The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-02-21

mas peeh sumclently abused by shall
low censors,-Anti-Immigration Leac
uers and the like,-and is still more
ebused through it's meagre allotment
IN the distribution of societys goods;
but wise minds are at last beginning
to see that it cannot be neglected or
degraded without terrible consequence
TO the nation. Its welfare embraces
the welfare of coming generations. 1t
alone is diligently performing func-
tion which President Roosevelt, and
every other man of right instincts re-
Safds as sacred. 1t is propagatine
the species, and, in doing so. deyelop.
ing within itself those human sympa-
athies which ripen to full warmth of
bloom only amid the responsibilities of
parenthood.
Pity for the older stock, which with
some eXceptions) is dissolving away
under this blight, worse than war or
famine! Due credit to the sturdy
newcomers who are replacing them,
Against their faults, if they have any
that are peculiar to them, let this pe-
culiar virtue be recorded!
To the Catholics of New England.
who, we are told in alarm by Prot
estant denominational press, are to
dominate the population of this region
III the near future. for the reason that
among families of that fate the in
crease is now found almost wholly, the
prospect should appeal in the most
serious fashion. The realization of
what is coming is no occasion for mere
eXultant glee. 1t carries with it a
responsibility; upon the Catholics of
this rich and powerful community is
to fall the work Of the future Finance,
the professions, scholarship, the cap.
tainillg of industries, the doing of New
England's best work, must be done, if
it is to be done at all, by young mer
not of the Colonial stock The voice
of Bishop Spalding in the West calling
/
which shall inject experts, pioneers
and prophets of what is to come into
every artery of the national life, young
men of Catholic faith, must be needed
in New England, Or the community in
due course will go down to decay, car.
rying us with it. To the Church and
her sons New England looks for the
recruits of the future
The key to industrial supremacy
among the states will be quality. Mass
achusetts no longer can compete, in the
manufacture of coarse fabrics, for in
stance. with the South, where labor
is cheap. We must excel the worlC
in making what is delicate and beauti
full and brings high price. We must
make finer carpets than Belgium, finel
| silks than France, finer laces thai
Ireland. We in Boston have fine pub
lie concerts, we encourage fine archi
lecture, and we build fine parkways
all of these will fill the ear and eye
of the people with beauty. But
beginning with our already tremend
GUS lead in all branches of education
our knowledge of how to teach an(
our enthusiasm for schools. we mus
teach our young people to design eX
quisitely, to weave and spin and dyt
and broider better than they do these
things in Europe, and to study the in
vention of cheap processes. Presiden
Eliot and President Roosevelt but EN-
phasize the fact that these responsible
| tiles are to fall upon the shoulders O.
the Catholic hosts. The sooner ou
young people come to give thei
thoughts to this future, the NOR
splendid will be their part in it and til
more splendid will be that future.
In a recent address at Fall River
Mass. Hon. John J. McDonough, re
ferred to the question of birth-rate a
follows:
Here in Fall River we have the 1arc
est so-called foreign population of an.
city of more than 10000 population 1,
the United States. This is a remark
able fact, and fact for which Fal