The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-22

plain why the kings of the earth rise up and the princes meet together" against us. Most Of our people are
 fairly acceptable and are beholden to no other race on earth for the posses
 sion of those virtues of soul, graces of body and powers of mind that should recommend us,, at least to the | tolerance of others
 'tIt is unintelGigible, accordingly,
 why the most tolerant of nations has sympathy for all save the one race that has earned. the title to sympathy
 best. The parfahs of the world seem to be preferred before us in the gen eral estimation of outsiders. This is a complex problem and far be it from
 me to pretend that. can offer com prehensive solution. It is not exclu- sively a matter of religion, because of the creed which most of us profess, since those of the faith unite with the unbeliever in seeking to do us dis credit. Partial explanation may be found in literary inheritance. The English tongue has been a conspiracy against us to poison the early mind and to form thus hostile views in the souls of later corners.
 rsfn this perplexity I once asked an older and wiser man what he sconsid- l cred the principal cause of the hostil- Eitys Principal cause" I know not he
 
 l figure of the comic papers; the Irish l policeman. Upon the arrival Of the l successive waves of immigration, the poverty of the newcomers force them | to take up their hablta ton in the con gested sections of our American cities 1 There the pahceman is king and em- perer and czar.s He stands for govern lment and law and order. which in the I minds of many of them are. words
 synonomous with tyranny, oppression and slavery. To others the officer is
 a. wall of restraint, shutting the way to what they considered harmless en- | joyment,. tolerated whence they came
 but forbidden here. In inevitable en- | counters and outbreaks of violence l they feel the might of his arm, and perhaps. the shock of his club, and l they store the bitter memory against Lit may sound, part of the inheritance of ennity allotted to the race has come to use because we have stood for law and order.
 q said that there was a deeper than l mere superficial significance in this, | and some of our friends might sit up ! and take notice. There is harmony in the setting when the figure of the | Irishman is represented as the protee- \ tor Of order and the defender of goV- ernments They joke about our being Il "agin the government" and sometimes
 
 orr people to create the impression | that there is lawless streak in the I makeup of the race. They forget that II the opposition to the government So- called is the righteous cry of a per | secuted people against the most dam- nable misgovernment that has ever .l blackened the pages of history. AS | for lawlessness. there is no country 3l in the world which at the present mo- Il rnent has more empty jails than full I ones. save Ireland Anarchy is an | alien to the Irish constitutions; and T when today the chief concern Of ouI ,l American rulers is thought given to holding in leash the forces that narcn T under the red flag of revolution-note 4 the color-glimpses of which we begin I to catch even in this land of free q dom let us thank Providence, we are concerned for the welfare of the na- Il tion. that a numerous race has been sent to our shores whose traditional | feelings is on the side of order and whose race inheritance marshals them under the banner of law.
 II s'I am not dwelling on what might
 be thought my chief. interest: the re- ligious or supernatural phase or the question The time and place for that is not here; nor is it at all necessary to finger there since the supernatura ai
 but builds upon the natural, ana that which a nation is in native character | higher perfection by religious powers. 1; I'm. the primal constitution or the
 Irish race there are found the quail ties which forbid that har DOT pc or fered the forces that threaten oestru ton to this Republic.
 '"The subject is too vast even 10 pe T entered upon. Summarily let me
 head up, as our newspaper lrlendS naight say, an item or two. mad occasion earlier to mention clan. You T-ar@c hi evils that cluster about the word. Have, YOU as we'll paused to reflect unon the wisdom of that divine ar- . rangement which made family the : center of thought, and clan, the larger family, the substance of the state-idea in the mind of the Irish neopde. Scattered over the earth Fl they would carry these ideas rooted in their blood to serve as a corrective influence for those governments that were seeking to rear their fabric on
 foundations never destined by nature
 to bear the structure I am not 8 political economist, and so in the presence of you statesmen I prefer not to parade my poor rags of ignor- ance. But when the alarms are
 is on the brink of peril because, for- sooth, someone sells a paper on Sun
 day. or you play baseball in Bridge port on the" Sabbath, it requires an
 effort to repress a smile. The pillars of state are not to be overturned by } the insects that may trail their stain } across the polished surface. To fly } in the face of nature, to disregard l, things that are fundamental; to for
 get the basic truths that cannot with 7 impunity be contradicted; to over-
 look principles inherent in the very 7 constitution of the world, these are the acts that breed national distemp- ers Tn our country they begin to i. transfer emphasis from the family, where nature placed it. and rest it
 overheavily upon the State. Then they wonder why Socialism which is