Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-11
IRISH PROGRESS IN AMERICA
Found in Every Nook aud Corner Of the
Land and in All Vacations,
sEUMAs M,CMNNUS WRITES CT HIS KIN
How They Have Asserted Their stcr-
ling aud Lasting QuaIitics-Chunks
of Native WIZ 10 Humine
the Text.

ing the Atlantic for the first time he de-
sired the steward to be sure to awake him
in the early morning on which they were
due to sight the Irish coast in passing,
Though the morning was both wet and wild,
and comfortless and cold, the poor old fell
low gathered his garments about him and
went out on deck and leaned over the bull
warks and took a good look at the Green
Isle. And as he shuf1ed back over the deck
again he said. Thank God that I've lived
to see one country the Irish don't rum"
And it is not only once, nor only fifty
times, that it has been said Of us, The
Irishman Is the best soldier that goes into
a battlefcld-anywhere out of Ireland
In America, anyhow, the Irishman has
been a marvellous success as a fighter, as
a worker and as al was going to say
ruler, but shall content myself with-poli-
tician. | have a Russian friend who says
he was only a short time in America till
he concluded that in this country every
Chinaman was a washerwoman and every
Italian an organ grinder, but the Irish
puzzled him to classify. At one time he
thought every Irishman kept a saloon, then
that he was a public prize fighter, next that
no was a lawyer; in quick succession after
that he was a policeman, a municipal Of
fcer, a navy, IA soldier, a ward boss, a
Judge, "a servant GlIl, a City mayor, an
orator, a criminal a clergyman and a man
nuIljnr the wires Of the universe In his
dilemma. he saws. he appealed TO an Irish
friend for guidance, "Haghl" said his
friend why at homo v,e'ro every mother's
SON a king" "And that " said nv pus-
sian friend. lis the only blessed thing not
one Of you is in America. Never mind. -
said he. Perhaps we'll remedy that yet
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which tbeir Greater meant them. Than he
there Is no man more heartily nleased to see
tbom nrosner IN. their nroner snhere Rut
nv countrvman in America feels an uneasi
ness in his conscience until he.has repressed
them into that sphere. The Dago is a
tolerable hand at the pick and the German
and American. with the lew. were horn for
the drudgerv of commerce. No freshman is
SO narrow as to deny them their privileges
here. and none so ungenerous as not tc
acknowledge their brilliant abilities. But
then, he cannot let his generation run away
with Justice and permit them to try their in,
experienced hands at a thing they know
nothing about and are not adapted forte
wit, ruling a city or a state. In Milwaukee
the most German city in America, there Is {
ward that boasts only one freshman, yet III
IS boss of the ward. Yet he is far from
being intolerant or tyrannical here. He viii
permit the German and the American tt
clamor against him and against the laws ht
has framed for their benefit and protection
he will let them curse him, If 1t does then
any good, and fill their papers with RAM
abuse OF him. knowing that abuse OF q
benefactor is one of the surest geological
signs that mark the genus man he mag
UNANIMOUSLY smiles ana Keeps straiSht oi
benefactoring.
Political leadership.
Your Irish political leader is the Cincin'
natus, who has been, by Providence. called
from the spade to lift the reins of power il
America. to guard you and to look aftel
your destinies. There are in the New
Island las we call America in our Gaelic.
dent remained In Ireland would now b'