The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-03

the American missionary OF church or
commerce, but great influence, not al
ways considered, is the returning Euro
pean after period Of American citizen
ship or residence. Europe is giving us
thousands Of her poor and IL
literate peasants. We are giving back a
few each year, who, with those who re-
main in America, are slowly, but surely,
revolutionizing the old systems. A
week in England has revealed to the
writer abundant evidence to confirm
this view, A few Snapshots" may
prove interesting.
There are some who fail in America.
Three young Irishmen from Cork, Ath-
lone and Galway, respectively. after
short stay in America, are returning
back to ''Old ireland" They We're nom
committal as to the reason for their re-
turn. Their devotion to the card-table
and the bottle during the voyage gave
a manifest solution. Another, a sturdy
Briton, a slater by trade, allured by the
brilliant stereoptIcon views displayed
by an agent of the Canadian govern
ment, had gone as far inland as Law
renee, Mass, to have his dreams dis
PEELED and to discover that America
needs few skaters. After two months
he is returning home, sadder but wiser.
Another, a young and intelligent Eng
lishman employed in cloth factory at
home, on promise of employment by
an American manufacturer, sold his
home, gave up his position, and with
wife and child sailed for Boston. Upon
arrival he and four others were arrest
ed, held in custody, and are being re-
turned to England as contract labor"
under the immigration laws of the Uni
ted States. He asked me, somewhat
pathetieally: DO you think America
should treat her English cousins SO, and
at the same time receive without ques-
ton or protest thousands of unskilled
and Ignorant foreigners?"
Here, also, were two returned by the
government officials as demented, and
so unfit for acceptance by our country.
Again, a young Swede, several years in
America, a workman in chair factory
in Massachusetts, is en- route to Finland
for six-months' stay in search of
health, leaving wife and child behind.
But the failures are the exceptions to
the rule. Here is a young Englishman,
a painter by trade, a native of STRAIT
ford, who informed me with some pride
that he had 'tdonen Shakespeare's house
| just before he came to America, He
also assured me that his sister was a
servant in the home Of Miss Corelli, the
well-known novelist. He is going back
to England to stay ''till after Christ
mas" and is dressed from head to toe
in manner calculated to cause consid-
cradle excitement in staid old Stratford.
A Polish farmer, with wife and
child in Poland, the owner of a farm of
forty-fipe acres burdened with mort
gage, decided three years ago to leave
his loved ones and try his fortune in
far-famed America, He is returning
now, bringing his sheaves with him.
for he has paid the mortgage and Is
eagerly returning to join his family In
his fatherland, He informed me that
he did not expect to return to America,
With his farm clear or incumbrance
his beloved but enslaved Poland was
good enough for him. He might well
say. America is "a good country" He
said in broken English, America is a
good country for a young man, but a
bad place for an old man." Perhaps he
! was right.
A young Irishwoman, sent to an aunt
in America when a child, is new return-
ing TO her parents, bringing her Mas
sachusetts husband with her He is a
prosperous young merchant, and left
the arrangements for the trip In the
hands of his wife as one experienced in
ocean travel Why should the thrifty
Irish girl, who went out steerage ten
years ago, waste money on the style Of
the second cabin?
Here is a bright-faeed, rosy-cheeked
Swede girl, for a. year or more a resi-
dent of the Back Bay as second girl.
She likes Boston very naturally, we all
remark. She is going to visit her pa
rents, who are farmers In Sweden
With her a young Swedish workman
from Denver, with the western noun
tain atmosphere In his voice and talk,
is returning for visit. He rebuked a
fellow-Swede, returning from a visit ia
his sons In Minneapolis fer daring to
express his opinion of America, by say
ing: why, you haven't seen America
at all, II you've only been as far as
Minneapolis"
Last, is an old Irshman, for over fifty
years a resident of the new world. He
is seventy-three years of age, but
straight and strong as man Of fifty
five. He Is making his first and last
trip to his birthplace. He told the sim
pie but heroic story Of his life: II have
always been a laboring man." said he
"hut have saved my money accumula=
ted property, and educated my son fol-
the priesthood" 7 asked him why he
had succeeded where so many fail, an6
he said: For two reasons; first,
have let drink alone; and, second,
have always been faithful to every duty
assigned me-" Although entirely IN,
schooled, he was most interesting and
intelligent in his conversation upon the
political and commercial affairs of the
day. When he found that was a. Pro.
testant, with warmth and evident sim
certify he exclaimed: "Well, sir, I be-
lieve that Protestant who is living III
to his best is as good as Catholic" L
is hardly conceiva that an Irish Catho
lie in ireland should make such re-
mark. American Catholicism is slowly
but surely broadening its viewpoint
and Its erflex influence upon the church
in Europe is increasingly powerful,