The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-25
Yankee CAPITALISTS
VEX BRITISH ! :! ST.. OFFICIALS I
Administrators Dread American
Control of Irish Industries
Other News Of Ireland
Special Cable to The Journal.

Special Cable to The Journal
Dublin, Aug. 25.-No event in recent
years has created as much. excitement
in Ireland as the arrival Of the eighty
odd sh-Americans from Chicago and
st. Louis, who have come over with q
view to investing money in industrial
undertakings here. For the last five
or six years, individual visitors from
eating the possibilities of the country
from the speculator Is standpoint, but
the presence here of SO large conting-
ent Of prospective investors is unprece-
denied, and it is not surprising that
intense satisfaction is felt thruout
Ireland. s.. - i -
While this sudden invasion is Great
ing exhilirating excitement among
Irishmen, however, Englishmen show a
marked. disposition TO- resent the enter.
prise Of the west. There is general
| feeling among government officials in
Ireland that If American capital is al
lowed to control Irish industries Eng
lish authority in the government Of
Ireland will be materially, if not dan
| gerously, weakened. ~ - =: -. W.
The Right Honorable Joseph P. Nan
netti, N; F., lord mayor of Dublin,
visit, said: .>~.""sc $50:
~ am delighted with the ,enterpris-
men and their descendants 1 are ap.
preaching this question aof the indus
trial revival Of iceland J. regard
this combination of Irish-Americans,
who have just landed,.in Ireland, as an
omen Of brightest hope for the saliva
tion Of our country. ., England views
IDENTIFY forgets that while she was ex.
patriating all that was best in our
country, she was building up more
| vigorous Ireland across the Atlantic
Perhaps she has realized it when it is
too late.' .-:=,- ~. IT.
After years of incessant and labor
parliament, backed Up by public opin
ion in Ireland, have succeeded in caus
ing the British government to appoint 6
royal commission to- inquire into the
working: Of Irish ( railways. =. The
names Of the members ofathe" commits
sion: are regarded + in Ireland as in
dicative> Of an Intention Oh the part 81
the governmen emit. to deal with. the sques
ton theroly. The appointment q
Thomas Sexton inspires confidence IL
distinguished members Of the Irisl
parliamentary party and vas compli
mented on one occasion by the late Mr.
Gladstone as having 81 Fought to tn
house Of commons an clement Of tn
highest oratory, whicr after the dealt
1 Of Bright was looEcl, for in vain. ,
Sexton could meet Gladstone on hi
own level at figures.
great commissions on the financial re
1ations between England and, Ireland
and Irish land, and it is on his owl
separate report in connections with tn
4 former that the case, Of Ireland mainl:
! rests, while his work on the land com
mission laid 1.-The groundwork for tn
final settlement Of the land. question
By his work on the railway commissio
he is certain to. place his country undo
still greater obligations to him. +
spite of the repeated invitations t
!, return to parliament, he has repeated
, refused to do SO since the days OF tn
Parnell split. He employs his tim
now in directing the financial affair
of industrial undertakings in Dublin
many Of which he has brought from
). state Of decay to a position of pro-
+ perity. - ::o,,
It is feared that the coming winte
$ will be productive of distress in i
severest and: most pronounced aspect
: in many Of the larger cities and toW1
/ turnout Ireland. Ireland has hithert
u persistently refused: to put the lat
e government IS unemployed - act : int
operation, but with its share Of tn
: $1,000,00O, which the president Of tt
: local government board has set asio
:. for the relief of distress the comm
winter, there is some hope that tt
e municipal authorities in Ireland wi
II see their way to put the act into oper
= ton now, as the money will be di
a Etributed under moreseconomic and sens
BILE conditions. The pauper populate
;, in the Dublin district has gone up 70,
points on last years returns until it,
= now at the rate Of 81 per 10,0Oo-tl
: highest percentage Of any district
Ii the United Kingdom.
"On the basis Of population, y ga.
>. William Field, M. P, whose. knowled}
: of Irish. distress surpasses that OF al
> member Of the Irish party, ireland
IL entitled to 100000 Of this grant, bi
g as John Burns says the 5000 900, is
Is be distributed, not on the basis Of 20
ulation, but in proportion to the di
- tress, poverty and needs Of the di
!: trict, Ireland's share Of the grant mu
e. be great deal more. l cannot agre
,. however, that any amount of these u
employed doles will, or can, relieve tt
necessities of the Irish people. The
: is but one way Of relieving them. al
g. no man knows this better than tt
~ president of the local governme
. board. John Burns has been consl
E. tent home ruler all his life. -