The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-25
A PRIESTS PROTEST.
PRATT, Kan, March %, 1Ss

PRATT, Kan, March ~, 1871.
| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
/ In the face of the new batch OF lr1si
ENJOYS just landed in our midst please
allow me space to offer a protest to thell
blood-sucking Vaccinations and unjust
extortions of monies from our Irish ano
American people. Being an American
and loving her laws and institutions,
would be false to her in more ways thar
one not to resent this time oft repeated
''insult to injury" Since our founda
ton as a republic we have been more or
less harrassed and oppressed by such
aching appeals to help the scanty poor
abroad, and fail to find the remunera'
ton that ought to be given in RETURN for
the millions thus collected and squ2n-
dered, God knows where. Some years
back l was dupe myself to the wiley
story Of one of these agitators, who then
owned a flourishing cattle ranch IN the
west and whose account for monies re-
ceived has ever remained IN the dark.
How long, Oh, Lord, how long Will
this constant and uninterrupted strain
be the portion of the unwary? | speak
for the poor Irish enthusiastic gentleman
who has seen his forefathers rack-rented
and impoverished, but whose heart and
purse are ever open for that noblest CT
cause.-the alienation of suffering hui
mainly. 1speak for the poor Irish SER
want girls, whose lot in coming to our
themselves far beyond their means in
thl
from "home." Is is not sin crying to
high heaven for vengeance, one that
would rend the very heavens in twain,
to have them subscribe one third, nay,
half of their hard weekly earnings to
swell the Golfers of some recreant agita-
tor, whose position must be gained by
the funds thus received.
Seven hundred years of political agita-
ton for freedom seems long enough;
seven hundred years of petitions and
prayers for independence and self gov
eminent, methinks, ought to satisfy the
most gracious petitioner that the way
of the transgressor is hard" and leave
him to his trespasses.
In America we have a land teeming
with milk and honey" to the earnest
and industrious. We are proud to well
come such among us. need not go far
to point you to men, whose ties of early
childhood were certainly most endear-
ing in their humble matched cottage
in Ireland, but men with courage, men
with the spring of activity in their very
souls, who loosened those false letters
that long bound and enchanted them to
poverty and rags there, and rose in the
ladder of fame of sweet inviting
America; and who are now, owing to
their industry, prosperous and happy
and enjoying peaceable homes, that no
king or crown can deprive them of
In looking back over the mista of
this false and oftimes bloody agitation,
there comes to my mind the futile and
fruitleSs aims of many brave and gal
ant hero, who strove, not through mer-
,enary motives, that his dear land should |
pearl her brow with the laurel of liberty; |
md it has come. Fresh in my memory
ire the unrequited endeavors of an
)'Connell and an Emmett, to place their |
title isle among the free nations of the |
.arth; but with them, in their cold |
graves, lie buried the worse than futile |
attempts of their aching hearts, after
heir country's independence.
Go back, then, emiSsarieS Of plumber;
irst settling your late squabble of so
ecent an unpleasantness. Give us then
he majority of the verdict, and we will
Welcome to our land those who wish to
,e industrious citizens; or the fund that
will be raised, let it be discussed by fur
fishing transportation to those. and they
re many, who are ever ready and will
pg TO come to us for the acquiring of
eaceful and prosperous homes.
Truly yours,
JOHN BEGLEY, Catholic Priest.