Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-31
NOTHING BUT A ISLANDER.

burdensd liquor dealers.
 NOTHING BUT A ISLANDER. Commenting approvingly on an article in the current number of the Forum from the pen of Bishop A. Cleveland Coxe, man whose hat1 ed of foreigners proceeds almost entirely from religious grounds, the Hartford Post says 'The anarchist, socialist and Clan-na Gael organizations, all avowedly opposed to tho spirit of our institutions, have quite too much power, and the individual naturalized citizen too often carries to the ballot box a greater hope and love for the land of his birth than for the country of his adoption" In so far as this applies to the Clan na- Gael or the men who compose the organi- l zation we believe it is an entirely gratu- itous assertion or worse, a ba.e and un warranted slanGer.
 l Whatever may be the character of 1 anarchism and socialism-and it is not at all certain that the latter, in its advanced ] form of nationalism, is not preferable to the plutocracy which is slowly but surely | CluLCuluE AL tLt oA ouA SoAALIy
 there is no warrant for saying that the Clan ma Gael is opposed to the spirit of | American institutions. In so far ns the
 aims and objects and chara ctcr
 ot the organization have been disclosed in connection with the
 taking off of Dr Cronin there is nothing
 to conflict either with the letter or the spirit of the American constitution or the
 principles that guide the admission of aliens to our country. We have the word of such men as Luke Dillon, Michael
 Breslin, John F. Beggs, Michael Roland,
 James Reynolds and Alexander Sullivan
 that there is nothing, in the constitution,
 by laws or spirit of the Clan na- Gael, that
 can in any way be interpreted as incon-
 sistent with, or antagonistic to, the spirit
 of American institutions. The nearest
 approach to any violation of American
 principles that is suggested by af1iliation
 with the Clan ma Gael is the possible incitation to break the neutrality laws, but
 organization stands ready to bear the
 r responsibility. It was the breaking ot
 these laws we think that gave to the American revolution such brave leaders as
 Lafayette, Kosciusko and Steuben, that induced Irishmen to flee from their native
 land to take up arms for the colonies, and that finally led France to send out
 armies and fleets to take up the
 cause of liberty against the op
 pressions of King George It was
 the breaking of the neutrality laws we
 think that made possible any American
 institutions for the descendants of '76 to
 bo ast of, that gave us America as she is
 and is destined to be. Americans should
 of the neutrality laws is warrant for hold ing up men whose endless dream is the
 independence of their native land as com
 bined together against the spirit of our in stitutions. Men who havo fought anG
 bled for the preservation of these institu
 tions, who have stood in the gap whe1 the oppressor of their native land sought te
 destroy them. cannot lightly be accused
 of hostility to their spirit. And there ar'
 in the Clan Gael men who bear tn,
 scars that attest their love for the lant of their adoption, who are bearing througl life the cruel wounds that prove their de
 votion and attachment to the letter ant spirit of American institutions, who's, every breath is refutation of the vile sian
 ders heaped upon them by the Coxes ant other haters of their race who sought tn
 obscurity of retirement when the safety o
 American institutions was in peril
 The Clan Gael is r ot opposed to tn . spirit of our institutions and any assertion to the contrary is entirely gra f tuitous. It is islander who's Q only excuse is the hope of it's dis l seminators that lie we'll stuck to ma, & possibly bring conviction, or that some o q the mud that is thrown so recklessly ma, c stick. There is nothing in the history o , the known objects of the Clan -na- Gael tha
 warrants the assertion that it is opposed t. , the spirit of our institutions, any nor ! than are the Free Masons, the Odd Fellow Q and the hundred and one other organzia tions in the land the keystone of who's !. existence is secrecy and privacy as t their doings
 2. The assertion of the Hartford Post i
 nothing but islander.