Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-15

home lie Is the .nly thing necessary for
the salvation of ireland. / am here to
state nat Ireland does not want home rule,
and that home rule would be ruin for Ire
land.
believe that the grand old man" made
grand old tumble when he started out to
secure home rule against the interests of
the people who had stood by him for years.
There are three and one-half millions of
Catholics in ireland, but there are also one
and quarter millions of Protestants there,
the descendants of those who stood on
Derry's walls and shouted "No surrender" Z"
They shout "No home rule" to-day.
want the American people to under
stand me- Bsrnum once said that the
American people liked to be humbugged.
Ireland has found this out and is trying to
humbug America.
Do you know that when Glsdstone's
Home Rule bill was before the House of
Common forty thousand young Irish Pro-
testants were drilling In preparation for
civil wari
Do you know that the builders of the
great ocean steamers are preparing to
transfer their plsnt to Glawgowi
Do you know that all the great manufsc-
turers were anxiously awaiting the result,
with the intention of leaving the country
If the iniQuitous bill passed.
Yet Americans throw up their hats and
cheer for home rule.
Americans don't know very much about
Ireland. Tourists. like the priest and the
Levite, generally pass it by on the other
side. Yet there is great deal to see in
this little island If they did visit it they
would find much to wonder at. The south
of Ireland is one of the most fertile spots
on the earth. Yet the tourist would won
der at seeing the people live in little
thatched huts, so small that you can al
most reach down the chimney and un-
latch the front door. And in this tiny
hut dwelis the peasant, his wife, the chill
dren, the pig, the COW, and everything
which pertains to the household.
The north is barren, and here the tour
list will find all the evidence of wealth and
comfort. Now why is it that the people
os the south have not profited by the gifts
which God has placed at their very doorsg
1t is simply because the people of the
north are Protestants and those of the
south are Catholics.
The Ulster people are modest; you new
er know what they think But Ulster
thinks just the same, and Ulster will not
have home rule, because home rule means
houlc ihoinc upcsu hhO~
about religious freedom, and Ulster says,
t'We want freedom to worship God"
Plus TX, in one of his pious letters,
says that religious freedom is pestilential
Ulster believes that home rule, backed BY
the church, would forever end religious
freedom.
A prominent church prelate in this
country has said that religious freedom
will be tolerated only until the opposite
can be enforced. That day will never
come. Lafayette said that if the liberties
of the American people were ever de-
stroyed it would be at the hands of the
Roman Catholic priesthood
But it is encouraging to know that the
Catholics of ireland are not all subserri-
ent to the church. A meeting was recent
ly held in Dublin to oppose ecclesiastical
tyranny. They say that the priesthood Is
grinding them under an iron heel. In the
recent elections these people have stood
between their archbishop and Parnell, q
Protestant convicted of disgraceful act;
and part followed Parnell in opposition
to the wishes of the bishop. Such thing
would have been impossible fifty years ago.
Rome condemns the freedom of the
press and calls it the liberty of perdition.
Ulster says, 1--WE want liberty of the press
as well as religious liberty"
Wherever you find an FISHERMAN he's In
favor of free schools Rome has said, at
will be a glorious day when the public
school system is shivered in pieces"
Let alone the southern Irishman and he
is good fellow, but he isn't let alone.
Are wr under obligations to Ireland
think we are. Some of the best men this
country ever had came from Ireland or
were descended from Irishmen. The first
movement towards the Independence of
this country was among the Scotch Irish
of North Carolina.
The Irish Catholics are the most influen-
tial people for their number in America.
Irishmen dictate Tammany; Tarma1y,
New York city; New York city, the state;
and New York state, the nation.
When / came to this country twenty
years ago used to see the Irishmen dig
ging sewers, laying car tracks and paving
streets. To-day the men who do this work
do not speak The brogue. You ask,
sFWhere are the IIishmenf Well, some of
them are aldermen, some mayors, some
policemen, some saloon-keepers, others
doctors, lawyers or business men. Give
Pat a chance and he will rise.
Some have gone to Canada and some are
in prison. 1t is really pathetic TO see SO
many striped Irishmen. But whether in
or out of prison, every Irishman is in pol
1tics: he has got MS pun somewhere
and is influencing the destinies of this re-
public
Where are the Amerlcansl They are SO
busy chasing The almighty dollar that they
haven't time to attend to politics. 1t is
marvellous to outsiders, this culpable in
difference of Americans.
Ireland wants the Bible. 1t is part of
my mission to give it to her. 1t makes a
great deal of difference where the Bibles
come from If you want him TO read it. If
he was to see the imprint of an English
printing house on q Bible i doubt If he
would read it, for the Irishman has suspi-
cion of even gifts from England.
But Ireland puts great faith in America.
She believes that America wishes to do her
good. So / believe that q Bible from
America would be gladly received and read
by an Irishmsn who would not look q sec.
ond time at one from England.
believe that all the woes of ireland
came from Rome. Her evils are not polit.
ical, but moral and spiritual. To emanci'
pate her give her the Bible.