Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-03

In 1897 before Father MetneTS iaDors) l2,U96; II
| 1885, II, o5S in 1885, 0T; (crlme diminishing Al
temperance prevailed) in 1910, (he hey-dsy Of tenn
perance) 173. Between 1888 ard 1910 the public
houses where liquors were retailed in Dublin had
lessened by 237. AS q consequence tbs persons i'm
prisoned in the Bridewe the principal city PRISON.
had ia en in single year from 1876 TO twenty-three
ard than 1C0 cells in the Brideseli being
empty, the Smtthfeld prison was actually closed
Recently Baron Dowse has declared from the bench
"Drink is at the bottom Of nearly all the crime In
Dublin" If crime has increased in Irelsnd since
1910 it is because Father Mathews spirit 10 longer
rules the country.
THE IRISH IN LIVERPOOL.
Irish men and women cross the channel into Eng
land. There they are crowded together in large
cities around industrial or mining centers. The
temptation to use alcohol is yet greater thau IN their
native homes. The result-in one year over IL 1900
of them pass n the one city Of Liverpool through the
borough Ill. criminal class these Irish are, say
those who know them but slightly. man who
knows them thoroughly and whose life has for sole
object TO aid them, Rev. James Nugent, the chap
lain of this jail viii tell 20 that in ninetyhye cases
out Of 100 drink is the sole cause of their oenses,
and that the I sh of Liverpool were total abstain
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 America. The
Irish and tneir descendants number millions to-day
among us. What should we not have expected from
the Irish in America, when consider their own
powers, physical, moral and intellectual, aud the
boundless resources of the new world, which were
laid open to theml What we thould have expected,
we find wherever they summed liquor; do not
fnd it wherever they have patronized the whisky
chop; and alas. as great portion of them hsve
loved the glass, great portion OF them are failures
in America. i abandon nohopes for the cherished
isle across the ocean; but whatever of her destiny
ihe Irish in America have a future of their own
and In cturing TO ourselves their possible future
we may command the brightest coloriDgs our fancy
can suggestion one condition, that they avoid In
temperance. Better here THAI i'll Ireland can the
Irish problem be solved as to the powers of the
Irish Poop e tor greatness aud happiness. The field
is wider. the opportunities more vast
You who would delight in showing TO your fellow
citizens the ideal 1ish clement labor to advance the
total abstinence This is work for true Irish
patriotism work which leads to sure and priceless
victories. and which demands no other sacrifice
than the dashing from ones lips Of the peridious
cup.
The comparative poverty of the Irish people In
America is matter Of public notorieiy, 1t is a
lamentabie fact. They are the hewers OF wood and
drawers of water. Go where the hardest work is to
be done you find Irishnien- burrowng In the mines
of Pennsylvania, wasting away their life blood amid
the neyer-ceasiog din of industrial machinery In
New England, strewiog with their corpses lines of
railroads or canals. In large cities the tenement
striving to breathe in each room of a building hys
stories high, crammed with human beings from cell
lar to roof This condition Of things is depiorable
Forced poverty is hurtful to saul and body. Nor
tally attains fearful proportions. In the tenement
houses Of New York rs 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 EngandefE, yet account of greater
mortality among Irish children, the New England
population would keep pace with the Irish not
tire latter constantly receiving new accessions
from emigration. Bad ventilation and alcoholism,
adds the report, are impairing fearfuly the
general sanitary status of the Irish people. No in
fuence for good, social political, they have
amid such poverty. What room for evils of all
sorts, physical and neral? Well, what keeps the
Irish people in these low social conditions? The
saloon. Thitber 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
dlers and pauper5. Compute in any one city the
sums of money spent by Irlshmen in Irish saloons,
and you will be affrghted. In one western city of
America there are 1,5C0 saloons kept by Irishmen
for the benefit of Irishmen. Allow the average re-
annual expenditure for liquor by the Irish of that
city of S32i2,5). Add to these sums The value of
time lost through drink Of wages unearned because
men visit saloons, and xf2000,000 per annum is not
too 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 Phiadephia, and you will know why We
poor. IL is idle talk 10 advise the peopS to Sc
to gain by lab, n AMI economy competence for
themselves aud their ami les; Sou must lay The ak
to the root of the evil frat teaching them to shun
the sal q which il 4slipviGs up their niT gs.
The Ii IS of calprits with ITish names apJearing
before municipal COURTS filing municipal jsils and
strike us WITH horror Well Ihty msy
Let tell the truthths world is telling it for
but the world tells it for sheme while VIII tell
1t that the world may 5onger be able to tell it.
Irish names, ooubly more than osr due proportion
will allow, are Inscribed on our court registers.
hat shame for the old racei. what disgrace to
religion! We could defend them, If coo PARSONS
can defend. he most shocking SINS Of the land
absent from Irish homes Weighed before God In
scales of perfect justice these LIeh lrimes often
light and pard1 able before crimes u more favored
classes who are never dragged int burt But what
of this in the public mind? Who will explain as We
studied the causes of these crimes? have tried to
study them. and 10 large cities have usstioned
judges and police officers, and hero Is tie fact:
Ninety per cent at least of all Irish crimes are trace
able directly or indirectly 10 drink The power OF
rum TO produce crime, great among all elements of
the population. ataius special proportions among the
Irish. AS things are, we appear far more criminal
than we should be. SUPPRESS rum, aud other
element compares with us in freedom from crime.
Statistics which could be furnished by priests Ia
boring among the Irish people better saan those OF
there sin, where are cli dten neglected, where $
there cutsing and qusrreling, where is Innocence
driven 70 despair where souls lost! Where whis
key enters. Question ii you may the damned souls
Of Irish Catholics amid the flames OF hell 1 am
suge if they were to answer, one cause of damna-
ton, they would tell you. compares with rum 1t is
rum that nulliies all the potent Influences of reig
ion and dries up for them the sacred channels of
grace.
WHAT'S TO BE DONE?
What's TO be done? Anything, o God but somo-
thing speak to those who by position, influence,
talent or Office onght to take interest in the people
See that there is work for you, and do it If total
abstinence doe not appear to yoa tae remedy adopt
some other. If you differ from me in this means you
propose, will not complain; but will complain in
the bitterness Of my soul If you stand by fold
ed while this dreaded torrent IL sweeping over the
land carrying with it ruin and misery. The evil as
it exists is extraordinary Extraordinary remedy
is needed. j hear it said the sacraments
of The church suffice to combat evil; the cburch's
illustrations cannot he supposed TO have failed
Who knows better than the power of the sacra-
ments the necessity Of the church's ministrations
in all moral reforms? But there is the question of
fitting men for the sscraments, of removing the
casion of sin so that the effect of the sacramento
main. God dots not dispense in moral efforts with
own energies and the very history Of the church
tells of unusual and extraordinary efforts made in
presence of all unusual aud extraordinary evils Those
who hold the language am condemning are doing
Injury 10 religion by striving to shield beneath its
mantle their Own apathy.
TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
Your remedy, my brethren, is total abstinence.
HAYS full faith in the remedy, and to insure the COM
plete regeneration of our people am certain we
need but to multiply your societies and maintain
their efficiency.
You pledge yourselves to abstain wholly from the
use OF intoxicating drinks and YOU labor to induce
others to initiate your example Certainly total alb
stinence defined and pracced in your associations
is in itself most worthy and laudable work Strange
as ii 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 dsparage total abs,i-
hence. They dislike it for themEeives, and
as consequence they dislike it in oth-
We do not say that the
moderate of intoxicating liquor is in itself
wrong and sinful; we no Msnicheans. We do
not propose to take from others against their will
their right, allowed them by nature end natures
God, to within legitimate bounds wiae, beer or
whisky. But neither do We acknowledge as resting
on ourselves obligation TO use these liquors, and
claim the aod-giyen right to abstain as our own
free choice from such use.
We do not say that total abstaners are hoier than
others. This were objectionable pride and unpar-
donable Stiffness; Gcd alone judges of individual
Holiness. But we do say, as an abstract principle,
that total abstinence prscticed through supernat-
ural motive is high act of virtue most agreeable to
GOD, and most deserving of reward at his hands.
The motive may be charity for oneself; dread the
sin of intemperance, and that we may the more
certainly escape IT, we resolve to shun even its re-