The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-07

Several days ago the Argus alleged
that sit well remembered when the
PRESS referring to an honest and indus
trious element of the Democratic party
called them Irish cattle.'" We asked
the Argus to point out the date of the
paper in which this occurred, supposing
if it well remembered it, it would be able
to do SO. To this we got no reply, simply
because the Argus did not well remem-
Der when it occurred. AS matter of fact
nothing of the kind ever did occur in the
PRESS, and we are led reluctantly to the
conclusion that the Argus was perfectly
well aware of that fact when it penned
the paragraph. The Argus has land we
fear deliberately and maliciously) attrib-
uted to the PRESS language that was used
by Wing organ in Portland somewhere
between 1910 and 1850, some twenty
years before the PRESS was in existence.
If as we suspect the Argus deliberately
made it's false accusation of course it will
not retract it. But without apologizing
for or retracting its own false charge
the Argus accuses the PRESS of misrepre-
sentation. 1t says:
The PRESS alleges that the New York cor
respondent of the Argus has ridiculed the
Catholic religion over and over again through
the columns of this paper. We pronounce the
allegation false.
Now exactly what the PRESS alleged
was that he had ''mercilessly ridiculed
them (the Irish) and their religion over
and over again." In support of this allie
cation we submit the following extracts
from letters of the aforesaid correspon-
dent, without comment, and leave the
public to judge whether the allegation of
the PRESS is false as the Argus AYERS:
They Ia class of Irish Catholics in New York;
never ask what will bring us (the Democratic
partly the most votes. They ask only what
does Teddy and Jimmy and Pat and Mike and
Patsey want, and if the b'ys. are well pleased,
they boast that they have ticket of ''foin men
sor which can't be bate no yer mind"
am writing this in Cooper Union to which
place walked from the post office via Chatham
street and the Bowery and this is what saw.
saw two draymen arrested for running into
0sr b TeHs faces SaT off a ssw
three fights between bootblackS and other MEM
beers of the Arab family | saw about half
dozen harlots blind drunk. Six beggars beset
me. And so far as / could Judge all these
creatures were Irish and American, mainly
Irish never have seen an intoxicated Ger
man in my. life.
German beer-Peace.
Irish whiskey-Fight.
That is about the way it goes. The Germans
are good citizens. They are clean, frugal, in
dustrious and law abiding. In the evening the
beer gardens are full Of them and peace pre-
walls. Collect an equal number of Irish and see
what will come of it.
If the Irish could be removed from Ireland in
a night and if an equal number of Scots could be
put In their places we should hear of no more
famine, and no more Land Leagues and the
little gem of the sea would become an earthly
paradise ~
beg to suggest that the great enemy of papa
cy is not Masonry but the growing Intelligence
OF the ages. The good old Pope de-
nounces the secrecy of Masonry, and yet his
own church is permeated with the spirit of
secrecy. Nunneries are filled to the brim with
secrets, and the confessionalS are loaded to the
waters edge with them. Among the
peasants of ireland and the other parts OF
Europe where there is no thought there is no re-
ligiouS doubt
If the Argus would like more extracts
we can accommodate it.