The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-12
"DooLEY" IS BACK.

t9ooley is in New York. He is reg
lstered 2s Finley Peter Dunno. at the
motel. Mr.. Dunno is the author of
the we'll known Mr. Doolev in Peace
and War The bright young Chfca-
goan was in his tub when discovered.
1 am removing some of my Irish
"reminiscences, he said. Il have spent
the summer abroad, and nv visit to
ireland was in every respect the most
notable of all"
Here the author of "Dooley' emerged
from the bathroom and looked for an
immaculate collar
Such things he said ARE more in
style in New York than in Ireland"
The Irish are an agricultural peo-
pie, he resumed, land that may ac-
count for some of their ideas about
linen.
Il found that almost everybody in
ireland is more or less like Mr.. Dooley.
The habit of having impressions on po
litical subjects is we'll distributed in
the land of Cork. Almost anybody
there sees something in his own Irish
way. In London it was quite different.
There the ordinary hanson driver or
coachman has opinions about politics,
but they are not his own. They think
in types, in England. In Ireland. how
ever, it's the man that thinks
Mr.. Dunno was very enthusiastic
about the beauty of Ireland. 1T is
worth going there he said, simply to
see the color. 1t is a fine green. very
soft. Its softness is it's popularity.
1T is the only green thing about the
place, however, except the visitors. In.
deed, one Of the characteristics of the
Irish is their commercial shrewdness
One time at an inn l gave a half SOY.
ereign to pay bill of four shillings
The man touched his cap and said:
Thank'ee, sir, and pocketed the
change"
why is it, then, that your ordinary
Irfshman is a poor devdl?"
Partly" Mr.. Dunno replied be
cause they are an agricultural people
and the land is very poor They have
had hard struggle for existence. But
when they come here they make for
tunes. Some of the richest bankers [
know are Irishmen. 1 don't mean to
suggest that I have a very large ac-
quaintance among bankers.
THE Irish govern we'll, tOo-wnen
they get over here he resumed. Look
at Richard Croker Perhaps it is be-
cause only the most energetic of them
leave their native land. Between 1920
and 1860 large crowd of the best Irish
immigrated to this country. / think
Croker must have come over then.
Speaking of bankers" said Mr..
Dunno. reminds me that I am going
to have another book published soon 1t
will contain some DOoley papers I
wrote too late for the last book and
five sets of Dooley opinions on the
Dreyfus case. In one of these papers
Mr.. Dooley discOurSeS on the Guerin-
Fort -Chabrol matter / will promise
not to write any more. So that if the
11-il1 Iii
two birds with one stone.
Part of my summer [ spent
in Paris proceeded Mr.. Dunno. 1T
was a very quiet summer. The Paul
DerouIede incident was tame affair.
On the 14th of July thousands of Amer
leans assembled before the statue of
to hear NJ. Deroulede
deliver a revolutionary address. VI.
Deroulede appeared, followed by twenty
decadent poets. A policeman told him
he could not speak.
Tres bien,' said NJ. Deroulede. and
he and the twenty poets with long hair
and anaemic faces went away. That
was the most exciting incident of the
summer The next day the London pa
pers had full accounts of the speech
that was not delivered
What are your impressions of Eu
rope, Mr.. Dunne?"
When was in London" he replied.
Il got some excellent impressions of
America. | saw fine specimens of /
wherever I went. American
plays were at the theatres, Americans
in the hotels, restaurants, streets. all
public places. 1t was hard to find an |
Englishman. In Paris, too, [ had |
some good impressions of America.
Now and then, however, [ did see a |
Frenchman. 1 could identify him by |
what he said: 'Conspuez ZoIai' "A |
bas Dreyfusn 'Vivi FARMER etc.
Since I returned to New York my i'm
pressions of America have been