The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-07

CAGnOA1C E1Ln<anC1paGdOns 0e1VGT0O D0-
fore large and respectable meeting
OF the leading Catholics of Ireland in
October, 1s1ss
CD
This is the way have always
viewed your question-not as a. party
OF Sectarian, or a Catholic, but as
an Irish question. Is it possible that
q man can think the paralysis of five
millions of such a people as 1 have
described, can be benefit to the
Empire? Is there any man, who de-
serves the name not of a. statesman,
but of rational being, who can be-
1ieve it polite to rob such a null
Sstnde of all the energies of an hon
orable anbition2''
why has Protestant Ireland shot
over the Empire those rays of genius
Msad those thuuderbo otis of war, which
have at once ernbeIlished and pre-
era: refer not, for instance, to that
splendid day when our BJJRKES, our
BARRYS, and our GOLDSMITHS,
exIled by very want from their ma
wreathed the Shamrock round the
brow, of Painting, Poetry and Flo
quence.s
ssBut now-even now. whilst I
speak, who leads the British Senate?
a. Protestant Irishmp1nS Who guides
&
1risf1man, and why 80 Catholic Ire
land, with her quintupze populations
stationary and silent ?''
stranger. open the penal state
ment. and weep tears of blood over
the reason Do not ask the bigoted
and pampered renegade, who has an
interest in. deceiving you, but come,
come yourself. and see thIg unhappy
people; see the IrishrRan, an alien in
1reIandI In rags and wretchedness
p -
ever reposed upons prosecuted by, the
ex1orting Mfdd1eman OF the Absentee
Landlord, and pInndered by his SYM
Onyrne, the Lay Proctor of an Abb
sentee Ineum misunderstanding through
life but insult and Injustice, and be-
by the heart rendfng reflection, that
he must leave his children to bear.
like their father an abominable
bondagesT-Is this the fact 20
sLet any man who doubts it walk
In your streets and see the conse-
those crowds of young apprentices to
prison allowed by-tEeir unfortunate
parents, In despair. to learn the rudi-I
1nenfH. and lisp the alphabet of vice!
For my part, have never been one
f0f these assemb1ages. collected for
the ets1na1 purpose Of play and pro-
Egacy, without feeling within me a.
melancholy emotion Perhaps have =
thought within that little circle of
neglected Hif1ers who seem to have
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N71aeaz1r1afrrs, n whose Dreas1 liis ues-
TIMES OF q naz1on may Ne German -
some AAliIoh, prees1ls1iL VIII eeLes-
E1a1 1t some Nefr S1as Hos "1Aea
thrones were cunnieds anu 1ynas-
LEES E0rEottons naasnt s1a1dss the 1a-nn-
marx 81 MS ssezllts' Ies9lI.s
himself MIA regal Il1aA1s ai1u u
n d1aso17taon 2 1neziLais Sfsllia1 - ens
solitude OF Time De17eadns whose
shades hlngs nngnI mo no tlus+, ~
round whose sn1nInL H4Istn.ly lhlllssl
play
Even IN guch a qfTcies the young
sDenosthe1aes might once have been
4ound--ands Homer. the d1sgrace5 ana e
g1Sxy OF his age, nave SUNG nesAeceseA-
Other states nave seen slcn pr0o ll
and why not ireland VINO Is there
will say, that nature has sta1npea a
degrading brand upon her 1ntel-
1act r.
Oh my coTfT1tryTl1ea1, let US nope
that under better auspices ana sound-
@r policy, %the ignorance tnaI tnlnks
$50 may Meet its REPUTATION Let us
turn from the plight ana view OF
this wi11try day, to the fond anuclpa-
ton Of a happier perioo7 when our en-
gotten this PROSTATE lana Wl1 erect