Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
The Little General Can Do
No Wrong.
SHAMROCK CRAZE RACES
English Annoyingly Irish But lrishraen
Have Not Turned EngliSh-Amer1-
can Newspaper Methods in London
IriShmen in Kills.

London, April IS copyrighted, 1900
by the Associated Press.) Though the
queen has returned to England and her
remarkable visit to Ireland is now a mat
ter of history, the latest fad shows no
sign of abatement. Royalty's presence in
Erin failed to make Irishmen flauntingly
English: but. curiously enough, made
Englishmen a%nnoyingly Irish.
OF this phase which began by the uni
versaly wearing of the shamrock. there
nave been several striking examples this
week. The lower house of the York con-
vocation composd of sedate clergy and
laymen of the church of E~ngland's north
ern diocese. has adopted resolutions to
put ST. Patrick upon the pages of the
prayer book, from which he was unac
countablv missing. st. Andrew is there.
but Erin's patron saint was omitted when
the reformers re-edited the liturgy.
On a par with this action is the agita-
ton in England over Irishmen's right to
wear kits. Upon this momentous ques-
ton Hon. William Gibson, son of Baron
Ashbourne. lord chancellor of Ireland. has
been lecturing to large audiences in Lon
don, dressed in the picturesque, abbre-
waited garb generally associated with
Scotchmen. He makes an impassioned
plea for the divine right of Hiberians to
wear kits Mr.. Gibson is a learned young
ma who married a French woman and
consistently resides in England.
Now there is tall of making the new
Irish guards brigade masquerade in kits
though the reports which have come from
South Africa. telling of the su%fferings of
the bare-legged H~ighlanders and Of the
sorrows which are attached to this out
of-date uniform. are recent enough to
Danish the suggestion into the long list of
foolish absurdities. 1t is probable that
the war office will take that view.
In consonance with the queens per-
sonal wishes, as many as possible of the
new guards regiment will be mustered for
the usual birthday trooping of colors n
review ceremonies in London on May %.
This canonizing and killing would be
merely humorous could the impartial on
locker forget the misery, poverty and
stagnation of industries that prevail
throughout southern and western Ire
land; but in view of the conditions that
exist in that portion of the British isles
the so-called shamrock cr1Ze in England
can scarcely be considered anything but
another instance on the part of a major
ity of English people of their complete
failure to grasp the nature of Ireland's
needs. however we'll meant and generous
may be these outward, skin-deep signs of
friendship.
According to the stories reaching Lon
don, Lord Roberts great kindness and
sympathy "a been finding many out
lets. During the wait at Bloemfontein
he has visited every man in the hospital,
carrying with him man, little comforts.
Going up to one of the wounded. he
asked, cheerily:
Can I do anything for your"
Receiving the reply:
Yes: I'd like you to keep T-y name out
of the casualty list
This man's name did not appear and
his anxiety that his relatives should not
be alarmed was appeased.
Another, a dying officer Lord Roberts
comforted by promising to watch over
the future of his only child.
With such incidents current, it is
scarcely surprising that the nation
adores it's little general, and as a whole.
abstains from criticisms of anything he
may do.
II General Butler had waited inactive