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right thereof. Satan, according to Holy Writ, has
declared that he would set up his throne in the
North; and it is probable that it is for this reason
that all the Protestant governments are situated
in that direction. It is extremely remarkable that
the further north a country lies the more inveter¬
ate is the hatred of its inhabitants towards Pope¬
ry." In the empire of Germany today the Cath¬
olic Church is greatly repressed and suffers perse¬
cution, while formerly in Sweden and Norway un¬
speakable barbarities were precised towards the
Catholic clergy. In the North of Ireland the hy-
dra of Orangism exhibits its most malignant and
envenomed fangs; while in Canada, in
the province of Ontario, where this baleful socie¬
ty has received the sanction of law, it is triumph¬
antly rampant. And it is also in the Northern
portion of the American Union, or in the states
of New England, that very bitter prejudice against
Catholicity exists, and that Knownothingism has
had its most impregnable stronghold. St. Patrick,
in his life by Jocelyn, is represented as calling
the devil "The Northern Enemy" ; and in a Gaelic
hymn attributed to him, I find that he has called
a demon
Cléitheánach,
or sinister being. Both Gaelic and Hebrew phil¬
ology illustrate this matter with additional light,
but I cannot now further follow the subject, but
shall conclude by announcing another letter or two
of still strange and startling importance, embrac¬
ing new views concerning the "Ancient of
days," "Son of man," the many headed beasts or
figurative kingdoms, the Resurrection of the dead
and Antichrist; and shall so finish up my proph¬
tic lucubrations. In the interest of God, lang¬
uage and country,
Believe me yours, most faithfully,
GAEL GLAS.
COLONIZATION.
The only Practical Scheme to Confer a Lasting
Benefit on the Irish Race in America.
It seems to us that the all-important question of
Irish autonomy has heretofore absorbed the time
and attention of Irish patriots and Irish philan¬
thropists this side of the Atlantic to the total ex¬
clusion of all matters tending to benefit and ele¬
vate the race in this Western hemisphere.
It is a fact that nearly all the Irish who and on
these shores are poor and penniless and therefore
compelled to settle down and seek a precarious
livelihood in the cities at which they land. The
majority of those immigrants come from the ru¬
ral districts of their own country, unused to city
life, and not infrequently become an easy prey to
the vicious elements of their new surroundings —
for, in consequence of their poverty, they are for¬
ced to locate themselves in the poorest neighbor¬
hoods. Now, we believe that there is patriotism e¬
nough in the well-to-do Irishmen and Irishwomen
of this country to come to the rescue of their poor
country people landing on these shores, and that
a commencement only is necessary to elicit from
them a willing and hearty response, particularly
when, by the project which we propose, they will
make money themselves along with making their
less fortunate countrymen prosperous and happy.
Our project then is to form a
Colonization Company,
with a capital of $1,000,000, in 200,000 share of $5
each for the purpose of buying land and of set¬
tling our poor immigrants and other poor families
of our towns and cities upon it.
Large tracts of land, capable of producing cot¬
ton, tobacco, wheat, corn etc. in various parts of
the Western and South-western States can now be
purchased at $3 or $4 an acre. The project then is,
to buy up some of this land, divide it into 100 acre
plots or farms, give to each immigrant, or other
poor family one of these farms, build him a house,
sink a well, supply him with seed, farming imple¬
ments etc. and make him pay the price of the farm
and other attachments as rent in easy installments
with six per cent interest per annum on the bal¬
ance until fully paid, when he becomes absolute
owner thereof.
The Company cannot, of course, have immediate
interest on its capital, but the settlements thus
made would enhance the value of the land tenfold.
The land could be sold to the first settlers at $5
an acre, that is, $500 for a 100 acre farm. After the
settlement of a few hundred families this and the
circumjacent land would be worth from $10 to $20
an acre, so that the shareholders after benefitting
their poor neighbors and countrymen would double
their own capital in a few years. There is no risk
in this project because the stockholders have the
best security in the world the the land. The build¬
ing and implements would be no risk because they
would be a permanent appendage to the farm,
and the agent could see to it that the seed was
properly used,
Now, a large number of the sons of farmers and
shopkeepers who come to this country never had
to earn their bread on the floor of the stranger.
When they come here they go about looking for
some fancy employment — such as clerkship etc. —
not wishing to engage in what they consider men¬
ial labor. They fail in finding such employment
— the market in that respect being glutted with our
native born young men. At last, getting some¬
what hardened by necessity, they accept employ¬
ment in liquor stores and saloons as bartenders
and ultimately become liquor dealers themselves —
a business at first distasteful to them but compell¬
ed by necessity to adopt it, and and a business which
is the greatest curse to our nationality in this coun¬
try. Three fourths of the Irish liquor dealers in
