The Irish standard., 1907-03-02

Never was there III tho history "
tho world a movement comparable to
that now going OH, says Edward T..
McSwccney in the Boston Republic.
Ever since history began to 1,e made
there have been migra ions Of peoples
causes of immigration have been n1Hn-
fold. In the early days It was famine
or the taste for consequent that caused
peoples 10 push out into unknown
lands. Ambition filled the soul of one,
religious persecution or political rev
ollltion in1lalncd another; while always
tho love of gold was a, most potent
fuctor. immigration as we know IL
is Il phenomena of modern lifo
up To the discovery or America men
moved in tribes on careers that were
chiefly Of conquest. We do not find
III any OF these movements the parallel
for the inlluX now pouring IN on us.
With the discovery of America and
the new route to India around the
Cape Of Good Hope, came the begin
ming ui the modern movement. 1t
was at first utilized for purposes OF
booty. afterwards for The establish
into n real colonization. The enigrants
who come to us now come as individ-
uals to u nation foreign in customs.
manners and government to tho one
they left. The merchants, workers and
planters who came here from Europe
in large numbers after the discovery
Of America, in time changed the value
of the new country from IL military
outpost to a commercial colony. The
planters received their capital from the
home country, disposed of their prod
ucts and made their purchases there.
They wcrc not separated from their
parent country and until the close Of
the eighteenth century remained gen.
orally with friendly and loyal feeling
towards it. They were Frcnchmcn or
l1nglishlncn or Dutchmcn as they had
been at home. Tho title of American
was yet to come.
This immigration from theef1ftecntl1
to the beginning of the nineteenth
century changed the whole aspect Of
the world. We can scarcely picture
the limitations OF mediaeval life con-
fined within the bounds of western
Europe. This immigration established
world commerce and brought the goods
Of the world to the inhabitants or
Europcl 1t magni1icd the scale of
things ten-fold. 1t changed the rel
ative position CT nationaiitlcs. 1t
made the English race ana speech
dominate throughout the world.
The Pilgrim Fathers coming to New
England, because Of religious and po-
| litical persecution, We're the first real
| colonial settlers of America. They
came not because Of the vision OF the
| wealth Of the mines or gold or silver
| tho Spanish advcnturers in Peru ana
Mexico had told of, but for Il love of
liberty and freedom and the desire to
| worship God in their own way, and
to open an asylum for all the victims
OF oppression Throughout. the world.
What {; mixture OF diverse peoples
| have made up this American race OF
OUTS! 11ollandcrS to Manhattan, Eng
lisf to the western part OF Long ISL
and, Gustavus Adolp,us at war with
the Catholic powers sent the SWcdes
to Delaware, Lord Balti,norc's colony
to Maryland, after the cdict Of Nantes
the Huguenots to the South, the
Quakers to Pennsylvania. The Jesu-
it's to French Canada did more to
bring civilization and Christian influ-
ence to the aborigincs than all the
other colonists combined. They en-
| tered into the daily lives OF the In
: dianS. BY the example Of years OF
perfect lives, they made such an inl-
preston that their sufferinHs, martyr