THE FRUITS OF GODLESSNESS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 446, 28 October 1881, Page 5

THE FRUITS OF GODLESSNESS.

One day last week some Chinamen, who were bearing: the body of one of their friends out of this city for burial, were hooted and howled at by a crowd which some of the papers describe as ma }c up of Americans. This is carryi.ig courtesy to great lengths; for it in perfectly certain that the crowd was not comp wed of natives of thiß country. Why is it that respectable Irishmen have so little control of the fools of their race who are on every occasion prompt to disgrace their blood ? One would think that the priest alone were able to repress these stupid mobs. This from the Methodist. We should be glad indeed to thiuk that this disreputable crowd was not American by birth, and that the tyranny of an American majority was not largely responsible for the state of things, which make it possible. As far bacic as the days of St Patrick, Irish born and trained have reverenced the dead, so that it may safely be inferred that wherever these dogs were born, Ireland and her priest or their Amenean brethren, are tiot responsible for their training. " Why is it," asks the Metliodist " that rep ctabLi Irishmen have so little contiol of the fools of their race, who are on every occasion prompt to disgrace their bluod." and then it assails the priests for not " repi easing these stupid mobs.' Our rontetnporary in its assault has almost blundered on the answer. You hare taken away from the priests the power, for the want of which you now seek to hold them responsible. A thousand times over and over again we have warned you that your public schools cannot deal with the poor and the ignorant, and that your only social salvation is to enable us to teach their children ; that if you fail to do this, either from ignorance or malice, you must pay the penalty, one part of which will be to see grow up a set of hoodlums that will suipass in recklessness, license and brutality all that San Francisco, Liverpool or New 1 York has yet produced. Every generation of them as it is removed farther from Ireland and the Church, will growwoiß-and worso Neither Irishmen nor Catholics are responsible for th«na. W * disavow and repudiate them. We cannot prey -nt thnirbiitb, aid if in our poverty you hamper us in teaching them, and in making them what we have proved an Iri:>h Catholic can be made then tbeir blood and their souls lie at your doors, not ours. We can make them little less than angels ; see you to it, than you do not prevent us, or they may turn out devils, Give us the training of our children and then hold us responsible for them. — Catholic Review,