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Title: The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American-Irish Historical Society
Subjects: American-Irish Historical Society Irish Americans Ethnology
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Society
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naturally accept as punishment for their sins; or asquite the thing in good purgatorial society, and, therefore, notto be lightly changed for fear of going to the devil entirely. Americans and Irishmen got one shoulder out of the feudal-ists purgatory early in their career, and like the purgatorianin the old Irish story, having gotten that far, all the devilsbelow could not keep him in. The Americans escaped entirely; and the Irishmen are ontheir way. The American fight against the graft of the capitalistic barons,who would like to take the place of the old feudal Lords, thatis to say, the fight against graft of high and low degree is thefinal wind-up of the American struggle. We do not hear much of graft in England because there, graftis legalized and participated in by all the governing class, whopolitely wave aside all moral considerations and claim a vestedright to graft because of its long continuance. They dont have to hire agents to represent them in Parlia-ment or the Courts.
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THE CRQSS OF CONG. (Date, 1123.)Glorious piece of antique Irish workmanship, wrought in Roscommon by order ofKing Turlough OConnor, to enshrine a piece of the True Crosssent to the King by the Pope. It bears an accountin Gaelic of its making. AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 201 They are the Parliament and the Supreme Court themselves,and under the delusive forms of law, they have sucked theEnglish orange so dry that nearly one third of the people ofEngland do not know today where they are going to get theirdinner tomorrow. We do not hear much of graft as graft there, because all whohave the power to make themselves heard are in on the graft,and the people whose spirit has been broken to it, and who havebeen taught by their established church to pray for Hisgracious majesty and all others in authority mostly accept itas the Will of God. In Ireland, however, they do not so accept it. They neverhave accepted it and they never will. Feudalism did not, as elsewhere in Europe, break the

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