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Show NOT AN ANGLO SAXON. McKinley Was of Irish Lineage, and of the Blood of ?98. 'Father Cronin, the gifted editor of the Buffalo Catholic Union and Times, sometimes uses his pen as a spit upon which to roast the bigots who abound in the Exposition city. This is the way he burns up the Methodist bishop of that piace: Some things were said by the Meth- odist Bishop Fowler in his McKinley memorial address, this city, that were in shocking taste, considering the solemnity sol-emnity of the occasion and other attending at-tending circumstances. We submit incieunn certain or his utterances in justification of what we have said, and then our readers will judge. We instance in-stance the following: "The home is an Anglo-Saxon institution. insti-tution. It is eminently an American institution. The home is the unit of our government. We are not a nation of tramps, but of families. It is in our blood to make a home. We will go out and settle anywhere on the land where we can make a home. The Frenchman must live in cities, in gangs. With a chair on the broad sidewalk of the capitol and a closet on some fifth floor where he can sleep, t-he Frenchman is happy. No wonder the death rate exceeds the birth rate, counting all in wedlock and all out of it. Not so with the Saxon, and especially espe-cially the American. We stick to the soil and make a home. We leave the offices to the Irish and French and the offices from the south of Purope." The question that naturally arises to the ordinary mind is. Why should this unctious man of God thus go out of his way to wantonly insult peoples not of Anglo-Saxon blood? Was the meeting meet-ing sit Anglo-Saxon jollification, or was it one of sorrow, when, amid the tears of those present the Christian life and civic virtues of the nation's fallen chief were to be commemorated? We again insist that those irrelevant issues is-sues were in horrible taste even for a Methodist bishop, and we hereby stigmatize them as a gross outrage on such an occasion. Why drag in Anglo-Saxonism on that day of mourning? William McKinley Mc-Kinley was not an Anglo-Saxon. He was of Irish lineage, and one of his name and blood was hanged in '9S by "Anglo-Saxon civilization" for carry-tlz carry-tlz a pike in behalf of Irish liberty. You say, Bishop, that the home is peculiarly an Anglo-Saxon institution. Why. right reverend sir, the Irish and the French whom you sneer at had h..nies with peace and plenty when vi.ur Saxons were howline savages roaming the wilderness clad in the skins of wild beasts. Your implied comparison between the families of the Anglo-Saxon ani those of the Irish and French are un-fottunate un-fottunate for you. Neither of the two latU'i races is uite up or. rather, down to the Anglo-Saxon standard of abcut two for the family maximum. In proof we would instance Upper and J Lower Canada for comparison. Are not French-Canadians, with their pro- ; lifie families, masters of the Domin- j ion:' Js not a French-Canadian today practically king of Canada? As for the Irish whom you so honor with your Christian hatred have they not, because of like family plethora, practically turned New England into a New Ireland? And have not their records rec-ords in all the wars- of the. republic-proved republic-proved them loyal and brave to the land of their adoption? Are there any anarchists among them? Rather, who was it that crushed the anarchist reign of terror in Chicago at the peril and at the lost of their lives, but Irish policemen police-men ? And instead of feeling grateful for such service of courage and patriotism, patriot-ism, you come in with your little musty joke on so solemn an occasion, tn the disgust of your hearers. You should, right reverend sir, be he&rtilv ashamed of such wanton flings Hi racial bloods that have given to civilization civ-ilization its most noted personages in P'ace and in war; and that discovered, explored and gave this dazzling New-World New-World to the children of men. |