The San Francisco call., 1896-01-18
OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN PATRIOT,


sl9 Market street
To the Editor Of san Francisco Call-DEAR
SIR: In still further Illustrating the evil effects
Cf Romauism We submit the following proofs:
Ireland furnishes vivid illustration OF the
fact that Popery and poverty, ProtestantIsm
and prosperity are inseparably related. While
the south Of Ireland presents a scene OF wretch
edness, the province OF Ulster, in the north
furnishes q strange contrast. Though warmed
by the same sun and watered by the same skies
this one province has pTOspeTed while the
Others declined. To cross the boundary line is
like crossing from garden on one side TO a
desert on the other. In the north industries
flourish and prosperity crowns the toilerS. All
around assumes the air OF social health, which
marks civilized people. When you reach
Ulster you have passed from the region OF
filthy cabins and swarming beggarS, ruined
villages and deserted farms, and you enter a
territory richly cultivated, studded with COM
Portable dwellings and thrifty towns. Such a
strange contrast begets the inquiry: Why
should the north be more prosperous than the
sOuth2 Why should Scotland be prosperous
and Ireland q land OF beggars2 There is q
potent cause if we can only discover il.
ireland until lately has been the land where
POpery Telgned supreme. What has been the
result? one OF the finest soils and climates in
the world cannot sustain its inhabitants The
south and vest OF Ireland are like one great
pOOTnOuSe. The inhabitants are so degraded,
morally and physically, that ii is deeply pain
iul TO travel through the country ard witness
the beggaTy and rags that everywhere abound.
In the last century Ireland has lost nearly half
Cf her inhabitants. In ten years time-irom
1S41 to 1S5l-it decreased $500 600 The
Romanized pant is the pauperized part. The
great exodus TO America has diminished il
somewhat but the poverty OF Ireland is still
appalling.
Is il because OF sterile soil and bad climate9
No. It's abject poverty is not due TO the soil
Ireland Is as celebrated for its natural beauty
as for its misfortune. Volumes have been
written about its scenery and resources. 1t is
the resort OF tourists who yearly swarm upon
lis shores For climate and soil, especially in
It's southern part, II IS one of the finest lands
under the sun. 1t is indeed the Emerald
Isle With healthy, invigorating atmos-
pAere and soil pTOveTbially fertile, it could
be made a veritable paradise. Its resources OF
wealth are manifold. il is iutersected by the
finest rivers that teen with fish. Its mines
are rich with minerals. II has some o. the
finest harbOrs in the world. Providence has
placed in its lap the bOuntieS OF nature and
yet, instead of being g garden OF plenty, II is a
land or paupers. Hence, instead OF the physi-
cal condition OF the country lying at the root
OF lreland's poverty, il makes il all the more
unaccountable. But while Scotland. with its
barren moors and rugged hills Is prosperous,
Ireland, with its fertile soil ana veal thy
mines, groans under its load OF poverty.
Neither does the cause lie in the race for the
vast contrast between the north and the south
is alone Sufnclent 10 dlsproVe that And again,
the blue-eyed Saxon and the black-eyed Celt
are children or the same common parent; and
the corruption that flowed from the original
fountain has been shared alike by all its
streams" When Saxon England was shrouded
IN ignorance, Celtic Ireland was the seat of
learning foT Europe. The retrograde has been
made since POpery was introduced. The cause
IS from without and not from within. To
blame the Celtic race for the ignorance and
immortality OF their land, and thus making il a
natural defect OF character is TO ignore funda-
mental facts. II is q notorious fact that the
original Celts as found in the Highlands of
Scotland and the mountains of Wales are alto
gether different. Who ever hears of their hills
being drenched in the blood of murder and of
midnight aSsassins meeting on the rugged
moors to plot and hatch schemes OF treason? ?
Goo Hlor N and lA-alA
parts OF Great Britain The Irish were
once noble race-but how debased! Wrecked
by Popery-ruined by Rome. ROmanists claim
that II Is the political rule of England that is
the cause OF ali her woes, but one fact alone
disproyes that. Protestant Ulster in the
north, under the same political regime, has
grown rich and prosperous, while the southern
Popish portion has degenerated into hopeless
pauperism. Despite all the evils of landlord
ism there is deeper and more potent evil
lying at the bottom of 1reland's misery, and
upon her, crushing out the very life OF the peo-
pie. The following article / clipped from q
OF "a. 1t Will explain the folly of looking TO
His: iisi'-'a' % -sAlsOS -O' i'e'aHu )
AN ENGLISHMANs IMPRESSIONS OF IRELAND.
The case of ireland, in relation to home rule is
ably stated by the special commissioner of the
Birmingham Gazette. After personal observation
and impartial inquiry the writer is in position to
pronounce opinion, and he has done so without
conditions prevailing in Ulster and in the other
provinces The former Is distinguished by love of
law and order, persevering industry and papable
material progress; while elsewhere agitation keeps
the minds of the people excited, industry is neg
lected and the result is the decay Of town and
country. TAKE an example OF the special COM
missioners feeling. He had reached Newry
which has been called the frontier town OF the
northeast corner ana we can form, from his words,
some idea OF the reliaf he experienced "This is a
blessed change from dirt and poverty 10 tidi-
ness and comfort After the west of Ireland
the north looks like another world After the
bareheaded, bare-legged and bare-footed women
and children of Mayo and Galway the smartly
dressed people of Newry come as a surprise Yon
can hardly realize that they belong 10 the same
country. There are no mud cabins here, no pigs
under the bed, no cows tethered in the living
room, no hens roosting on the family bedstead.'
The contrast is both real and impressive testify
Ing TO the superiority of the imperial province,
and accounting for the determination Of the
Unonists to resist Mr.. GIadstone's base attempt
the mud cabins and domestic circles including
pigs and cows and hens and men and women
and children, the people of Newry have various
industrial establishments aiYording employment,
from which comfort and prosperity are derived.
Moreover the contrast is not limited to the
town. In the rurai districts the tokens of industry
visible. 'Ihe hills cultivated to the ton
most peak, or planted with trees where tillage
is lmposslbie- ne people seem to have made tile
most Of everything They are digging, hammer
ing. chopping, excavating, building, mining, and
generally husiling around" y ct the Newry folk
enjoy no special geographical advantages. On the
contrary, they have had TO combat many disad-
Vantages and they combated them successfully
Their energy is identified in the ship canal which
involved large expenditure of money, enabling
them to compete with more favored com nercial
centers, and in many other great public works at
resting the commendable enterprise OF the popula-
tion. The cause of the difference between north
and south is easily explained. "The Newry folk
belong to Ulster, where, a whole, the people
can take care OF themselves" They have the in
stinct OF selfTeliance, and as the special commits
sioner observes abstain from whining and cadg-
ing The Westport people have endless qnarries
of hard bne marble, which they too lazy or TOO
ignorant, or BOTH to cut. The Ulster breed would
have quarrled, polished exported a mountain
two long since" Their granite quarries are OF
high repute, such as the Rostrevor green granite
and they worked energetically. the products
forming a valuable addition to the exports and are
much sought after at home. Instead of pestering
the Niceroy and the Government with petitions 10
promote public works to npoy them, the Newfy
people and the Ulster people generally, manage
these things for them selves, depending ON their
resources. From the frontier town the special
commissioner passed 10 The capital of Ulster: and
here he saw enough TO convince him that self-re-
lance is all that is required in Ireland TO make
small town big, and poor community wealthy
while the pr ople OF Cork are begging the Viceroy
TO please TO do something for their port, to please
10 be so kind as 10 ask Mr. Bull 10 favor the city