The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-03

Iahoc accepted the Indian his equal before God and in
his endeavor to save hered mans SOUL he his hold of
country. 80 = .aa 9s.ss. .sGtsaa
On the other hand the Yankee with whom soul-savno
is only secondary consideration is born and nurtred on
kind of restless pap and he begins to walk moves
off kind of railroad pace He never satisfied with what
he has got but always sets his eye what he has not He
is always moving from the known into the unknown He
believes that here to devote al his wears to-
signing about his SOUL but to cultivate the deserts cut down
the forests bridge the rivers build railroads publish news
papers start schools and ampe any and everything beneath
his feet that nereres with his onward march, While you
Frenchman has been teaching the Indian the Lords
playing his fiddle outside his log cabin Sunday after
noon the delight of the aborgenes the Yankee has been
laying out the settlement in town lots and has given the
spiritual Ce and his neophes notice to quit and dance
off and pray towards the setting sum- Aes = : - s tid
There Is no rest for the who intends to keep pace with
this nervous restless Yankee who cheats and pecuate all
the week. and worshps the Lord makes up his books ON
Sunday
Whatever the may be of the decay Of the French
there is nothing left of them in ST. Louis but their Names
and some very streets. We have been told that
remnant of the old families be found vet They are
retired from the nineenh century, however, and live in old
fashioned chateax where they do nothing but count
their heaps of god and keep ST. Louis from going ahead
ST. Louis should be city of 100000 inhabitants to-day
instead of onehaf that number and would be- if of
those old mmovabe broken open their
said that there money locked up and lying idle in the
vaults of the old families here than would buy all bust
men Chicago Themore shame those rong huk
and the credit to the energetic merchants of the sister
city. .I:Ife ID III tr84as.4 l7.: af zf.aI
ST. Louis has had all the advantage position The great
rivers of the West bring the riches of the Mississippi valley
to her DOORS She is than century old. Chicago
though young enough call her grandmother already
ogrown her. and in business dances completely her.
ST. Louis started in life with well filled purse and rich
relations Chicago started with nothing but brains and i'm
pudence 1t the old story of the elder and the younger
TIERS One started with all the property and relied nothing
his exeon The other met the world and subdued
it. While the elder allowed his broad domains Seed
conscious that well enough off, the younger into
the Wilderness and with toll and perseverance, made it bios
som as the rose #iH ii aan9.l j ~ ao il 90
ST. Louis could afford despise Chicago in the past
she cannot do in the future AS city ST. Louis is far
superior to Chicago yet 1t has sody about which
Chicago has not Tits city of stone and brick while Chi
cago city, town. and village umbled into The public
buildings in ST. Louis will compare voraby with any city
in the land The public library almost completed in
the Polytechnic Institute will equal if not surpas anything
of its kind in America a9i ..s# ~ Il 70 sfa5s 9I
ST. Louis would only uncoil this old sleepness or salts
fedness if you WILL that surrounds her. and strip her
work-Yankee fashionhere is grand future before her.
There many peculiares about St Louis that strike
Chicago odd. You find the sidewalks pecu
liar old country cities and you shake hands
of the streets Other Streets however, spacious and
present noble appearance Along Broadway, of the
principal business Streets there awnings supported
pillars stories high The sidewalks underneath very
wide side the business shops and the outside of
the sidewalks huckers stalls On your right the
fashionable dry goods ewey carpet and other stores i'm
medately your left of stalls where you pur
chase anything from potatoes and cabbage apples and
Walking between those aduesares in the morning,
beneath the cool protection of the tall awnings and every
body and their children out marketing has air of anti
quaed pleasantness anything but dsagreeable Imagine
Lake street, Chicago Broadway, New York. with rows of
cabbage and fruit stalls the edges of the sidewalks The
those stands STRANGE nv what a