Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-24
REMARKS FROM THE PULPIT.
What the Chicago Preachers Are Saying
About the Case.

What the Chicago Preachers Are Sayin,
About the Case.
CHICAGO, June 24-Since the Cronin cas-
has been under investigation the clergymer
here have taken great interest in it and hav,
referred to it frequently in their pulpits
Yesterday a number of ministers had some
thing to say about it. and one, the Rev
Robert Mcintyre, was applauded by his con
gregatIon, for which evidence of their ap
prevail he administered rebuke.
No Room for Foreign Ouarrels-
The reverend gentleman in the course O
his remarks said: when we come to thi
country we should leave our quarrels a
home. The American people are patien
and long-suffering, but think see signs Of
the old eagle becoming ruffisd, aud if he eveI
sinks his talons into the back of these secret
political assassination clubs he viii shake the
miserable life out of them and bury them in
grave upon which will be shoveled tn,
curses of the civilized world" This was the
sentiment that was applau led
Nor for Hyphenated Americans.
There is no such thing as an Irish Ameri
can or a British American The term is 9
mongrel 1t has no meaning There is ne
such thing. The ideas are opposing and re
pei each other The two words linked to
gether are the Kilkenny cats over again
British citizenship is based on monarchy
while American citizenship is based on de-
mocracy. i believe that the American citi
zenship is the highest on earth, and wa.
evolved from a lower order. When a mar
says he is British-American he is like q
butterfly who would say, Il am caterpillar
butterfly or bullfrog who would say, i
am a tadpole-bullfrog He virtually de-
clares, Il am what used to be and what
am now all at once We are Americans. We
cannot be British Americans.
An Insult and an Outrage.
Bishop Fallows of the Reformed Episcopal
church, had this to say of the Gamma Gael
"A band of foreign-born citizens has been
organized with oaths and passwords to Gre
ate trouble with a foreign power. The men
comprising it have virtually said: We are
Irishmen first and last and American citizens
Internationally This organization has held
supreme political control in our own city and
elsewhere. The very safety of the lives and
property of the people have been in its keep
ing. Revelations have been made in the eff
forts to find the assassins of Dr. Cronin
proving that such was the intimate con-
nection of the organization with his
murder and with other assassina.
tions that indirectly at least it was re-
sponsible for. 1t would be a positive UNI
truth to say that this organization was
brought into being to commit such crimes
Good men, honest men were in it, who would
scorn these infamous deeds. But the seer ct
oath of the Clan ma Gael was un-American
through and through. 1t has no right and
title to an existence on American soil 1t is
an insult to American laws and an outrage
upon American manhood 1t ought to be
smitten with rod of iron and dashed in
pieces like a potter's vessel. Political opin-
ion, reinforced by a strong and vigorously
executed law, should hasten its ignominious
end.
Reference to the Know-Nothings.
at would not be wise, however, to go to
the other extreme and begin anew the plan of
forming an American organization of native
born citizens exclusively to fill the Offices Of
the city, state, and nation Such a society
would be as un- American as the Olan-na-
Gael In the Revolutionary war some of the
ablest generals were foreigners Charles
Lee was a Welshman, Gen Gates was an
Englishman, Hugh Mercer, Arthur st.
Clair, and John Paul Jones were Scotchmen.
kosciusko was a Polander, and Baron
Steuben and Gen. Lafayette were French
men. The war for the
Union arose because the Americans who
had been put on guard betrayed
their trusts. One-fourth of the Union army
were fereign-born citizen soldiers, and they
helped remedy the evil which native Amer
cans had wrought. Every organization
with political bearing that antagonizss a
loyal American citizsn, whether native or
foreign born, is mischievous and should be
stamped out We have no room for them.
Loyalty to the one flag, to this one country is
the one thing that must be demanded of all
alike That and that alone is the American