The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-05
From Dublin
TO Scranton
"Unweary God met yet shall bring
To lands of brighter air
Beside the Susquehanna and along t
Delaware"

"Unweary God met yet shall bring
To lands of brighter air
Beside the Susquehanna and along the
Delaware"
So sang Robert Lewis Stevenson,
after long wandering among the king
doms Of the earth and the glory Of
them, and so we echoed, lovely day in
mid June though it was when we left
Dublin for the five hours run down to
Queenstown to take the Celtic. But
after all it was the old familiar faces,
a short 5000 miles away that could vile
us from the summer beauty of Ireland.
And as we sped along we looked out
tenderly upon the old land, smooth with
a thousand years of tillage. Green and
white is Ireland. White fieecy clouds
float over the hedges, white with haw-
thorn, and the venerable white cottages
snuggled down under their straw
thatches among the green fields.
Great companies of cows and sheep
wandered in this land of perpetual
grazing, crows, rocks, ravens, We're
abroad and the whole inky family
seemed there to harmonize with the
ruins gray Of Ireland's past.
How the inhabitants of such a land
can keep swarming to America, when
there is now room and verge enough
for them to live and thrive at home,
none knoweth. The country has had
grevious past, but who is expressing
Ireland now?
Not England, when the main prop
under her throne is Irish valor and the
certainly that Ireland will always fight
for something or other. If the Irish
Conservatives would consent to home
rule they could have it tomorrow. But
they say that element which makes a
Tammany with US. Is too hopelessly in
the majority to make good govern
ment. They point to the ring rule in
Dublin as an illustration. There if you
own a house which you can rent for
$1,000, you are compelled to hand over
more than one half this sum for local
taxes! But there should be home rule
in Ireland, and there will be when the
men of real might unite and come to
the front as they are trying to do in
the States, as America Is called over
here. 1t will come.
An American marvels at the relaxing
grasp of monarchy in these lands. The
coming and going of the great, excite
but languid interest, they are looked
upon very much as we regard the do
ings of our smart Set" over here.
Leaders and men of brains arise among
them now and then, but the main facts
published regarding the lives and labors
of the nobility and gentry seem to be
the daily chronicle of their movements
from one scene of entertainment to
another To the toler, life for them
seems one long holiday and he not in
1t save to pay tribute.
If our president goes a fishing and
stays more than week the country be-
gins to enquire the reason why the
working head of working nation is
thus relaxing. When Prince Henry ap-
peared off the Irish coast with a grand
fleet of German warships, they lay for
days down at Kingstown harbor within
half an hour of Dublin, and the number
of people who did not go down to look
at them would have surprised an Amer
lean. The only visible thing of his
presence among us was the prepara-
ton by his German subjects In Dublin
of a choice illuminated address of well
come. but he was too busy playing polo
in "Phaynix park" to come to receive
1t personally, and delegated one of his
officers. To him they declined to give
it and 1t hangs in Dublin today MEM
orial of an act of impolicy not usual to
princes.
But goodbye for this time little green
picture island, for here far out in the
cove of Cork Is the Celtic wailing for
US with impatient waves slapping her
sides. Quickly we leave the tug and
Chamber up her steep side and are
away. The voyage begins and goes on
bravely. We hope there are but few so
aggrieved with care and sorrow that
they could not feel that "life is still