Daily globe., 1882-08-03

in 1887 (before Father Msthews labors) 12,096; In
| 1888, 1lO56; In 1882 0y7; (crime diminishing az
temperance preyailed) in ls40, (he hey-dsy OF tenn
| persnce) l73. Between 1888 and 1840 the public
houses where liquors we're retsiled In Dublin had
lessened By 237. As consequence the persons i'm
prisoned in the Brideve (the principal city PRISON.
| and more than 100 cells in the Bride sell being
empty, the Smithfe1d prison was actually closed.
Recently Baron Dowse has declared from the bench
Dublin" If crime has increased In Irelsnd since
ls4J IT is because Father Mathews spirit no longer
rules the country.
THE IRISH IN LIVERPOOL.
Irish men and women cross the chsunel ilto Eng
land. There they are crowded together In large
cities around industrial or mining centers. The
native homes. Tho result-in one year over l2e00
OF them pass In the one city OF Liverpool through the
borough Ill. criminal class these Irish are, say
knows them thorouehly and whose life has for sole
object to aid them, Rev. James Nugent, the chap
lain of this jail viii tell 20 thst In ninety-ive
aud that il the IRISH of Liverpool were total abstsin
ers element Of the population could compare with
them In freeeom from all crime.
THEIR LOT IN AMERICA.
Irish exiles have been from the first days of the
repub ic landing on the shores Of Al erica. The
Irish and their descendants number millions to-day
among us. What should we not have expected from
The Irish In America. when we consider their own
powers, physical, moral and Intellectual, and the
boundless resources of the new world, which were
laid open to them! What We should have expected,
we find wherever they stunned liquor; we do not
find 1t wherever they have patron,zsd the whisky
chop; and alas as great portion OF them have
loved the glass, great portion OF them are failures
in America. I abandon no.hopes for the cherished
isle across the ocean; but whatever of her destiny,
he Irish In America have future Of their own
aud in picturng 10 ourselves their possible future
we may command the brightest colorings our fancy
can suggestion one condition, that they avoid In
temperance. BETTER here thaa in Ireland the
Irish problem be solved, a. to the powers of the
Irish people for greatness and hsppiness. The heid
Is wider. the opportunities more vast
You who would dell gbt in showing TO your fellow
citizens the ideal Irish element labor TO advance the
total abstinence cause This is work for true Irish
patriotism, work which leads TO sure and priceless
victories. and which dernsnds no other sacrifice
than the dashing from ones lips of the perhdious
cup
America is matter Of public notcriety, II is
lamentabie fact. They are the hewers Of wood and
drawers of water. Go where the hardest work s to
be done you find Irishmen -burrowing IN the mines
OF Pennsylvania, wasting swsy their life blood amid
the never-cessiug din Of Industrial machinery In
New England. stHewiog with their corpses lines OF
railroads or canals. In large cities the tenement
house quarters thropged with them, q family
striving to breathe In each room Of building nvs
stories high, crammed with human beings from cell
Forced poverty is hurtful to soul and body. Nor
taty attains fearful proportions. In the tenement
houses Of New York 70 per cent. OF all children
born die within few years after their birth. The
report Of the Boston Medical association shows that
while Irish families far than those
of native New Englanders, yet account of greater
mortality among Irish children. the New England
population would keep pace with the Irish, were not
the latter constantly receiving new accessioDs
from emigration, Bad ventilation and alcoholism,
adds the report, are tmpairing fesrfully the
.sa ~ No
huence for good, social or political can they have
amid such poverty. What rsom for evils Of all
sorts, physical and moral7 Well, what keeps the
Irish people In thess low social conditions? The
saloon. Thither goes the money earned at the
sweat Of their brow; thence do men issue, broken
down In health and strength, to swell the Lists of
iders and paupers. Compute In any one city the
sums Of money spent by Irishmen In Irish saloons,
and you will be affrighted. In western city of
America there are 1,5e0 saloons kept by Irishmen
for the benefit of Irishnsn. Allow the average re-
ceps OF each saloon to be SIS per day, you have
annual expenditure for liquor by the Irish of that
city Of S82i2, 500. Add to these the valae of
time lost through drink Of wages unearned because
men vsit saloons, and Sl2OO0,O00 per annum is not
90 high figure to represent the annual losses to
the Irish of one city. Repeat the calculation with
due proportion from st. Paul to New York, from
Boston and Philadelphia, and you will know why we
poor. 1t Ia idle talk to advice the people to
cure homes of their own, leave the crowded cities,
10 gain by labor and economy competence for
themselves and their fam les; you must lSy the az
to the root Of the evil first ieschlug them to shun
the saloon which is swao wing up their esrniI gs.
The lists of cuiprits wi h Irish names appearing
before municipal courts, filing municipal lils and
reformstores. ssrke.us wlth horror. Well ihI may
Let us ted the truth-the world is telling II for
but the world tells II for shame while will tell
i that the world may no longer be able to tell it.
Irish names, ooubly more than our due proportion
will allow, are inscribed our court rsgisters.
shat shame for the old race! Wha. disgrace to
religion! We could defend them, il coz parisons
can defend. he most shocking sins of the land
absent from Irish homes Weighed before God 10
scales of perfect justice these Iish crimes often
light and pardo able before crimes of more favored
classes who are never dragged Int court But what
Of this Ia the public mind? Who will explain as we
do or see as we do? The shame remains. have you
studied the causes Of these crimes? haze tried to
.tudy them. and In largo cities have qufHtioned
judges aud police officers, aud here Is IL o fact
Ninety per cent at least of all Irish crimes trace
able directly or indirectly to drink The power o.
rum to produce crime, great among all elements of
the population. attains special proportions ng the
lriah. AS things are, We appear far more criminal
than we should be. Sup: ress rum and other
element compares with us In freedom from crime.
Statistics which could be furnished by priests Ia
boring among the Irish people better than those of
statesmen would tell the evils OF drink. Where is
there sin, where are chi dren neglected, where II
there cursing and qusrreitDg, where is ipnocence
driven to despair, where souls lost! Where whs
key enters. Question If you may the damned souls
Of Irish Catholics amid the flames OF he'll. am
sure II they were to answer 10 one cause OF damna
tion, they would tell you. compares with 1t is
rum that nullifies sll the potent influences of reg
ion and dries up for them the sacred channels of
gracs.
WHAT'S TO BE DONE?
What's to be done? Anything, o God; but some-
thing. 1 speak to those who by position, influence,
talent OF Office onght to take interest in the people
See that there Is work for you, aud do it, II total
abstinence does not appear to you the remedy adopt
some other. If you differ from me in tbs means you
propose, will not complain; but viii complain In
the bitterness OF my soul If you stand by fold
ed while this dreaded torrent Is sweeping the
land, carrying with it ruin and misery. The evil ss
1t exists is extraordinary an extraordinary remedy
Is needed. ] hear 1t said the sacrsments
of the church suffice to combat evil; the church's
ministrations canno. be supposed to have failed.
Who knCws better than the power of the sscrs-
ments, the necessity OF the churchs ministrations
in all moral reforms? But there Is the question of
fitting for the sacraments, of removing the oc-
casion of sin that the effect OF the sacraments re-
main. God does not dispense, In moral efforts with
energies. and the very history Of the church
tells of unusual and extraordinary efforts made in
presence of all unusual and extraordinary evils Those
who hold the language am condemniDg are doing
iHjury TO religion by striving to shield beneath its
mantle their own apathy.
TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
Your remedy, my brethren, is total abstinence. !
have full faith In the remedy, and to insure the COM
plete regeneration Of our people 1 am certain we
need but to multiply your societies snd> maintain
their efficiency.
You pledge yourselves 10 abstain wholly frcm the
of Intoxicating drinks and you labor TO induce
others to initiate your example Certainly total ab-
stnence as defined and pracced in your associations
In iteelf worthy aud laudable work Strange
as 1t may seem, there are men from whom better
knowledge and better sense we're to be expected who
seek of course by Misrepresentation and covert
sneer than by argument to disparsge total aLsti-
nence. They dislike 1t for them elves, and
as consequence they dislike it in 9TH
ers We do not say that the
moderate use Of intoxicating liquor is In itself
wrong aud sinful We are no Manicheaps. We do
not propose to take from others against their viii
their right, allowed them by nature and natures
God, to within legitimate bounds wine, beer or
whisky. But neither do We acknowledge ss resting
on ourselves an obligation to use these liquors. and
We claim the God-given right to abstain our own
free choice from such use.