Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-05-19
President John S. Cooke, Of the Cooke
Brewing Company, Is Written
Up In ireland.
Sketch Of One Of Our Successful Men
as He Appears to Eyes Across
the Sea.

stay In Dublin has shown them the
pleasantest side Of this city. Mr..
Cooke has also been introduced to
that bright resort on Stephens
Green, the Sheridan Club, and has
been made welcome. Mr.. Cooke told
a Herald representative that Dublin,
ut first sight, did not make a favora.
bic impression on him. It never does
delight strangers at the opening
view; the mute voices Of the streets
somehow speak to the visitor, Of las.
situde and decay. But Mr.. Cooke
thinks better Of Dublin now: IL al.
ways grows In ones favor, like the
Vaccinations of a woman who IL
swect.mannered, though not hand.
some.
We need only say that here is an
1rishman who had nothing In his
favor but his own undaunted heart,
his sound body and his plucky deter.
mination to make living at some.
thing; and after many hard vicissi.
tudes and willingness to turn his
hand to any honest work, even to 20
as q sailor for four years, or to work
as a baker for eighteen hours day,
he becomes one Of the prominent
citizens Of Chicago, the owner Of q
splendid brewery, and q credit In
every way to his native land; with.
out boastfulness, and with all the
bonhomie Of the Irish. There. is
surely plenty Of this material out Of
which to make Ireland prosperous
and great II we only went the right
way about it.
Mr.. Cooke agrees that the Irish
are at the top throughout America,
and that they are o benefit, and not
(as some represent) an injury to the
States. Let me tell you," said Mr..
Cook, shat the representatives Of
the Irish race In America are superior
even to the representatives whom you
put forward Ut home" Mr.. Cooke IL
Nationalist to the core. Though
taking only quiet part In politics In
America, he was one OF those who
met the Irish delega tion-Messrs
Dillon, O'l'rien, Harrington, ETC.
when q section Of 1t went to Chicago.
He sat up after the Irish meeting
most Of the night In the hotel
counting the dollars which had
been subscribed. They amounted
to some seven thousand. But before
they finished counting news came in
Of the party split at home In regard
to Mr.. Parnell, "and then" said Mr..
Cooke, most Of the prominent sub
scribers asked their money back and
got 1t. The well.to-do Irish In Amer.
lea will send no more money to Ire.
land while this split continues. Close
up your differences and you will re.
ceive all the money that Ireland re-
quires to help her to get what
she can. Mr.. Cooke was one OF
the prominent Chicago men on
whom Mr.. Blake waited during the
visit to Canada and the States-the
visit for which Mr.. Arthur O'COnn0r
has since indicted him. To Mr..
Blake the same statement was made
by Mr.. Cooke a. to the h0pelessness
Of either side expecting money from
the States during the split, and M.
Blake left Chicago without attempt.
ing to hold q meeting. Americas
desire has been, Mr.. Cooke states, to
help Ireland to fair play aud to ma.
tiOnal self.government They are
not separatiOnists. They recognize
that Ireland could not manage sue.
cessfully II cut adrift from England;
nor could England afford to give up
Ireland. The desire Of the best
class Of the Irish In America
Is to set Ireland on her feet;
to see her given a fair start In loyal
association with England; TO see her
In that connection governing herself.
And once home rule comes, the Irish
In America and the Americans will
leave Ireland to work out her own
destiny as best she can. 1t was for
that great national purpose that
America has subscribed money to
Parnell and to Ireland In the past;
and for that reason, while Irishmen,
instead OF working out their national
destiny, are quarreling among them
selves, America will not now sub
scribe money.
Asked about the Tory complaint
that America has sent money to Ire
land to disrupt the Government, and
even to sustain dynamitards and
other outrage Mr.. Cooke
vehemently denied the allegation.
LET me say" declared Mr.. Cooke,
shat no respectable representative
Irishman In America has ever sub.
scribed one dollar for dynamite or
for any other outrage purpose In Ire
land. The Americans are a law.
abiding people; that Is their great
characteristics; aud no representative
men in America have ever advocated