The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-05-05
PLAIN FACTS
characteristics of the Wealthy
Irishmen of America
With Increase Of Riches They
Forget Their Native Land.

Wealthy lrishmcn III America, as Il
class, take little or no interest in the
national cause of Ireland. Money
gathering by the individual on Il large
scale is death to patriotic sentiment.
These men would sacrifice part of tEcir
fortunes to save the United States gov
eminent, not because they are patri-
otto so much as the fear that the de-
s,ruction of this government would
cause them to lose the balance of their
money. When you talk of Ireland to
thoce money grabbing Irish American
m!lionaires they feel bored and act
suspicious as though You were already
contemplating an early attack on their
tight pockets, writes James X. Nc
Grire in the Catholic Light.
| met an lrishman out i'm Montana
once, worth. in his own name, Il least
three millions of dollars, who had tor
gotten that Charles Stewart PIrncli
was dead. \ number pf his employees
We're members of the Ancient Order of
Hibcrnians and he WAS not uwa..- even
of the existence of that bencvnlrn. aud
patriotic society.
The great metropolis of New York
contains more than u million persons
of Irish contraction, yet Their, is not
onc-tenth the Irish spirit there that "n,
observes i'm Boston, San Francisco.
Chicago or Philadelphia. The Irish
American dominates the politics of the
big city and 10000 nf them hold pub
lie office in New York, but their in
tcrcsts are absorbed with American
politics and only u few of the politi-
clans take amy genuine interest in Irish
affairs.
TIL" Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of
New York City is the nobcst of Irish
benevolent organizations il you were
to read the newspapers on the morn-
ing after the annual ST. Patrick's Day
dinner at Delnlonico's. The Father of
our Country. George Washington, was
one of the Friendly Sons as is Presi-
dent Roosevelt. who inherited Il strain
Of Irish from his mothers side.
AS Il matter of fact. and ] regret to
say it. the Friendly Sons of ST. Pat
rick does nol another blessed thing
the year around for the IriShlnan at
home or abroad save to give this $40
" SIS per plate dinner The good rcso-
! buttons of patriotism formed at the
dinner are invariably forgotten the fol-
lowing morning. The organization is
harmless and convivi;l, but is in III.
sense representative Of the Irish cause
! ANA never inspires it's membership l.,
renew their allegiance to the cause
OF liberty in the old land. The
/, best that can be said for the Old So
ciety is that once a year, II nothing
else. 500 we'll fed and prosperous Mile
slams are reminded that they are Celts
however much they may forget the fact
the other 1854 days in the year.
The best and most useful Irish so.
ciety in the metropolis is the Ancient
Order of liibernianS. greatly improved
| in recent years, ana made up mostly
to the history and traditions OF tho
old race and visiting the sick and do
ing good charitablc work in the over
crowded tcnclnents
In Il dozen blocks on Wall street
| Nassau street, Pine street. lower
! Broadway. William street. Broad street
! there are ut least Il hundred Irish
Americans worth from one million ur
. to many millions OF dollars. And
venture to say that ten thousand dol
lars could not be raised among the en-.
tire one hundred millionares for tn,
patriotic cause Of Ireland.
/ will say for them. grudgingly. how
1 ever do make the admission, tina,
/ they are more generous to Catholi,
/ churches ana charities.
|
f, man VIII" is now regarded by most
people as Americas greatest iinancier
I, has helped many Catholic charities.
John d. Crimnins is usually vel
/ disposed both to Irish and Catholic
works. O'DonovHn Rnssa said to me
that Mr.. Crmmins never failed him
when he needed help.
| In noting til" reaction that is setting
in against many of our millionaires
some Of our Irish American plutocrats
or money potentatcS might take Il les.
son from the treatment recently ac-
corded Edward Cudahy, of omaha, by
| his own people who acquitted the no.
torinus rat Grove on the charge o
kidn;,ppin; Cudahy's child. notwith
standing Grove admitted his guilt.
Cudahy had been II poor man. or +:
rich man friendly to the people. tn,
Nebraska jury Of representative citi
zens would have found Grove guilt!
in two minutes and he would hav,
been sentenced to Il term In prison 70
twenty years.
Cudahy is the wealthicst Irish Am
erican in the Northwest. Himself an,
Armour are the brains Of the bee
conbinatiOn-the Meat Trust Fiv
years ago Pat Grove kidnapped Cuda