The Irish standard., 1909-03-20
RACE PROBLEM IN NEW ENGLAND
Remarks the Address of President Eliot of Harvard
Delverd in the City of Memphis Comparing
Ces With Blacks
0vER.RATED MAN, LACKING P0|sE AND BALANCE
Some Pointed Questions From Southerner and Strong
Words of Archbishop O'Connell of Boston
Recent Occasion.

nent in hotels, thcaters, etc., estab
lished for the exclusive use of a 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 su
perior 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 par with
the negro of the South in Intelligence
and morality?
Are the Irish of Massachusetts as Il
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 uplft" 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
I opine that these questions aoout
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 they
make very good reading after Eliot's ad-
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, i'm
New England and elsewhere. Arch
ishop O'Connell said:
"The Catholic opened the door OF
this stern enemy of his and entcre1-
entered and took his place and stayed.
lis lodging was far from comfortable,
fer 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. Th, Puritan had
IOF CnG CdIfOIlc OF any country llllIC
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 si-
lently, fearing to announce his adj
vent. He was hunted exile, this
Irishman, poor child of a wronged na-
tion. The sneer and frown werc ne
new things for him. He had lost
heavily in the fortunes of war, but h.
knew his nations history and loved
even more than his life or his for
tune the faith Of his fathers. He had
felt the bitterness Of persecution for
his fidelity. But he was a human be-
| ing; he had a right to live and live he
| " ould.
"The Puritan has passed-the Cath
o,ic remains. The city where CEN
tury ago he came unNanted, he has
made his own. A century has mater
ia!izcd prosperity and growth un-
dreamed of by his fathers. The little
church of Boston has grown and eX-