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Show Caricaturing Irishmen. New York, May 6. James P. Bree, national secretary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, has confirmed, according accord-ing to a dispatch to the World from New Haven. Conn., the reports that an organized effort Is being made by Irish societies to discountenance caricatures of the Irish race on the stage and in the papers. Said Mr. Bree: "The agitation is more for the education educa-tion of the people than a movement against theatrical managers, actors and publishers. We realize the fact that theatrical managers strive to give the people what they w;ant, and that these caricatures of the race would not be presented did not the people applaud them. "We must not be considered oversensitive over-sensitive in the matter. What we object ob-ject to is such characterizations as exploit ex-ploit the worst features of the race and make capital of the faillings of human nature and ascribe them wholly to a type of Irishman which does not exist. "An Irishman can stand a joke just as well as a man of any other race, but he does not enjoy jokes that be-. be-. little him. This habit of caricature extends ex-tends to other nationalities and i3 calculated cal-culated to bring them in an unfavorable unfavor-able light before the rising generation." |