing with the body, nor for the surviv-
Ors who lay beside 1T until morning. He pro-
ceeded elsewhere and procured some straw for
them, and made bed, and got stakes, and put
shelter over their heads with the straw for
the night, and made and administered a warm
meal for them. In the morning he was astir
in time to relieve them, and, going out, met
some of the constables. The principal one of
them talked loud and angrily to the woman for
having her husband dead ON that side of the
street.
Famine in Ireland! o Professionals and Cath
olics of America! implo1e you that, forget
ting all ecclesiastical distinctions, and with
faith in God so mighty that it shall disregard
even the orange and the green, you put your
shoulders together for the relief of furnishing
Ireland. Merciful God! shall it be that with
our barns and stOrehouses crowded with food,
we shall be heartless and unresponsive? No.
it shall not be. For, as this day I entwine the
shamrock around the cross, l hear a voice
louder than the groan of famished Ireland
voice of tears and blood and sacrifce-ex-
claiming, II was a-hungered, and ye gave me
meat" By the empty bread-tlay of the Irish
cabin, by the exhausted sack of oatmeal, by the
blasted harvest fields, by the blanched cheeks
OF women and children crying for help, by the
four hundred thousand graves of those who
persisted in the Irish famine of 1741, and
by the vaster number of graves of those
who persisted in 1916, l implore You not
only to be generous but to be quick. gather up
the plant of helpless childhood all over Ire
land, and the sobbing of mothers whose
children are dying on their breasts because
the fountains of life are dried up, and
the groans OF men who can fight back
no longer the wolf from the cabin, and by the
wailing of uncounted multitudes of the starry
ing. 1 gather them all up and 1 intone them
into one heartrenting cry for help. 1 am sure
you will be faithful. Then, when your day
of distress comes, you will have a right
to expect swift relief. ''Bless,
is he that considereth the poor; the Lord
will deliver him initime of trouble" Then
when the last great day of assize comes, and
the whole world shall receive its doom, the
great judge will bend smilingly to you in
memory of this day, and say: Il was naked,
and ye clothed me; was hungry, and ye fed
me. Inasmuch as We did this to poor starving
Ireland, ye did it to me-"