The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-18

concentration within . few cailings: not
consequent upon purity Of blood o, -
lrson. When the first French revolution
s~ep. away the ancient tyranny Espo-
Icons abless and most fndomitabis lie1.en-
ant was Massena, Q man Of Hebrew blood,
who fought like . true descendant Of the
Aaccakees. There were very few Jews In
our country when the civil war opened,
but in proportion 10 their numbers the
Jews we're ~ well represented - any other
race. There were Levys in our navy;
there we're Mordecais. Judahs. Solomons
In our army, and old Gen. Twiggs, OF
Mexican war fame. was Of Jew stock.
Some of the most famous champions OF
the ring in England have been Jews The
popular idea that the Jews are no: fight
ing Yaes bat trading people il isllaeS.
for as nation they were originally both
wariike and agricultural.
The force Of circumstances: centuries
Of social and political persecution and
disability have made the Jew what be 10
today; FAR departure from his original
stock. He stands for . vital. irrepressibie
man does. The discipline Of difficulty
and despotism has made him a man Of
endurance and logged power Of resistance
70 oppression. "Hignianders shoulder to
shoulder" has been the motto OF both the
Irishman and ths Jew under the most i'd
verse circumstances. The brains and
vitality of both these races have bssn dis
persed all the world over, and wherever
you End them they are . people of striking.
though entirely different individuality and
vitality.
The Irishman. unlike the Jew, was not de-
barred from military service. % he became
a famous fighting man wherever he Sc
Iected his place of exile. France had
esrsfeld. Lally, Dillon, Kilmaine and Mac
Mshon; Spain had O'DonnelI; Austria
had Butler. There was not .
country In Europe tina. did not have
fighting Irishmen in the ranks of its
armies; they were found in the Revoln-
tionary army Of Washington; they were
among the leaders Of the rebel armies of
the South American colonies when they
revolted against Spain. In the ranks Of
Engiand's military heroes Wellington, Sir
John Lawrence. Lord Cough, Sir Fred.
erick Roberts were all of Irish birth.
This irrepressible vitality, tenacity and
pugnacity is not due to any purity of
blood a. 10 pretended in the case Of the
Jews. but to environment and the pressure
Of dire circumstances that force develop
ment or death. We talk about the Irish
race; IL IL q mixture Of the best blood of
Europe. for the Irish people always inter-
married with their tyrants whether they
were Danes. Anglo Normans. Scotch or
English. and the large trade that at an
early day existed between the West Of
Ireland and Spain infused . Spanish
strain into the Irish stock. This Spanish
trade gave Ireland knowledge of distilled
liquor long before England knew it, 20
that the Irish and tho Highland Scotch
were whisky drinkers when the English
common people were guzzlinR strong.
homs-brewed ale. Simple diet and out
door life Of sturt and strife made tho Irish
man q man OF athletic and handsome
physique. and today the majority Of the
best athletes In America are of Irish
blood.
This mixture OF b!oods and popularity
of environment liz shown by the extraor-
binary versatility Of the Irish intellect,
taste and temperament. O'Conneli, at
once a great orator and q great lawyer,
always labored for home rule through
constitutional agitation. So did Dean
C.sf
tan. She'll and Parnell. Then there was
another more radical type of agitators,
tho ab!est of whom was Wolfe Tone.
Robert Emmett was a poet and an orator
whose patriotism was as reckless in its
measurement and adjustment of means to
ends us that Of Garibald, and John
Brown: he was man Of the CASTELAR, or
Kossuth type. and his feeble imitators
were Meagher and Mitchell, of the Young
Ireland party OF isis A race of fine
singers and splendid soldiers, Ireland has
not produced 4 great poet, or a grea. must
cal composer or a great general; but
she has produced great orators, learned
theologlans, able statesmen and long
line of sound jurlsts. while she has given
more Emo comedians Of both sexes 10 the
stage than any other English-speaking
people. In writers or fiction and the
drama Ireland has been most prolific, and
IL We count the late Prof. Tyndall as an
irishman she has given England It's
brighses; scientific mind since the death
OF Faraday. Thaekeray is disposed 10 car
feature Irish indrmtties In Capt COST.
gan, but he chose an Irish woman for a
wife.
Token all in all. the Irish are As vital,
versatile ard !ntelligen, race rs the world
affords. They have been eminent. in every
field ofusetu! intellectual activity. oratory,
hci'on. poetry, Law, craftsmanship. war.
The theatric. stage are all brilliantly
represented by this vigorous. versatile.
vital, indomitable. rugnsciou, people.
They are what they are through environ
ment, through the discipline Of difficulty.
OF oppression. OF desnotism. which has
ngrsed, stimulated. conserved and main
tanned their irgepEesshls vitality and
v}gor. even as environment OF a diHeren.
sort has doue the same thing for very
different people. the Jews.
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