Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-08
A VISIT TO IRELAND.
Waterbury Man Notes Many Improve
 ments Since His Last Trip.

ments Since His Last Trip.
 John White of Walnut street, who has just returned from a trip to Ire land says that he noticed many chan ges in that country since he left there 38 years ago. At that time there was more labor than the market demanded and as a result the price of that com modity was very low. He found things reversed when he dropped over there last July. Young men and young women are scarce and wherever you find them they are employed and com mand good wages. This, of course, is due to the fact that in recent years Il large number of the youth of Ireland left there and sought homes in other parts of the world. MT White says the country never had better crops than it has this year, the harvest prom. ising to be abundant in everything the people have put into the ground. The new laws passed by the government some time ago giving townships fair share of home rule has had two very noticeable effects It has incensed people who had been having their own way in the past to the extent that they are shaking the dust of the country off SA'StA lSCS t'ssS4AS-1lSstlt&.. IWTt& uI- known to the great delight of tf1ows who have been grooming under their lash. This-has given the natural own CTS of the soil renewed courage and In consequence prosperity, contentment and kind of stay-at-home feeling can be seen in every town and hamlet one visits. The country roads, MT White believes are the finest in the world and automobiles galore bound over them for miles without having to turn out of the way to shun children or a lady with baby carriage. The road ways are skirted as far as the eye can reach with beautiful hedgerows, neatly trimmed with shrubs that cling to- gether so closely that bird could not pass between theb. You often travel several miles along roads leading through delightful farming lands with out seeing human being except q herdsman tending his masters stock in the fields. In these same districts half century ago hundreds of peas ants lived and were happy but they became nuisance to the landlords and they were driven out and the places they occupied converted into pasture lands and hunting grounds so that the favored few might. be enabled to enjoy themselves free from interference from the common people and their children. MT White believes that in- side of ten years the face of the coun- try will have undergone a radical change and things will look much the same, probably better, than they did when large numbers of. working peo- pie owned vast tracts of the country which now are and for some time past have been in the possession of a few. AS soon as the people begin to realize that the absentee landlord is no longer "lt' and that when they purcha SC holdings and pay for them nobody can come along later and hustle them into the streets the sparsely settled parts of the country will quickly build in and in time man will not have to walk mile before meeting a soul or finding house where he would think or stepping in to put coal on his pipe" The enactment. of the past few years gave the big fellows a solar plexus blow and being sharp enough to see the handwriting on the wall they are taking the hint and selling and making themselves scarce at pace that Is most gratifying to everyhody who wants to remain there.
 MT White was in Dublin during the reception rendered to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, but he didn't happen to see the notables. He took ramble through the rotunda saw the sights about College green went over to the castle, then crossed l through Phoenix park over to the strawberry beds and finally wound UT ln Glasnevin cemetery where he had the pleasure of seeing the last restine places of the remains of some Of the l men and women whose names aGorr the pages of Irish history After ex pressing admiration at the round lowe, just inside the inclosure he walked down the stone steps leading to the l O'Connell vault and placed his hand under the massive marble slab tha, stands over the casket that contains the ashes of the "liberator." Mi l White says it would take one week tc go through Glasnevin cemeterv and read the inscriptions on the different monuments. There is nothing but the word "Emmet" on the face of the col umn raised to perpetuuate the memory of Ireland's ideal patriot, but others
 
 whose honor they were erected so that l it would require considerable time to make complete tour of the place and | take in all
 l No" said Mir White, mo matter how much the condition of the country improves I shouldn't think of remain. ing there. Waterbury is good enough for me, but just the same I was pleas. ed to see that the people are coming out ahead in the fight for fair play and | anybody who left there 40 or 50 years ago and goes over there to-day would be surprised at the grip people have on their holdings now compared with what it they had at the time when there was no limit to what landlord could ask for house and garden and if you didn't pay you had no alterna- tive but take to the road.''
 STATE POLICE.