Show AN ERRONEOUS impression CORRECTED Because of the immigration to the united wittes states being 0 so o much greater than to any anyo othe thop part of the greater than to all other parts parte we have the inevitable tion obtaining widespread credulity that our greater eastern oltie cities ore are fairly overrun with irish who either dominate or dictate in everything political and many things thing religious and social ocial in B yew york city particularly th the current tradition informs us ug the that at least nine out of ton ten policemen einen are irishmen that they are made such after having been beau upon the soil 1 a ridiculously short abort time that they holu hold a large number of other ani an I 1 more profitable public positions that they art am all democrats because of a natural in to be fernin st the govern govera ment meat and so on this is a most moat fru fruit ful theme for the politician abe f romancer and the playwright the last lad named particularly what kind of a play would it be that dian didn at have a hibernian in it in one or another cap bapa city but preferably as a with red whiskers an aal a mouth lili lj the entrance to the mammoth cv cave it Is ia all a pleasant pleass Dt but in some cases a malicious notion fiction though the new york sun calls attention to the fact that an old tradition has hag been overturned in the police depart department merl of that town by promoting to a captaincy a policeman whose christian name is patrick it appears that in ilk gill all the years that the department has been in existence that famous cognomen has never appeared in the li aliat liat of police precinct commanders in new york it might be as aa well to add to this the in ila formation that new york Is fi finana fixie nasa sf contains a decided minority of irish men and that there are several pron promas mj nent irish citizens of that and other places who are not only republicans bat s thorough going and ones onea patrick ford editor of toa irish world to is one of these Patri patrick cit egan known to ath fortune and ud fame as our minister to chill chili illi a 4 another general connor who died here a year ago nearly was one and ud I 1 they choy are really quite numerous we vy don dont donit it expect that an idea as thoroughly en grafted upon our prejudices as the one named will cease or even be abetted abated to some extent because of this tiou but for the sake of having things right and undeceiving those who have all along believed what they heard on olm that subject it to Is proper that it be made nevertheless |