The Washington herald., 1907-06-23

diti0ns In Ireland with conditions past,
told some Of his "reminiscences. He re-
membered the famine. he said, and he
remembered stealing turuips, potatoes,
and carrots 20 give 20 the poor people.
His education cost e. a year. and his
board and lodgings 3 shiiiings weekly.
That was in q time Of economy and
plenty. The next great depression was
IN 1879. when he sat one day distribut-
/ ing meal 20 the most comfortable farmers
at LyttletOn. The country was much i'm
proved now, but he was disappointed il
WAS not more prosperous. He hoped the
land would come back 90 the people.
IL is pretty slow In coming though.
As 10 DR.. Ingram.
In recent letter referred TO the death
/ Of DR.. John Kells Ingram. the author Of
our famous ballad. 'Who Fears 20 Speak
Of '9S?" In the Positivist Review. Mr..
S II. Swinny, writing Of Or. Ingram, his
I politics ana his religion, says he was a
prufessed believer in the Religion of
Humanity Despite the alleged freedom
/ of Trinity College he regarded himself
as bound by the implicit test and
under an implied contract not 20 inter
| fere with the religious ideas Of The young
| persons whose literary instruction was
| intrusted" to him. Hence nis reticence
about his opinions until he ceased to
! teach But the COmptist brotherhood in
Cluded his C0nfdalts, and Mr.. Swinny
/ IS one Of them. II Is interesting there
| fore TO learn that he was strenuous
] and unfailing' III his opposition 70 the
South African war; that he was 'indg
nant at the invasion of Tibet" and that
/ his first paper in the Review was ''di-
rected against the policy Of protection, so
/ suddenly sprung on The country by Mr.
/ Chamberlain AS to Ireland. apparently
/ he would have been a Separatist II only
| ireland agreed with Compte.
VIII BE Independent.
My general view as to the future
composition Of the world at large which
/ comedies with Complies, leads me TO
| believe that ireland will be one day
Independent, and, if she were once Posi-
| twist. which she is not likely TO be TIL
France. Italy, and Spain are first con-
verted'-a large Order-"her voice would
be one Of the most interesting. touching.
and poetic in the symphony Of the na-
/ tons" says Mr.. Swinny.
/ Pending the Positivist golden age.
! however, DR.. Ingram had begun TO admit
/ that even Catholic Ireland might be given
] a larger liberty. Commenting on an
article by MI Goldwin Smith, Ingram
wrote in January. 1906: Smith seems also
greatly alarmed at the notion of a sever
ance Of ireland. But the longer I 1--we
the more assured am 1 Of two propo-
sitiOns-d) that separation is the real
| solution; and % that we in Ireland are
not yet ripe for it. I think CHS Camp
beH-Bannerman's) policy on this sub
| Iect Is the right ana the only feasible
one at present, and that Redmond ought
to accept it, and work with the govern
ment"
lie was not, therefore, afraid TO speak
Of IS. According 20 Mr.. Swinny, his fame
among his own people as writer of
the great ballad was undoubtedly graft
flying to him; ne recounted to me how he
had heard his song sung in the extreme
north and the extreme south of Ireland.
the singers beirg ignorant of his pres
ence; and his eyes frightened as l told
him that / had seen the first two lines
picked out IN white stones on the green
slope Of Vinegar Hill