Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-06

erically greater than many political
and agrarian leagues that preceded IL,
is morally strong, has tirlner roots and
steadier growth than almost any Irish
league of the century"
This "monotonous unrest of twelve
hundred years has had at least
spice of variety for the English gov
eminent, for the past one hundred
years. "Parnells DOWNFALL and "the
break up of the people into warning
factions" may be blessing from an
Irish point of view but surely contro-
verts all established ideas Of Gin union
there is strength
Again Seumus McManus says, refer
rng to the Gaelic League, that it has
not only arrested rapid decay Of the
language. but it has made startling
progress in restoring it. 1t has fought
and overcome the hostile national
board of education, with the result
that 5000 of the national schools are
teaching the language today to 95,-
600 pupils. as against few schools
that taught it to 313 pupils thirteen
y
is taught to about 100000 others in the
remaining primary schools, night
schools, intermediate schools and col
leges. Bodies of school managers are
giving public notice that, after this
year, they will not appoint teacher
not qualified to teach Gaelic, while the
Dublin corporation and several county
councils and district councils have
passed resolutions binding themselves
not to appoint any official ignorant OF
the language. The big commercial con-
GERS are finding it to their advantage
to keep disappearing employees, who
can attend customers that insist on
giving their orders, whether spoken or
written, in Gaelic. The railways, the
banks and the postoffice, after strug-
Cling sorely against the crusade, very
soon acquired a knowledge of the Ian
guage-both spoken and literary-trom
all candidates for clerkship.
Now the writer and many others
have been touched in q tender spot,
when they have read of the Irish love
of "the 'ould sod No one ever felt
like issuing a shaft of ridicule. when
the returning emigrant bent over ana
kissed the soil Of Ireland, but read the
above, and consider sentiment that
pushed into active force, this attempt
ed revival into use, Of language long
placed away in the tomb of dead ex-
pressed thought. No Irishman but
what would appreciate the absurdity Of
forcing the use of Latin in Italy in
1904.
Read this. Moreover, this idealistic
movement propagates industrialism,
teaches the people to practice mutuai
self-help by patronizing home-pro-
ducts, discourages emigration, anu en-
courages sobriety. The new irish IN
dustrial spirit has been rendered pos
sible only by the leagues teaching.
No conscientious Lacquer would wear
clothing that had been woven or made
in England, boots from Massachusetts.
or cap from Scotland; he would not
write with ink from Germany, smoke
cigarettes from France, nor SUBSCRIBE
for stained windows from Munich. Inc
soap that washed him must be made
in county Tyrone, his towel in the town
of Belfast, his biscuits in Cork, and
his note paper in the county Dublin;
his shoe backing must be of Irish
manufacture, as also the match that
he applied to Irish spun tobacco, In his
Irish made pipe. He let his tradesmen
see that they must keep goods manu-
featured in the country. In self-pro-
lection, then, the merchants had TO
patronize home manufacture, with the
result that most of the manufactures
of the country were Immediately inn
proved. some of them doubling and
some of them trebling their previous
product; and men were encouraged to
start new manufactures"
Is this climbing? No wonder we
get the word boycott" from Ireland.
And this sentiment, for its pure senti-
ment, lacking all ideas of logic, not to
say sense only illustrates the trait Of
Irish character, that was always will
ing and even anxious ITO cut off their
noses to spite their face"
Emigration is the greatest evil that
Ireland labors under today. The
country is being depleted by this drain,
which, for one hundred and fifty years
has not ceased flowing, and which has
been running with fearful rapfdity
during the last sixty years. The gov
eminent returns show that, in the last
fifty-three years 100000 Irish people
emigrated. The census returns for the
decade 1841-51 show that Ireland had a
net loss in those ten years years of
100000 people, or one-fifth of it's pop
ulation. In 1S41 Ireland had a popula-
ton of 100000; in 1901, the popula-
ton, which, at the natural rate of Irish
increase should have been more than
100000, had fallen to 100000. An
anti emigration society has been start
ed, and crusade from press, pulpit
and platform begun. 1t is argued that
emigration is reprehensible patroit-
ically, damaging to our people spirit
ually, and even improbable from
worldly point of view. The teaching of
the anti-empigration society may have
a good effect upon per cent of our
people but will have no effect whatso-
ever upon 95 per cent?
In the above words Seumas endorses
"this crusade from press, pulpit and
platform" Strange it is that the best
students of political economy take such
a Numerically opposite view concern
ing emigration from Ireland. Has
Seumas McManus ever thought of the
present improved condition of the D..
900, 900 emigrated Irish and their de-
scendents, scattered over the face of
the EARTH now holding places of power
and honor, acquiring wealth, comforts
and happiness and striving themselv-
es the peers Of any nationality in
their transplanted conditions. No
Seunas your forte lies outside of