The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-20
IRELAND ON IRELAND.
THE GREATEST EVIL OF ALL
III. pl.,IssuI.A.d Bishop Of Minnesota Declare.
that WAI,kI has v rouEht More Trouble Ia
IrtlaSd than LandlOrdIsm-liIs
OplnIOn On PrOhIbltory Laws.

OplHlOn on PrOhlbitorJ Laws.
CmcAoo, January l9.-Rt Rev. John
Ireland, Bishop OF Minnesota, probably
the most noted temperance worker in
America, spoke at Central Music Hall last
evening on "Intomperauce; Our Duty In
Regard to the Evil"
His grace, the Most Rev. Archbishop
Feellau, presided, and monster audience
greeted tho eloquent prelate. Tho stage
was occupied by disnitaries Of the church,
the entire Judiciary, all the prominent city
and Government officials and an extraor.
dinary number OF our most distinguished
citizens. The reception Of the great TEN.
perance orator proved ovation.
A reporter interviewed the Bishop to-
day, The distinguished gentleman began
with request that the reporter should
contradict the statement that Is going the
rounds Of the press 10 the effect that he or
Bishop Grace, whose Coadjutor he is, had
ever prohibited Catholics from beiDgsaloon.
keepers. lie had done his best to dissuade
Catholics, particularly Irish Catholics, from
going into the saloon business, but he had
by no means prohibited them, much less
threatened them with accommodation,
as was stated. Saloon keeping, he said was
not good business, but was not intrinsi.
cally bad In itsell. There arc some good
men In the saloon MISREPRESENTATION,
honest men-but they expose themselves
to danger.
In relation 10 the Temperance movement
in his diocese, it had been attended, he
Said, with very great success. Almost oil
English.speaElng congregations OF the
Diocese OF st. Paul had total abstinence
society under the immediate direction OF
the priests, and all the societies were In
fourishing condition financially. The great.
est efforts oi himself and Clergy were di.
rected towards bringing Irish Catholics
within the temperance fold. They were
most In danger from the sins of intempcr.
Ancc, and, as an lrishman and an Irish
Nationalist, which he emphatically de-
clared himself 10 be, he felt that It was u
National disgrace that 50 many lrishmen
should be addicted TO the awful vice Of
intemperance. He knew how much his
people had suffered from that, their beset-
ting sin-more than from foreign misrule
and landlordism combined. Enancipate
the Irish people from the saloon keeper,
and II would be only question oi u few
years when Ireland would become q ma
tion. In this view he was supported bys
wise and good IN Irishman as A. NJ. Sulli.
van, who said at St. Paul that, before the
abolition OF landlordism, before every.
thing, he would have temperate Ireland.
'AIy maxim" said Bishop Ireland, is:
IRELAND ,oBRR IS IRELAND RRHE, =.
aeld there eau be no freedom until mon re.
strain their appetites."
Did he believe that good would come Of
the present temperance agitation?
"Undoubtedly. Wherever the agitation
had been lively 1t had already done good.
Even among the German Catholics there
was IN awakening. He was glad to learn
Of the establishment Of the Archdiocesan
Union in Chicago. State organizations are
too loose. There was no governing centre,
no responsibility OF authority. The diO.
cesan plan was compact, and had more OF
the religious spirit. In other places than
Chicago the movement was spreading. The
Catholic clergyman throughout the country
seem TO be alive to the necessities and du.
ties OF the hour"
He did not believe in coercivc temper
auce legislation. It was contrary TO the
spirit Of our institutions, and 10 the spirit
OF the age. Onlyin extreme cases should
the private rights OF citizens be curtailed.
Besides coercive temperance was not feas.
ible. The majority Of the people seemed
a. l,n nnnnuaI tn Il prnhihitnr,, Ia a,,,u hn
came dead letters.
lie certainly favored high license. A
system OF high license would drive out the
impecunious and therefore less scrnpulous
saloon keepers; 1t would undoubtedly di-
minish tho number OF slloons, as the
wholesale men who now lend the needy
grog vender the small license fec would
hardly advance a large license fee. The
high license system wherever tried has
wsrked well and diminished intemperance
in proportion perhaps as the number oi
saloons was lessened. Local option, too,
had worked well In Minnesota aud where
ever tried.
on TIE SUBJECT OF COLONIZATION
Bishop Ireland wished, lie said, to correct
some mistaken impressions. In tho Cath.
olic colonies so,called Of Minnesota and
Nebraska there were others than Catholics
and Irishmen. lie himself did not be.
lieyc In collecting Irish Catholics in one
locality. They did much better when
scattered through other communities
mixed SO 10 say, with other peoples The
colonies In which he was Interested had
prospered beyond expectation, and there
were not more contentel people anywhere.
The last crop was fine one,
and the harvest was gathered in good time.
lie expected large additions in the spring.
The "Connemgtas," about whom so much
was written and spoken two years ago, had
settled down. Those who remained on
the land arc becoming wealthy; those who
took TO the towns have done well also.
Their tchildlen were most happy at the
change. Only few days ago he met two
young woman who came over with the
colony, and who expressed to him in very
emphatic language their delight at the
change. They were neatly clad, and were
really good.looking young women. "Tho
Connemara people" he added, "are nearly
all fine looking people"
"Did those amphibious people of Done.
gal and Mayo accommodate themselves 10
a life Of iarnine?'
Certainly. An Irishman can aCcommo.
date himself to anything. Ten fishermen
Of the COnncmara colonies arc now tho
most practical farmers Of the Murray Coun-
ty Colony"
In conclusion, the Bishop said that he
would like to impress upon tho Irish
Americans Of Chicago that tho true work
Of patriotism was 10 inculcate temperance
among their countrymen. The British
Government had not done more Of injury
and injustice to the Irish race than the
saloon keepers. But for the saloon and the
saloon keepers, Irish landlordism would
have been swept Off the face Of tho earth
twenty-five years ago, and Ireland would
now be nation.
ANOTHER HOTEL FIRE.