New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-24
E. l. FREEM4Y o. THE IENHN AHERICL

From The Fo-tntghAy Rcrie,r.
land must be recKOued as English where the
English kernel Is 20 strong as TO draw 70 ITSELF
every foreign element, where the foreign settler Is
adortea into the English home OF an English people,
where be OF his children exchange the speech Oh
their elder dwellings for the Lnghah speech OF the
land Nowhere does the asslnliatluS process 90
on more vigorously tnan n IAe lultcu STATES
Men of various nuilOna.itics are easily changed
iu1o good Americans and the good American
must be- in every scnse that j not strictly geoGidph
zeal u political. It good Lugllshman. And, as
regards large part Ot the foreign set. lcis no man
of real English feeling can give them OiLer thau
hearty welcome. Tie German ana SIM more ne
scandinavian, settlers are SIMPLY men OF our own
race VINO have Jagged behind IN the western mdfch.
bat who nave at last made II at a single pu, WILL
ont tarrving for thousand years III the isle OIL
Britain But there are other settlers. other inmates
with whose prcscn the land, one would think
might he happy L. dispense. J mist here speak
Ow u mind al the great risk OF oicnClng people IN
more sides than one. Men better yersed III ADerl-
can matters than myself point out 10 me the Iact
that the negro vote O.. lances the IRISH vote. But
one may be allowed 70 MINK mat "a iculoilc laH'
might do better still without any lrI5h vote. thaJ
an Aryan land might 90 better SIN WIihouL amy
negro vote And what ! venture to say Oh tue
housetOD, has been whispered ~ uY ear 10 closets
by Not a few ia America whO iuiIy understand the
state and needs of their country. very many ap-
proved when ! suggested that She best remedy ior
whatever was anlss would be ii every lrisAmah
should kill nero and be hanged 70. II. Those
who dssented disscnlcd most commonly on tie
ground that II there were no IRISH ana no negroes
they wonld not be able TO get any domestic seT-
wants. Tie most serious OIL, ion came u IN 4'hc
Island whore tuey have no capital punishment
and where they hal 10 with t. keep the irish AZ Dc
public expense. let no one thiuk That ] nave any
lll-feelng toward the IRISH people. In tEei own
island have ever, sympathy Win them. n-EucI
long ago IN tAc pages o. tbs fcFlc" on De-1ll OF
Home Rule or of any fU.m Of Iush independence
which dld not involve. as some schemes tneh pro-
posed dld Involve the depcndenc. Of Great Britain
! should indeed 1e inconsistent II 1 were 20 refuse
t. tie lrisInan what ! have sought 10 Vln Tor me
Greek, the Bulgarian and the Daimatian. Noi D u
wonderful or blame worthy U ncn no have Ic4t lcif
od homes 10 escalc lion the WForEs Oh loie's" Iio
should carry with them into their new homes lAe
memory OF tie wIOngs Which drove them iroll the
Old. ] share the natural dlJnaton against tho'c
who, either in Ireland or 80 America, make q good
cause To be evil spoken OF: but. rs long "a tie
freshman seeks to compass his ends only hy honor
LIS ends different from ours. But all this IS
perfectly consistent with thu manifest fact that the
Ir.su clement l.. IN tue Ing sI lands on both sides
Oi the ocean, m!achiefous element. The greatest
object Of all - lOc tie severed branches of the
English folk 10 live IN the fullest measure of friend
ship and unity That L. consistent with their sereIed
state. Now the IRISH element IL America is tie
greatest OF al hudrauccs m the way OF this happy
state of things. IL Is the worst. and perhaps the
strongest, OF several causes which help TO give "A
bad name 20 American politics. Political men ia all
times and secs le under strong temptations to say
and 80 thlnc- which they otherwise would not say
and DO. ~ order TO gam some party advantage. But
on 10 political men OF any time OF place Las this
KIND OF influence been more strongly brought 10
bear than II Is on political men in the lnted >totes
who Wlsh 10 gain The IRISH vote. The ~ pOrtancc
o. that vote grows ana grows; 10 parry. no
leading man. can afford 10 dcspise u. Parties and
men are therefore driven into courses To which
otherwise they would have no temptation to take.
aud those for The most part courses which uu-
friendly TO Great Britain. Any Ill-feeling which
other causes nay awaken between the two severed
branches of the English people j. prolonged and
siren hened By the pre-ence Of the Irish settlers
IN America. Ia some minds they may really plant
hostile feelings toward Great Britain winch would
otherwise ind no place there. At any rae they
plant ~ many minds habit Of speaking and acting
tI.f 1f fr.fIa i.uI.If
vs. bicn cannot but lead 10 bad effects many ways.
! he mere ruMOr the mere Thought, OF recalling
Mr Lowell from hs post ia England IN suDserylency
TO Irish claHOr j, Il case in point That such
thing should even have been dreamed Of shows tie
balelul nature o. Irish Influence IN America, and
how specially likely 10 is 10 stir MP strife and lll-
feeling betw Great Britain and America even at
times when, setting lrsn matters aside, there Is
not the falntest ground OF quarrel on either side.
In a view of pOetcal justice II is perhaps not un-
reasonable that English nsrule in Ireland should
Le punished IN this particular isAape.