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" There is much to be done [in Ireland], — much to be desii 
ut there is, also, much to be hoped for. Peace and Order 
lined." — J^io-At Hon. W. E. Gladstone's Speech at the Lord Mu 
Voz'. g, /SSj. 

"Hang out your lights when the nights are dark." 



BY CHARLES 0. DONNOVAN, A.M., 

BARRISTER-ATrLAW. 



McPHSRSOR, Umi, 



A POWERFUL MINORITY. 



IF the nation's Census of 1830 be only approximately correct, it must 
surprise all students of political and social investigations. This 
Republic is degraded, and its free mental progress impeded, by an un- 
scrupulous but insignificant minority of mendacious foreigners. The 
popular supposition as to t\\Q foreign element of our population is over 
■)Q. Now we will look at the Census figures : — 
oles are-enumerated as being 48,557, — the Italians as 44,230, 
and Welsh as 917,598, — the French as 106,971, 
•'61, — the Germans as 1,966,742, — the Irish as 

..liiliate of our Irish "adopted" citizens 

man Catholics, which they are not, The 

2,000,000 dictate and frighten into slavish 

o ! Verily, such a minority of power is un- 

ecorded history. This power is obtained and 

e savage unity of race, superstition, impudence, 



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NO LONGER SECRET. 



THE tactics are no longer kept secret, nor are they confined to the 
State of New York, as the following extract from a Columbus, 
Ohio, letter to the Daily Netvs of this city, printed in its edition of 
Monday morning, Oct. 13th, fully testifies. The writer says: — 

" Pamphlets setting forth Cleveland's opposition to the protectory 
bill, alledging in the argument that his objections were based upon a 
prejudice against Catholics, were distributed this morning by precon- 
certed arrangements in all the Churches of that denomination in Col- 
umbus. It is said the same- device to influence the Catholics against 
Cleveland was practiced in every town and city of the State." — The 
Lever, Chicago, 111., Oct. i6th, 1884. 




"SLAUGHTER the IMOCENTS" 



AND 



THE IRISH CRIME 



IN 



AMERICA. 



"There is much to be done [m Ireland], — much to be desired, — much to be 
lamented, — but there is, also, much to be hoped for. Peace and Ordek must be 
FIRMLY maintained." — Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone's Speech at the Lord Mayor'' s 
Banquet, London, Nov. 9, 1883. 

" Hang out your lights when the nights are dark." 



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^.,-'-'7 ^- By CHARLES O. DONNOVAN, A.M., 

S ' BARRISTER-AT-LAW. 



Mcpherson, Kansas. 
THE THINKER.' 

1884 



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" You have the letters Cadmus gave, 
Think ye he meant them for a slave." 

" For that anything Impure should lay hold of what is Pure is surely contrary 
to Divine Law."— Plato's Phaedo. 

" He who takes these things into Consideration, can never suppose that any 
danger can spring from those ivho are Branded as INFAMOUS." — Xen5phon. 



COPYRIGHTED 
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ALL EIGHTS RESEEVED. 



PREFACE. 



"With bleeding feet, man retreads his way, but gains at last the mountain-top 
of Life, and wonders at the tortuous tracks he left behind." 

" We want Faith ajiplied to Life, — Being Good and DOING Good.'^ 

SAID Anarchy to Liberty, 
' Divinest maid, whom all adore, 
Great is the love I bear to thee, 
Come to my arms for evermore ; 
Come to my arms and share my throne ; 
Smile by my side supremely sweet, 
And all the world our sway shall own, 
And lay their homage at our feet.' 

Said Liberty to Anarchy, 

' With reeking gore thy fingers drip. 

Through blood thou'st waded to the knee. 

And curses quiver on thy lip ; 

Thy heart o'erfiows with guile and wrath, 

With wicked hate, with senseless fears. 

And groans and misery track thy path ; 

Be gone, — and leave me to my tears. ' 

Said Anarchy to Liberty, 

' Reproach me not, O maiden fair ; 

If I have sinned, 'twas love of thee 

Impell'd my spirit to despair; — 

And thou, of all the world, shouldst look 

Indulgent on such love sublime ; 

Thine eyes were inspiration's book, — 

Thy witchery drove me into crime.' 

Said Liberty to Anarchy, 
' I never look'd upon thy face 
Without a sense of misery. 
Without a feeling of disgrace ; 



iv PREFACE. 

I never saw thee but to shun, 
Or weep hot tears of grief and shame, — 
Nor thought of deeds which thou hast done. 
Except to shudder at thy name.' 

Said Anarchy to Liberty, 
' Thy heart is hard and insincere. 
How often hast thou smiled on me, 
And breathed love-speeches in my ear ! 
How often whisper' d me to smite. 
How often prompted bloodiest deeds ; 
And all to give thy soul delight, 
And stay thy sanguinary needs ? ' 

Said Liberty to Anarchy, 

' Thy heart is dull, thine eyes are blind ; 

I have a sister like to me 

In form and features, not in mind. 

Her name is Licence ; 'twas for her 

The passion bubbled in thy veins ; 

'Twas she that was thy worshipper; 

She clings to thee while life remains. ' 

Said Anarchy to Liberty, 

' I know thee well, have known thee long, — 

Thy face, thy form, thy symmetry 

Have fiU'd my heart with yearnings strong ; 

'Twas thee I loved ; thy beaming eyes 

Still gave the aspiration birth. 

That from our union should arise 

A new Millennium for the Earth.' 

Said Liberty to Anarchy, 

' I dwell with Law and Peace divine, 

I have no bond of sympathy 

With Hate or Murder, — thee or thine ; 

To me thou art a fiend accursed, — 

Let Licence love thee if she will ; 

Deep in my soul my scorn is nursed, — 

I fly thee, and abhor thee still ! ' — Charles Mackay. 



"SLAUGHTER THE INNOCENTS." 



' Oh, Liberty ! what Crimes liave been committed in thy name." 

" The heroic bosom beats no more." 

" Ijatin fraud 
Would break your shield however broad." 

" A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine." 



IT is the Duty of all who wish welfare to themselves, and the pros- 
perity and progress of society, to publicly denounce Dynamite. 
Freedom cannot be maintained, nor advanced, by Slaughtering the 
Innocents. Tyranny is a dreadful crime, and so is indiscriminate mur- 
der in the name of Liberty. Butchering men, women, and children, 
does not Reform them. The dreadful Poisoners of Italy, unchecked 
by priests, ruined a nation of beauty and poetry. Not all the splendid 
labors of Mazzini and Garibaldi have restored its faded glories. It 
is in dismal weakness and gloom, faintly lighted by the spasmodic 
efforts of genuine patriots, whose lives were the eternal echoes of free- 
dom's music. Dynaiiiite is cowardly, imbecile, and disastrous. To 
intimidate and terrorize the timid, the weak and the helpless, is the 
savagery of Gorillas. To wreck property is to impoverish, instead of 
enriching society. Even ruining a palace does not turn a hovel into 
a mansion. Killing a tyrant does not kill tyranny. Kings have been 
beheaded, because they were oppressors. But their spirit re-appeared 
in greater despotism. The Dynamite of Gorillas cannot instruct the 
ignorant, feed the hungry, clothe the ragged, nor shelter the homeless. 
All it can do (and is doing) is to frighten the Goddess of Liberty, — 
and blunderingly Slaughter the Innocents. 

Dynamite has not abolished one odious law in that vast Empire of 
Russia. It has intensified wide-spread suspicion, deepened the govern- 



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ment's physical forces, and made progress halt, in a nation of immense 
population, — where progress is much needed. 

Before Dynamite was discovered or invented, Russia made a grand 
march, amid the plaudits of the world's wisest and best of men and 
women. An Emperor freed her Serfs ! He broke the chains and 
emancipated labor. He did it at the risk of his life. He sublimely 
elevated Russia into the divinest ranks of Freedom's devoted and never- 
ceasing friends. 

What was his reward by the Gorillas of France? The savagery of 
a mob of them. Then the Emperor paused. 

To- day Dynamite is sowing chaos, and reaping ruin. Dynamite 
has entered Germany, to scar the face and dim the fame of a people 
instructed by Voltaire. From his time, Germany has kept on her 
intellectual march, to the world's astonishment and advantage. 

In the front of Nations, Germany stands wreathed in Philosophy, 
Science, Poetry, and Art. Her music sounds forth the grand harmonies 
of intellect's substantial progress. Mailed in the armor of Investi- 
gation, armed by profound Criticism, she shines like a morning star, 
lighting wisdom to grander achievements, — which should not be clouded 
by the savagery of Gorillas' Dynamite. But a score of Gorillas can 
blast the finest structure. 

The Gorillas of Ireland accord with the Gorillas of Russia. Not 
satisfied with a temporarv purgatory for themselves in the next world, 
the Irish Gorillas are busily engaged in making a permanent purgatory 
in this. Into their own hideous place of abode, they want to thrust 
all, by Slaughtering the Innocents. The plan has the single ghastly 
merit of being impartial. But what a woe to Ireland, — what a menace 
to freedom in England ; — what a belching hell of destruction for our 
Republic ! The rusted chains of aroused despotism will again be used, 
as radiant blessings against Gorillas' Dynamite. 

Ireland ! — whose historic pages are blazoned with the names of 
CuRRAN, Grattan, Emmet, Moore, — Sweltering in the clouds of 
Dynamite ! 

Ireland ! — whose golden harp, tuned by Orpheus, sounded tones as 
sweet as the voices of Israel's daughters, when they sung Psalms by the 
waters of Babylon, — clutched by Gorillas for the purpose of Slaughter- 
ing the Innocents. 

Ireland! — boasting of its Orators, O'Connell, Shiel, Meagher, 
Duffy, Butt, Whiteside, — writhing in the hideous passions of 
Gorillas. 



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Ireland ! — whose roll-call of literary men embraces Swift, Gold- 
smith, Burke, Mitford, Davis, Lecky, — held in the Dynamite jaws 
of Gorillas. 

Alas ! how humiliating the spectacle. A land fertile as any other 
spot on the globe of a similar area, trodden into a dreary desert, by 
the stealthy tramps of Gorillas. What shall the friends of freedom do ? 

In the last Irish-league convention in Philadelphia, 200 Dynamite 
Gorillas were present, and were members. Enough to make ruins of 
nations for centuries to come. What shall be the preventive remedy? 

If Science is to make Dynamite for Gorillas, Science should be 
ignored, abhorred, banished. But Science is now a part of the life of 
nations, therefore the Gorillas must be banished, and not Science. 

The chemist who makes and sells Dynamite for, and to Gorillas, 
should be condemned as incurably insane, and banished to solitary 
confinement until death. No shortening of his banishment should be 
permitted, because of his sudden morality and piety in prison. 

Those who use Dynamite to Slaughter the Innocents, should be 
considered and treated as untameable Gorillas. They should be taken 
into solitude, kept in solitude, until the lord of their own hell sends 
for them. No cessation of solitude for them, because they can cling 
to the crucifix, when unable to cling to Dynamite. Because the Gorilla 
is a religious, or supposed to be a religious animal, his spiritual adviser 
should be banished to where he can count his beads without being 
disturbed. 

Both savagery, and the guides of savages, would thus be removed, 
and the brutal power of Slaughtering the Innocents would be crushed. 

Soft words will not tame a Gorilla. Retaliation will not reform 
him. Emigration does not change him. A Gorilla is a Gorilla all 
the time. He is a revolting, hideous, merciless, brutal savage. In his 
mad career he has burned Negro Orphan Asylums in New York, and 
hanged honest colored men to lamp-posts. In daylight he is a shrink- 
ing, voiceless coward. He is an animal whose brains are all bone. 
Daylight disturbs, annoys, sickens him. He cannot face an enemy. 
If suddenly met, he howls, and madly rushes into the darkest part of a 
wilderness, seeking for a confessional church. For such a creature, we 
cannot allow the Liberty that has been gained, to be any longer im- 
perilled. 

It is the Duty of all wise and good persons to unite together, as a 
" holy family," to preserve freedom and insure progress. The Thinkers 



8 " SLA UGHTER THE INNOCENTS." 

of "bleeding Kansas" know the meaning of duty, union, and constant 
labor. To them we cannot look in vain. Dynamite threatens the 
destruction of freedom in every land. 

Gorillas crawl when good men sleep. While generous persons 
hesitate, the Innocents are Slaughtered. 

The Foreign-relation-function of our Federal government is usurped 
by Gorillas. 

The American mechanic is menaced and degraded in every work- 
shop of our land by Gorillas. Dynamite is hid in all our cities. Pluck, 
combination, and wisdom, will save us from the darkest of Dark Ages. 
Not pandering to Gorillas, but hunting them into endless solitude will 
be Freemen's security. 



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IRISH GRATITUDE. 



WHEN there was a famine in Ireland, — caused by ignorance, sloth, 
filth, and superstition, — a famine that broke the dazzling dreams 
of Daniel O'Connell, — the English people gave the sufferers a Par- 
liamentary Grant of ^35,000,000, and private charity gave ^3,000,000, 
— a Total of ^38,000,000 ! For this munificent and magnificent gift 
of genuine sympathy, the Irish return is constant, seething Hate and 
Dynamite ! What a folly to allow such Gorillas to have political Power. 



THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA. 



"When my sons are grown up, avenge yourselves, fellow-citizens, upon them, 
by tormenting them just as I have tormented you, if they appear to care for riches 
or for anything else ahove vii'tue ; and if they pretend to be something when they 
are really nothing, then reproach them, as I here reproach you, with not caring for 
what they ought, and with thinking themselves to be something when they are 
worth nothing at all." — Soceates' Ajiology. 



THE IRISH emigrants who reach the United States of America, are 
the o/i/y persons who violate the Laws of Hospitality, and of 
Citizenship. The emigrants of a// other Races or Nations, who make 
America the land of their adoption, are grateful for hospitality, and 
are obedient to citizenship. From whatever land they come, from 
whatever grade of native society they have emerged, they brii:ig with 
them a modicum of modesty, and respect for the Federal Government. 
To this, the IRISH are the one constant exception. 

The GERMAN emigrants are peaceful, plodding, self-respecting. 
Although they do not forget their Fatherland, nor cease to cherish the 
associations of history and of parentage, they never forget that the 
New World has become their home. They clear the forests, they plough 
the fields, they make vineyards. They enter the industries of the 
States. They build residences, and gladly send their children to the 
Public Schools. Tliey are peaceful, social, progressive. Even those 
who consume immense quantities of lager beer, are not a disgrace to 
the sidewalks, nor a disgust to their neighbors. They prosperously 
support their newspapers, their literary periodicals, and art-journals. 
They buy books, engage lecturers, and establish societies for the most 
elevating purposes. Thus they steadily advance the material and intel- 



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lectual prosperity of the Republic. Among their representative men 
who have promoted America's welfare, we need name only Dr. Francis 
LiEBER, Carl Schurz, Kapp, Kruger, Karl Heinzen, and Dr. 
Fred. Schultz. Some of these gentlemen have produced books of 
permanent usefulness, such as Lieber's Civil Liberty. 

The GERMANS produced a Guttenburg, to benefit themselves 
and Europe. The Irish, when they wanted a Patron Saint, had to go 
to France to obtain St. Patrick. During the slaveholders' rebellion 
against Freedom, the Germans gave much brains to the American govern- 
ment. It was a German who denounced Secession in the University of 
South Carolina, long before a solitary Ordinance of Secession was passed 
in the Southern States. It was a German who drew up the Articles of 
War. It was a German who was President of the New York Loyal 
Publication Society. It was a German who wrote Political Ethics, a 
work that was often consulted by President James A. Garfield, who 
personally informed this writer. It was a German who was appointed 
Chief of the Bureau of Southern Records, — who wrote a Report so elab- 
orate, so searching, so honest, that it was suppressed. The honest 
German lamented to his death the suppressing of an important part 
of the History of the Civil War. This great German was Dr. Lieber, 
of whom Judge M. Russell Thayer says: — "He was thoroughly 
American in all his feelings, — as much so as if he had been born here. 
Few persons were so well acquainted with our history, or understood so 
well the character of our institutions. Few were so well versed in the 
political changes of this country, or knew so many of its leading men. 
He took a lively interest in all public measures, and followed attentively 
the course of legislation. He watched with anxiety every political 
crisis, and wrote and worked for what he considered the right side of 
every question. His interests and affections were bound up in America. 
He admired her institutions, but was not blind to their weak points, 
and labored constantly to strengthen and improve them. He often 
took an active part in public affairs, but never sank to the low level of 
a partisan. He felt an interest in all which concerned the welfare of 
his country, and was proud of all that added to her glory and her 
greatness. ^- -x- -x- But his imperishable works are his best memorial, 
and his fame will be secure in the lap of history; for, as he himself said, 
at the unveiling of the Statue of Humboldt, quoting the grand words 
of Pericles, 'the whole Earth is the monument of illustrious 
men.' " 

Nor should Americans forget the abiding services to human welfare 



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by John Alberger. His works on Monks, Popes, and theu' Political 
Intfigues, is unanswered and unanswerable. He boldly writes : — "The 
work is to show the political nature of the Catholic Church, and its 
treasonable designs with regard to the American republic. -;^ -x- •* 
The author has endeavored to show that the Catholic Church is intrin- 
sically a gigantic conspiracy against the liberties of the world ; ingenious 
in its construction, opulent in its resources, extensive in its ramifications, 
and formidable in its character. « * -;<- Gavazzi has lectured, 
.HoGAN, Cotton, Hopkins have written, but so profound and death- 
like is the torpidity which holds the senses of the Americans in indiffer- 
ence, that the warnings of writers and speakers have died away with 
the tones in which they were uttered. But Americans must awake, — 
they will awake, — if not soon enough to avert the impending doom 
overhanging their country and their posterity. Yet soon enough, alas, 
too soon ! to weep in despair over their present apathy and indifference, 
and the ruin of their Republic." 

The GERMANS do not conspire to disturb the Government they 
have left behind. They do not violate their allegiance to the Federal 
Constitution. The money they have earned in the States, they do not 
devote to committing depredations in Germany. They do not hire as- 
sassins. The unprovoked killing of a man they do not designate "a 
popular murder." * 

* "The subscriptions sent over from the United States to pay the expenses of 
O'Donnell's trial, came from people who fully believed that the man did shoot 
Caeey because he was an informer, and not by accident or in a personal quarrel. 
Under ordinary circumstances there was nothing in the case to evoke much sym- 
pathy from Irish Americans. O'Donnell was not satisfied with firing one shot,— 
he deliberately fired three. He was determined that Carey's life should be taken. 
Those who have given money' for the defence, accompanied as it generally was 
with violent denunciation of Great Britain and of British rule, showed plainly 
that they were animated with the same bad spirit as the convicted assassin, when 
he was conducted shouting and cursing from the dock." 

" Ireland has not, during the year, managed to throw off the shackles of the 
hated British yoke, and establish its independence as an exemplary republic, nor 
even secured Home Rule. The sons of Erin at home have evidently become more 
contented, peaceful, and law-abiding, If communication could only be stopped 
between them and the Dynamiting Irish- Americans, who hatch all the mischief, 
better times for Ireland would be near at hand. Probably now that Paenell has 
got that gift of $200,000, wrung chiefly from Irish-American servant-girls and la- 
borers, he will be more contented, while the people will be more ready to estimate 
at its true worth his patriotism and disinterestedness now, when they have seen 
him coolly put that large sum, so obtained (and for which he did nothing) in his 



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The ENGLISH emigrants are not traitors to the Land of the West. 
They remain true to the instincts of their forefathers. It was English- 
men who founded New England. It was Englishmen who made Vir- 
ginia '' the mother of Presidents." It was an Englishman of the purest 
and wisest character who planted Liberty and Prosperity in Pennsyl- 
vania. It was an Englishman who gave the idea of Independence to 
the Thirteen American Colonies, and filled the hearts of the people 
with enthusiams, to struggle heroically to make a nation, embracing 
(nearly) a continent, transformed into a Republic of Freemen. The 
largest manufacturing establishments in Philadelphia have been estab- 
lished by Englishmen. The Eastern and the Western States are alike 
dotted with small mills and workshops owned by Englishmen. While 
many of the English emigrants are ignorant, vulgar, rough, uncouth, 
arrogant, dishonest, and noisy guzzlers, — they always loyally conform to 
the laws of the New World. They do not demoralize the nation's poli- 
tics. They do not falsify their citizenship. They do not hypocritically 
abuse hospitality. 

The DANISH emigrants are industrious, thrifty, self-reliant, peace- 
ful, unobtrusive. As work-people, they are ingenious, skilful, persever- 
ing. They are not daunted by dangers, nor dismayed by difficulties. 
They are true to themselves, and to the nation. 

The BOHEMIANS are very illiterate. Do not try to learn the Eng- 
lish language. They have no aspirations to imitate American manners. 
They hug their own traditions. Their women are excessively laborious. 
They are penurious, but eager to own a "home." Owning a plot of 
land is to them a taste of paradise. These emigrants do not bid de- 
fiance to the country's laws and government. They float in the swelling 
stream of population, without making a ripple. 

The SWEDISH emigrants are worthy of admiration. They are 

pocket with a simple "thank you," instead of devoting it to the glorious cause, 
as was generally expected by those who subscribed that he would do. Irishmen 
will hereafter be less disposed to be such ready and willing tools of the agitators, 
now that they have seen the fate which has attended so many of their countrymen 
in the course of the year. When they have seen so many victims consigned to 
the gallows, or to life-long imprisonment, and that not even the influence of this 
great country can, for a single day, postpone a just doom, Irishmen will restrain 
their natural impulsiveness, and will give the cold shoulder to the interested pro- 
fessional agitator." — The Scottish- American- Journal, New York, Dec. 27, 1883. 



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generally generous in nature, frank in conversation, careful in habits, 
thoughtful in action, and unceasing in endeavor. They noiselessly 
strive to improve their condition. They waste no funds in fomenting 
stupid riots in the land they have left. They do not seize a great city 
like New York, and change it into a den of political brigands. They 
do not debase society with disgusting immorality. They do not keep 
whisky saloons, foul with all uncleanness. They are not blustering, 
quarrelling, fighting drunkards. They are never "drunk and disor- 
derly" in street-cars, nor on the sidewalks. Making the best use of 
all opportunities, they improve their condition, and while so doing, 
they inflict no dishonor on America's fame. * 

Remembering that the JEWS, in their own estimation and in that 
of Orthodox Christendom, are "God's chosen people," — one would 
predicate Of them, a priori, that they would be the most rebellious in 
all lands. But they are not. They have endured brutal persecution. 
They have worn the badge of " Christ-killer," placed on their breasts 
by ignorance. For the first, they have Prayed to their God for Deliver- 
ance; for the second, they have answered in books of splendid litera- 
ture, — such as Cohen's Deicides. 

They have marched on in Scholarship, until they have given the 
world a Spinoza, and Munk's Philosophy afid Philosophical Aiithors oj 
the Jews. They have progressed in Art, bringing forth a Mozart, 
whose soul-breathings move through the world of sweet delights. They 
have wrought in the mazes of fancy and imagination, dazzling nations 
with literary surprises. 

This people, in America, have added to the nation's power in re- 
ligious criticism, oratory, finance, trade, and commerce. Their Rab- 
bis are gentlemen and scholars. What a contrast are these ' ' wandering ' ' 
Jews, to the "wandering" Irish! The Jew makes himself "a bright 
and a shining light." The Irish are like restless Gypsies, disturbing 
and destroying. 

The IRISH emigrants (with insignificant exceptions) are a nuisance, 
a menace, and a crime to our Republic. They often naturalize them- 
selves through trickery, falsehood, and fraud. Not unfrequently at 



* The Swedes are much annoyed with the last Census Report. In the Compen- 
dium., they are enumerated as beiiig, in the States and Territories, only 194,337, 
they claim to be over 500,000. This subject should be. investigated by Congress. 



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elections, they vote "early and often," with reckless impudence and 
atrocious ruffianism. They "stuff" ballot-boxes and destroy records. 
They often plan to receive pay for the "city's work," and testify with 
any number of oaths that the work not done, has been well done. 
Oaths are to them convenient masks. Politics are to them a science 
of stealing taxes. Office is a place where they can steal. Officers are 
to be converted into knaves, or into tools for knaves. 

The IRISH emigrants whine against "British oppression," howl 
against the "bloody Saxon," brawl against the Union with England. 
These same creatures intimidate and oppress all whom they can master. 
They are the most "bloody" and vindictive of all races. The Irish 
scoundels meanly, disgracefully, ignominiouslyj-<?/<3!' their votes to ' ' British 
tyrants," and themselves abolished their own Parliament. While to- 
day, they have 103 members in the House of Commons, to Scotland's 
60,* shaping the legislation of the British empire, they rave like savages 

* To prevent denial by any ignorant person, we here quote the figures as given 
by Michael Davitt, who appeal's to be the most honest and wise of the present 
Irish "agitators." He says: — -"The area of Irish county constituencies is 32,238 
square miles, the population (18S1) 4,263,814, number of inhabited houses 784,271, 
and the number of registered electors (1882) 165,997. The Irish boroughs cover 
303 square miles, their population in 1881 was 911,022, number of inhabited houses 
in the same year 129, 837, and the number of electors on the register in 1882 was 
58,021. Ireland has 103 representatives in Parliament, 64 of whom are elected for 
the counties, 37 for boroughs, and 2 for Dublin University." 

From Belfast's luammoth paper, The Weekly Northern Whig, we take the fol- 
lowing elaborate statement : — " An interesting contribution has been made to dis- 
cussion on the subject-matter of the coming Reform Bill by a gentleman who signs 
himself ' Statist.' He publishes a table showing the net revenue from taxation de- 
rived from England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively ; the population, and the 
number of members of Parliament allotted to each, and the number of members 
proportionate to taxation and population. The figures are founded on the results 
of the census of 1881, and on a return laid before Parliament last year, showing 
the net revenue contributed by each division of the kingdom, derived from tax- 
ation, for the year ending March 31st, 1880. It appears that England, with a pop- 
ulation of 26'2 millions, contributed a net revenue of 53'2 millions of nroney, and 
has at present 493 membei'S of Parliament. In proportion to population England 
would have 491 members, in proportion to taxation 525, and in proportion to tax- 
ation and population combined 538. Scotland, with a population of 3'7 millions 
and a net revenue of 7'3 millions, has 60 members ; in proportion to population its 
number would be 70, in proportion to taxation it would be 73, and in proportion 
to taxation and population combined it would be 60. In the case of Ireland the 
l^opulation is set down as 5"1 millions, and the net revenue at 6'0 millions. The 
present number of members for Ireland is 103 ; in proportion to population it 
would be 97, and in proportion to taxation it would be 60 ; in proportion to tax- 



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and act like ruffians.* There are Scotch peasants as Z«!;2^/i?^j- and as 
much " oppressed " as are the Irish in Ireland. There have been cruel 
"evictions" in Scotland to extend deer-stalking parks. But the in- 
jured Scotch have not retaliated by assassinating landlords. In the 
sublime dignity of silent suffering, they have appealed to the humanity 
of the nation, and worked with wise and steady firmness to extricate 
themselves from misery. 

The IRISH emigrants hate genuine education, disregard political 
morality, despise absolute truth, have no rigid regard for honesty, and 
loathe the purity of impartial justice. They stole and destroyed the 
library (800 volumes) of the American Hose Company of Philadelphia, 
because the men were becoming too intellectual to be low scoundrels. 
At Harleigh, Pa., a dozen Scotch and English miners placed 300 vol- 
umes into the school-house, to educate the people. The Irish set fire 
to the building. The newspapers started in New York and Philadelphia 
to advocate much-needed labor reforms, have been degraded, perverted 
and killed by Irish duplicity and infamous treachery. The Knights 
of Labor Organization has been emasculated by Irish influence. Being 
treacherous to each other, they have sown treachery broadcast. Each 
Irish conspiracy has been betrayedhy an Irishman. In all their crowds, 
they always have a Judas. f 

These ignorant, malignant, remorseless, treacherous, cunning, hypo- 
critical violators of hospitality and citizenship, are allowed to intimi- 

ation and population combined it would be 60 also. It will thus be seen that, if 
the principle that "taxation and representation should go together" were strictly 
carried out, Ireland would fare worse than either of the other two divisions of the 
United Kingdom ; for, whereas England would get thirty-two and Scotland thir- 
teen additional members, the Irish members would be reduced by forty-five. In 
any case, apparently, Ireland would find herself in a position inferior to that of 
England or Scotland ; for, according to population, while England would lose two 
and Scotland would gain ten members, Ireland would lose eight ; and, according to 
population and taxation combined, while England would gain forty-five members 
and Scotland would retain her present number, Ireland would lose forty -five." 

* There are 28 Irish Peers in the House of Lords, while Scotland has only 16. 
What tyranny 1 Full justice to Ireland demands that all the English and Scotch 
Peers be banished from the House of Lords, and the 2mrijied body be removed to 
Dublin. Until this is done? — why! Dynamite will blow up the Lords. Irish 
Peers to take part in the Exodus ! 

f A sapient German says : — "Such is a natural consequence, because tlie Irish 
have founded their Church on St. Peter, who denied his Lord and Saviour tlu-ee- 
times." 



1 6 THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA. 

date and degrade the work-people, to pollute politics, to make Courts of 
Justice mockeries, to prevent education, to debauch public and private 
virtue, to usurp the Foreign-relation-function of the Federal Govern- 
ment, and make the American nation appear before Europe as a snivel- 
ling, drivelling imbecile ! 

The IRISH emigrants are lovers of liberty. Here are illustrations : 
— In 1863, the Irish Gorillas had forcible possession of New York City 
during three entire days. They hanged innocent negroes, they burnt 
Colored Orphan Asylums, they sacked the houses of poor and rich 
persons with hideous impartiality. This frightful carnage of Irish blood- 
thirstiness was committed to enable Southern Slaveholders to perpet- 
uate slavery throughout eternity. O the Irish love freedom, — for 
themselves. They love despotism for all who are not Irish. They 
are cringing, crafty, menial slaves in adversity, — they are monstrous 
savages when in power. "Young America" should read again and 
again, A. E. Dickenson's What Answer? It is a careful history of the 
Irish Whalhalla of blood in New York in 1863. Stamp the cowardly 
and brutal epoch in brands of unfading shame on the Irish name in 
America. Let not scorn, disgust, and contempt against such savages 
cease to glow in the hearts and minds of genuine Americans. Their pet, 
John Mitchell, sighed for a plantation of fat negro-slaves. His sons 
fought to establish a Slave-Confederacy of States. He helped to per- 
petuate slavery. The Irish assailed the Abolitionists of Philadelphia. 
When the Colored street-cars were abolished by the Legislature of 
Pennsylvania, Irish drivers in Philadelphia drove the cars containing 
Colored passengers off the rails, at the risk of killing White persons. 
And such Go?'illas have votes ! They organized to kill a man in New 
York, who distributed official pamphlets to impart facts. 

The IRISH emigrants howl for "no rent" in Ireland, no "usury." 
no private ownership of land. But these same lawless brawlers are the 
most cruel, most extortionate, most brutal of all sordid Landowners in 
America, — and to their own countrymen and women they are the most 
brutal and relentless. They always grab at "high rates" of interest. 
As Storekeepers, they are the dearest to deal with. When they can 
get possession of other people's land, they "stick." They demand 
the most ' ' interest ' ' when they lend money. As beggars, they are the 
most filthy, lying, impudent, drunken, and vicious. 

The IRISH are pre-eminently conspicious as the only emigrants who 
conspire on American soil against the government they have forsaken. 
Voluntarily they leave Ireland. "The finest flower of the land" has 



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17 



ceased to keep them near its perfume. "The finest gem of the sea" 
no longer can keep them near its glittering, gorgeous beauty. In filthy 
clothes, with dirty skins, with breath stinking of whisky, with stupid 
ignorance, the vast majority of Irish emigrants reach America, with no 
other contribution to the support of the Federal Government than 
that of impudence, mendacity, hatred, lawlessness, and ingratitude. 
This contribution they intensify and develop, until the entire Republic 
is dishonored. They disfigure each State of the Union. They make 
the once proud Eagle sleep amid the ridicule of nations. They wind 
the Stars and Stripes around their haunts of conspiracy, and fiendishly 
wave their own Green Flag and Golden Harp over explosions of Dyna- 
mite and intimidated society. 

Fenian (FIENDIAN) Centres should be suppressed by the Federal 
government. If the members are Irishmen, (and nat American citi- 
zens,) they are Traitors to the nation's Hospitality, — and should be 
expelled. If they have become American citizens, then they are un- 
lawful, unauthorized, imworthy disturbers of the amicable relations now 
existing between England and America. They usurp the Government's 
function. They defy the Rights of Congress and of the President. 
They disregard the most precious rights of all other citizens. They 
are atrocious rebels against the rights and welfare of the United States, 
and against the progress of freedom in England. All the Conventions 
they call, to promote anarchy in Ireland, should ht prevented ixom. as- 
sembling, — or, when they meet, should be summarily crushed. All the 
money they collect to use against a Friendly Power, should be seized 
and CONFISCATED. The officers of all the Leagues they establish 
should be prosecuted. If they are Naturalized, they must be made to 
act like all other citizens. No longer should they be allowed to be 
Traitors to the government of their "adoption." In its Foreign re- 
lations, the doctrine of America is, — "Friendly relations with all, en- 
tanglements with none." This has been systematically, continuously, 
and with reply violated by the Irish emigration, and by no other ; not 
even by savage Poles, dirty and ignorant Bohemians, vicious Italians, 
nor by peddling Jews, who sigh for the Promised land. All of them 
respect and honor the government of their adoption in the New World, 
—except (ALWAYS EXCEPTING) the Irish. Will all true, honest, 
faithful citizens any longer tolerate and submit to the tyranny of this 
Irish Crime in America ? 

" Come forth from the valley, come forth from the hill, 
Come forth from the workshop, the mine, and the mill, 
2 



1 8 THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA. 

From pleasure or slumber, from study or play, 
Come forth in your myriads to aid us to-day ; 
There's a word to be spoken, a deed to be done, 
A truth to be utter'd, a cause to be won, 
, Come forth in your myriads ! come forth every one ! 

"Come, youths, in your vigor; come, men, in your prime; 
Come, age, with experience fresh gather'd from time ; 
Conre, workers ! you're welcome ; come, thinkers, you must 
Come thick as the clouds in the uiidsummer dust. 
Or the waves of the sea gleaming bright in the sun ! 
There's a truth to be told, and a cause to be won, — 
Come forth in your myriads, come forth every one ! " 



"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sun- 
shine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his countr}^ ; but he 
that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, 
like hell, is not easily conquered ; yet we have this consolation with us, that the 
harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, 
we esteem too lightly ; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven 
knows how to put a proper price upon its goods, and it would be strange, indeed, 
if so celebrated an article as freedom should not be highly rated." 

The IRISH pollute our cities. They pollute, through treason, the 
National Government. They pollute Courts of Justice, turning Police 
Magistrates into cringing tools. They elevate "drunken brigands" to 
the most important offices of a great city. They make Boss Tweeds the 
blushing shame of the nation.* They make Representative govern- 
ment a mockery, a delusion, and a snare. They make Legislation a 
fraud. They seize Primaries in cities, through falsehood, prevarica- 
tion, and united violence. They make selfish and timid editors pan- 

« The Irish lovers of liberty, equity, and jiistice, — the noble, pure Irish "pa- 
triots," — control the Government of New York city. Read the latest results, as 
given by a reliable source, in these words : — 

"Correspondence of the Public Ledger. 

"New York, Oct. 20, 1884. — A recognized expert in City Hall figures and ac- 
counts, Me. W. H. Webb, communicates the fact, that the total cost of the muni- 
cipal administration for 1884 will be $40,812,175,— that is to say, $31.38 for every 
man, woman, and child of the city's population, — probably the largest jier capita 
expense for governmental purposes ever levied in the history of the world. The 
X)er capita cost of the General Government, over its vast extent of territory and 
with the enormous entailments of the War, is but $5.00, — that of the State $1.36. 
The aggregate annual cost of all the State Governments of the country is $62,000,- 
000, whereas the cost of the government of this single city, with not more than 
a million and a-quarter of inhabitants, stands at the above appalling figures, — 
$40,812,172." 



THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA, 



19 



der to their votes. They make half the drinking saloons of our cities 
hideous dens of vice. They prevent the advance of Public Education, 
by not allowing their children to attend the public schools. In Chicago, 
22,000 Irish children are kept from the public schools. Ponder this fact. 

To-day, the IRISH have no poet, no thrilling orator, no commanding 
Statesman. They still continue to give England and France Generals, 
but no Philosophers. They have degenerated into barbarism, wildness, 
savagery. They send tricksters, screaming blackguards to the House of 
Commons, or men who fatten on the donations of poverty, making 
poverty destitute. They are no longer influenced by the sublime ex- 
ample of Daniel O'Connell. He advocated "the rights of women." 
He scorned to take the "blood-money" of slaveowners, to promote 
freedom in Ireland. He flung back with Herculean indignation the 
foul-stained dollars. He preached toleration of the broadest and pu- 
rest kind. He made "monster" meetings mediums for teaching facts, 
wisdom, patriotism. It was the recreant JOHN MITCHELL who 
taught the art of making war for liberty with sulphuric acid. O hideous 
villain ! But treachery and violence are to-day the elements of Irish 
politics. When the Irish have a National treasurer, he slinks away to 
the wilds of Nebraska. When they plan to commit "murder most foul," 
they betray each other, and become their own avengers. They cannot 
build "a navy" without cheating servant-girls out of their wages, who 
believe that "big war-ships will be made" to shell-out the "bloody 
Saxon."* They are saturated with crime, within their own borders. 
Their degenerate blood is in the veins of half the murderers of the 
Republic. Half the money and goods that are devoted to Charity, the 
Irish purloin through cunning, deception, and oath-breaking. False- 
hood is their daily diet, treachery is their highest morality, murder is 
their mode of reform, intimidation is their "moral suasion," ignorance 
is their weapon of progress. 

These Gorillas will not and cannot Teach "Young America" the 
"first principles of honor, justice, truth, temperance, public spirit, 
fortitude, chastity, friendship, benevolence, and fidelity : the names of 
all which virtues are still retained among us in most languages, and are 
to be met with in modern as well as ancient authors." 

Shall this Irish CRIME in A7iierica be CONTINUED ? 



«- " The Nationals appeal to the lowest and most ignorant people, and depend 
for the support of their disintegrating views on the disaffected American Fenians 
in the United States. Their movement is not National in any just sense. It is 



20 THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA. 

CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE. 



" The one condition indispensable to having honest opinions on any subject, 
incarnate in any phase of intelligent life, is Mental Liberty, — now denied by "sta- 
tute." Gaeeison dodging the Fugitive-Slave issue ceases to be Gaeeison ; citizens, 
silent under politico-religious ostracism, are the known highway over which ty- 
ranny rides triumphant, — in prevailing repression those outside of jails may be 
purchasing freedom by neglect of duty. 

" We got on for a century without censorship of the Press, which now gags 
Progress, — reviving Mentality resents the deadly outrage, obedient Good resists 
tyranny, while Liberty and Union are, now and forever, one and inseparable." — 
The Word, Princeton, Mass. 

EACH sentence of the previous pages could be substantiated by a 
volume of evidence. But the Americans have been so confiding 
and generous to "emigrants" in the past, that they have not vv^atched 
the stealthy and z/;z-Republican conduct of Irish unity of Race and 
Superstition. "It is never too late to mend," especially when we have 
abundant material, and eternity before us. The Americans must NOW 
begin to 7nend the conduct of their Irish (adopted) citizens. " Slavery 
is again putting this Republic in danger." This time the danger is ex- 
tending through Mental Slavery, — through slavery to the most hideous 
and perfect system of PRIESTLY Despotistn. No man's life is safe 
who dares to oppose the Irish Roman Catholics in our cities. This 
Fact was stated by an eminent physician {in private) to a Priest, — who 
did not deny the statement. The allegiance of the Irish to the Re- 
public is Secondary to their obedience to their Superstition. Their 
ferocious hatred of England is, that it is the most powerful nation of 
"heretics" on the globe, — and holds her own against all cabals, plots, 
conspiracies, and Dynamite. The ludicrous tomfoolery of resorting to 
Dynamite after the stupendous failure of the Spanish Armada and the 
Spanish Inquisition ! 

England is safe, — but this Republic IS NOT. To undermine our 
Public School System is to make this continent the vassal of Popery. 
This must not be accomplished. To help this work, advanced Germans 
are doing their duty most bravely, — and without weariness. 

The Right to speak freely and openly our opinions must be secured, 
— without incurring the slightest risk of being murdered, or starved 

principally kept alive by foreigners and with foreign money." — The Weekly North- 
ern Whig, Belfast, Nov. 10, 1883. 



THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA, 21 

out of employment. This noblest, purest Right of individual Free- 
dom can never exist where Popery dominates. The Priest must be 
banished, and the Thinker must take his place. The right to proclaim 
our opinions must be secured, even if it be at the disgusting sacrifice 
of quickly hanging all Religious Gorrillas. Each iman and woman, 
throughout the entire world, must have secured to them the Right to 
Think and Speak for themselves. No longer permit the Priest's grim 
shadow of blackness to be thrown upon the warm and dazzling beams 
of Mental Freedom. 

This Republic will become one of "the ruins of many lands" un- 
less honest voting is maintained. "Stuffing the ballot-box," purposely 
miscounting votes, bribing the inside officers, — all these are "tricks" 
practiced by the slaves of despotism. Where such are done, no manli- 
ness, no honor, no conscience exist. Those who cheat vf'ith ballot-boxes 
are the wild beasts of politics. On this interesting topic, Simeon Stet- 
son, of San Francisco, has devoted much study. In his thoughtful work 
on The People's Power, he says: — " Sovereigns of America! Do you 
think those who are, by the present ballot, enabled to defy your will, 
will give you a ballot with which you can execute your will ? Freedom 
comes not by talking alone ; action must go with it. Talking is good 
when it indicates that action is near at hand. The first step requisite 
to establish a real ballot is for the majority of the people lo publicly 
declare that they tvill have it. When you assemble for that purpose, 
action will have commenced. 

"The time necessary to effect this 07ie reform need be but a few 
months, and the expense, which would be but little, will be repaid a 
thousand-fold in money, and more yet in morals, in much less than a 
thousand days after it is done. Let us establish a free ballot, — one that 
will enable us to select our officials from the best, instead of the worst 
elements. If we want liberty, we must do something to get it. If 
^ the people' are sovereign, why is the sovereign a slave?'' 



"RUIN TO THE COUNTRY." 



^ ^ A N esteemed New York contemporary declares that the Meeting of 
iJL Irishmen held at the Academy of Music in that city on Thurs- 
day night last 'was an event in the history, not only of this campaign, 
but of American 'politics,' and also that it 'marks a new political 



22 THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA. 

epoch.' All this is assumed because the meeting was a Republican 
meeting, further because it was presided over ' by a remarkable repre- 
sentative of their [the Irish] race, who by force of his own ability was 
put at the head of the most important of Irish organizations, the Land 
League. ' To those who take the trouble to think a little about it, we 
doubt if it will appear wholly good or desirable that the Irish citizens 
of this country shall as a body, as Irishmen and not as Americans, at- 
tach themselves to any political party. We believe it will appear alto- 
gether undesirable, that our Irish fellow-citizens shall be marshalled 
into the ranks of either party as a distinct organization of Irishmen, 
under the leadership of the President of that organization, the object of 
which has nothing whatever to do with affairs in the United States, but 
with affairs in Ireland. Either party should, and no doubt will, be glad 
to welcome to its ranks any individual of Irish birth whose opinions or 
convictions lead him to one side or the other; but neither party should 
desire to receive a body of men who proclaim themselves Irishmen, 
who are organized as a political and revolutionary force for operation 
in another country, and who seek to secure the foreign object of that 
organization by joining this or that party here. Aliens who come to 
this country in order to enjoy its free institutions and its great natural 
advantages, who swear allegiance to it after renouncing their allegiance 
to every other country, should be considered, and should so consider 
themselves Americans, and not English, Scotch, Irish, Dutch, French, 
Germans, or Russians. They should assimilate with the rest, and not set 
themselves up either as a distinct race or party. Much less should they 
join one party or another as Irishmen, seeking advantages for Ireland, 
or as an organized body seeking reprisals from a friendly neighbor with 
whom they are practically at war, and this country at peace. Aliens of 
other countries, becoming citizens, put aside their former nationality, 
and have a pride in being known as Americans. They join parties as 
Americans and as individuals, not as races or organized bodies. There 
is a real and near danger to our institutions in the compact organization 
of a foreign race, being naturalized here and given the highest privi- 
leges of citizenship, practically remaining foreigners and using their 
privileges to help their foreign projects. The result will be that parties 
will bid for their votes, and in their anxiety to buy them pay a price 
that will work injury or ruin to the country. Let Irishmen, as other 
adopted citizens do, vote as Americans, and not as aliens, seeking 
alien advantages." — The Evening Telegi-aph, Philadelphia,. Pa., Sept. 
22d, 1884. 



THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA. 



LIGHT IN THE GLOOM. 



23 



^ ^ T^ENOUNCING the use of Dynamite, — Action of the Municipal 
JlJ Council on a Request for Assistance to Irish Compirators . — 
At a meeting of the Philadelphia Municipal Council of the Irish 
National League last evening, a delegate announced the presence of 
'a man who had been confined in Galway Jail,' and who only 'arrived 
in this country about three weeks ago.' It was further stated that the 
visitor desired assistance for nine other persons who were confined in 
the same jail at about the same time. 

"President McWade asked the name of the visitor, and the answer 
sounded like 'Patrick Rowan,' but was not written down officially. 

"The President then asked if the stranger should be heard, and 
there being no objection, ' Mr. Rowan arose, and stated that about 
nine months ago, nine friends of his had been arrested and incarcerated 
in Galway Jail 'upon the charge of conspiracy and murder. He said 
they had written to him, to see if their Irish friends in America would 
render sufficient pecuniary aid to pay counsel-fees, which they in their 
present condition were unable to meet. He 'further said, that the trial 
of the men was fixed to take place at Dublin, on December loth next.' 

"A member made amotion to comply with the request, and an 
amendment was offered to refer the matter to the Board of Officers for 
investigation. 

"President McWade, however, declared any such propositions un- 
constitutional and out of order. 'We are organized,' he said, 'to aid 
in obtaining Home Rule for Ireland. The object of our Council is not 
to defend conspirators or murderers, and we have no right to take hold 
of the suggestion off"ered. Neither are we to countenance the use of 
Dynamite, daggers, or revolvers at any time or place. Their use is 
denounced by sensible Irishmen, and properly so. We all know that 
innocence has suffered through the instrumentality of these imjole- 
ments of alleged warfare, and as law-abiding citizens we should and 
will continue to denounce them. Our Council is intended to band 
us together to deliberate quietly for the good of Ireland, and outside of 
legal and proper bounds we will not go. ' 

" The remarks of the President were warmly applauded, and several 
members who arose in approval stated that a compliance with the re- 



24 THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA. 

quest would tend to degrade the purposes of the organization, and it 
was suggested, that if any desired to give assistance to ' murderers and 
conspirators ' they could do so outside. 

"Before the meeting adjourned, a reporter requested the stranger, 
who assured several delegates that he could prove the genuineness of 
his claim, to repeat the name openly attributed to him in the meeting. 
This he declined to do, and on his behalf it was suggested that he had 
had 'enough newspaper notoriety.' He was advised by several dele- 
gates to have nothing to say to a reporter, but finally stated that his 
name was Edward O' Sullivan, and that he had been in this country 
for seven or eight months. He would not say whether he had been in 
prison, nor would he give the names of the ' nine men in the Galway 
Jail' he had already spoken of." — Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pa., 
Nov. yth, 1884. 



MONSEIGNOR CAPEL, 

OR 

DOWN WITH THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



^ ^ npHE other day the New York correspondent of The Tribune inter- 
1 viewed this oily and Jesuitical priest of Rome. On this occasion 
he did not hesitate to postulate the superior authority of his Church over 
that of our Secular Government. To be consistent he must do this. 
It is the logical implication of Catholicism. To the question of the 
niterviewer, whom we must obey: — 'If the State should command the 
citizen to do one thing and the Church should command him to do 
another?' Monseignor Capel replied promptly: — 'Then he must 
obey the Church.' Of course. In the course of his talk he continued 
(and to this point we would direct especial attention) : — 

" ' But the one question that is troubling me the most seriously is the 
School question. I have not yet spoken upon this definitely, but I shall 
go to Washington when Congress is in session, and make a formal de- 
claration, so as to reach not only the people, but the government. I 
am now prepared to make a declaration which shall carry some au- 
thority with it; for I am prosecuting a careful study of your whole 
School-system. I have visited the public schools of many cities; have 
met with a courteous reception everywhere, and have examined the 



THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA. 25 

working of all your machinery. The result is, that there is going to be 
a fight. There are a good many Catholics in this country, — 8,000,000 
somebody says. Your Public School-system is inadequate for them, and 
they are going to leave it. Suppose that the Church sends out an au- 
thoritative command to the Catholics to start schools in every parish, 
and support them, and send all Catholic children to them. // can be 
done by the utterance of a word, sharp as the click of a trigger. That 
command will be obeyed. New schools will spring up everywhere. What 
will be the result of that? A fight ! Do you suppose millions of people 
are going to pay taxes twice over, — once for their own schools, and 
again for Protestant schools, from which they get no benefit? If it isn't 
a downright fight it will be at least the war-like condition, — a million 
or two of voting, tax-paying citizens hostile to the government. Not 
Protestant schools, you say? Oh, I know the Public Schools are not 
professedly Protestant schools, though they have the Protestant Bible 
read in them. But it isn't the Protestantism so niucii that we object to; 
it is the secularization. Your early statutes recognize God's authority 
plainly enough ; but now the whole nation is losing even its Protestant- 
ism. It is being given over to rank infidelity and atheism. Our chief 
objection to your schools is, that they teach no religion. Thousands of 
them employ Catholic teachers, and incongruously compel them to read 
the Protestant Bible. We hold that less than half of all the school in- 
struction should be mental. The great bulk should be the teaching of 
morals and manners.' 

"Knowing the power of the Catholic Church, words like these are 
adapted to fill one with alarm. We are living in a Catholic neighbor- 
hood, surrounded by Catholic churches, convents, and schools. In one 
of the schools hundreds of little children are educated daily. It is 
safe to say they are not educated in the duties of good citizenship, but 
they are crammed with superstitious tenets and traitorous doctrines." 



THE POPE'S POWER. 



' ' 'T^HE Head of this Church is in Rome, and he exercises sovereign 
X sway over his subjects in all countries. Suppose the author- 
itative command is sent out to start Catholic schools in every parish : 
' it can be done by the utterance of a word, sharp as the click of a 
trigger. And 'the command will be obeyed.' How full of terrible 



26 THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA. 

significance are these words ! We may dream away in lazy self-compla- 
cency and foolish confidence in our democratic institutions, but some 
day we shall be startled out of this dream ' by the utterance of a word, 
sharp as the click of a trigger.' And that word will come from Rome. 
There is not another body of men in this country who so improve 
every opportunity offered them by a thoughtless Democracy to fortify 
their position, and prepare themselves for the future conflict, as the 
Roman-Catholic priesthood. Not only do we, in direct contradiction 
to the genius of our government, offer them a premium on the accu- 
mulation of property by exempting it from taxation, we even endow 
them with all the privilages of citizenship on the strength of a perjured 
oath. A Roman Catholic can not become a citizen of the United 
States without incurring perjury. The recognition of the supremacy 
of our government over the commands of foreign potentates is the 
condition of American citizenship. But this condition the Roman 
Catholic can not fulfill, without ceasing to be a Roman Catholic. He 
can not honestly become an American citizen without renouncing the 
supreme authority of the Pope, and this he cannot do without ceasing 
to be a Roman Catholic. And to make matters still worse, he may 
not cease to be a Roman Catholic, except on pain of his soul's eternal 
destruction. The danger of Roman Catholicism to our Institutions 
follows as a corollary from this showing ; and our hope and security 
lies chiefly in intellectual enlightenment. Roman Catholicism is in- 
imical to good citizenship on the part of its devotees.' 

"It is, therefore, the duty of every true American citizen to check 
and destroy the power of Rome." — 77^,? Radial Review, Chicago, 111., 
December, 1883. 



:o:- 



HANGING OF A RELIGIOUS GORILLA. 



^^ JOSEPH POOLE, slept at intervals last night and arose about six 
I o'clock, when he had a light breakfast. He then busied him- 
self with his devotion, reading from the 'Key of Heaven' and 'The 
Lives of the Saints,' and praying whenever he laid the book aside. 
After a short time he appeared, refreshed and in fairly good spirits. 
He then proceeded with two attendant Warders to the chapel, which 
is situated about the centre of the prison, and close to the cell which 
he had just quitted. At the chapel he was met by Father Donegan, 



THE IRISH CRIME IN AMERICA. 



27 



and the trio knelt and prayed. The last sacrament was here admin- 
istered to the condemned man. A few minutes later a signal was 
given by the Chief Warder, and Father Donegan led the doomed 
Fenian to the corridor outside, where Jones, an amateur executioner 
from Belfast, fixed straps pinioning the elbows. The procession was 
then formed, and consisted of Mr. James Campbell, the sub-Sheriff, 
Mr. Henry Philpotts, Governor of the prison, Mr. Clegg, the Dep- 
uty-governor, and Dr. Burne, with several Warders. Father Donegan 
walked on one side of Poole, and a Warder on the other, the hangman 
Jones just in front. Twenty paces brought them to the prison-yard 
where the scaffold stood, the dreaded noose thrown lightly over the 
beam. As Poole walked a few yards to his place of death in the dim 
morning light, he appeared to more advantage than when seen in the 
dock, with his short but well-knit figure firm and erect, and his manly 
countenance pale but determined. Once on the scaffold, the hangman 
guided Poole directly under the beam, placed the noose in position, 
and then moved rapidly to the lever in the corner. An instant later 
the bolt was drawn, the victim disappeared, and the rope jerked and 
shook violently, indicating that a struggle was going on beneath. In 
a little while all was quiet, and the career of Joseph Poole had ended. 

"The black flag was run up as soon as the trap gave way, and the 
watchful crowd outside the walls gave vent to a wailing cry. The men 
mumbled prayers, and the women crossed themselves again and again. 
Some of the latter, more fervent than the rest, fell upon their knees. 
Soon, however, they quickly began to disperse, as the weather was 
damp and drizzly. There was no disturbance whatever. The scaffold 
has only been recently erected, but it is in the nature of a permanent 
structure. Only one man had been executed on it before. 

"Poole was perfectly resigned to his fate and walked with a firm 
step to the gallows. He stood erect under the scaffold and asked for 
the crucifix, which he fervently kissed. The drop was seven feet, and 
he died in three and a-half seconds. A minute after the bolt was drawn, 
Poole's feet touched the ground, but the victim was already dead. 

" The usual inquest was held upon the body of Poole, and the usual 
formal verdict rendered, death being due to his neck having been bro- 
ken by the fall." — T/ie Evening Call, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. i8th, 
1884. 



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"THE CHARACTER AND GENIUS OF IRELAND." 



ON Thursday a lecture was delivered in the Reformed Presbyterian 
Church, Botanic Avenue, Belfast, by Rev. Dr. Rentoul, of 
London, on ' The Character and Genius of Ireland. ' There was a very 
large attendance. The Rev. R. J. Bryce, LL.D., presided. Rev. S. 
B. Stevenson having conducted the devotional exercises, the Chairman 
briefly introduced the lecturer. Dr. Rentoul, who was very warmly 
received, after referring to the diversified opinions of eminent men on 
Ireland, proceeded to say, that Irish courage and ability were highly 
prized by all the nations of the earth. If they wanted to know the true 
character of the Irish people, they must go back to the time when the 
country was isolated, and had little intercourse with other nations. He 
would treat first of the formative causes of the Irish character, and then 
of its peculiarities. There were three formative causes: — First, the 
isolated geographical position of Ireland ; Second, the absence of united 
national responsibility; and. Third, the poverty and unmixed nature of 
the Celtic language. Many persons believed that there were other 
causes which contributed to the formation of Irish character, and erro- 
neously attributed some Irish peculiarities to climate, religion, ignorance, 
and the connection with England. There was a greater difference be- 
tween the climate of the North and South of Ireland, than between 
that of England and Ireland ; and yet those residing in the South bore 
a stronger resemblance to the people of the North than to the people 
of England. Ireland had passed through many phases of religion, 
but, while religion was a powerful agent in acting upon character when 
formed, it did not affect the peculiarities of the race. Austria was the 
most Roman-Catholic country in Europe, and Prussia the most Protest- 
ant, and yet the character of the people of both nations was the sanie. 
At one time Ireland was the most educated of the nations, and at a 
later period she was the most ignorant; but, notwithstanding, the char- 
acter of the people remained unchanged. Long before English power 
was felt in Ireland, the very same peculiarities of character were present 
that exist now. Indeed, it was these characteristics that brought Ire- 
land into contact with England. Isolation produced enthusiasm, which 
was the cause of many of the peculiarities of the Irish people, such as 
partisanship and bigotry. These he hoped would soon pass away. 



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(Hear, hear.) Irishmen were the greatest dabblers in politics in the 
world, and the Irish politician was a man who utterly denied everything 
good or bad, true or false, which another politician said. (Laughter.) 
Enthusiasm led to the acknowledgment of present worth in Ireland, 
while other nations did not usually honor their celebrities until after 
death. Shakespeare, Burns, and O'Connell were examples of this. 
Irish ' bulls ' did not spring from ignorance or stupidity, as many sup- 
posed, but were the outcome of enthusiasm. Another peculiarity of 
the Irish' character was the encouragement given to foreign genius. 
The patriotism of an Irishman sprang from his heart, and not from his 
head, and consequently he could not see any defects in his own country. 
An Irishman in a strange country was like Joseph in Egypt, while 
natives of other countries, — Germany, for instance, — left their homes 
with much less inclination to return. The lecturer then gave a list of 
the military genius, literary writers, brilliant orators, and self-sacrific- 
ing politicians of Ireland. One of the most admirable characteristics 
of the Irish people, was the happiness of an Irish family. There were 
three cases of wife-beating in England for one in Ireland. When an 
Irishman got married, he recognized his mistress, and so gave in, — 
(laughter,) while an Englishman continued the struggle. The absence 
of responsibility in the Irish character led to readiness to fight and 
speak, and the same cause produced wit. Hospitality was due to reck- 
lessness, and the poetry of the race was due to the paucity of words 
in the Celtic vocabulary. The lecturer then refuted four charges 
brought against the Irish character, — (i) that of uneven action; (2) 
being two-faced ; (3) being unlasting in sympathy ; (4) that of being 

no soldiers." 

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IRISH RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. 



^^ T "TERY disgraceful anti-Protestant riots took place in Wexford on 
V Sunday, consequent on the visit of Major Whittle, of Chi- 
cago, who has been associated with Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the 
evangelical preachers. Placards were posted through the town on Sat- 
urday, market-day, calling on the farmers to Boyncott the Protestant 
shopkeepers who had joined Major Whittle's committee. The police 
tore down the placards. An attempt was made to hold a service in the 
theatre, but mobs assembled and attacked any one who was believed to 
be about to attend it. Ladies and gentlemen were attacked and sav- 



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agely beaten. The ladies' dresses were torn off, and several persons were 
seriously injured. The theatre-doors were not opened, and persons 
were stationed at the corners to warn the Protestants not to go near 
the theatre. These persons were also attacked and beaten severely. 
The mob then broke into the theatre, yelling and cheering wildly. 
They smashed everything they could collect, and tore and burned all 
the hymn books and Bibles they could find. An attempt was then 
made to burn the building, but in this the ruffians were unsuccessful ; 
they then marched through the streets to the Methodist Chapel, the 
windows of which were all smashed. They then attacked the residence 
of Rev. James Oliver, and not only smashed the windows, but tore 
away the window-curtains and woodwork. Then they marched to the 
Protestant Episcopal Church, singing 'God save Ireland.' The win- 
dows of the Church were smashed, as well as the windows of the Pro- 
testant inhabitants. Several persons were caught and injured, and one 
gentleman was seized and conveyed to the harbor, for the purpose of 
being drowned, but he was saved by the interference of some respect- 
able Roman Catholics. Another Protestant, who was chased through 
the streets, ran into the police-barrack for protection, but he was put 
out again, as the police were not able to protect him. He was seriously 
wounded. The police were confined to barrack, and for an hour the 
mob had possession of the town, doing great damage to all the Protest- 
ant property. To-day two hundred police with a resident magistrate 
and several inspectors were drafted into the town, and have restored 
order, but the mobs are still in the streets. The services have been 
held, and a strong body of police hold the theatre, and bodies of con- 
stables patrol the streets. None of the Protestant inhabitants can 
appear in the streets with safety." — The Weekly Northern Whig, Bel- 
fast, Dec. 8th, 1883. 

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WHAT THE PARNELLITES DO. 



BY H. E. A. FOSTER. 

^^ TTLSTER is threatened with an invasion of the Parnellite party. 
U In Ireland they know the meaning of such an invasion ; in 
England we only fancy we do. In every part of Ireland to which it 
has hitherto extended, a Parnellite invasion has meant a regime of de- 
liberate and dastardly crime, an overthrow of social relations, a depre- 



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dation of property, and a general organized lawlessness and terror. 
This is perfectly well known in Ulster. It is also known that the gang 
who, acknowledging Mr. Parnell as their leader, formed the active 
element in the Land League, were the open and avowed leaders of 
murder, rebellion, and crime. They know that these lessons were pro- 
mulgated under the direction of the Sackville Street Committee, of 
which Mr. Parnell was the active president, and of which most of 
his lieutenants were members. They know that in the train of the 
Parnellite orators have invariably gone a crew of ruffians and despera- 
does from America, who, after doing all the harm they could in Ireland, 
have escaped the law by precipitate flight. ' ' 



IRISH CRIMINALS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



" Shoot folly as it flies, 
And catch the manners, living as they rise." 

" See the same man, — 
Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a debate ; 
Drunk at a borough, civil at a ball ; 
Friendly at Hackney, faithless at Whitehall. 



THE Irish and Scotch are whisky-drinkers. To compare their Crim- 
inal actions is justly philosphical. To compare the Criminal 
actions of the Irish with those of Germans or Jews, with Danes or 
Swedes, would be unjust and unwise. On this question of tremendous 
importance, we should consult only Official Statistics. In this Repub- 
lic, no Official statements are as reliable as are those of the Bureau of 
Statistics of Labor of Massachusetts. Its chief, Carroll D. Wright, is 
pains-taking, honest, experienced, and scrupulously exact. In his 12th 
Annual Report, he gives a complete series of Tables, showing the kind 
and amount of Crime committed by Natives and all Nationalities in 
Suffolk Co., Mass. We obtain from these Tables the following start- 
ling facts: — 

Taking the Scotch (of both sexes) from the age of 16 to over that 
of 60, who were guilty of all kinds of Criminal Acts, we have only a 
total of 54 persons. 

Now for the moral IRISH ! Taking the Irish (of both sexes) of 
similiar ages, and in the same county and year, who committed Crime, 



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we have a total of 1,222 persons, — being 1,163 iTiore Irish Criminals 
than Scotch! Mr. Wright says: — "It is a singular and suggestive 
fact, that all the criminals in the Manslaughter cases were foreign-born 
and also in liquor, at the time their high crime was perpetrated." 

Again, the same gentleman says: — "The number of the native fe- 
male criminals is equal to 13 per cent, of the total number of native 
criminals ; while the number of foreign-born female criminals is equal 
to 2 7 per cent, of the total of foreign-born criminals, — more than 
double pro rata the native female criminals. This is a highly signifi- 
cant fact." 

We need not quote from the Criminal Statistics of other States. If 
it were necessary, we would cite the Reports of the Prison Reform 
Association of New York City, — a City (mis-) Ruled by the sweet- 
scented, moral Irish. CRIME is the Irish atmosphere of New York. 

But the Irish Catholics are a consistent people, — their line of policy 
in this Republic has no break. In 1843, the Daniel O'Connell Re- 
peal Association of Cincinnati, Ohio, supported and justified Negro-slav- 
ery. It is a facile step for the Irish to take, from Social to Political 
crime. The Irish population in Massachusetts is estimated at 226,700. 



THE ST. JAMES CHRONICLE'S STATEMENT. 



^^ T^VERY one knows by this time what the accompaniments of the 
\j Parnellite propaganda are. Lord Mayor Dawson and his friends 
may tell us, they go to Derry to agitate for the extension of the Fran- 
chise, or any other not illegal purpose ; but we know perfectly well that 
in their train come the outrage-monger and the desperadoes of the 
Secret Societies. Are the Ulstermen to sit down and pause, while Mr. 
Dawson and his following convert Derry to the semblance of Tulia- 
more and Athenry? The Orangemen are doing what Englishmen, or 
English colonists anywhere would do under similar circumstances, — 
banding themselves to keep out a body, which has for its object the 
propagation of disorder and crime. No doubt their ardor may carry 
them too far, but even then it is ridiculous to talk as though the undue 
zeal of the Orangemen were to be placed on a par with the reckless- 
ness of those who are sowing a fresh harvest of outrage and murder." 



DID HE MEAN THE IRISH? 



DID the brave, the dauntless, the wise and witty Dean Swift have a 
vision, showing what a large portion of his neighbors would be at 
this time ? When he described the Yahoos, did he not mean the Go- 
rillas of Dynamite ? for surely his last paragraphs of Gulliver's Travels 
cannot mean any other race of savages ! We here give the Dean's vig- 
orous sentences. He says : — 

" I began last week to permit my wife to sit at dinner with me, at 
the farthest end of a long table ; and to answer (but with the utmost 
brevity) the few questions I asked her. And although it be hard for a 
man late in life to remove old habits, I am not altogether out of hopes, 
in some time, to suffer a neighbor Yahoo in my company, without the 
apprehensions I am yet under of his teeth or his claAVS. 

" My reconcilement to the Yahoo kind in general might not be so 
difficult, if they would be content with those vices and follies only 
which nature has entitled them to. I am not in the least provoked at 
the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a game- 
ster, a politician, a physician, an evidence, a suborner, an attorney, a 
traitor, or the like, — this is all according to the due course of things ; 
but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and 
mind, smitten with pride, it im.mediately breaks all the measures of my 
patience ; neither shall I be ever able, to comprehend how such an ani- 
mal and such a vice could tally together. The wise and virtuous Hou- 
yhnhmns, who abound in all the excellencies that can adorn a rational 
creature, have no name lor this vice in their language ; which has no 
terms to express anything that is evil, except those whereby they de- 
scribe the detestable qualities of the Yahoos ; among which they were 
not able to distinguish this of pride, for want of thoroughly under- 
standing human nature, as it shows itself in other countries where that 
animal presides. But I, who had more experience, could plainly ob- 
serve some rudiments of' it among the wild Ya.hoos. 

" But the Hotiyhnhmns, who live under the government of reason, 
are no mere proud of the good qualities they possess, than I should be 
for not wanting a leg or an arm ; which no m^an in his wits would boast 
of, although he must be miserable without them." 



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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 




TO THE BRAVE GUT^L®iL!!l£^i 

{European Founder of the Art of Printing.) 



BRAVE man and patient, — 
Brave to do the deedj 
In patience to succeed. 

Ages of gloom and darkness, 
Greece, Rome, — decay: 
Hope for Freedom's day! 

Priest and king are one. 
Might great with wrong; 
The people not yet strong. 

Beneath the scowl of Pope, — 
Through a brave man's stroke. 
The nations awoke! 

Scatter the flowering seen : 
Races God's Word read, 
Through Gutenberg's brave deed. 

The star of a better day 
Shone on the faces pale; 
And steam on narrow rail. 

God's Son is no ideal,— 
He makes our life most real; 
His Gospel is our weal. 

Brave man and true, — r 
Gutenberg! not to thee Adieu! 
Thy work is ever new. 

Daily we see thy face; 
Daily we note thy pace: 
Ever our voice we raise 
To sing thy praise! 



" TuADK-MAHKa ftrft nearly as old s» the industry of the humail race. Ancient 
Babylon had property symbols, and the Chinese claim to have had trade-marks' 
1000 years before Christ. Gutenberg, tlie inventor of printing, had a law-suit 
about a trade-mark and won it. As early as 1300 the English Parliament author- 
ized trade-marks, and the laws of America have also protected them. Extraordinary 
means have been required at all times to guard against the fraudulent use of marks 
of manufacturers. If we have no means of identifying the trade-mark, the best 
goods at once lose their valuer This was early discovered, and probably the suc- 
cessors of Tubal Cain wex'e the first to use distiiictive marks on their productions." 



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