The Irish standard., 1905-11-04


lands future, go forth every year,
chiefly to America, and the question Of
the hour is, How will it end? 1t is a
problem to tax the minds of the most
able statesmen.
There is brighter side in the dual
revival Of Irish language and Irish in
dustries. Most certainly employment
for the people at home would check
emigration. Poor ireland needs capital
and capitalists. Whence are these to
come? why not from America,
whittier so many Of our best men and
women have gone from us?" asks true
friend of both countries. The charac-
teristic American question. Would it
pay?" can be answered by showing
what English and German investors
have been doing during the past few
years. Take. for instance, the May
pole dairies, which are scattered-a
dozen or so-through the most fertile
district in Ireland, the golden vale of
Tipperary and Limerick, where thou
sands of cattle Craze on the Galtee
slopes. These dairies were established
only few years ago by company of
shrewd English investors. Last year
the creameries paid their owners sixty
six thousand pounds sterling-nearly
$350,000. All the milk is bought up
from the farmers of the surrounding
country, converted into butter and
cheese and shipped to the chief cities
of Ireland, England and France. The
ice mandatory Of the Knocklong
branch Of the Maypole creamery has
already founded lucrative trade in the
Irish cities and summer resorts.
Germans and Jews have f1ourishing
establishments in every city and town
here, but one looks in vain for an
American proprietor, although Ameri-
can goods are only too popular. There
are American dental parlors" and
American shoe companies" in plenty,
but on investigation it is generally
found that the concerns are managed
by enterprising Cockneys VINO UNDER
stand the value of a false label, when
made in England means not sold in
Ireland.
Green-and-gold signs, "Buy goods of
Irish manufacture" meet the travellers
eye everywhere. Irish woolens are as
valuable as Irish linens and laces, but
the demand for them abroad is not so
great, since, by the judicious admixture
of shoddy, their appearance can be imi-
tated more successfully in other coun-
tries. Still, the few Irish wooden mills
in operation, such as the Foxford Mills
in Mayo and the Galtymore Mills in
Tipperary, are doing very well, and the
Cork and Blarney and Galway tweeds,
friezes, blankets and flannels are in
steady demand. Experts say that, be-
cause of its superior elasticity, Irish
wool cannot be equaled for durability
and beauty. All it needs is a little
capital, a little protection-and foreign
markets. There is a belief in certain
quarters that few typical American
"hustlers" would be worth more than a
favorable act of Parliament in develop
ing the woolen industries and in re-
establishing the flour and meal mills of
Ireland.
The Frenchman, the Italian, the Eng
lishman come "home" from America as
soon as they make fortune; the Ger
man remains abroad because he is
anxious to escape military duty; the
Irishman stays in America because he
becomes too good an American to re-
turn as subject Of the king to whom
he has renounced an unwilling allegi-
ance, AS good American, however,
he cannot refuse to take advantage of
chance to make more money. Capt.
tai is needed in Ireland. There is no
reason why Americans-and especially
Irish not prosper as
we'll as English and German investors.
To-day "Come back to Erin" is not a
sentimental yearning so much as an
invitation to do business.