The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-20
Remarks on the Address of President Eliot of Harvard
DELIVERED in the City of Memphis Comparing
Celts With Blacks
0VER.RA7ED man, LACKING P0|sE AND BALANCE
Some Pointed Questions From Southerner and Strong
Words of Archbishop O'Connell of Boston
a Recent Occasion.

ment in hotels, theaters, etc., estab-
lished for the exclusive use of su-
perior people? If SO, who are the peo-
pie?
Do the Irish of Massachusetts, de-
mand accommodation in Pullman
cars and in first class railroad cars,
equal to those provided for the SUI
pcrior races? If SO, have the law
makers of Massachusetts, protected
the superior people by establishing
laws requiring separate or "Jim
Grow" cars, or their equivalents?
Is it necessary for the superior peo-
pie of Massachusetts, to adopt severe
and unusual methods to prevent such
outrages by the Irish, Italian AMI
Portuguese, as are peculiar to the
negro?
Have any Irish, Italians or Portu-
guese been lynched in Massachusetts
for such outrages?
Are the Irish. Italians and -Portu-
guese of Massachusetts on a par will,
the negro Of the soath in Intelligence
and morality?
Are the Irish of Massachusetts as u
class idle and shiftless, dishonest and
immoral?
Are the Irish of Massachusetts, re-
ligious and law abiding?
Wherefore and whence the neces-
sity for moral uplift" among the
Irish, etc., Of Massachusetts similar
to the needs of the negro?
What effort has been made by Pres
ident Eliot and the people he repre-
sents and speaks for, to solve the
race question" in Massachusetts, and
what evils did they seek to remedy?
If the "uplift" desired by President
Eliot, ct al. should be accomplished,
What conditions would exist in Mas
sachusetts different from those at
present existing, with relation to
| race questions?"
opine that these questions ABOUT
reach the marrow Of the bigoted at
tack. In addition this Southern Cath
olic gentleman calls attention to the
words spoken by Archbishop O'Con-
rell at the recent Boston Catholic
Centennial and remarks that the.'
| make very good reading after Eliot's adj
dress, and hence I reproduce them as
good matter for study in this month
OF March, which brings us to our an
nual contemplation of the deeds Of
the Celtic race in war and peace, in
New England and elsewhere. Arch
bishop O'Connell said:
'The Catholic opened the door OF
this stern enemy of his and entered
| entered and took his place and stayed
Els lodging was far from comfortable,
fog he came unlimited and unwelcome,
He we'll knew the suspicion which fol-
lowed him-well realized the ant'pa-
thy which surrounded him. 1t was a
double antipathy. The Puritan had
for the Catholic of any country little
love. For the French and Irish Cath
clio there was the added enmity OF
race. And yet it was precisely the
French and Irish Catholic, who knock
ed at his door, or, rather, entered 81
lently, fearing to announce his adj
vent. He was a hunted exile, this
Irishman, poor child of wronged ma
ton. The sneer and frown were nc
new things for him. He had lost
heavily in the fortunes of war, but he
knew his nations history and lovel
even more than his life or his for
tune the faith of his fathers. He had
felt the bitterness Of persecution fol
his fidelity. But he was a human be-
ing; he had right to live and live he
would.
1.-THE Puritan has passed-the Cath
Ole remains. The city where GEN.
fury ago he came uiiwanted, he has
made his own. A century has mater
ialized prosperity and a growth un-
dreamed Of by his fathers. The littls
church Of Boston has grown and ex.