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AsSlsteu immigration OF Irl6h, Whethcrthcy
be paupers or otherwise into this country,
said an indignant statesman Of Ifibernnn OK
traction last evening. Thousands of the
very men Alex. Sullivan and his crowd pre-
fer to represent reached these shores in n
condition no better than the paupors who are
now being landed at Castle Garden Thou
sands of them would never have been able TO
cross the ocean had they not been assisted,
and now for them to stand up and say that
nobody else shall he assisted out of Ireland
strikes me as being the very puntcsccnco
Of gall. If native born Ameri-
cans, or Americans of foreign blood other
than Irish, want to kick against the importa-
tion of Irish paupers well and good, but for
heavens sake let the we'll fed professional
Irish patriots aud scll-assumcd Irish
leaders keep their hands OH. For them to
push TO the front and join in the cry against
thcir unfortunate countrymCn is a gratuitous
insult to the Irish race. Many of these as.
sisted cmigronts will so right to work, and
very fow will be a charge upon anybody.
They hnvo bcon oppressed creatures of cir
cunistances, aud now that they arc in the
land of tho free and out of tho slavsh, para
lying atmosphere of Ireland they can do for
themselves.
"As for Alex. Sullivan" he added 81 have
vety little respect for him. II is mon like
him who bring the cause of Ireland into dis
repute, llo docs not represent the Irish peo-
pc, and he is adangorous man If hohad re-
mained on the island howould have been either
patriot member Of parliament, rvlcuilcss
opprossor of the Irish people in the gusc OF
Judge or sheriff OF else he would have been
an lnformcri rs circumstances might dictate.
lie is one of those mcrcilcss, jcauiLicul char
actcrs who are guided by their selfish inter-
csts in every move they make. Alcx. Sullivan
is a natI raj born shcmcr intrgucr, and agi-
tator, and cold Ms ice, Only few years ago
he was on trial for his life, and escaped pun
shmcnt for the crime only through thoactivo
assistance of the Ancient Order of Hiberinns,
of which organization ho was then and Is
to-day q leading member. Since that trial he
has been consumed with passion to vindi-
cato himself II is the ono ruling passion
of his life Everything else has been subordi.
mated to this one idea, and as he has been as
sisted in his effort to obtain this highly
priced vindicatio - by matchlcss cfrontcry
and ability of no mean order IL Is little won
der that he has succeeded 60 tho extent Of OBJ
tanning an apparent leadership of the Irish
movement in America. The fact remains
however, that Alox. Sullivan cannot be
counted upon to-day as the friend of the Irish
patriotic movement. lie has not an ounce of
patriotic blood in his veins"
80
Comparatively little is'lknown about New
Guinea" said the diplomat yesterday "and
in view of the fact that this very important
territory has just been added to the British
possessions by colonial annexation, somo
thing about it will be read with interest
should imagine. The island appears to have
boon discovered by the Portuguese us far
back as 1926, and it is known that tho Span
ish navigator Ynigo Ortez do Retes visited it
in 1916, and first gave it tho name of New
Guinea on account of the resemblance of the
inhabitants to the negro race. In 1906 Torres
took possession of it in the name of tho king
Spain, and Tasman landed on the north coast
in 1913. New Guinea was also Wis
tied by number of Dutch naviga-
tors, who seem TO DO entitled to the
honor of conducting nearly every important
discovery on the island for II period of 200
years. Its best known bays and rivers still
have Dutch names. Dampior, the English
navigator, in 100 sailed along the north coast
and discovered tho straits bearing his name.
| In 1927 the Dutch established small colony
at Triton bay, which shortly afterwurd dis
appeared In 1913 the commander of H. e.
NJ. ship Fly conducted several explorations
on the southeastern coast. Alfred X. Wal
lace discovered the village of Dorcy, on the
north coast, in 1858; but very little knOwl-
edge of the country was acquired until 1872,
when tho celebrated Italian explorer, Sig.
D'Alberts, penetrated toward the interior of
the island and visited tho town of Hatam
and other places in the mountainous regions,
where he obtained a magnificent collection of
| birds, plants, and insects. On account of i'll
health he was oblighed to return home,
but revisited the islands few years later and
established his headquarters at Yulo island,
at the entrance of Hall sound, go miles east
of Torres straits. 1t was opposite this place,
on the main land, that the American traveller,
DIR. James, in company with Swedc, Karl
| Thorngren, was murdered by the natives in
1876 Tho murder was committed by tribe
called the Roro, and, on tho authority of Mr..
Chalmers, was fearfully avenged in July,
| 1882 by the Lesi tribe, with whom DIR. james
| lived. The Les warriors captured Roro
| native and compelled the latter to guide them
to the village Of Paitani, which was at once
surrendered. The Roro people asked, "Who
are youp The reply was, "Wc arc the I.esi
como to pay you; you murdered foreigners
4 they did not pay you; they were afraid"
After some further parloying all tho inhab.
itants Of thevillage, including the women and
children, wcro either butchercl or burnt to
death, and the scene oftheir Village the next
morning was but heap Of blackened ashes.
"The Papuans pierce their ears and nostrils
1 aud wear in them as ornaments bamboo sticks
i and bright coloTed feathers Some Of them
| file their teeth to sharp point. Their faces
are frightfully dislgured with huge dark
welts burnt in with red-hot Goals and rubbed
with various kinds Of dyes. They pass their
timo principally in hunting and fishing
dancing and lghting Thor Weapons consist
of bows and arrows, clubs and spears, Al
| Astrolabe bay they have knives and axes OF
flint, and a whirl bat made of hard wood ex-
! qulsitely carved Tho food of the variou,
tribes consists principally of pigs, dogs, fowls
kangaroos, lizards, fish, insects, yqms, cocoa.
nuts, bananas, melons, mangoos bread fruit
and sugar cane. They possess rude knowl.
I cdga Of agriculture and cultivate extensive
plantations, the soil everywhere being fertile
and break tho ground with peculiar shaped
sticks Their houses are built OF bamboo and
raised on piles; some of their dwellings how.