The Irish standard., 1907-11-30
future PROSPECTS
Ireland a Land Of Beauty and
of Promise.
Education and Sobriety the
Slogan Now.

who is making an European trip,
writes as follows to the San Francisco
Monitor from Irelands capital:
Egans Hotel, 81 Rutland Square,
q Dublin, Ireland, October 9, 1907.
Ireland is wet, raining ever since /
came, except about three-fourths of a
month-last month-and then not one
summer day, that is at least as far as
am a judge of a summer day; but the
Irish in Ireland are not hard to be
pleased in the mere matter of weather
They say it is exceptionally bad this
year, but that's an old fad expression.
We say that ourselves. Since landed
in Ireland-Sth of May didn't ex-
perience 80 days without rain, no, nor
20 days. 1t is a wet, cold country.
They try to steal a march on the clerk
OF the weather SO as to get in safely
the bit Of hay and grain. Cattle pos
sess the land, with sheep and hogs.
That's all-only a little bit is cultivated
practically. some barley. a little oats
and less wheat. This is bad year
not the very worst, but bad enough
The farmers are coming down and the
laborer is going up, only the farmer is
descending quicker than the laborer
Is climbing The laborer Is somebody
now in Ireland. Education and
scarcity of population are making him
felt. He eats. drinks. clothes better
than ever and ranks higher. Meat he
eats far more frequently; tea he drinks
three times day, IL not more often.
! It is the mainstay-tea and bread and
bread and tea-and SO 1t goes.
The bone and sinew the youth
/, of neland-are leaving as fast as tney
I can and in steady stream. and they'd
i all leave In an hour If they could.
l They seem TO see no CLEAN for tns
glory of Ireland. OF course, it won't
sink. Nay; I think 1t will rise and
become greater Ireland. AS soon as
landlordism is past history and the
people possess the soil, with only ar
over grown tax, possibly, to pay to the
government, in place Of the land rent,
the country will be better: the people
of Ireland will own Ireland and they
will as consequence rule Ireland.
Home rule doesn't sound as harsh to
the English people and Protestants as
1t used to. They will grant it. They
must. IT'S only landlordism and rem
nant Of class bigotry that keeps Ire
land sunken. 1t is q long-word mask,
but it Is being removed. Bye and bye
the farmers will begin to spend money
to improve their own lands, and that
means employment, and that means
that the Irish will stay at home for
ever.
If the Irish saw any hope ahead
they'd surely stay at home. AS it Is
now, it is sad to see them leaving
every day for the United States. Can
ada is doing wonders to induce immi-
grafton to the Dominion. But they
won't stay there. They'll come into
the United States somehow. For fifty
years millions Of the Drawn and bone
are leaving Ireland, leaving only the
well-to-do lazy, the listless ones, the
classes and the old and the weakly
ones of the family at home to keep
the country populated. Imagine their
offspring and compare it with the
great Irish of past history of wars and
seas and statecraft and every phase
Of greater life in the whole world
over. What can one expect-"Like
produces like" and at present you
have tca-drinking and less rugged
population of Ireland. Only as a
people in general am I writing about
the Irish in ireland at present. They
are bit listless and easy, but, as tc
drink, vastly ahead of times gone by
Drink is down and education is up
Sobriety and education are watch
9 words, are family words in Ireland to.
day, and this lovely ideal is growing
more luxuriant all the time.
S4. The young men in Ireland are being
trained to deny themselves, and the
world will experience the fragrance OF
q the virtues of Irelands race in the fu.
ture, destined as erst it was to be thu
81 flower in the Garden of Universal HUI
manity that outblooms them all. Coo
grant it! There seems to be an in
clination toward less veneration fo
the priesthood. 1t is barely noticeabl,
and think it will hardly amount t,
1t is the result of political agi
tation where priests and people hav,
Ito be So much together. Less of tina
ID will be better. 1t will be all right by,
and bye. Ireland will remain the Ire
Il land of worlds destiny and tn,
sf brightest gem to dazzle forever AM
eyer in the Tiara of the Roman Pom