Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-11
THE IRISH IN AMERICA.

IN AMERlCA.
 It is hardly probable that a verbatim report of Mir Davitt's speech before the Parnen commission will be printed in this country, for its length makes it a formidable undertaking even for dis tinctively Irish American periodicals. It can, however, says the Boston Herald be said of it that it was in all respects deserving of the praise which the chief judge of the court accorded to it at it's conclusion. Some points made by Mir Davitt were extraordinarily strong ones, and among these perhaps none more strong than his combinations of the pres ent position taken by the London Times by statements that that newspaper had previously made. For example, Messrs Davitt, Parnell and their associates have in the United States feelings of hostility against England that is, it has been affirmed that the Land league. the National league and other Irish-Ameri- can associations would not and could not have existed if they had not been SA<OeAidSSu pN lIlSSe 1IlSIl III reply to this accusation Mir Davitt read the following article, which was printed in the London Times of May 8, 1860, saying that in some respects the words were prophetic
 If thls goes on long, as it is likely to go on. Ireland will become very English and the United States very Irish. When an English agriculturist takes farm in Galway or Kerry he will take English laborers with him. This we shall come to at last, strange as it may now seem. The day may, indeed come when Ireland will be no more Celtic then the Scotch lowlands are Saxon, the eastern coun- ties Danish, Cornwall even Phonician, and Ireland itself Milesian or Spanish. But several millions more undiluted Celts cannot be poured into the United States without leavenIng them even more strongly with that very marked element. There will be more poetry more eloquence, more fanaticism, more faction, more conspiracy, more resent ment, more bloodshed more insubordina- ton. more of the narrow politics that take their origin from the race and stop short of society, that ever account the whole less than the part, and think the best use of the government is to do con- yenient i'll. So an Ireland there will still be, but on colossal scale and in a new world. We shall only have pushed the Celt westward. Then, no longer coCped up between the Liffey and the Shannon, he will spread from New York to San Francisco, and keep up the ancient feud at an unforeseen vantage We must gird our loins to encounter the Ne mesls of.. seven centuries misgovern- ment. To the end of time hundred million people spread over the largest habitable area in the world, and con- fronting us every where, by sea and by land, will remember that there fore fathers paid tithe to the Protestant clergy, rent to absentee landlords, and forced obedience to the laws which these had made. Possibly darker and more turbulent era at home may inter- vene to efface these old-world recollec- tions. But even though the vengful Celt could forgive and forget, that will not prevent the surer development of an intrac- table race and untoward circumstances in the character of the great American nation. It will be more than half Celtic. Saxon, Dane, Gael, French, German, African and other races will be there but the preponderating element will be that which has risen to its perfection and glory on the banks of the Seine, and fallen to it's depth and despair on the western promontories of Ireland. As "the child is father of the man, so have we seen, nursed and educated by our side at home, the power that will domi nate over the new world, show its in Huence over either ocean, and be the lord of whole hemisphere. This is the true and final home of the Celtic race
 The abovei is about as sharp rejoin- der as could be made, and, considered ln the light of present events, is inter- esting for other reasons than as part of MT Davitt's defence. The forecast has hardly proved true, for variety of req sons which need not now be explained. The Celt is not the dominant race in the United States, and is not likely to be SO; but, as Mir Davitt said, these words were in some respects prophetic, at least enough so to make it strange that the English cannot understand why it is that we in the United States desire
 
 it is that we prefer, that the newcomers should arrive on these shores with no deep-seated hatreds that are to disturb the healthful developments of our social, political and industrial interests.