The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
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world at the lowest prices ever known.
are more than match for English
statesmen it is contest of intellectual
forces, and the supremacy rests with Ire
land.
The only hope of the wretched, toiling
poor of England rests now on the sue
cess of the Irish leaders, and Irish fideli-
ty to principles of truth and justice will
yet win for Wales and Scotland those
constitutional rights Of which England
robbed them when they surrendered
the r faith. Parnell we'll can wait till
England's premier speaks, for Ireland
controls the destinies of the British EN-
pire.
Other nations have conquered oppres-
sion and gained political independence,
at the cost, however, of ruined affairs
and the dissertation of religion Too
often has the Cross been lowered when
liberty's standard was raised Ireland
presents to the world the grand spectacle
of a people securing their political rights
by constitutional means, and in the flush
and enthusiasm of victory as loyal to
their faith and its. ministers as in the
darkest days of their bondage. This re-
markable fact in the history of political
agitation in our days can be accounted
for only through the loyal and unselfish
devotion of Ireland's priesthood to the
interests of her people in all their sor-
rowful history. The Irish priest never
deserted his flock, and championed al
ways the cause of the poor and the op-
pressed. With price on his head, he
fled with his people to the wilds of the
mountains, comforted them in their sor-
rows, lightened their burden of grief,
under the shelter of midnight darkness
brought religious consolation to the dy-
ing and gave christian burial to the dead.
He shared with them the crust their
poverty could offer, banished despair
when their hearts were breaking, and
led them to look from the inhnmanity
of man to the eternal justice of God.
And this fidelity of the priest to his OPP
pressed and poverty-stricken people
continued from generation to genera
ton, enlivening their hopes through all
their wrongs, until to-day priests and
people, united together in closest ahec-
ton and confidence, are moving onward
to the full realization of all their dreams.
No wonder, then, that the Irish people
are loyal to the priesthood of Ireland,
for Ireland's priesthood has been their
country's Dest and truest friend. AS
and prelates of Ireland have not escaped
the shafts of censure and blame. They
have been censured for slow and dilatory
action, and they have been blamed for
at all espousing the cause of their coun-
try. The first is NO matter of wonder
when we remember the character and
temperament Of the people among
whom their lot was cast. The rash and
impatient could see no wisdom in delay
wnen their hearts were stirred with the
memory of their wrongs The second
would naturally not meet the approval
of designing men whose insincerity they
unveiled, or whose selfish schemes they
thWarted. But their prudence and con-
sentative caution were Ireland's only
hope when dealing with an implacable
enemy, and the wisdom of their course
has won the approval of enlightened
statesmen all the world over.
" o. Go bless you, Priests of Ireland You were
waiting WI viii,
Yon we e waiting with purpose when you bade
your fl cSs be still
A d you preached fro off our affairs not alone
the Word unlime,
Bus your sle ce preach n to Irishmen-" Be
patient; bid your timep'
And they heard you and obeyed, as well as out
ragged me ul do -
Only so re. who loved poor Ireland, but who
erred in 10 biting you;
Doubling YOU, who co I'D not til the why you
spak the TRANCE beh- St
You, who saw the day was coming VIII n the
moral strength Was best
You. whose hearts were sore with Looking on
YOUR country's quick decay
| You, whose chapel Sc ats were empty and your
peDple 6e ava
You, WIN mar ,ed amid the fields where OF ce the
peasant cabin stood
| You, who Saw v"u" ktth and kindred swell the
emigration flood
You, the soggarth in the famine, and the helper
in the FROST
You, VIII s. sh dow was a sunshine when all
other no g was 'ost-
Yes, thew ub g and you kne - it-out you
new u said word:
Only re4chei. BE still, he patti ntY and,
thank GOD, your voice Was h ard.
Now, the day for"seen is bre4king-it has dawn.
ed upon the land,
And the priests still preach IN Ireland do they
bi ir focks disband?
DO they tell them SELL to suffer aud be silent
NJ! their words
Flash from Dublin Bav to Connaught, brighter
than the gles 10 of words
Flash fir IN Donegal TO Kerry, aud from Water
ford : Glare,
And the nstio hood awakiDg thrills the sorrow-
laden air
Let tn I'm sound from hoarv Cashel; Kerry.
Meath and oss sand forth;
Lei them ring ir m lDyne md lam and the
Primate of the North;
Ask not CLASS Dr creed: let "IRELAND' be the
taiismal1c wor
Let the blessed sound of unity from North to
South be hard;
Carve the words No creed distinctions I" on
0'Connelrs granite tomb,
And his dust will feel their mean tng AMI re.
klndle In the DOM.
Priest to priest TO sound the sunmo sand the
answer, man 10 man;
With t. e D o lie round the standar aud the
pre- ates in the 7an
Let the b. art OF Irela ,ds hoping keep this gold
en- rule of Cloyne
Till the Orang fades from Derry and the sha low
from tn Boyne.
Let the words be carried outward till toe farth.
est anis the reach
Z" After Christ, their country's freedom do the
Irish prelates prea;h