The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-17
English, Irish, Scotch and
Welsh Compared.
THEIR LIKES AND DIsLIKEs.
The Epglishman the "Boss"-Erin's
Sons Humility-A Blush for Their
COuntry-Oaten Bread and
A"Parretch )"
LoxpoN. December 10, 1885.


Christmas is the Englishman's day.
To the sturdy Scot there is but one
day, and that is the New Year. The
Irishman, for once in his life, is impair
tial. He doesn't give a continental for
either. They are alike to him in that
he is Indifferent to both. Three nations
under one government. 1t has been
thus for centuries, and the national
lines, instead of breaking down with the
advancing civilization which it is alleged
is marching with uninterrupted tread
among the people of the earth, seem to
be clearly marked as ever. The English
man is proud of his British blood and
roast beef and plum pudding and ale
and would deem it an insult TO call him
Scotch, while the intimation that he was
Irish would be just cause for a fight.
The bosom of Grecian or Roman, in the
palmiest days of those nations, never
swelled with greater pride at his nation
atty than does that of the Scot when
he contemplates his own birthplace. To
him the English is very inferior race
and he would just as leave have you
call him a niger as intimate that he
was of Irish extraction. All the luXur-
les of the world will not tempt him to
forget his "parritchn or to forsake his
oaten bread mistaken in the conscious
ness II inherent strength, he is anything
but afraid OF his "drappie" and cannot
see how it is possible for him to enter
tain an erroneous opinion on any sub
ject, and there is no subject what
ever on which he does not entertain
a fixed belief. OF him it has been said:
Pm open to conviction, but I'd like tae
see the daum'd maun that can convince
me-" 1t is also a Scotch minister who
is accredited with the prayer: 80 God,
gle us guild conceit o'oursels" as it is
impossible for any other nationality to
entertain a universal opinion that they
underestimate themselves. Pat has
little or no pride. He is pleased, deligh-
ted to hear anybody speak well of the
bright and beautiful little isle where
first the smile of heaven gladdened his
young heart, but he has so long anc so
keenly felt the degradation of humila-
ting submission that his very love for
the land that gave him birth is mingled
with an unconscious degree of shame.
The thought that recalls his native
land brings also to his heart recollec-
tions of her national dependence and
the blush of love that rises to his face
is forever mixed with a tiDge of man
Ting shame. So closely have these
thoughts become woven with his being
that ne can scarce tell where his love
for Ireland ends and his shame for her
humility begins. So he Is humble.
lam not surprised at the Scotchman's
disgust for Irish. The people of Ulster,
or the north of Ireland will tell you with
self-consciousness that there
came from Caledonia, stern |
and wild" Anybody familiar with the |
mean traits in the Scotch character will |
readily admit the common origin OF |
north Irishers and Scotch, the only |
regret is that in the transplantlng they |
did not bling a few of the ancestral |
virtues with them as an offset. Priding |
himself on his Scotch origin the north |
'Irisher" despises his very " 1rishness,
and being himself ashamed of his nation |
atty, it IS notsurplising that the Scotch |
should be ashamed OF him too. One |
part of ireland rejoices atthe recurrence !
of ST. Patrick's day, and the Shamrock |
"
hearts delight. That day is the 18th OF
March. The other part or those who !
boast their Scotch eXtracation, go into |
ecstatic rapture when July 18th returns, |
when they can parade the streets with a |
fife band discoursing "Boyne Water
and Protestant Boys" in as many diff !
ferent KEYS as there are instruments IN |
the band and in which the number OF |
base drums, which are beaten most |
equal the number OF flies. /
This is the OrangemaR's day, and he |
comes out dressed in the toggery OF his |
lodge a spectacle Of extremes and incon- |
gruities never to be forgotten while |
memory lasts. There is an affinity
between a regular Mick, a Shamrock,
and cracked head, which
seems singuIarly in keeping with the
eternal fitness of things, but between an
and his regalia, there ap-
pears to be wanting anything whatever
that is calculated to preserve the unlties-
Being thus divided against himself the
Irishman cannot stand, and tor Inls
reason there is no day that the lrlsn-
man, forgetting all religious and polini
cal differences, can celebrate. wholly /
and purely as his own. forgetting hls
differences and for the time at least,
allowing peace and good feeling to pre- pre-
vail throughout his whole being. On
Christmas day the Englishman forgets
everything bat the day, and there isn
a thought in his heart but peace ana
and roast beef and plum pna-'
ding and ale. On New Year Sd the
Scotty comes down from1his DER tower
ing pinnacle, he smiles, wishes you (
we'll and keeps on trying TO get
'unoo'r fu'. y becoming happier me I.
nearer he reaches the attainment OF tnat
desirable end, and persists IN warb-
ling AUD Lang Syne." and taxing a
.recht guild" pull every time he returns
to the chorus. There is no such DAY
with the Irishman; neither the prospects
of full stomach or q light head ana
ungovernabIe feet ever caused MN 70
feel that he is brother TO all man iIl.
The more drink he gets the more pat
riotic" OF venomous he becomes 1or nls
pet cause and the greater his amnesty
toward those whose religious and ponu-
cal views are opposed to his Owl.
Patrick is and is likely to the lasl 70 De
distracted by internal contentious;
There is one thing that should De salu
for poor Erinis sons and daughters
while It's true they have no set Gay on
which they are open and free hearted