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PEEFACE.

If Protestant emigratiou to America from Euro-
pean countries continues to increase in the same
ratio in the next half century that it has during the
past decade, in the year 1950 the Roman Catholic
Irish will bear to peoples of that day and generation
in America, about the same proportion as the China-
man does to the peoples of to-day. But this state
of things will depend almost wholly upon the energy
and watchfulness of the Protestants of to-day, as
the Jesuits of to-day are doing all in their power to
restrict and retard Protestant emigration from
Europe, by framing laws of every conceivable form
and shape in order to accomplish this end, and
having them presented to Congress to become laws
of the land. They are fathers of the Chinese ex-
clusion act, the contract labor law, and the bill to
exclude paupers (a Jesuit pretence) which is before
the present Congress. As a matter of fact, Poman
Catholic Ireland has emigrated ; the Jesuits are
aware of it, and now their great aim is to head off
Protestant emigration from Europe, and to this end
they are working night and day ; for no one knows
better than they, that when in America Protestants
are as ten to one of Roman Catholics, their death-
knell is sounded. If Protestant emigration from

Europe is unrestricted from this date to the year
1950, it will be hard for the young men and women
of that day to comprehend or realize what a curse
their grandfathers and grandmothers of to-day have
had to contend with in the shape of these Roman
Catholic Irish sons and daughters (at present known
as hoodlums) of the originally imported dudeen-
suckiug bogtrotters. It was for this purpose, and
their enlightenment, that this book was written.
If by chance there should be a reader of this book
in 1950 who should doubt any of the statements
therein, he or she is respectfully referred to the
criminal statistics of the present time as satisfactory
proof of them, " for by their names ye shall know
them" ; and the author hopes and trusts that his
Protestant readers will hereafter be more watchful
of these Jesuits, more especially of those with this
accursed Irish blood in their veins, who are at
present being educated, in the Jesuit colleges, from
one end of the land to the other for future mischief.
Let every true American remember that "Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty."

CHAPTEE I.

THE PAST.

On the night of August 11th, 1834, the Romau
Catholic Ursuline Convent, on Mount Benedict,
which is situated on the easterly side of Broadway,
in that part of Somerville, Massachusetts, known as
East Somerville, near what is now the new Park,
was destroyed by a party of men, the majority of
whom were supposed to be truckmen, who had come
from the neighboring city of Boston. While this
party of men were making a rush up the hillside,
toward the convent, with the intention of destroying
it, for what to them at that time seemed to be a good
and suflScient reason, a duty, and for the public good,
they were met at the entrance by the Irish woman
who WHS at that time acting in the capacity of Lady
Superior of the convent. As she came out on the
steps of the front entrance, she, in an excited man-
ner, and in a very authoritative tone of voice, prob-
ably the same as she was in the habit of using in
addressing the poor, ignorant, and deluded victims
that had been placed in her charge : "Disperse im-
mediately," she said ; "for if you don't, the Bishop
(meaning Fenwick) has one hundred thousand
Roman Catholic Irishmen at his command in Bos-
ton, who will whip you all into the sea." But this
party of men, not being made of the ignorant,
superstitious, and cowardly material of her country-
men, and having about as much fear of, or respect

for, the Pope of Rome, Bishop Fenwick, or the
Irish priests as they would have for a wooden don-
key, kept right on about their duty and the business
that had called them together, and, to use a common
expression, ''They did not scare worth a cent."

The blood that coursed in the veins of those men
was the same quatity as that which coursed in that
of their fathers at Bunker's Hill, but a few years
before, and the same as that which coursed in those
of their great-grandfathers, the pilgrims, who had
landed on Plymouth Rock some centuries previous
to the time that they were there assembled. It is an
old saying that "blood will tell," and there is a pos-
sibility that some of that stock of the present day,
which has some of that same blood coursing
through its veins, may come to the front in the
course of the next decade. This Irish woman was
laboring under great excitement about this time, or
else she might have been imbibing a drap of the
crathur, or in other words some of that good, pure
old Medford rum which was known to have been
kept in the cellar vaults of the convent for the
benefit, use, and entertainment of the old bishop
and his young and robust Irish priests, whenever
he or they paid the nuns a visit, — -and at that time it
was a well-known and established fact that they
greatly differed from angels' visits, in the respect
that they were not ''few and far betwe^i." In their
drives out of town they made this convent their
half-way or road house, as it would be called at the'

present day ; but be this as it may, as a matter of
fact if this Irishwoman had said five thousand in-
stead of one hundred thousand Roman Catholic
Irishmen, she would have made a statement which
would have been nearer the truth. There are thou-
sands of persons now living who will bear witness
the truth of the statement that in the year 1834,
outside of the old limits of the then city of Boston,
Irishmen, or bogtrotters, as they were then called,
were as much a matter of curiosity to the children
of that day .is are Chinamen to the children of the
rural districts of New England to-day, and neither
were they any more plentiful than the Chinamen of
to-day, or half as much respected. The majority
of them were paupers, dirty and filthy, and were
at this time looked upon by the native Yankee much
the same as they are considered by decent people of
the present time, as representatives of the scum of the
earth, and the criminal records of all the large towns
and cities of New England, from that time to the pres-
ent date, will prove the correctness of this estimate
of them ; as to-day ninety per cent of all our
paupers, thieves, robbers, and murderers which fill
our almshouses, houses of correction, and States
prisons in New England are of this Roman Catholic
Irish descent. Paddy would land at the wharf in
Boston, do up his extra clothes in a cotton handker-
chief, tie it to one end of his shillelah, and placing
that over his shoulder, light his dudeen, and thus
equipped start out among the farmers looking for a

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job, and when passing a group of village boys if he
was not deaf would hear one of them say, "See
there, boys, there goes a paddy, there goes a bog-
trotter," now called tramp, and he and his have
been tramps ever since.

The Roman Catholic population of Boston at
that time (1834) were more largely composed of
people of French and Spanish descent, than of the
Irish blood, — there was comparatively little emigra-
tion from Ireland to America until about eighteen
hundred and forty-seven, the year of the great potato
famine, as the emigration statistics of that date will
show. It was in January or February of that year
that word was sent from Ireland to America that
owing to the failure or loss of the potato ( murphy s,
the Irish call them) crop upon which most of the
inhabitants of that island depended for subsist-
ence, that whole families were dying from starva-
tion, and as the then Yankees of New England, like
many of their descendants of to-day, were never
backward about coming forward at the cry of dis-
tress whether at home or abroad, two or three large
government vessels were filled by contributions
from whole-souled Yankees from the length and
breadth of New England, and were soon speeding
across the Atlantic to old Ireland's shore, to give
relief to her starving children. There are many of
the sons and daughters of those contributors now
living, who are inclined to think that those contribu-
tions may have been a blessing to Ireland, but have

proved a curse to America, for from that day to
this, this accursed country of Irelaud has been
flooding New England with paupers, thieves, and
murderers ; and though we have here representa-
tives from every nation inhabiting this tevrestnal
sphere, it is the general verdict of every respectable
man in New England, that the representatives of
this accursed nation are the worst that have ever
set foot upon New England's shores.

At this date, 1847, there was but little manufact-
uring going on in New England as compared with
the present time. Farming was the principal occu-
pation of the inhabitants at that time Lynn
Lowell, Haverhill, and Fall River, Mass., and
Manchester, N. H., as compared with to-day were
but small factory villages, and the present large
and beautiful city of Lawrence, Mass., was but a
sandheap, and its now valuable lots of land went
begging at five dollars an acre. The tben "iankee
laborer went to his work at sunrise and left off at
sunset. This constituted his day's work. There
was no eight hours or ten hours then, and he worked
hard and steady, with no boss to stand over him to
see that he did not shirk. The laborers of that day
vied with each other to see which would turn off the
most work during the day, and at haying time each
was ambitious to cut the largest field of grass with
the old-fashioned scythe. Every man worked for
his neighbor as he would for himself. But with the
Irish bogtrotter came the shirks, and the boss

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came into fashion ; and any observing person can
see that the Irish children of that day, who are the
common day laborers on our streets and elsewhere
of to-day, came honestly by, or, in other words,
have inherited their sires' labor-shirking qualities to
perfection. In those days there was no Eoman
Catholic League in existence known as the Knights
of Labor, as there is to-day, banded together as
they are, from one end of the country to the other,
with the intention of controlling all of the industrial
trades to the exclusion of other nationalities. Take
the plasterers, the masons, plumbers, stone-cutters,
and rumsellers in New England, — nearly all Roman
Catholic Irish to a man. Take the laboring force of
nearly every large city. Through the influence of
the Irish over the dough-faced politician it is almost
impossible for a Protestant to obtain work on a city
force.

But let us follow Paddy from the day he lands at
the wharf. In those days he was invariably a
pauper when he landed. The man who was starv-
ing at home for the want of a peck of murphys,
was not usually very flush when he reached New
England's shore. A cotton handkerchief usually
held his surplus clothing ; his brogans weighed
pounds, and their soles were solid with large-headed
nails. If that kind were worn at the present day,
two moderate-sized Lynn factories would supply
the whole needs of the country, as a pair of them
was never known to wear out. His clothes were

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corduroy, and, as the old saying is, "wore like
leather," and he would be more likely to forget the
holy Virgin Mary than his dudeen ; and in those
days a fresh bogtrotter was never known to be
without his sprig of shillelah, more especially if he
was from County Cork, and it was generally one
that he liad brought with him from the old coun-
try. With these equipments, after lighting his
dudeen, Paddy would start on a tramp to the
suburbs among the farmers, looking for a job ; and
Paddy has the credit of being the first tramp this
country ever knew, and his children seem to have
inherited that habit from him, as ninety-five per cent
of all of the tramps of the present day are Irish
Roman Catholics. To the truth of this, every
keeper of the country almshouses throughout New
England will attest. At this time laboring men
throughout New England were receiving from one
dollar to one dollar and twenty-five cents a day for
their long daj^s of toil, but a more contented set of
men it would be hard to find ; but Paddy the pauper
was abroad, and he must have work or starve, and
the farmers were not slow to take advantage of his
necessity ; so Paddy was hired for from four to six
dollars a month and his board, to fill the place of the
Yankee laborer. As board among the farmers of
that day was but one dollar and fifty cents a week,
Paddy was working for less than fifty cents a day ;
and his descendants, who now compose the rank
and fil-e of what is known as the Knights of Labor,

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are very free to call out "scab." Let them in the
future bear in mind that their fathers and mothers
were the first scabs ever known in New England.
These brogan-shod McGintys came so fast from
Ireland's bogs about this time that the labor market
was overstocked, and many is the McGinty that,
with his family, of from eight to twelve children,
went direct from the vessel at the wharf to the poor
farm ; and their descendants have seemed ambitious
to keep these institutions filled from that day to
this, — and well have they done it, as the list of
names of the inmates of the almshouses in New
England will readily show ; for "by their names ye
shall know them.'*

In 1847 the now flourishing city of Lowell was
but a factory village, and its employees were young
native American women, daughters of Maine, Ver-
mont, and New Hampshire, as well as Massachu-
setts farmers. Young women with fair education,
many of them wrote for the magazines of that day,
and one or two magazines published in Lowell were
edited wholly by them during their hours of leisure,
and many is the farm in Maine and New Hampshire
that has had its mortgage lifted by the earnings and
savings of these dutiful daughters ; but McGinty's
daughters must have something to do, and one after
another were these young American women crowded
out to make room for the low-priced female McGinty
scabs, until to-day the native American female
wage-earner in the mills is as scarce as cherries in

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winter. About this time (1847) certain far-sighted
moneyed men, or capitalists of Boston and Lowell,
purchased for a trifle several hundred acres of sand-
bank on the north and south sides of the Merrimac
E-iver, where at present is located the large and
beautiful city of Lawrence, and commenced to build
a dam across the river at its present location, as also
the canals which now furnish the water-power for
the numerous mills located along their banks
on both sides of the river. The building of these
absorbed a large amount of surplus Irish paupers
and tramps, and a settlement was commenced.
Up to this time Paddy, like John Chinaman, had
got here just the same, but his numerous family
hadn't ; they were munching murphys and feeding
the pigs and hens, and burning peat on their native
bogs, waiting patiently for McGinty to say the
word and send the cash, that they might come to
"Ameriky," and leave dear old Ireland behind
them, — that dear old country they are continually
harping about, but to which they seem to have no
desire to return, much to many people's disappoint-
ment. The aforementioned settlement was chris-
tened Dublin, and such a settlement the inhabitants
of New England never saw before, and in all prob-
ability never will again.

The McGintys went to work constructing houses
after the style of those they had left behind them,
on dear old Ireland's bogs. First, Paddy would
look round to find a boggy spot of ground, it came

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so natural ; then he would inclose some twenty feet
square of land by first setting four posts in the
ground, some twenty feet apart ; after being set they
would be four or five feet in height above the surface
or level of the ground; then he would set posts
between, and then commence to nail boards out-
side of them. Many of these boards were ob-
tained in midnight raids on the neighboring farmers'
fences. There was no police force then, and Paddy
was happy and unmolested. He would then bank
lip the four sides with loam, leaving an opening on
one side for an entrance ; then, if fences were near
and boards were plenty, he would board the top ;
if not, a thatch of straw taken from some neigh-
boring farmer's rye field during the wane of the
moon answered his purpose.

Now Paddy was ready for business. Bridget and
the spalpeens were sent for. In the meantime
Paddy had got a goat, some hens, geese, and two
or three mongrel pups, and a pig. The former he
had probably bought of one of his neighbors, and
been obliged to pay for it, but the latter had, with-
out doubt, escaped or strayed from the farm from
which he had taken the fence, and he had only
taken them into his hut>'so as to kape them from
getting lost, begorrah." There was not less than
fifty of these huts, all built the same way, and
about the same size ; and here lived Pat and his
family, in which was included the pig, the hens,
geese, pups, and the goat, — all in one room, with

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nary a curtain between, all seemingly happy and
contented ; and at the end of every third year Pat
could generally count on four additional spalpeens,
as they breed as fast as rabbits ; and every
Sabbath it was fun for the farmers and their
sons, for miles around, to visit this modern
Dublin, to see the McGintys, as it were, on their
native heath. No heathen Chinee ever yet came
to this country and lived in such filth, even for a
day, as did the families of these bogtrotters for
years. Up to this time the neighboring farmers
never thought of locking up their barns and houses
at night, any more than they do now away up
among the farms of the interior towns of Vermont.
A strong wooden latch, with string, was deemed
sufficient to keep out all intruders, and hinges made
of leather on the barn doors w^as the rule rather
than the exception. But a change was soon to
come over their dreams, for Paddy and his family
had come to stay, and to steal from a heretic was
no sin according to their creed ; fences disappeared,
the farmers called their chickens in vain, the famil-
iar squeal of their pigs at meal time was among the
things that were. Then came a boom in padlocks,
and locks of every description were fast getting to
be at a premium ; men's brains were set at work to
contrive new combinations, and they have been at
work in that direction from that day to this ; still
Paddy gets there just the same, as the criminal
statistics of New England will show. And many i^

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the fortune that has since been made way down in
the Nutmeg State by the manufacture of locks.
These fortune getters can thank Paddy for that.

The majority of these Roman Catholic Irish
among us seem to prefer filth to cleanliness. It is
possible that this mode of life keeps them in mind
of the beautiful bogs of ould Ireland, about which
they and their children are always harping, and
which to all appearances they are delighted to emi-
grate from ; for let one of them, by the sale of rum
and whiskey, or by robbing some city treasury,
accumulate a foitune, you never hear him lisp a
word about returning to those dear old bogs, not he !
How different with the heathen Chinee ! You never
hear him bragging of China's beautiful bogs ; he
does not accumulate his riches by selling rum and
whiskey ; he does not rob his neighbor, or make
him have the feeling that neither his property or
life is secure ; he does not fill the almshouses and
State prisons of New England as do these Irish ;
but he is cleanly, works early and late, pays
promptly his house and shop rent and for what he
eats, and practices the most rigid economy that he may
accumulate money enough to once more return to his
native country before leaving this mundane sphere.
What a blessing it would be to New England if these
Irish would but follow his example ! But no ; with
all their blarney about old Ireland and its beautiful
bogs, it is a notorious fact that when an Irishman
has once shaken its bog dirt off his feet he never

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wants any more of it, not he. America is good
enough for him. If the Chinese exclusion act is
constitutional, would it not be a good idea to applj
it to Ireland, and make it retroactive to 1850 ? This
would empty every almshouse in New England,
and the majority of the State prisons.

These Irish bogtrotters never seemed to be so
supremely happy as at a wake ; some Irish man,
woman, or child would die, and the family would as
soon think of going without eating as not to have a
wake. Everybody in the neighborhood was invited,
and all looked happy, and seemed to enjoy them
as much as going to a ball. These were held in
the night. Plenty of dudeens, tobacco, and rum
w^ere provided, as also a bushel of murphys. The
corpse was laid out in the middle of the room, or
else seated in a chair in some corner, and the
exercises commenced by all the old women in the
neighborhood collecting about the corpse, making a
crooning or horrible noise ; then the dudeens and
whiskey would be freely circulated among the
younger portion, who would soon be pelting each
other with murphys, and then would be enacted a
scene very fitting for Dante's Inferno : the most of
the participants would be stupidly drunk, and before
the end of the carousal they and the corpse would
be lying in a heap together on the floor. It is al-
most impossible for the young men and women of
to-day to realize that such disgraceful scenes were
ever enacted in this civilized country ; but as a

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matter of fact, at that time, it was the rule for
every Roman Catholic man, woman, or child to
have a wake ; while to-day it is the exception.
And at all these wakes the same disgraceful scenes
were enacted over and over again. Then rum and
tobacco were plenty and cheap, and at these wakes
they were free, to all, and Paddy made the best
of his opportunities, as he probably would to-day
under the same circumstances. A dog could not
die in that neighborhood but Paddy would have an
itching to have a wake, such good times were they
then considered by these people.

About the year 1850 several railroads were pro-
jected in New England. The grading of these rail-
roads was pushed forward with great energy by
several of the, at that time, leading capitalists of
New England, and the services of Paddy were in
great demand, as he seemed to take to pick and
shovel as naturally as a duck to water. A hill
would have to be cut through, a valley filled up, —
such a thing as a steam shovel at that time had not
been heard of in New England, but horses and
Paddies were plenty and cheap. Fair horses brought
twenty-five dollars each, and Irish pauper bogtrotteri
could be had for seventy-five cents a day. The first
thing to be done in starting to build a railroad at that
date was for Paddy to commence at some point at the
proper or established grade, with his pick, shovel
and Paddybarrow (this was where a certain kind of
barrow in use to-day first got its name) . These men

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were divided into three sets ; one set plied the pick,
the second set did the filling, and the third set trundled
the loaded Paddybarrow to its destination or dump-
ing-place . When the excavated and filled surface had
reached a length of three or four hundred feet, wooden
sleepers, as they were called, would be laid down,
and two wooden rails some three or four inches
square spiked to them at the proper distance apart,
and upon these, cheap-built dump-cars were placed,
and a horse attached ; the Paddybarrows were then
thrown aside, the cars were filled, drawn to the end
of the leveled surface and dumped.

Sometimes there would be hundreds of these bog-
trotters employed at one excavation or cut, and
among all of these there were but few that came
from the same county in Ireland. Some were from
County Cork, others from County Down, others from
County Tipperary, and still others from County
Dublin. They were housed in large shanties built
of rough boards, and situated in the field near the
railroad where they were at work. The shanties
had a long table in the centre made of rough
boards, and bunks along the sides also made of
rough boards where they slept, and one or more of
their number did the cooking ; and the bill of fare
was not usually a very elaborate affair. One day
they would have boiled murphys and fried salt pork,
and the next day they would have fried salt pork
and boiled murphys, just for a change. There
were no women or children about the premises, ex-

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cept once in awhile a sly aud curious Yankee boy
might be seen peeping into the shanty door, just to
see how tlie Paddies lived ; very much the same as
the curious Irish boy of to-day peeps into John
Chinaman's apartment, that he may get an idea of
his manner of living. On rainy days there would
be no work^ for Paddy, and one of the number
would be delegated to take the gallon jug and go to
the nearest grocery and get it filled with Irish
whiskey or good old Medford rum. At that time
whiskey and rum was sold by grocers over the
counter, the same as milk is sold to-day. There
were no so-called liquor stores at that time. It was
pure, then, and it was so cheap it did not pay to
adulterate it with anything but water, and there
were no licenses to pay at that time, either high or low.
On Mike's return with the well-filled jug each man
took his turn, and the tin dipper was passed around
till the contents of the jug w^as a minus quantity, —
and then the fun commenced. First came the sing-
ing of Irish songs, then the dancing of Irish jigs ;
and as the liquor decreased, in the same ratio the
fun increased, for by this time they were fighting
drunk, and soon the fighting commenced and Pan-
demonium reigned, and the Paddy from County
Cork went for Dennis, the bloody fardow^ner from
County Down, and Paddy from County Tipperary
went for Mike from County Dublin, and in a short
time every man of them would be fighting and
acting like so many demons, and never did the re-

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Downed John L. Sullivan have a more interested
audience than did the bogtrotters, while pummeling
each other to their hearts' content. As the inhabit-
ants of those days were quiet, order-loving citizens,
who respected themselves and their neighbors, no
village had more, or occasion for more, than one
constable, and he had but little to do ; but on these
occasions he was powerless, except to see that
their fighting was all done with each other, and
within their prescribed limits, or on the railroad
grounds. The next day, if it was pleasant, it was
hail fellow well met, and things would go along as
if nothing had happened ; and though black eyes
and broken noses were plenty, all was forgiven, and
it was all laid to the whiskey ; but every rainy day
brought a repetition of the scenes, which brought
terror to the hearts of the women and children of
the neighborhood, but afforded excitement to the
male citizens. ^

Previous to the year eighteen hundred and fifty
the grocers of that day monopolized the liquor
business, and liquor, as the saying goes, "was as
free as water," and could be had for the asking^
and a drunkard at that time was the exception
rather than the rule. They sold it over the counter
by the gill, pint, quart or gallon, as the customer
might wish ; but if only a drink was wanted, the
kind wanted was asked for, and a bottle containing
that particular kind, as well as a tumbler, was
placed on the counter ; the customer would then

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turn out what was called three fingers, — this was
the usual amount or regulation quantity for a
single drink. After the customer had deposited
the drink where (as he supposed) it would do the
most good, he would lay down a Spanish silver
piece called at that time fourpencehalf-penny,
representing six and a quarter cents : this at that
time was the regular price for a drink, nickels and
dimes not being then in use.

Liquor saloons and drunkards are Roman Catho-
lic Irish innovations that have been introduced into
New England since the above date by these same
Roman Catholic Irish, and as a rule this class have
monopolized this business in New England from
that day to this. Many people of the present day
think that the sale of rum and whiskey should be
prohibited, and have not a single word to say in its
favor ; but did they ever stop to think that even rum
and whiskey may have their virtues ? They read in
their daily paper, very often, an item like the fol-
lowing : "The body of Mike McSorley, an ex-State
prison convict, a tough, and the terror of his neigh-
borhood, was picked up this morning on South
Boston flats. A flask partly filled with poor whis-
key tells the story of how he came there.'' Now, it
does not take much of a stretch of the imagination
to see that that flask of whiskey may have prevented
a murder from having been committed in the near
future ; and did it not thereby save considerable ex-
pens^ to thQ State ? Truly whiskev has somQ vir-

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tuGS which are not paraded before the public. It
is this class of Roman Catholic Irish citizens at the
present date who seem to be the most anxious to
have, and clamor and vote for, free rum and whiskey ;
and what could be the objection provided they were
prohibited from selling it to any but their own kith
and kin. Might it not be an important factor in
settling the Irish Roman Catholic question, which is
sure to come to the front within a few years, and
possibly avert a religious war.

Though all kinds of liquors were so plenty and
low-priced at that time, it was a rare thing to see a
citizen go staggering home to his family the worse
for liquor. The laboring man of that day had too
much self-respect to allow himself to lower his man-
hood to the level of the brute ; he would have been
despised by his neighbors and have been the talk of
the town. But the importation of Paddy has greatly
changed public sentiment ; so common has become
the sight of the drunken sons of these Irish bog-
trotters, that they at the present day are hardly
given a passing glance ; and hardly a day passes
but in some part of the country one or more of
these, lower than brutes, murders his wife or chil-
dren, or both. There is no brute so low but that it
will defend with its life its mate and offspring.

About the year eighteen hundred and fifty there
commenced to arrive in goodly numbers that curse
of the Irish and every other nation wherever they
have planted their footsteps — in the shape of a mai^

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but with the look of a beast — the Roman Catholic
Irish priest. These priests were invariably known
as Father So-and-so, as they are to this day ; and if
all that is said of them is true, the name is very
appropriate. We have had French Catholic priests
and German Catholic priests among us in the past,
and peace has reigned ; it is this accursed Irish
blood in the Roman Catholic priestcraft that has
made and will make the trouble in the future, —
this accursed blood that fought each other in
Ireland until England conquered them all ; and
were Ireland free to-day from England's rule the
Roman Catholic Irish would probably soon be
assassinating each other as in days gone by. These
Jesuit priests have kept Spain two hundred years
behind the times ; Italy is to-day where she should
have been one hundred years ago ; France has felt
the Roman Catholic yoke ; but Roman Catholicism
is short lived in Republics, and as their hold in
Europe is fast passing from their grasp, America
now seems to be their objective point. But there
is a little of the blood of the Pilgrim Fathers still in
the land, as the near future will prove. Plymouth
Rock was good solid material to land on, and it is
as solid to-day as it was in 1620 ; and until it crum-
bles to dust, the children of the Pilgrims will be
ready to resist the encroachments of the enemy of
their forefathers. Let the Jesuits in America take
warning. The firing of but one gunshot at Sumter
brought hundreds of thousands of men to arms.
This brings us down to the year I860*

About this time that noble man and orator, Wen-
dell Phillips, was in his prime, and was using his
utmost endeavor, in a legal manner, to liberate the
Southern slave. One beautiful Sabbath afternoon
he was lecturing on the slavery question in Music
Hall to an audience composed of the most respect-
able and intelligent citizens of the city of Boston,
when the audience were suddenly startled by the
yells of a great mob, composed of Roman
Catholic Irish. They cried out, "Kill the
friend of the nagur ! " While the doors at
the Winter Street entrance were fastened and
held against the mob's attacks, Mr. Phillips
was hurried out of the Tremont Street entrance by
his friends into a hack which they had in waiting
for him, the driver drove rapidly down Tremont
Street to Boylston Street, from there to Essex
Street, where Mr. Phillips resided, the howling
mob following in the rear, and yelling, "Kill the
friend of the nagur I " Some of Mr. Phillips' friends
had ran across lots and got there just before the
hack drove up, and formed in two lines, one each
side of the door, and when Mr. Phillips arrived he
alighted and passed between them into the house.
Those men then stood with their backs to his door
and kept that howling Irish mob at bay for some
twenty minutes, until the police arrived in sufficient
numbers to disperse them. Within an hour all was
quiet, and every mother's son of those cowards had
slunk into their hiding places-among the slums of
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Soon after came John Brown's raid at Harper's
Ferry, and the Civil War soon commenced in
earnest.

Where was Paddy about this time ? Let us see.
Paddy from some reason or other has seemed to
take naturally to the Democratic party, and at this
time that party was opposed to making war on the
South, as the South at that time was pretty solidly
Democratic, and it seemed to Democrats like fight-
ing their friends and political associates ; and for
that reason they were very backward about coming
forward to fill up the ranks, and Paddy kept in the
rear of all.

Soon the draft came ; the Union army was hard
pressed for men, the prison doors were opened to
all criminals who would enlist, and these were about
the first McGintys that entered the Union army.
Then drafting commenced, and the Roman Catholic
Irish of New York City commenced a riot ; and be-
fore it was ended these cowards, these wolves of our
civilization, had murdered hundreds of innocent
and defenceless colored men, women, and children.
At the same time this same class commenced a riot
in Boston, and broke into the gun stores in Dock
Square, with the intention of getting firearms with
which to murder the innocent and defenceless
colored men, women, and children of Boston. But
thanks to the energetic Mayor and Governor of that
time the riot was soon quelled, with but small loss
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rioters, these cowardly assassins, found the descend-
ants of the Pilgrims and of the veterans of '76 too
much for them. Then cam.e the offering of large
bounties to men who would enlist ; then Paddy began
to come forward, — he was ready then to fight for his
adopted country. This fact cannot be denied, as
the rosters of the enlisted men of that date can be
seen at the State House of any New England State,
and "by their names ye shall know them."

Then came bounty-jumping and desertions.
Paddy had got a handsome sum for enlisting,
either from some State, or from some private indi-
vidual for whom he was to go as a substitute.
Before he reached the seat of war he would desert,
and enlist in some other city or State, and secure
another pile of bounty money. This was known as
bounty-jumping, and the list of deserters and bounty-
jumpers which is kept on file at every State House
will prove that the McGintys got there every time.
There are some of the so-called leaders of the
Roman Catholic Irish of to-day who would like to ob-
literate the memory of these cold facts from the pub-
lic mind. They pronounce eulogies on Mr. Phillips.
They get up Wendell Phillips Clubs,~a little differ-
ent from the kind they would have liked to have
used on him if bold men had not come to his res-
cue. They prate about the brave Irish who were so
ready to go to the front in defense of their adopted
country ; but history has been made, the rosters are
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stubborn things, and truth will eventually come to
the front, no matter what barriers are placed before
her.

"And phwat about Sheridan, and his ride?"
exclaims some McGinty. Well, as a matter of fact,
according to a statement of a correspondent of a
New York daily p'aper , who was present at that battle,
Sheridan that night was off on a bum, away from his
post of duty, when the enemy met and defeated our
army, or that part of it under his command. No
man knew better than he that unless something
was done to change the state of affairs, his life was
not worth a picayune ; he would be disgraced, and
possibly shot. This made him desperate, as it
naturally would any man under the same circum-
stances, and he did what he could to retreive his own
personal fortune. His luck happened to be with
him ; but, reader, how many poor privates lost their
lives that day? How many mothers were made
widows, how many children fatherless, by a
drunken bummer being away from his post of duty ?
This may be strong language, but let the truth be
spoken without fear or favor. Who can deny the
above facts ? Honor to whom honor is due. If the
veterans of to-day would speak their minds, they
would tell you that one fourth of the men who lost
their lives in the Union army might have returned
alive to their families, were it not for the incapacity
and drunkenness of many of those who were in
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the same man who is quoted as saying that "the
only good Indian he ever knew was a dead one"?
Would it not be fully as appropriate and true if be
had applied it to his own breed and creed, the
Roman Catholic Irish ? When men of this class are
made heroes, we are reminded of one of Josh Bill-
ing's philosophic sayings which reads as follows :
" Take all the good luk out of this world, and mil-
lionaires and heroes would be dredful skarse."

CHAPTEE II.

THE PEESENT.

During the war a great many American laborers
and mechanics 'who enlisted were killed ; many
others, when the war ended, emigrated South or
West ; many others were incapacitated for labor by
wounds and exposure. In the meantime the Roman
Catholic Irish having learned, or partly learned, the
several trades most "in demand, as marble workers,
stonecutters, masons, plasterers, painters, brick-
layers, slaters, plumbers, and shoemakers, have
formed a combination known as the Knights of
Labor and crowded representatives of other nation-
alities out ; so much so that it is almost impossible
for a Protestant to get a day's work in either of
those lines of business.

A few years ago a Roman Catholic Irishman in
Pennsylvania, by the name of Terence Powderly, got
the idea into his head to organize Roman Catholic
Irish workingmen, throughout the length and
breadth of the land, under the name of the Knights
of Labor. Whether this idea originated in the
head of Powderly, or was placed there by that long-
headed old Jesuit, Cardinal Gibbons, is something
to be guessed. At any rate, it is a well-known fact
that Cardinal Gibbons and Powderly are very close
friends. When the first meeting of the different

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delegates at Richmond, Ya., was ended, the daily
papers of that date mentioned Powderly as going
directly to pay Gibbons a visit at Baltimore, before
returning to his family in Pennsylvania ; and it
looked to many people as though he had gone for
further orders. Be this as it may, Powderly was
spoken of as a good Roman Catholic ; and to prove
it some of the daily papers stated that he had often
assisted his pastor at mass when he was short of
help. Now, who is there that can deny, with any
semblance of truth, that the Knights of Labor is an
Irish Roman Catholic organization ? Are not ninety
per cent of its present officers rank and file Roman
Catholic Irishmen? Why has the Federation of
Labor been formed, and nearly all Protestants who
were members of the Knights of Labor joined it?
Was the cause of their leaving it because they had
found this to be a fact? Was the master workman
finding fat places for those of his own nationality
and creed, to the exclusion of others? We leave
the intelligent reader to judge for himself. With
the birth of this organization the labor troubles, the
length and breadth of the country, began. They
do not allow employers to take any apprentices to
learn trades, except such as they shall approve.
These are invariably Roman Catholic Irish, or of
their own breed and creed ; they even oblige an
employer to pay the same wages to an incompetent
Roman Catholic Irish workman that he does to a
skilled workman, and this in a free country.

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So anxious and avaricious are this breed among
us at the present day to get valuables and money
belonging to other people, that they not only break
into houses and stores in the nighttime, but stores
are broken into in broad daylight in crowded
thoroughfares, and in many instances the proprie-
tors are maltreated or murdered, and private houses
are plundered with impunity ; and as many of the
police force in large cities are composed of this
same breed, the majority of these criminals escape
capture. The policeman Coughliu, who murdered
Cronin, is a fair sample of the majority of these
Roman Catholic Irish policemen. No heretic's '
property is safe on their beat. They have allowed
heretics' property to be stolen without remonstrance.
Take, for instance, the stealing piecemeal of a house
in South Boston, the last timbers remaining becom-
ing so weakened that thev fell on a crowd of these
Roman Catholic Irish thieves, killing several of
them. Several houses in Cambridge and Somerville
have been stolen on the beats of this class of police-
men ; by this same class of thieves, windows are
broken, and buildings defaced, and the miscre-
ants go scot free, and still these Roman Catholic
Irish are daily added to the police force in large cities.
And so anxious and avaricious are the female
portion of these Roman Catholic Irish among us
to get every cent, that they stoop to the lowest
depths of human degradation to obtain or accom-
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ready to expose their persons in swimming-niatcheg
and low ballet dancing to the public gaze of rowdies
and others in the dime museums and cheap theatres ;
and, as a matter of fact, ninety-five per cent of all
the prostitutes in New England to-day are' of this
Roman Catholic Irish blood.

When the late Civil "War ended, the two political
parties, Eepublican and Democratic, outside of the
Roman Catholic Irish, were about evenly divided ;
and as the Irish are led by a few political leaders,
and those leaders, by the priests in their ward or
district, to whom they are obliged to look for votes
to place them in political office, and they are there-
after their tools, to do their every bidding, the
parties were so evenly divided, that with whichever
party these Roman Catholic Irish voted political
success was insured ; and though by birth and
nature these Irish are Democrats, yet they have
always been open to purchase by the Republicans,
provided they were the highest bidders, either with
money or offices ; but a true Republican with Roman
Catholic Irish blood in his veins, is as scarce as
teeth in a hen's mouth. But to-day a change is
coming over Paddy's dream. It is but a few years
ago that he thought he owned the earth, politically
at any rate, as one of the Roman Catholic papers of
Boston, some three years ago, had the effrontery to
publish a paragraph in which it claimed that Boston
was now the Boston of the O'Briens, the O'Reillys,
and the McGuires ; but there were a few voters in

that old Puritan town that thought otherwise, and
they went into, the next city election with their heart
(Hart) in the contest, and have since proved the
falsity of the statement. As a matter of fact the
Roman Catholic Paddy has reached the height of
liis political greatness, in America in general and
in New England in particular ; and it is this fact
that worries the cardinals, bishops, and priests, as
well as their political leaders.

As a matter of fact Roman Catholic Ireland has
emigrated ; the majority of the bogtrotters are
here, and to-day Germany, Norway, Sweden, Ital}^,
Scotland, Wales, and England, are sending to our
shores one hundred emigrants to Ireland's one ; these
are mostly Protestants, and despise this Irish race,
and more, if anything, than the native American.
To offset this, and in order to prevent or retard this
Protestant emigration, at the last session of Con-
gress a bill was presented by a man named Gates
(said to be a Roman Catholic). This bill was said
to have emanated from Terence Powderly, or possi-
bly it would be nearer the truth to say from his
master. Cardinal Gibbons. This bill was disguised
with tYue Jesuit skill under the head of a "Bill to
Restrict Pauper Emigration." Now, bless Terence's
little soul, didn't he know that the paupers had all
got here in the shape of his Roman Catholic Irish
countrymen from the boggy isle ? There is no other
place in all Europe that has sent us i)aupers, as
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and never have been ; it is only the Church of
Rome that makes paupers. They are the majority
in every country that is under its control ; even the
Protestant Irish (God bless and protect them) that
come from that boggy isle are never known to
come as paupers. This bill as presented obliged
every person intending to emigrate to America to
go to the American consul at the nearest port, and
give him notice three months previous to embarking
for America. Now think of a poor Protestant
emio-rant comino; three hundred miles from the interior
of Norway or Sweden, taking his family of eight
or ten and going that distance and returning ; the
expense would be as much and more to him than it
would to come to America. He has also got to
bring the consul a certificate of character, and also
show or prove to him his ability to support his
family when he arrives, and also pay a tax of fifty
dollars. If this bill passes to become a law, it will
practically prohibit future emigration of a good class
of Protestant emigrants, which are greatly needed
here at this time, and labor troubles will be of ten
times the magnitude that they are at present, and
the manufacturino: industries of the whole couutrv
will be at the mercy of the Roman Catholic
Irish. Now, if this bill had been passed and been
enforced when Terence Powderly was an infant,
Paddies and paupers would be as scarce in New Eng-
land to-day as blooming roses in the open fields of
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years behind the times ! Frame your bill so as to
send back the paupers and thieves that are here al-
ready, and you will hit the nail square on the head.
This bill, for some reason or other, did not get to a
head at the last session, but Terence is on hand
again. There are very few people outside of the
leaders of the Democratic party who realize how
near this same Powderly came to being the Demo-
cratic nominee for President, at the time of Cleve-
land's nomination. With Powderly as President,
there would have been at Washington (not a Punch
and Judy, but) a Terence and Bridget show, with
old Gibbons as a manipulator of the puppets.

Let every Protestant voter in this land of the free
(too free for these Roman Catholic Irish) see to it
that the Representative of his district in Congress
does his duty, and uses his individual influence
to squelch this bill. To-day Protestants are to
Roman Catholics as six to one in these ^United
States ; with the present influx by Protestant emi-
gration, in the next decade they will be as ten to
one ; and as this class of Protestants increase and
multiply equally as fast as these Roman Catholic
Irish, in a quarter of a century the Roman Catholic
Irish will be to Protestants as one to twenty-five,
and powerless religiously and politically. Stop the
present Protestant emigration, and increase the
Roman Catholic Irish ascendenc}^, religious and
political, and within another quarter of a century
you will have a religious war the like of which this
world never saw.

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The time is now ripe for a new political party.
As there was a time for a Free-Soil party, it came,
did its proper work, and passed on into eternity.
Then there was the Know-Nothing party ; it also
came, did its proper work, and passed on. Then
came the Anti- 81a very party ; it did its proper work
and passed on. The better element in the Demo-
cratic party are disgusted with their Roman Catho-
lic Irish contingent, and the time is ripe for a new
party. There is no great public question to-day to
keep the better element of both parties apart. The
tariff question is a bugbear, being used by the
political doughfaces and bread-and-butter politi-
cians in the Democratic party who are in the politi-
cal soup at present, and are anxious to get in the
swim. This bugbear is only a political ruse, used
to obtain votes in the future from ignorant voters
throughout the length and breadth of the land, and
not worth a moment's thought of an intelligent man.
It is acknowledged that to-day the laboring man is
better off in America than in any country on the
face of the globe, then let us let well enough alone.
Let all good men, Republican and Democrat, unite ;
let us have a know-something or anti-Roman Catholic
Irish party ; let the new political wave pass over
the country, and more especially over New England,
and let it relegate this class of voters back to their
proper sphere and place. Men of New England,
you have placed too many political pearls before
these swine during the last decade. Their natures

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are too low and depraved to properly appreciate
them, and it is time they were placed before better
men.

It seems to be the endeavor of these Roman
Catholic Irish to get some one of their number at the
head as superintendent and director of the large
establishments, and then comes the weeding out of
heretics, and the placing in their places of his own
breed and creed. Take for instance the labor de-
partment of all large New England cities, the fire
departments and the police force. Take the West
End Railway laboring force, and the men at both
ends of their cars ; this mode of procedure is
kept alive by the Roman Catholic priests, know-
ing as they do that for every dollar these men
earn a tenth of it reaches their treasuries. These
Jesuits are the fathers of the Chinese exclusion
bill. By this act of Congress something for wash-
ing has been saved to the Roman Catholic Irish
washerwoman, and the Chinaman is kept from being
converted to Protestantism ; for where could the
heathen Chinee (so called) be easier or quicker
Christianized than on American soil? The Jesuits
are also responsible for the defeat of the Blair
educational bill, by which it was intended to
have the national Government appropriate mill-
ions of dollars for the education of the colored
men, women, and children of the South, in order
that they might be educated and enlightened as to
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good citizens in the future. Since its defeat, these
Jesuits have flooded the South with Roman Catholic
priests, and established a college in Baltimore for
the purpose of turning out young Roman Catholic
Irish priests, and none are allowed to enter its door
but those who are willing to give the rest of their
lives as missionaries for the conversion of the igno-
rant colored population of the South (who are now
Methodists) to Roman Catholicism. They have
also established a universit}^ under the shadow of
the United States capitol at Washington, and en-
sconced therein a marble statue of the present Pope
of Rome, being the preliminary, without doubt, of
trying to place a live one there. There are two
things about these Roman Catholic Irish that ap-
pears to be common to the whole breed, and that is,
that from the day they leave the cradle, to the day
they go to their grave, the majority of them are beg-
gars and thieves. This can only be accounted for by
their low birth, origin, and breeding. The majority
of them are brought up on murphy s, which is the
lowest of the vegetable kingdom, and being bred in
the same hut with dogs and swine would naturally
obliterate any sense of shame, — a virtue which these
people always lack. If one could be found who had
the least sense of shame about them, man, woman,
or child, it would be the making of the fortune of
the manager of some dime museum to have them as
an exhibit. They go to the almshouse or the house
of correction with as much alacrity, and with a&
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It is this breed which has the credit of furnishing
all the assassins and would-be assassins of the nine-
teenth century ; for instance, our honored and la-
mented President, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
by a Roman Catholic. Soon after. President Gar-
field was assassinated by another ; also, the poor
defenseless colored men and women in the streets
of New York during the war of the Rebellion, as
also it was the Roman Catholic Irish that furnished
the assassins who did such devilish cowardly work
at Phoenix Park, Dublin. It was these cowardly,
would-be assassins that placed the dynamite in the
hold of the steamship Oregon, which now lies with
its cargo at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean ; and
but for almost a miracle hundreds of innocent men,
women, and children would have gone down with it.
And these same Roman Catholic Irish have fur-
nished the assassins who recently murdered poor
Cronin in Chicago, to say nothing of the Protestant-
Irish men and women who have been ambushed,
waylaid, and murdered during the last decade by this
same class on the greensward of Ireland. This class
seems to be born cowards ; any nation that breeds
assassins naturally breeds cowards. The hoodlum
element in our midst, which are always, without an
exception, the American born of these Roman
Catholic Irish, dudeen-sucking sons of bogtrot-
ters, are the wolves of our civilization, and seem
to have the same nature as the wolf. Singly
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in packs, as they usually travel, they exhibit the
same disposition as the wolf, going as far at times
as to rob or destroy each other. There is a certain
prominent Irishman who occasionally lectures in
different New England States, taking for his subject
"Celebrated Irishmen." He forgets to mention to
his audiences that the majority of those celebrated
Irishmen were not Roman Catholic Irishmen, but
Protestants. He forgets to tell them that if they
would go to Charlestown States Prison, or any other
States Prison in New England, and hear the roll-call,
that they could learn the names of more celebrated
Eoman Catholic Irishmen (no Protestant) in half an
hour than he could name in a day. Celebrated !
What for? For thieving, robbery, and murder.
At a certain meeting or hullabaloo held, not many
moons ago, not many miles from Boston, got up
with the intention of frightening Johnny Bull and
firing the Irish heart, it was reported that a certain
leading Roman Catholic Irishman made a speech,
recommending the use of dynamite to annihilate
Ireland's enemies, if the daily papers of the fol-
lowing day reported his speech correctly. Now,
any man who will in this enlightened nineteenth
century advocate the use of dynamite is a sneak, a
coward, and an assassin at heart, and after such
public speech should be put out of any country for
the country's good. See the contrast ! Here is
Charles Stuart Parnell, a Protestant, using every
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of his native country ; and bad the Roman Catholic
Irish micks with whom he is surrounded been kept
in the background, Ireland would be ten years
nearer to Home Rule than she is to-day. Johnny
Bull is notorious for being easier led than driven.

The cowardice of the male portion of this race is
seen whenever a riot is occasioned by a horse-car
or labor strike. They invariably crowd their
women and children to the front, but these cowards,
they keep back well to the rear, and throw stones
and missiles ; and it has been recently confessed by
a Roman Catholic Irishman that he was one of four
delegated at Chicago, that if the police interfered
with the meeting of the Anarchists, they were to
throw the bomb, — and they did, and with what effect
is too well known ; and innocent men have been
hung for a crime they never committed. There
were thousands who believed them innocent at the
time of the trial, for it was so like the Irish method
of warfare, and so little like the German. Their
past history proves that they are not cowardly dy-
namiters or assassins. They marched to victory
like men when they conquered the last Napoleon.
See the contrast when compared with those cele-
brated Roman Catholic Irish Fenians, who a few
years ago marched so boldly up to the Canada
line to whip England over the backs of the Ka-
nucks, but when they got sight of the enemy they
turned face and travelled double-quick home again.

It is frequently said that the Chinaman comes

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here, makes money, and goes back to China to
remain till death shall call him hence. Now, as a
matter of fact, has he not given value in labor for
every dollar that he takes away? Is it not far
better than if he had sent it home, and with it
brought back hundreds of thousands of paupers
and thieves, as the Roman Catholic Irish have been
doing the last quarter of a century? As these
Chinese rarely carry an average of over five hundred
dollars, as that sum is a great competence in China,
is he any worse than the Irishman who takes his
family for two or three months sojourn in the old
country, which costs him a thousand or fifteen hun-
dred dollars, which he has stolen from some city
treasury, after the manner of Maloney of New
York, and Burke of New Orleans, and hundreds of
others of the same kith, kin, and creed who might
be mentioned?

These Irish affect to despise anything English.
They believe in their priests ; they prate about the
beauties of ould Ireland and the Irish language ; but
let us see, — are not most of them, after they have
accumulated some of this world's goods, so dis-
gusted with their native country, their low origin,
and their former common Christian names, that
they try to screen themselves and their origin, in
the second generation, by giving their children the
most approved and pleasant sounding English
Christian names to be had? Forty years ago, if
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dozen Irishmen, you would have hit either Mike,
Pat, or Dennis ; not so now, — it is John, Frank, or
William. No christening of spalpeens as Mike,
Pat, Dr Dennis in this day and generation, — not
much ; they want to be dacent people with dacent
names. The Paddies of to-day want none of the
bog mud in theirs. How about the female portion?
Well, forty years ago it was Bridget, Honora, or
Maggie, but these are a thing of the past ; to-day
it is Lillian McGinty, Mamie McSorley, and Bertha
Flanigan, — and still these Irish do so despise any-
thing English, you know ! We often see the Irish-
American mentioned in the daily papers, but never
German- American, ^wede- American, Scotch- Amer-
ican, or English-American ; no, these latter are not
given to stealing what does not belong to them as
are the former. When oil and water freely mix
then will there be Irish-Americans ; when by curl-
ing a wolf's hair and banging his tail you can
make a lamb of him, then and not till then look for
a true Irish- American. The look of the lamb may
be there, but so is the nature of the wolf ; the look
will wear off quicker by far than the nature will dis-
appear. The name of Irish-American every time it
is used in public or private, taking the Irish antece-
dents into consideration, is a disgrace and a shame
to every true American, son or daughter of the
Pilgrims, or of the veterans of '76. Even the Irish
criminals at the bar of justice of late, in order
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John Smith and George Brown, etc. To this fact
every police officer in the large cities will testify.
And it has also come to pass at the present
time, that when any Roman Catholic Irishman
has accumulated a little money, so that he feels
a little above the common Mick, and is able to
keep one or two servants, it is a notorious fact
that he never employs any of his own class
or creed, but hires a colored or Swede man or
woman, or of some other nationality than his
own, as the case may be. There are two princi-
pal reasons why he does this. First, he knows the
general cussedness of the race, and their proneness
to pilfer and steal, and never feels safe with one
under his roof. Second, he knows that as long as
he has one of them in his employ, that all the family
secrets are liable to be exposed at the confessional ;
he knows how it is himself, for the chances are that
he has been there ; and if Protestants who employ
Roman Catholic help in their families did but know
that all their family secrets were told the parish
priest by these servants at the confessional, and a
record kept of them bj^ this same priest, and known
by him as the heretic black list, we think they would
take heed and reflect before hiring and taking them
into their employ.

Many good people bewail the growth of the Ro-
man Catholic Church in America. They forget, or
perhaps they have never stopped to think, that one
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of help goes to strengthen the Roman Catholic
Church in New England. There is a certain
good old Methodist deacon, not a hundred miles
from Boston, who gives to his church for its sup-
port, say, $500 a year. His pay-roll to Roman
Catholic Irishmen amounts to more than $100,000
a year; so that indirectly he contributes $5,000 to
the Roman Catholic Church, — ten times as much as
to his own, — and at the prayer-meeting he calls on
the Lord to retard the progress of the Romish Church
in our midst. If spoken to about the matter, he
will say this is all the kind of help he can get for
his foundry ; or, in other words, my business must
not be interrupted, but must go on, even if the
Lord's goes to the Devil. And so it is going on
from day to day all through New England ; one
tenth of all that Protestants are paying to their
Roman Catholic help goes directly or indirectly into
the treasuries of the Roman Catholic churches, and
then they hold up both hands in holy horror at the
rapid growth of this church, which were it not for
their past unthinking, indirect contributions, there
would not be one Roman Catholic Church in exist-
ence to-day where there are twenty; they claiming
with the good deacon, that this is all the class of
help that they can get, when as a matter of fact
there are thousands of good Protestants, better men
and women, lying idle all over the country, some of
them even committing suicide, because of lack of
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on them, having too much self-respect to beg or go
to the almshouse. Not so with the shamefaced Irish ;
they go to the almshouse with apparently as much
pleasure as they would to visit a friend. They are
notorious as the class who wish to get something for
nothing. They vote away the hard-earned taxes of
Protestants to erect statues to Roman Catholic
Irish drunkards, to be placed in our public squares
and commons ; when if the' money w^ere to come di-
rect from their own pockets, these monuments would
be as scarce as those erected to perpetuate the
memory of Adam.

Many people seem to think that the boycott origi-
nated in Ireland within a few years past ; but, as a
matter of fact, Protestants have been boycotted
here in New England by the Roman Catholic Irish
for this quarter of a century past. If a Protestant
congregation wants a church built, if a Roman
Catholic Irishman underbids twenty respectable or
responsible Protestant contractors fifty or one hun-
dred dollars, he gets the contract. Not so with the
Roman Catholic priest ; he is wiser ; he makes a
business of putting Roman Catholic dollars into
Roman Catholic purses, knowing that by so doing
many of them will get back into his money box
again. He is not so foolish as to turn them into a
channel that runs in an opposite direction from his
church ; and he tells his congregation openly and
at the confessional to spend their money only with
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Irishman open a small grocery in a basement, and
» the McGintys from far and near will trade with
him, and it will not be long before he'll own a block.
Go with me to the large dry and fancy goods stores
in Boston or vicinity which are owned and run by
Roman Catholic Irish, and every employe without
exception is o£ the same creed and kin. Watch the
crowd who come and go ; ninety-five per cent are
Roman Catholic Irish, following the instructions of
their priests, while the other five per cent are
thoughtless Protestants. Notice the difference of
the large stores managed by thoughtless Protest-
ants : ninety per cent of the help in some of these
are Roman Catholic Irish, and with the stealing
behind the counters as well as in front, it is a won-
der to many of their patrons how they ever accumu-
late enough for a competency, unless it is after the
same manner as the Dutchman, who said he "lost
something on every thing he sold, and the way
he made anything was because he sold so much."
When will Protestants open their eyes, and work
Protestant dollars into Protestant pockets after the
manner of these Roman Catholics? Their example
in this respect is well worth following. Take, for
instance, the street hawkers of vegetables, fruit,
and meats, — Roman Catholic Irish to a man. The
majority of these men are back-door thieves, and
cheat you in quality, quantity, weight, and count;
they place the large fruit on top, and give you the
small and rotten from the bottom of the pile, when
you purchase?

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Do you ever stop to think that every dollar paid
these hawkers is sq much from the till of some de-
cent Protestant, who is paying rent and doing a
square, responsible, and legitimate business ? Would
it not be better for your sons and daughters, and
the country in the future, if the money you pay for
the necessaries of life went into Protestant pockets,
remembering as you ought that every tenth
dollar you spend in the other direction goes
into the treasury of the Roman Catholic Church,
and from there to the support of Roman
Catholic churches and parochial schools, to be the
curse of our country and your children in the near
future. As a matter of fact, many of the Roman
Catholic priests are silent partners, and have capital
invested in many of the largest retail stores in the
largest New England cities, which are managed by
Roman Catholic Irishmen. This is no secret ; and,
my innocent reader, were you ever informed that
these English syndicates who are buying up the
breweries and other paying industries from Maine
to California, were composed of men who have been
receiving contributions for poor Ireland ? Who
would ever suspect an Irish leader in Parliament of
being a trustee for an English syndicate? What
would be more ridiculous? The supposed canard of
the Pope of Rome investing $400,000,000 in America
was not so much of a canard as some people have
been led to suppose. A published list in the daily
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of these syndicates would soon enlighten the public.
This is an easy matter to do, as they are all to be
found in the public. records.

There are many things deeper than this being
planned to-day bv the Jesuits in America. For
instance, let us consider the political aspect of the
Roman Catholic Centennial, recently held at Balti-
more, and the Pan-American Congress held at the
same time. What is the meaning of Pan ? Accord-
ing to Webster, ''the ancients believed him to be
the god of shepherds ; he is usually represented
as combining the form of a man with that of a beast
(the Roman Catholic Irish priest) , having the body
of a man, a red face with a flat nose, horns upon
his head, and the legs, thighs, tail, and feet of a
goat." Reader, did it ever strike you that there
was a singular coincidence in the assembling of the
Roman Catholic Centennial, engineered by long-
headed old Jesuit Cardinal Gibbons, and the assem-
bling of the Pan-American Congress, occurring as
they did at one and the same time? The Pan-
American Congress was supposed to be engineered
by James G. Blaine, but later events make matters
look as though they both were conceived in the
brain of Gibbons, the Jesuit. Was lUaine his
tool?

The Pan-American delegates were seated in front
of Gibbons at the Centennial when he remarked
that "America would soon be Roman Catholic,"
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What gave the old man faith to make that utter-
ance? Were these Pan-American delegates here
to make a commercial treaty with the Govern-
ment, or is it a deep-laid plan of the Jesuits
to make the majority in America Roman Cath-
olic, as Cardinal Gibbons said they would be.
The delegates were Roman Catholics to a man,
and each represented a country composed of
Roman Catholics. They have been taken through-
out the length and breadth of the land, from Maine
to California, and feasted at the best hotels at the
Government's expense. Now, was this to show them
what a wealthy and prosperous people we are. And
have inducements been held out to them to go back
to their countries and bring about, or to work up, a
sentiment in those countries for annexation to the
United States? Was it not Blaine who wished to
annex San Domingo in Grant's time? Is he not
working his every card for the annexation of Cuba
to-day? The annexation of these Roman Catholic
countries would give the old Jesuit Gibbons the
Roman Catholic majority in this country he is long-
ing for. What occasion did a Commercial Con-
gress have to hold a secret session with locked
doors, as did these Pan- Americans at Washington?
It was a noticeable fact, that all the prominent
Roman Catholics throughout the country hastened
to pay their respects to these Pan- Americans when
they were in their vicinity.
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here, Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, steps
quietly down and out, probably at the request of his
acknowledged master, the Pope of Pome. Being
the only monarchy left in South America, it must
become a republic before it could be annexed to these
United States, and its delegate was already here.
Dom Pedro had hardly left his native land before
the archbishop, who represents the Pope of Rome
in Brazil, rises up and blesses the republic, thus
carrying out the programme of his master. Now,
was not this Pan's Congress ? Was not Gibbons the
originator of it? Does not the look of every cardi-
nal, bishop, and priest in America show a combina-
tion of the brute and the man ? Gibbons is Ameri-
can born ; his is the best chance of any man living
of being the next Pope. Through him old Pope
Leo is at present installed (in marble) in the
University at Washington. Is he not expecting to
be there in the flesh soon?

With the Pan-American States annexed to the
United States, and Gibbons at Washington as Pope
in 1894, and Gibbons as nominee for President in
1896, and, by his majority Roman Catholic vote,
elected and made President of these United States,
you have a Pope-President ; and what are you going
to do about it? Has he not been legally and con-
stitutionally elected? Why did the Pan-American
delegates hold a secret session in Washington, from
which the reporters were excluded ? How about that
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York, at which a select few were invited, among
them notably a rank Roman Catholic who is now at
the head of our army, and who is reported as saying
not long since, that "he would as quick have his
children go to a bawdy house as to our public
schools." If this man did say what it is reported
he said, is he the proper man for the public posi-
tion he holds? Would he not show a little self-
respect by passing in his resignation papers ? His
son is a Jesuit priest, and, if reports are true, his
daughter is a guest at the Vatican, at Rome, and
probably for some well-rendered service his wife
has been presented with the Order of the Rose by
the Pope of Rome. Taking everything into con-
sideration, and putting this and that together, does
not that congress look more like old Pan-Gibbons
Roman Catholic Congress than a Pan-American
Commercial Congress?

Their first move has been to connect North and
and South America by Railroad, — this scheme is
now developing ; next comes the annexation busi-
ness, and with that Gibbons' prophecy will come
true. Let every true Protestant and friend of
America and her Constitution be awake to the con-
sequences that will result from the successful carry-
ing out of this Jesuit scheme.

CHAPTER III.

FUTURE.

My Protestant reader, the future of the Roman
Catholic Irish in New England depends upon your-
self. If for the next fifty years you go on employing
and patronizing them, as your fathers and mothers
have for these past fifty years, thereby strengthen-
ing the Roman Catholic Church by their indirect
contributions, your children and your children's
children will feel its blight and curse to a greater
extent than the men and women of the South have
for the past quarter of a century, and are to-day, the
curse of African slavery, which has been entailed
on them by their parents and grandparents. But
African slavery is but a trifle as compared with the
supremacy of Roman Catholicism ; the former may
destroy the body, but the latter destroys both body
and soul. Your grandfathers and grandmothers, in
their innocence, nursed the infant adder which has
nearly reached its maturity ; its sting to-day is of
the deadliest poison. It has already struck a blow at
our public schools, which are the foundation of our
liberties ; let it be strangled before striking the sec-
ond blow : age will give it strength. By decreasing
its income you can strike a fatal blow to its future
growth. The quickest and most eflficacious method

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to rid a house of rats is to starve them out. There
are other rats than four-legged ones to which this
principle may be applied, with profit to the commu-
nity and the State. Johnny Bull understands this
principle, and has applied it where it would do the
most good, and the consequence is, New England
has the rats. But the ladies of New England, who
are foremost iu every good work, and quick to
know a good thing when they see it, are already at
the front. The following tells the story.

Though the majority of the female employment
offices in New England to-day are managed by
Roman Catholic Irish, still, they are very careful
not to advertise Irish help, as can readily be seen
by perusing the proper column in the daily papers.
To entice their customers in, they advertise Nova
Scotia, Swedish, German, and Scotch girls, even
though they have not one about their premises.
But when a lady applies at the office, she finds
dozens of Roman Catholic Irish girls, and much
effort is made to palm one off on her ; but of late
the trick does not work, as they are not wanted, but
a Scotch or Swedish girl can hardly cast a shadow
across the threshold of an office before she is en-
gaged, be she ever so green. If men of business
would apply the same principle to those they em-
ploy, and put none but Protestants on guard, Roman
Catholics would soon be obliged to go begging for
ducats in order to hold their own ; and give atten-
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share of the city pap, which is being poured ex-
clusively into the laps of Roman Catholic Irish
laborers in every city in New England. Let them
elect only such men to office as they can depend on
to see the principle faithfully carried out ; the dough-
face and bread-and-butter politician is getting al-
together too numrerous for the good of the community
just at this present time.

The question which faces the respectable, law-
abiding Protestant population of New England of
to-day is, how to get rid of these Roman Catholic
Irish hoodlums, paupers, and thieves. A little scheme
after the following plan might be a help toward
getting rid of a majority of them, and at the same
time be a profitable one to those interested in it.
Let a syndicate be formed (as English syndicates
seem to be the fashion at the present time, let it be
an English one ; Johnny Bull's past successful man-
agement of the race would be an advantage to him) .
Let the syndicate purchase several thousand acres
of land in Alaska, bordering upon a good harbor or
seaport, and christen it Hibernia or New Ireland ;
let them erect large buildings for manufactories of
such imperishable goods as there is a market for ;
anything made from wood or timber, or wood-pulp
might do well to start with, as there would probably
be abundance of timber on the land purchased,
wagon and carriage wheels, staves, shingles, laths,
clapboards, pails, etc. When ready for business
let them contract with the different governors of

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New England to take all of their paupers and all
criminals who have been sentenced to correctional
institutions for six months or upward ; let the States
deliver these prisoners at some designated wharf in
Boston, where shall be waiting for their reception
a vessel or steamer belonging to the syndicate, the
prisoners to be transported and taken care of,
clothed and fed by the syndicate during the term
of their sentence, free of expense to the States, for
the labor that can be obtained from them during
that time ; all sentences to commence from the
day they arrive in Alaska. This would relieve the
New England States of one half of the Roman
Catholic Irish ; one fourth more would probably
soon follow. Let those who had been guilty of
robbery or any crime that wo aid entitle them to
from five to ten years' sentence be branded on their
right cheeks with a large letter C, and those who
had been guilty of murder be branded with a large
letter C on each cheek. By this plan it would be
known to the general public that they were criminals,
and they could be quickly recognized as such. It
is about time to treat criminals as criminals, and
then when pardoned or released they will not be
committing more atrocious crimes than before in
order to get back into prison, in order to get less
work and better fare than they can get outside, as
has been the case in numerous instances. Let them
have such treatment as to dread a return and you'll
haye less crime in the community. Let the syndi-

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cate refuse to allow any one of these criminals
passage back to New England at the expira-
tion of their sentences on its vessels, but leave
them to return as best they can. Let the syndicate
also lay out a city in town lots, and build houses,
and lease or sell them to those who wished or were
obliged to remain, as no doubt that hundreds of the
criminals, male and female, after being released
would unite their fortunes and settle down to
business. Let the syndicate have a certain number
of steamers, so that one would leave the wharf
in Boston on a certain day of each and every week ;
there would be no doubt but that they would have
a full complement of steerage passengers every
trip for years to come, and every shipload landed
in this Alaskan city would naturally cause a rise in
their real estate. Let them purchase gold and
silver or other mines, and let all criminals marked
with the letter C be put in them to work ; and as
those with the C on each cheek would have life
sentences, they would always remain there ; for if
they should escape to the States they would be
easily recognized and returned. This would settle
the hanging question. Let all murderers be given a
life sentence, branded, and turned over to the syn-
dicate. There is no doubt the criminals would be
very thankful for this state of things, as it would be
so much pleasanter than hanging, and soft-hearted
men and women would be delighted to think that
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past. This letting out of criminals by the State
is nothing new, as it bas been practiced in the
South this past quarter of a century.

The free ocean trip which each 'one would get
would only be carrying out the liberal policy for
which New England has always been noted as prac-
ticing toward its criminals, for it is a well known
and established fact that the majority of them at
present in our houses of correction are better off,
both as to clothing, shelter and f^re, than they were
when at liberty ; and many of them have been known
to commit crime in order to get into the State insti-
tutions during the winter months. Then the vessels
of the syndicate when returning could bring back
the goods that had been manufactured by the
criminals ; and no doubt but that their stock would
soon be at a premium, for when their lumber gave
out they could manufacture boots, shoes, or cloth-
ing, etc. They would not be troubled with the
interference of the order known as the Knights of
Labor, or the eight-hour days. From sunrise to
sunset was the length of the labor day of our
fathers, and ought to be good enough for the
ordinary criminal of to-day.

Let the thinking reader stop and consider what a
great 3^early debt would be lifted from the shoulders
of the State, or in other words from the respectable
people in the State, and with how much more of a
feeling and sense of security would every citizen
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property were safe, knowing as he would that these
Irish thieves and murderers were far away in
Alaska ; and if he should be the lucky possessor of
a block of the syndicate's stock, there might be a
tender spot found in his heart, whereby he would
feel glad that they still lived in the enjoyment of
good health and strength. If the syndicate did not
realize a cent on their manufactures, with the weekly
influx of so many criminals, it would be but a few
years before the profits on the rise in their real
estate would be enormous. They would not be
troubled by prohibitory laws, and it is said that
there is a good profit in whiskey, and their released
Irish convicts, when their sentence had expired,
would probably want to set up shop at once on some
corner lot, and remain there to grow up with the
country. They could lease farms in the suburbs to
others, and purchase their products for their crimi-
nals. In a short time Australia, which was colo-
nized by this same breed of criminals, would have
to stir herself, or she would be left in the back-
ground. But laying aside all frivolity, what a
change would there be for the better in all our
large towns and cities. Within three years from
the time the syndicate commenced operations, the
Roman Catholic Irish in New England would be to
Pi'otestants as one to ten. The towns would be
able to sell their poor-farms, and the State its
Houses of Correction and State prisons, and the
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one half of the taxes with which they are at present
burdened, and a burden and a curse would be re-
moved at one and the same time.

These Roman Catholic Irish, through their Jesuit
priests, are each year having laws enacted for their
own especial benefit ; for instance, the Chinese
Exclusion Act (which is a disgrace to any free
country), which was enacted to protect the Irish
washerwoman as well as to prevent the Chinamen
from coming under Protestant influences. Take the
contract labor law. Now, if a manufacturing firm
in New England wishes to employ skilled labor,
they are obliged to hire those of Roman Catholic
Irish blood, which most of them object to, as since
the enactment of this law they cannot bring skilled
Protestant workmen from European countries. The
Jesuits felt safe in having this law enacted, as it
only excludes Protestants ; for the boggy isle has
no skilled workmen, as sucking a dudeen, drinking
Irish whiskey, and digging bog mud for fuel are the
principal industries there. But as these pauper
bogtrotters are being landed on our shores every
week, as the contract labor law does not reach
them, let one of these Gilhooly's be employed for
thirty days by a mason to help lay a drain-pipe,
within the next thirty days you will see a large sign
on the main street, with gilt letters, reading,
"Michael Gilhooly, Sanitary Engineer" ; and this
is a fair specimen of the skilled workmen one is
obliged to employ, for by culling under prices they
goon crowd the decent man out.

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These Roman Catholic Irish resort to all sorts of
subterfuges to accumulate riches, as also to retain
them. These lessons they have learned from their
Jesuit priests ; for instance, in times past these
priests have, with the help of Protestant dollars,
built institutions in New P^ngland, more especially
in Boston, and given them such names as would
attract the attention of charitable Protestants ; for
instance, such as the '• Home for Destitute Chil-
dren," the " Little Sisters of the Poor." Many
misguided Protestants have, in times past, contrib-
uted liberally for the support of these institutions,
thinking that by so doing they were doing God ser-
vice. But they have since realized that they were
only helping to fill the coffers of the Roman Catholic
Church, and thereby helping to strengthen them,
and increase the number of their churches in New
England. These institutions are nothing more nor
less than parochial schools under another name. It
has in times past been the custom of these shrewd
Jesuit priests to send out women whom they have
under their control, whom they designate as " Sisters
of Charity." These women array themselves in
special robes, and put on a very meek look and
appearance, but their faces beneath their deep
bonnets readily betray their Irish origin ; these are
sent out among Protestants begging (beiug Irish
they take to it naturally), and through them thou-
sands of Protestant dollars have found their way
into Roman Catholic treasuries.

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The daily papers of the present time in New
England, more especially those of the largest circu-
lation, if not under Jesuit control, seem, from their
contents, to be largely under Roman Catholic Irish
control ; for instance, Pat McCarthy's goat has
eaten some indigestible article, possibly a broken
bean-pot or tin can, and this causes his death. The
next morning the paper with the largest circulation
has not only the pedigree of that goat way back to
the one that Noah let out of the ark, but has the
picture of Pat McCarthy, and his autobiography
and pedigree way back to the time of Cain, who
(if we may judge from the present representatives
of the race among us) was the originator of the
Irish race ; but there are some daily papers, to their
credit be it said, that do not, and are not obliged
to fill up their columns with trash of this kind, in
order to insure eight pages of reading matter for
the perusal of the public, the majority of whom,
daily, see' more of this race than they care to, and
reading their too-well-known pedigree is only a
waste of time to the average reader.

It is a noticeable fact that the Roman Catholic
priest never does anything for the starving poor of
his parish ; he leaves that for the town or city
authorities to do. When money gets into their hands
it is never known to leave, unless it is for their
personal, or tine church's benefit ; and the last
person in this world whom a Roman Catholic looks
to for help, if starving, is the Roman Catholic

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priest. They will beg of heretics, or steal, before
going to their priest, as no one knows better than
they that it would be time wasted and thrown away ;
but there are thousands of these Eoman Catholic
Irish paupers in the large cities of New England,
who will manage to keep out of the public charitable
institutions until after the elections, as their politi-
cal leaders and priests hold them in hand like so
many sheep until they have voted as they may
direct. By referring to the records of almshouses
and public institutions, it will be found that the
O'Flanagan paupers and criminals, immediately after
the elections, begin to arrive five to one as to what
they did previous to election; and in order to get
there, and have good feed and winter quarters for the
remaining months of winter, many of them steal a tub
of butter, a pair of shoes, or some other article.
For this the presiding judge gives them two or three
months at some institution which is supported by
heretic taxes ; this is just what Paddy wanted.
More go to the State almshouse. This is an easy
matter, as in most cases the majority of the State
Directors are of the same breed and creed, and here
heretic taxes support them ; and in the spring they
come out with their bank account (which most of
them have) untouched ; and this state of affairs has
been going on from year to year for these past fifty
years, and still unthinking heretics have failed to
catch on to it.

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Irish race for these past fifty years to underbid in
the labor market in New England, until they now
have got the control of nearly all the trades in
their own hands. This is a wrong state of affairs,
and it is a duty which every Protestant employer of
help owes to himself, and to his children, and his
country, to see to it that he does his part at once
toward remedying the evil that lack of observation
and thoughtlessness has brought upon this genera-
tion. To-day, wherever there is a strike of French
Canadians, or of those representing other national-
ities, it is a noticeable fact that a fresh importation
of these Koman Catholic Irish are the first ones to
come forward to fill their places, even at reduced
prices. This is the policy of their political leaders
and priests, for work at any price for Eoman
Catholic Irish laborers means money and votes for
both political leaders and priests ; and, with Flana-
gan of Texas, that is what they are here for.

It has been the experience that Roman Catholi-
cism, in whatever country it has gained a foothold,
has been able to hold its own only by, and for such
length of time, as it could keep the people in igno-
rance. Take for instance Italy, France, Portugal,
and Spain, in the two former of which they have
lost their prestige, and in the two latter, it is but a
question of time (as events are daily occurring),
when they will lose it there. It is the cursed
Roman Catholic religion, and the enforced igno-
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that makes Ireland what it is to-day. As a state,
or part of England, it would be much more for
England's benefit to have it prosperous, than to
have things as they are to-day. But Johnny Bull
knows, from years of experience, what he has to
deal with in the shape of these Roman Catholic
priests, who are the real leaders of the ignorant and
superstitious people with which they are surrounded.
And it is a noticeable fact, that with all the poverty
and degradation in Ireland, that the Roman Catholic
churches in which they worship are as elegant and
costly as any in other or more prosperous lands. The
money to build and maintain them has been ground
out of this God-forsaken race by the officiating
priest of each diocese, and still the cry is continu-
ally coming to America for help for the starving
poor.

Most of the Roman Catholics of to-day have taken
their children from the public schools by order of
their priests, who have from their pulpits proclaimed
them as Godless, and the female Protestant teachers
as no better than harlots ; but for all that, they have
failed to request the Roman Catholic teachers in the
public schools (of ^hom there are many) to resign.
O no ; that would stop many heretic dollars from
getting into the Roman Catholic Church treasury.
It is a notorious fact that dollars always take the
precedence of principles ; with these Roman Catholic
priests, a small sum of money at the confessional
will absolve from much sin if profitably committed
against heretics.

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It is a notorious fact to every observing person,
that whenever or wherever there is a labor strike
where these Roman Catholic Irish are employed, it
is only the Protestant shop or yard that is struck ;
the Roman Catholic Irish employer's business goes
on without a ripple ; and it is suspected by many
that these strikes are only another device of the
Jesuits to embarrass Protestant employers, and
worry them out of the business, so that Roman
Catholic Irish employers can get their trade ; at
any rate it has a decided look that way. And it
has been asserted by some who think they know
whereof they speak, that Roman Catholic Irish em-
ployers have contributed to the support of the
strikers in a majority of the cases during a strike ;
for instance, in the case of the marble- workers and
cigar-makers of Boston, and shoe manufacturers of
Haverhill, and other places in New England. The
hand of the Jesuit is readily seen in all these move-*
ments. Old Cardinal Gibbons' puppet, by the
name of Powderly, was the first to come to the
front in these labor movements ; but now the old
superannuated fossil of the Nineteenth Century,
known as the Pope of Rome, is coming to the front
as a champion of labor ; but at the same time he is
establishing priest manufactories from one end of
the earth to the other. These priests are expected
to squeeze the last cent from the laborers in or out
of the church, that it may be rich and rotten as it
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proper management and education of the present
and coming generation, popery of to-day in America,
iu the year two thousand two hundred, will compare
with the religion of that time about the same as the
tallow candle of old compares with the electric light
of to-day.

These Irish are the only race in New England
who are continually abusing and maltreating the
industrious and cleanly heathen Jhinese, as they
designate them ; but it is a notorious fact that the
only women who have been married to representa-
tives of this Chinese race in America have been,
without exception, those of Roman Catholic Irish
blood, — and more's the pity for the Chinese ; and
those who have traveled the earth over will tell you
that nowhere on its face are there such heathen, or
worse than brutes, as can be found right here in
our midst in the shape of these Roman Catholic
Irish. Such a curse are they considered, that when-
ever one of them moves into a respectable neighbor-
hood, it makes little difference how respectable he
may be, the real estate in that neighborhood com-
mences at once to depreciate, and half the estates
in that location are soon on the market for sale ;
and where these Roman Catholic Irish have
colonized in a particular part of a city, real estate
is valued at about one half of what it is just outside
of that neighborhood, and can hardly be disposed
of to anyone outside of this Roman Catholic Irish
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to owning property in the neighborhood "of these
breeders of hoodlums, more especially those who
have had experience with real estate in such neigh-
borhoods, and so well known is it that this feeling
exists, that many of them make a practice of going
into a respectable neighborhood and purchasing a
lot of land commence to dig a cellar, and pretend
that they are going to put up a tenement house.
The respectable neighbors are obliged to club
together and buy them off, in order not to have a
breeding-pen for hoodlums in their midst. This
species of blackmail is practiced on respectable
Protestants (or heretics) by these Roman Catholic
Irish year in and year out, and as yet there is no
remedy for it. Their priests set them the example,
for they purchase the most desirable lots in the best
neighborhoods for their churches ; and no matter
how good the neighborhood was previous to the
erection of that church, houses in it can be let only
to Roman Catholic Irish afterward.

Observe these young Irish hoodlums in front of
the church : they ascend the steps with bowed head ;
they remove their head-covering and kneel on the
threshold ; they cross themselves before a picture of
the Virgin Mary, and sprinkle themselves with holy
water ; in ^yq minutes from that time, in sight of
that church, you will find them robbing some heretic's
fruit orchard, and using the most blasphemous,
obscene, and profane language which could proceed
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here in America, in this enlightened nineteenth
century !

Go take a look into the back yard of one known
as Father Scully, in Cambridgeport, Mass. See the
life-size images of saints, martyrs, virgins, angels,
and Christ on the cross ; notice the crowd of young
hoodlums that' daily congregate there ; from their
language and actions in and out of that yard shows
the truth of the old saying that ''Familiarity breeds
contempt." One need not go to India to find
heathen ; every man has them in his midst, within
ten minutes' walk from where he resides in any large
New England city, in the shape of these Roman
Catholic Irish hoodlums. "For by their acts ye
shall know them."

When will deluded laboring men learn and realize
that they cannot add to the cost of every manufac-
tured article by an increase in wages and a reduc-
tion in time or hours of labor, without increasing
the cost of every article consumed or used by them-
selves or families ; by the increased price of build-
ing leads to an increase of the price he has to pay
for a home, as also the rent he pays for a house.
The employer has the advantage every time. For
ii^stance, if a shoe manufacturer is making a certain
class of shoe which costs him 90 cents per pair, and
he is selling them to the retailer for $1.00 per pair
by the case, and the retailer is getting $1.25 per
pair, but the laborer insists on getting $1.00 a pair
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then the inaDufacturer charges the retailer $1.25
per pair by the case, and the retailer gets $1.50 a
pair from the laborer, who thought he was doing a
smart thing to get ten per cent advance for the
price of his labor, when in fact he is fifteen cents
more out of pocket than he would have been if he
had made them at the old price. This is the way
it works with every article of food and clothing
which comes into the laborer's family. In war
times laboring men received S3. 50 a day for their
labor ; but they paid 20 cents a pound for sugar,
which to-day is 7 cents ; they paid 30 cents a yard
for cotton, which to-day is 6 cents per yard ; and
everything else was in the same proportion, and
they would have had more money in the end with
wages at $1.50 a da}^ and articles of consumption
on the market at the same ratio. There is a strike
in the coal mines, and every laboring man in the
United States is charged 25 cents a ton advance on
his coal, so that a hundred laborers at the mine may
get an advance of 5 cents a ton. There is a strike
in several shoe shops or tanneries ; and so that a
few men may add ten or fifteen cents a day to their
wages, and laboring men throughout the United
States pay an additional 25 cents for every pair of
shoes they purchase for themselves and families,
then the labor leaders (who toil not, neither do they
spin, but yet live on the fat of the land) proclaim
to their deluded followers, through the daily papers,
that a great victory has been obtained for the labor-

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iDg man. The cost price of the production of any
article will be its market price, or value, — and to
that the manufacturers' profit will be added every
time ; and if the laboring man wants that article for
himself or his family's use, he has got to pay the
manufacturer's price or go without it ; and the only
men who are reaping any real benefit are the men
known as labor leaders, who do all their labor with
their mouths, and draw their fat salaries from the
pockets of their deluded victims. When a manu-
facturers business does not pay him a reasonable
sum on his investment, he will go out of it, and
seek a better investment ; but the poor, deluded
laborers whom he will then be obliged to discharge,
will look farther and fare worse.

But the fact is plainly evident to any intelligent
observer, that the Irish Knight of Labor is digging
his own grave ; for when laboring men receive four
dollars a day for eight hours' labor, then a better
class of men are going into the trades, and the
manual training schools now being established
throughout New England are going to furnish them.
Then these Irish micks, who at the present time
think they own, or at least want to own, the earth,
or that part of it known as New England, will have
to stand aside and make room for their betters.

Protestant women of New England, it is to you
we have to look for help to crush the head of this
serpent in our midst known as Roman Catholicism.
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day and generation. With your influence you can
accomplish a great work by preventing thousands
of dollars reaching the treasury of the Roman Cath-
olic Church. See to it that in your households none
but Protestants are employed ; use all your influence
with your friends to follow your example ; see to it
that those parties who supply your households with
the necessaries or luxuries of life are not the ser-
vants of that to-be-curse of America, the Pope of
Rome ; use your influence on your fathers, brothers,
and sons, who give employment to men, women, or
children, to have them employ only Protestants, for
by so doing collectively, you will be the agents
indirectly of keeping thousands of dollars out of
the treasuries of the Roman Catholic Church. Lack
of sustenance leads to starvation, and means sure
death to this hydra-headed monster in our midst,
which has reached its present bloated condition
through the thoughtless and indiscreet, indirect con-
tributions of your fathers and mothers to its treas-
uries during these past fifty years. Let every Prot-
estant woman of to day do her duty to herself, her
family, and the State, and her sons and daughters
in generations to come in the future will rise up and
call her blessed.

There is a story sometimes told in regard to the
origin of the Roman Catholic Irish breed, though
the author cannot vouch for its truth. It is as fol-
lows : A she wolf and a male ape were in pens ad-
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fallen in love with each other during the yoyage,
and on being released strayed off together and did
not stop until Ireland's shores were reached : result,
the present race of bogtrotters, with the nature of
the wolf and look of the ape. It is reported that
so firm was the belief of the New York Park Com-
missioners in 'this story, that when an ape was
brought to them for the Zoo in Central Park they
unanimously christened him Mr. Crowle}^ At any
rate, it has been observed by observing men that
there is nothing so low in the scale of humanity that
ever reaches our shores but some Roman Catholic
Irishwoman is ready to join her fortunes with it.
Enumerations are unnecessary, as the daily papers
are constantly furnishing proof, and it is said that
ninety-nine out of a hundred of all the dime museum
freaks or abortions of nature, such as half animal
and half human beings, can readily be traced to a
Roman Catholic Irish source.

And to show that these Roman Catholic Irish
people among us to-day are no different from their
grandfathers and grandmothers who resided on Ire-
land's bogs upward of a hundred years ago, and to all
appearances their cussedness is hereditary, we quote
the following paragraph, word for word, from a chap-
ter of ''Young's Travels in Ireland," in June, 1776.
He says : "Another circumstance was the excessive
practice they have in general of pilfering. They
steal everything they can lay their hands on, and, I
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very generally given me ; all sorts of iron hinges,
chains, locks, keys, etc. ; gates will be cut in pieces
and conveyed away as fast as built ; trees as big as
a man's body, and that would require ten men to
move, gone in one night. Lord Longford has had
the new wheels of a car stolen as soon as made.
Good stones out of a wall will be taken for a fire-
hearth, etc., though a breach is made to get at them.
In short, everything, and even such as are appar-
ently of no use to them. Nor is it easy to catch
them, for they never carry their stolen goods home,
but to some bog-hole. Turnips are stolen by car-
loads, and two acres of wheat plucked off in a
night. In short, their pilfering and stealing is a
perfect nuisance."

How perfectly the above description fits the sons
and daughters of those Roman Catholic Irish bog-
trotters of to-day, I leave my Protestant reader to
judge.

Very often we are told by some doughty leader
of these Roman Catholic Irish, from a public plat-
form, of their patriotism, which is extolled by the
large and loud mouthed orators to the very skies ;
but let us take a few cold facts from the history of
the War of the ReA^olution of 1776 : During the
month of June, 1776, a strange woman came into
General Washington's camp and wanted an inter-
view with the commander, which was granted. She
then and there unfolded a plot of the Tories to
assassinate the father of his couatry. Then, as to-

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day, if a man or body of men wished for some one
to do dirty work, whether it is the clearing out of a
privy or the assassination of a fellow-being (as in
the case of Cronin of Chicago, or Sawtelle of Bos-
ton) , they naturally look around for some Roman
Catholic Irishman as being most likely to accept
the job, and at the lowest price. In this case the
Tories had made a contract with a Roman Catholic
Irishman, by the name of Tom Hickey, who was
one of Washington's life-guards. On investigation
of the conspiracy it was proved that for a certain
sum of money, to be paid by the Tories of New
•York, Hickey was to assassinate Washington.
After learning these facts, Washington directed
Hickey to be tried by court-martial, and the trial
having resulted in his conviction, he was shot in the
presence of the whole army.

Only one year later a conspiracy was formed in
the army, probably through the influence of Tory
money, to oust General Washington from his posi-
tion of Commander-in-chief of the American Army.
The leader in this conspiracy was a Roman Catholic
Irishman, by the name of Tom Conway, who was
formerly an officer in the French army, and when
he enlisted in the American army was given the
rank of General ; but as treachery seems to flow in
the blood of this race, Conway was no exception to
the rule. It is this experience that Washington
had with this Roman Catholic Irish race that caused
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but Americans on guard" ; and ''Put no R. C. Irish-
Americans on guard," should be the order of to-day.
It is reported, with how much truth the author can-
not state, that one or the other of Benedict Arnold's
parents had Roman Catholic Irish blood in their
veins (blood will tell) ; at any rate, his treachery
would seem to verify the truth of the statement.
There was another Roman Cs^tholic Irish General
named Tarleton, connected with the British army.
He commanded two regiments of cavalry composed
wholly of picked Roman Catholic Irishmen. This
Tarleton was to the British army of that day, what
Fitz Hugh Lee was to the Confederate army of the
late war, though he lacked Lee's honor, and was
little better than a wholesale assassin. For in-
stance, on the occasion of General Buford's retreat
with his army from North Carolina, his men were
so tired and exhausted that they were ready to drop
in their tracks. This cowardly monster in human
shape rode up w^ith his fresh Irish cavalry and cap-
tured Buford's rear guard, who immediately threw
down their arms and cried out for quarter ; but this
band of Irish assassins immediately killed one hun-
dred and fifty of these unarmed men on the spot,
and mangled and maimed one hundred and fifty
more so badly that they were left on the field for
dead, and only about fifty were made prisoners,
and nearly every one of these were wounded.
It is also a matter of history that another Roman
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commanded several regiments of Irish Tories, and
did all in his power toward destroying the Ameri-
can army. There was still another Roman Cath-
olic, by the name of Lord Rawdon, who commanded
several regiments composed of Roman Catholic
Irish, and tlie same was constantly being reinforced
by new recruits from Ireland.

At the introduction of the man Powderly at
a meeting held in Faneuil Hall on the evening of
April 5, 1890, by a leader of the Knights of Labor,
a man said to be an Irishman and a Roman Catho-
lic, the following paragraph, taken from the Boston
Daily Globe of the following day (let us bear in
mind, that man was addressing an audience ninety-
five out of every hundred of which were Roman
Catholic Irish), reads as follows: ''It was my
pleasure to listen to an encomium upon that speech
from the lips of one of the leaders of the bar of
Massachusetts (did the speaker mean Pat Collins ?) ,
who said that our leader (meaning Powderly) had
only voiced the gospel of humanity (applause),
and we are here to-night to do our part in dissemi-
nating and spreading that gospel (does he not mean
Roman Catholicism?), ivhich every true Knight of
Labor believes in (loud cheers).''

After that speech, does any person deny that the
Knights of Labor, headed by Powderly (or possibly,
more appropriately, by Gibbons), is a Roman
Catholic Irish organization? Have not those words
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Roman Catholic Centennial recently held at Balti-
more ?

In conclusion, we must say to the Roman Catho-
lic Irish in New England, do not encroach further
on our established institutions ; established by the
men and women who landed from the Mayflower on
Plymouth Rock ; established by the patriots of
'76, and sealed with their blood. There is a line
which you may approach, and you are near it ; the
minute men of 1890 (the Knights of Equity), that
mysterious order, are close up to it on the other side.
They are not saints, church-members, or Quakers.
They are the Miles Standishes of the present time.
In their veins runs the blood of their ancestors of
1620 and 1776. They believe that the founders of
American liberty intended America to be a Protest-
ant country, and they are as ready to resist en-
croachments against human liberty and human rights
as were their ancestors before them.

They approach you peaceably with the ballot in
one hand, but are ready to resist encroachments
with the repeating Winchester held in the other.
You can boast of the prowess of your Sullivans,
but don't forget that a repeating Winchester in the
hands of a fifteen-year-old boy is equal to twenty
Sullivans. Protestants of New England, be on
your guard. This farce has gone on long enough ;
if forced much further it is liable to end in tragedy.

FINIS.

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