Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-01
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"A delegation OF repreSentatiTeo&no1A
of Irish birth or extraction, among
whom were Mr.. JOHN G.. MCGUIRE OF
Brooklyn, and JOHN ROACH, the ship
builder, waited upon President ARTHUR
the other day and directed his attention
to the enormity of the outrage that Is
being perpetrated upon this country by
the British government, in sending to
our shores shiploads Of helpless and In
firm paupers from England. The
spokesman of the delegates, Mr.. ALEX.
AMBER SULLIVAN, chief of the Irish
Land League, and others, clearly show
ed the character of the assisted" i'm
migrats, who are at present icing de-
ported from Ireland in such large num-
bers, and their statements of facts left
no room for question as to the truth Of
the situation. England, having by
long course of misru,e reduced the deni-
Gems of one of the most fertile islands
under heaven to absolute beggary, hav-
ing driven the robust and able bodied
by the hundred thousand every year to
seek new homes under better conditions,
now seeks to relieve herself from the
burden she has created by emptying
her warehouses upon our shores. and
compelling our taxpayers to maintain
those whom she has reduced to the
verge of starvation.
AS if to give emphasis to the position
taken and the delegation that visited
the President, the steamship Furnessia
recently landed at Castle Garden not
less than 300 immigrants who had been
transported by the order Of the Poor
Guardians of Cahirciveen, County
Kerry. Among these there were a few
able-bodled men, who might be able to
earn their own living here, but the ma
jority were chronic paupers, women
with large families and no means of
supporting them, and intirm old men
who bad long ago exhausted their
strength in the effort to keep body and
soul together. There were some who, in
answer to the questions of the Commits
sioners of Emigration, confessed that for
twelve years they had been inmates Of
the Cahirciveen workhOuse; one wo-
man had lived in the wOrkhouse for six
years, during which time she had be-
come the mother of two illegitimate
children, who had been shipped with
her to the United States; and other wo-
men were among the number, widows
and unmarried, with families ranging
from two to eight, and all equally inca
pable of main tanning themselves by
honest labor. This, be it remembered,
is but the cargo of a single one of the
numerous vessels which have disgorged
the denizens of the Irish poor-houses by
the thousand upon our shore during the
Prescott year.
What are we going to do about it"
This is question that Mr.. Secretary
FRELIN will have to consider,
and without unnecessary delay. 1t has
become the fashion in certain quarters
to insist that the Secretary of State is
and of right ought to be only dispens-
er of taffy" to foreign governmetns,an
that anything which savors of a manly
and resolute assertion of American
rights is oflicious intermedding, calcu-
lated to expose Us to the ridicule OF the
foreign countries. Mr.. FRELINGHUYSES
has shown himself an admirable exam
pie of the Turveydrop ideal of states
manship, but the present exigeney de-
mands more than this. Even at the
risk of exciting the hilarIty of English
statesmen, it is the clear duty Of Mr..
not, that virile audacity which belong
Cd to his predecessor, and to notify
England, in terms which may not he
misunderstood, that this thing has got
TO be stopped. II Mr.. BLAINE were
still at the head Of the State Depart
meut, there would lie no need of
pressure of public opinion 20 place that
Department in line with public senti-
ment and TO make it the CONSERVATION of
TIE interests and rights of the republic
Mr.. FREIISGurSBN has not followed
out in the past the manly, American
policy Of his predecessor, but in
this point, the duty incumbent is
so plain that even Mr.. FRELINGHUYsES
can scarcely fail to discern and dis
charge it. The United States has al
ready borne enough of the mischiefs
and evils that have followed English
miSgovernment in Ireland. 1t will not
submit to this last indiguity and out
rage, and highlands best friends in
America are those who sound the fact
most plainly and emphatically in her
aTs.