The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
SO. The election will take place at the
August meeting and considerable in
terest is being taken in the various con-
tests.
REBUKEs TUE "sENTINEL."
"A Correspondent at Chippewa Fails Take'
Exception to the Views Expressed
By It's Editor.

By It's Editor.
CHIPPEWA Falls, Wis, July 9, 81
To the Editor of The Irish standard.
It is only at the urgent request O
many Irish citizens of this city that
am persuaded to comment on (and I'm
doubleday give unnecessary notice to
the following, taken from the Catholic
Sentinel of the 9th inst:
archbishop Ireland, if we mistake
not, long before Mr.. Cahensly thought
OF it, tried the scheme of settling {
large tract of country with Irish immi
grants who had nothing but the isola-
ton of their position, and their old
world ideas and ignorance to contend
with. aud yet we believe with all the
fostering care his Grace bestowed upon
his infant colonies, they were not sue
cessful. A friend Of ours went some
years ago to SEQ these Irish Americans
in their new homes, and the account he
gave of things in general there was any
thing but encoura ging to the grouping
of raw immigrants by themselves. He
found in many places all the filth and
squalor to which these people were &C
customed in their old homes. He found
the people generally, shittless and want
ing in that push and energy necessary
to existence in new country"
The editor Of the Catholic Sentinel,
Arthur Cough, makes use Of the above
words to show that Herr Cahensly's
ideas Of religious colonization are erro"
neous. He endeavors to refute Cahen-
sly's ideas by citing an attempt made by
Archbishop Ireland to perfect an Irish
colonization and the utter failure of his
Graces purpose. 1t is the only argu-
n.ent he advances 10 demonstrate tte
fallacy of Cahensly's advocacy and what
shameful argument it is, emanating,
as it does from an Irishman. IT is in
disputable that the great German popu-
lation of this state are in sympathy
with Cahensly's views. This is fact
we'll known to the editor of the Catholic
Sentinel. He cannot reasonably sup
port this great German idea of Catholic
colonization. He is we'll aware how in
congruous it is, but in order to get him
self out of hole, as it were, he allows
himself to cajole the Germans at the ex-
pense of the Irish, by stating that the
latter in new country could not eradi-
cate the f*filth and squalor" to which
they were accustomed i'll their Irish
homes. He does not apply his asser-
tions TO a part but to an universal
whole. The Catholic Sentinel boasts OF
two Thousand subscribers, and out Of
that number over 1900 are Irish. It
must indeed be pleasant reading for the
Irish subscribers of the Sentinel to read
of che inability Of their native born
countrynen to release themselves from
condition in which poverty buried
them. The editor of the Sentinel is an
Irishman by birth, and states himself,
that he suffered from English tyranny,
and as far as poverty ls concerned, was
as low as the lowest. Yet, he rose, and
if we mistake nof. from the filth and
squalor" of poverty, and among native
born Irishmen, too, who, like himself,
sought to better their condition In the
event.
l do not care, Mr.. Editor, to further
comment on the Sentinel's assertions
above quoted. His Grace, Archbishop
Ireland best knows whether his Infant
colonies" were successful or not, and on
behalf of the Irish of this city and the
entire state of Wisconsin, 7 hope that he
will repudiate the Sentinel's unjust re-
marks relative to the Irish people OF