The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-03

ORTIZ OF IRELAND. $3.50.
tIonal matters of all kinds, found It
best to speak right out and let every
body know exactly where where you stand t,,lli
One does not make anything BY conceal
Ing or pretending. When ] was In Ire
land told the Catholic Irish that was
better; and not only the mass of the
people, but the priests treated me royal
.a intellectual Priest.
One 4aay Wien May By raj from
marka bly, Intelligent face / lost no time
In making his acquaintance, and found
that he was Father o Donovan, q brilliant
last year been called across the ocean
to deliver series OF addresses on Ire
land before the students OF Harvard Uni
deed, + think he was rather too liberal
And must say he, wars just about the
Of aakng Wt s
was faa@'f me eq 'ha Sse
3eand xaT lad II BAD written Msy a ana nns
rule of the priests was absolutely true
~ VIII admit the ath,"2sad he and and
no less Cat1c c {9 dons sa II IN the he
truth. the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth. But the Catholic Church is
ehqrsh to % 5H nfa utter
few priests" This scholarly young man
recommended 30 me a number of books
upon Irish subjects the majority Of them m
+ the New Century. BY SIT Horace Plum
kett "To- Day and To- Morrow in Y Ire
Pot and IAN Alien of the West" two
remarkable novels. treating IL the Irish
vie w. slE
Plunkett On North.and, South.
The book BY sir Horace Plunkett is all
$50 pa gest dealing entirely with the Irish
problem. siaIt-is Straightforward and man
I iy, and has the true ring.
and Id southe'' or Presastant' and Catholic
Ireland, one Of his paragra phs goas hs
Up o"Protestantism has its stronghold $Jn
sthel great Industrial eentres OF the NORTH
and among the Presbyterian farmers5of
Five or six Ulster counties. These COM
developed the cx4s-tially strenuous quail
tiles which, no. doubt. they brought from
England and Scotland IN city life their
passed NTH United Kingdom have built
up Worldwide commerce.. In rural life
they have drawn the largest yield from j,
is the achlevt1nent Of Ulster Protestant-
Ism IN the realm of industry 1t Is a
/ story which, when a united ireland be-
comes mora than a dream, all Irishmen
will be proud j.
In the next paragraph he undertakes
Prot es for their bisey and a. e .ai
siveness, and says that IT Is Impossible
for an !, observer TO avoid the conclusion
too often famed BY men who are actual
| ed by motives which. when not other
than religious, are certainly based upon
an unworthy conception of relgion:''
Some Sensational Books.
young Roman Catholic LAWYER,
Michael IL F. McCarthyaby name. has
ton with set OF books which he has
been publishing. Ills purpose is to ex-
Pose the power Of H., the priests md con.
two of his books, both large illustrated
volumes. back with me from Ireland,
Roms In [5eland" and PRIESTS and
called Five Years in Ireland" Th4ese
books take an extreme post against
the priests,and the church IN, and from the
| terrain. think he is In many, many Of
his conclusions entirely, wrong. In these
himself with the Protestants,i though h.
bitterly resents the imputatlon Of the
Catholics that he is not good church,
These books Of McCarthy's make most
Interesting reading for they. are fairly
filled with all AIDS OF statistics. and
OF ireland from his Priests and peo rn1
alone, leaving out all the controversial
chapters.
many of, his lectures delivered through
out the island. and introduces each lee
wI f of the
describing the section of Ulster, he says
have Ee, never yS S gore into no Pres
eernn more M'' ot Sna
! a place of honor, and the acqunlntance
With every phase OF current rent thought 10
10 less eharaeteris,lc Of them than III their
topographlcal knowledge, NJ others De-
rians If they willard the carping critics
nre far from few In number-l shall not
be deferred from calling attention to
own experience Of them Tor that section
Of humanity who condescend to read
what | wrta."
built houses In Ulster and talked with
people who thought were the peers Of
any In the world IN IN, az j. that lad goes 70
/ was proud Of the fact that many Of
ne ancestors Of A A am thni peone Of
iiIisSd that is Today and viii be Tor Tor
years to come, a wonder OF the world,'
II was within two miles Of the house |
in which al Of Pre- s., side @ e. MoSrley.s
and | travelled over sections eyelE ;2lle
of Of which Contained some, stllrdlly-bullI
home that had sheltered the ANCESTRY Of
such makers OF America as Is sto 9. y,n
houn, Ulysses Grant, Andrew Jackson,
William . Rryap and thousands Of other t,.,
viii be known in history as among tho
greatest men who ever lived in the