New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-13

were '1 Who might have been easily over
nowered had the mobiles and bourgeolsie SHOWN .to
commonest energy and courage - fv ms. whom the
shopkeepers of the Bouevards couiu na'S ny i Oh
into the Seine with their yard measures. Sale'y
never to be secured by hesitation anu ueaS. S aif
The longer an abuse remains unremoved the more o1
6cnt is its extirpation. The conditions OF pontlca
life in England during the last century ana those IN
America today are essentially dllete1' ei1 hue
mower was in the hands of an educated class VINO,
as the standard of morality became 1 more
high, were compelled to change prt the in
America, manhood suffrage has placed power In the
hands of the lowest and least educated class,
large proportion of whom have little sympathy VIZ.
the country of their adoption aud are 100 iguoianu
to understand lis requirements: Education i h%i
possibly affect these fayorably in the future um
il is also to be considered that the present Sno6t
directly tends, by making dishonesty uluIo p ont
allie than nolitical virtue to continually augment,
in an evef-increasng ratio the NUMBER oi ~ or
whose interest il is 10 pcrpetuatc te Ios oI
mDtion Nor can America plead youth az an cAvuJ
for her moral dccrcWtude AEttio"n nonbood or an
youth does not promise healt ny n'HIhu " outh
honorable old age The SdvanagG5S Ot Of novertv
and nraindice which weigh on the races Oh Europe
and field free for the nOblest experiments III gov
ernment She inherited the experience ana GH'' I
ampIes and avoid the rocks on when they naJ
made shipwreck. She should have adVanCed ahq
not fallen back; and this was the proud nope Oh
her earliest statesmen. The young and vigorous
republic of the West was TO revive the, CLASSIC
virtues of Brutus and Clnclnnatus. anu plaHc
forth pillar of fire, to guide through the daTRhess
the cffcte mOnarches of the Old World. bui III
would be difficult TO Dame any country, SAcept
Russia where the Emperor Nicholas declared IHaC
he and his son were the only people in the country
who did not steal. and where his successor 1orhd
that the chief pcculatOT of the recent war was nl
own brother, to which the pontlcai hiS tIy ~
America would not be a warning rather thah an
Willie, in England there is an intelligent and m I'm IN
creasing party who advocate tne auopt,on u Amer mn
lea are convinced that this very manhood
suffrage, unaccompanied by an ed1catlons
Omen wide the doors of the franchise TO education
and intelligence hut with the example OF America
before us, close them in the face OF ignorance anu
crime.
THE IRISH QUESTION IN AMERICA.
The Irish question Is as burning a one in Ameri-
can as i'm English politics. and cannot help think
ing il more hopeless in the States than mere, from
thcdifiiculty ofwithdrawing concessions when nave
once been made. Mr.. Edward OBren, III leply 10
n letter of mine in The Times has insisted that the
most progressive and prosperous cites IN America
New York, Chicago, and San tranclScoIaie Jusi
those in which the population of lrlsh blrtn ana
descent is largest in proportion and would nave US
infer that to this element their prosperity Is cheIy
due Asre2sonably might we argue !at rnT p the
Irish who are the poorest and most nnmanaseaple
part of Their population The splenCld c0ihlheicIal
situation of New-YOrk Chicago ana san iIanclsGIo'
and the marvellous energy OF the American poplId-
ton are the cause of their prosperity us because
they are rich that the Irish collect IN them lhcy
live almost exclusively in the towns, ana alh0ugh
in Ireland they complain of not possessing land, vet
in America they will not accept land for cnltlNa-
ton, though they may obtain 1t at nominal price,
or for nothing. go. ,...,
The majority of the Irish of New York differ little
from the same class in English cities; they are
mostly llterate and the secret or thclL power IL
not in their energy numbers, but that the IOhS
and absolute rule OF the priests has accustomed
them to vote solid as they bid he voters OF
the city are 100000, and of these the iTlsh are
III 1itt1
determination of their leaders and Their own lgno-
rance and political inapitude enable the diSreputa-
bic minority TO triumph over the wealth culture
and Intelligence of the dsnnited majority. NO
more groteSque Illustration of the failure Of UNI
vcrsal suffrage to attain the result which alone
would Justify it could possibly be found.
The Irish Catholics of America are Democrats al
most to a man, but this is an accident due to
q National CHARACTERISTIC which IS illustrated III
the wel-known story of the lrishman who beng
asked on his first landing at New York, what were
his politics replied that lie knew nothing OF pol
Republicans having held office ever since the war,
the Irish have naturally joined the ranks OF the
opposition. 1t would lie miSta Ike to imagine that
political purity prevails where there IS no cohtrol-
| ing Irish element. New-York has been cited as a
convenient illustration of the evils OF the Aner-
! can system. But leave CIVILIZATION behind ana go
to the far West, to town, like Cheyenne. III
Wyoming, and every form of electoral corruption
Will he found there rampant and votes sold shame
leSsly and as openly sheep IN the publlc market
The Irish are far more unpopular III AIieIlcd tlah
they are in England; and little sympathy 1or thelr
grievances Is felt expressed; Tor the Americans
aIe far too practical race not 10 rate at heu true
valne the utterances Of interested dcmagogucs
such as O'Donovan Rosa and Parncll. The lau-
guage used in Dynamite League meetings IN New
York and the criminal actions winch follow, are
alike viewed with indignation and disgust by thc
whole American community; but the weakness OF
democratic government Is such that the respect
able majority do not dare to crush or even silence
these enemies of the human race, and allow them,
without moestatiOn, not only 10 preach ana plot
arson and murder, but to carry them INTO eXeCu-
ton. No civilized Government should tolerate for
a day the open preaching of murder, and America
must not be surprised if her protection not OF poh-
zeal offenders but OF common aSsdsolnS results ere
long in seriously stranng her relations with this
country.
FOREIGN ELEMENTS OF CITIZENSHIP.
The difficulties aud dangers which necess ariy ac-
company manhood suffrage are, III America, m1en-
sihed BY the enormous emigration and the law 81
naturalization under which aliens are admitted as
citizens after five years residence Inc consequence
of this provision, which, as III the case OF Michael
MulhOOly, is frequently evaded, Is that large
number of persons are annually admitted 10 all the
rights of citizenship before they have become
American in sympathy or sentiment, with the ten
dency 10 form separate political groups looking
onv to the interests of their own class OF nation
ahty. Thus a number of iRpetd IN imYero grow up,
German, Scandinavian, or irish, bringing, as We
have seen with the last-n2med confusion INTO the
Federal Government, and fighting from beneath ITS
shield against their private enemies.
The Germans, In America as elsewhere, are
sober, honest, and intelligent body, and nave
brought the land of their adoption It's most vau-
able contingent But they are rather III than OF
The American world. They do not ntermarry with
Americans; they have their separate societies aud
amusements and as they now number some ten
millions there will al no distant date he a larger
German population in America than in Europe,
whose sympathies must more or less ancct European
politics. TO less degree these remarks apply to
the Scandinavian emigants, who. in States ike
Minnesota are numerous They have IN no way
changed their nationality with their climate, and
the Swedish charge ddtGu6s at Washington told me
that they were continually referring to him in their
difficulties instead Of to the authorities OF their
State.
TIE LEGACY OF SLAVERY.
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