The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-11-15

Sympathy from Outsiders Is
Called a Detriment
OPINIONS OF NEEDS VARIED
But Hibernia's Greatest Affllction Is
DissentIon--lt People Would Work
Together They Could Get What
ever They Want.
By CHARLES eATTELL LOOMS.


BY CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS.
Newry, Ireland Before I went to
Ireland | imagined the Irish standing
III a crowd with their right hands
\ pointing to heaven and all Of them de-
manding home rule. But talk about
shades Of opinion and political diff
ferenees at home, why, It's nothing to
the mixture here.
! meet man today and as I shake
his hand / tell him with heartfelt sym
pathy that hope he'll get home rule,
that most Of us are with him in the
United States, and he wrings my hand
and tells me that American sympathy
Is the thing that has kept Ireland up.
Ny bosom swells with pride and
feel that l have hit on just the right
phrase to use.
Next day meet another Irishman,
Protestant from Belfast and as |
wiring his hand with emotional fervor,
/ tell him that ! hope he'll get home
rule and he pulls his hand from my
grasp to bring 1t down on desk or
counter or table with impetuosity as
he says ireland doesn't want home
rule, If the phrase had never been
coined Ireland would be happy today.
What Ireland wants is less sympathy
from outsiders If my child bumps
his head and begins to cry, say,
Sure it's nothing. Brave boys like
to bump their heads and he begins
to laugh and forgets all about IT. But
If stranger says Poor Patsy. 1t must
hurt awfully," then he sets up a howl
about 1t and fancies he's injured. What
Ireland needs is to forget her troubles
and her political disabilities and work.
An Irish worhngman In Ireland is the
LATEST man alive. When he goes to
America or Canada or Australia and
Is released from priestly authority
he's hard worker and a success, but
Paddy in the fields is always looking
for saints days-and finding them
and when he finds them he takes a
holiday.
am silent because really know
SO little about 1t, but next day / meet
another Protestant and l say to him,
4 suppose It's Rome Rule that is kill
Ing Ireland~
He's up in the air at once and tells
me that it is the priests who are inter
esung the peasants in the revival of
industries long dormant
Aren't the priests fine looking
men?" says he
Yes" breaks in another Irishman
"and they ought to be the fathers OF
families. All that good blood going to
waste and their lines ending with
them instead of enriching the blood OF
Ireland in future generations. That's
what celibacy does"
Another Irishman chimes in "Oh,
the priests are not such fine lot
The constabulary are, I'll admit, but
the most Of them are as useless as the
priests. Most Of their time is spent
training canaries, for there's little
else for them to do in the country dis
tricts. But the priests; sure a man
says, Oh Jimmy's no good at all al
at all Let's make a priest Of him
IT'S folly you're talking" says the
one who spoke for the priests
There's not a finer body Of men in
Ireland than the priests"
oh says the other with Irish wit
There's white sheep in every fold
I'll admit, but if Ireland was free from
political and religious domination
she'd be able to stand upright and sh,
wouldn't need home rule
All Of which is very perplexing tt
the man who came to Ireland think
ing that with the exception Of few
Orangmen all Ireland was worklns
morning, noon and night for hom,
rule.
Next day / meet a man know to bi
a Protestant and I say to him in m.
easy going way (being all things t,
all men when I am travelling, in orde
to save wear and tear) THE Catholic
religion is keeping Ireland back, is /
not?'
He looks at me for a moment am
then a spiritual light illumines hi
eyes and he says: Professionalism i
always death to arts. Look at Shakes
peare. the last Catholic that Englanl
had, as you might say, and look a
his work with its artistry, its absenc
Of dogmatism and then look at Prot
estant and tiresome Wordsworth an
Protestant and didactic Tennysor
Spenser was a great artist. spense
was a Catholic. Catholicism emanc
pates the artistic side OF a mans na
ture, puritanism seals It up, dams Il
condemns him to preach sermons.
"The Irish are the most artistic pee
pie on the face of the earth whe
Professionalism has not been allowe
to stamp their idealism out Of them.
But I thought you we're a Protest
ant. Then ! suppose that you thin
that the priests"
7 think that the priests ought neve
to be allowed to tamper with educt
tion. Spiritually they release Irlsi
men from puritan fetters Il speak a
a Protestant and Tie son Of a Protes
anti but politically and educational