The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-09-02
Prominent People Pay Respects.
ADVISED TO EXPLOIT IRISH SCENERY.

Last week Archbishop Glennon, when inter
viewed in Dublin said the people OF Ireland should
endeavor to attract tourists to their country by
advertising It's many beautiful attractions. Its eli
matte advantages and its interesting historical fea
lures. This suggestion, which is good one, has led
the Globe-Democrat of St. Louis to editorialize
follows
"Archbishop Glennon is Of opinion that Irish
curios and antiquities, well as Irish scenery,
should be more exploited. During an interview. iu
the course of which he expressed the conviction
that migration from Ireland should cease, in view
of better present and prospective conditions, and
the fact that population is reduced to living
ratio with soil and industries, he urged more and
better advertising of Irish points of historic and
tistc interest as sources of revenue for the people
of that country. Such eminently wise Judgment
Is not to be disputed its practical side, and look
ing beyond the matter of dollars and cents for
Irish pockets, it Is possible to see how Americans
who constitute the great bulk of tourists III all Eu
ropean countries, might be distinct gamers from
the development of Irelands possibilities land
of things worth seeing and hearing about As it Is
and has been for many years, fall far short
of getting moneys worth from guides COuriers
custodians and others who only echoes of Bae
decker mOnOtonousl y heightened out. This Is the
cock that crew IN the morn, to wake the priest all
shaven and shorn to marry the maiden all forlorn
who MIXED the with the crumpled horn that
lived in the house that Jack built Is the way they
all on, to the tip which everybody is willing
give to get away alive
Now, the Irish could do better things by us
They have wit and imagination, qualities rarely
If ever found among custodians on this or the
other side of the water. There are enough inter
esting places in Ireland of which have all heard
to make large itinerary and the revival of inter
est i'll old Gaelic language and literature and pres
en researches into ancient Irish history will surely
give US more. If a movement Of American tourists
to Ireland should set in, the circuit will be at once
enlarged by the addition of places which, if not well
authenticated, will be well Illuminated, which Is
what many unauthenticated places on the CONT
nent not. The full armor of a hero who has
been a long time dead is a solemn thing to see
when you introduced to it by a continental Gus
todian, but Irish custodian who might present
you would do it with a quip or jest to make the
presentation a pleasing remembrance. NObodv
needs genial and laInbent wit as much as a Gus
todan, but no other class appears destitute of it.
If the tide of tourist travel turns to Ireland tour
ing will be relieved of its deadly duness and bore
dom.
There are few people who know how to absorb
the atmosphere of old historic battlefield, if we
are to judge by the literature resulting from such
pllgrImages. 1t Is the with ancient cathe-
drals and ministers. What impressions these things
may make receptive minds capable of translating
them into word pictures, is no doubt obscured if
not wholly lost IN the eternal singsOngs of attend
ants who reduce everything to gibbering terms of
imbecility at lingual pace that makes atmospheric
absorption impossible. The Irish will change all
this. They will give us a renaissance of the lost
art of touring literature. Thousands have gone to
Hastings filled with fine fancies of seeing Saxon
banner go down In blood, only to leave with a mass
of indistnct recollections of the dark corners of
an old abbey IN which grasping verger has droned
his song. But none will ever leave an Irish field
without taking in his the old Gaelic war cry of
Faugh-a-ballagh. Archbishop Glennon''s suggestion
is hied with promise Of a literary revival"