St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-21
BLOOD COUNTS NOW.
Remarkable Entente Cordiale
Noted inI the Parliament
of Great Britain.
Patriots Of Scotland and Of
Wales Az Wait the Press Of
Irel ards Need.
Noble Trust Reposed in the
Ability Of the Irish to
Act Wisely.
Rev. DR.. Conway Reviews in
Graphic Style the Euro
pean Situation.

lev. DR.. John Conway, who has re-
gently returned from a prOtracted visit
to Europe. contributes for the pleasure
Of GLOBE readers an extremely interest
Ing review of Some of the most vital
points of Eurobean action, pending and
prospective. inI the following article:
have not yJt finished with the Brit
ish Isles. WAS speaking of the ques-
ton OF home rfle for Ireland. Scotland
and Wales arelalso moving in the same
direction, but tney are willing to post
pone their claims for the sake of their
kinsmen acrds the channel. Blood
will tell, and there is no mistaking the
entente cordiale between these various
sections of the Celtic race. 1t is curious
to hear Mr.. Allen, a Scotch poet who
sits in parliament for Newcastle-on-
Tyne, exchange stanZas with L. ID. Sui
livan, the veteran parliamentarlan and
poet laureate of Ireland. Not less in
teresting is it TO listen to Blake or an
O'Brien fan the fierce flame of patriot
ism in a Campbell Oh a Macdonald by an
apparently artless reference to Bruce
and Wallace and other Scottish chiefs,
the fame of wi iose prowess had reached
far beyond thd region of border story.
Home rule wi p not fill the streets of
Dublin with gbld in day; nor will its
influence for good be felt at once. It's
no easy matter to get the machinery of
a national government in working
order; nor must we be impatient with
The Irish ParIfamentarians,
who will doubt ess do their best during
the trying period of transition. Home
rule will put the irish people on their
honor. The climate has been described,
not untruthfully, as being soft as a
mothers smilei the soil as being fruit
full as Gods love, and the people will
not have the English government to
blame in case OF failure.
A sense of the glorious right of being
independent will be more fully de-
Veloped the great agricultural re-
sources of the country can be called into
play without let or hindrance; the man
ufacturing interests of the North can be
extended all over the island; the copper
mines of Waterford, the gold mines of
Wicklow, the coal mines and black mar
bic quarries of Kilkenny, the green mar
bic quarrieS of Galway, can all be ade-
UQdltlN
power of the country can be put to some
profitable use; ships may again be got
to spread their white sails in the splen-
did harbors OF Cork. Waterford, Liner
lex, Dublin and Galway; a continus po-
litical agitation will cease because 1t
will have become useless and worse;
the clergy will be in q position to hon
orably withdraw from politics, and to
devote themselves to some much-needed
reforms in matters social and educa-
tional; and Irish writer's like Justin Nc
Carthv, John Tyndall, T. p. O'COnnor,
Rosa Mulholland, Richard Bowling, and
the duchess" will be able to find lucra-
tive publishing houses in their own
metropolis, and appreciative readers
among their own cOuntrymen.
No Aiterataurs by Profession.
Perhaps | should not comment on the
fact that at present there are no literary
men in Ireland who live by the pen, for
an almost similar condition exists in the
United States. Max O'Rell noted that
for the most part our American authors
look TO business first, and take up the
pen at odd hours only. And he men
lions that Mark Twain is publisher,
Oliver Wendell Holmes a doctor, Ed
mund Clarence Stedman stOckbrOker,
Robert lngerSQll lawyer anu UeoISe
W. Cable public reader. OF course
some few wriTets still remain in Ireland.
but they are not people who live by the
profession of literature. Edward Dow
den, who writes on literary questions, is
professor in the University Of Dublin;
James Murphy the historical novelist,
is a professor in Blackrock college;
Emily Lawless has written a few clever
books just to vent spleen and to show
that there is still an expiring spark in
the cooling cipHers of feudalism. Mr..
Fitzpatrick, tks Irish biographer. takes
to literature asia paStime, and Katherine
lyman, prom Using young authoress,
writes only as an occasional pleasure:
1t is an ill omef to find the graves OF
the mighty dead neglected. 1t does not
argue we'll for literary appreciation to
find the tombs of Father Prout and Ger
aid Griffin as uncared for as if these
men had never shed a lustre on the lit
erature of their native land. Men OF
thought are entitled TO SOME poSt-mor-
TEN consideration as we'll as men of
action. The consideration will not do
them any good, but it may encourage
others who are pulling hard against the
stream. If the English people have