The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-11-28
"CGMAS Ou.j CITY"
MULvANEY'S NATIVE PLACE A
LIVELY TOWN.
One Of the Busiest CT the Centers Of
Population Of Which ireland May
Boast - Visitors Are Ever
Welcomed.

Leaving the depopulatIon and stag
| nation OF the smaller towns on the
| way south the trayeier is glad TO
| reach the lively city of Cork, says a
| writer in the New York Post Cork
has enjoyed the reputation of being
| one of the most patriotlc-not to say
| bellious-centers in Ireland yet no
| spot wears the air OF having a griev,
| ance She appears too busy for that.
| Every available industry seems to be
| in progress there, although her fine
| quays see not large sea traffic.
The Corkians are ready to post" a
newcomer on every point relating to
their city and pleased II the stranger
shows any knowledge OF ii. | sailed
on the River Lee during one OF their
pleasure trips and the men especially
took pride in dwelling on the city's
growth and fullness of population
above 100. .00h-and in pointing out
how the prosperous business men
lived in pretty villas that dot the we'll
kept roads along its fine suburbs. all
the way up TO Monkstown.
"A good man" said one, pointing
to a spot in Queenstown harbor. don't
know that the beach is named brakes
point because IL was there the great
sailor hid with a few little vessels
while a Spanish fleet was looking for
him. The harbor wasn't navigable
above that in brakes bay. 1t has
been dredged for miles above that
since. Many Americans. too, seem
surprised when We tell them twas
from brakes point William Penn set
sail TO buy Pennsylvania. after selling
out an Irish estate which Cromwell
| gave his father
But il the suburbs of Cork are
| charming. the city itself can hardly
| be called so. ST. Patrick's street Is a
| broad thoroughfare and many streets
| have some modern buildings. but the
| city's older parts are decrepit rather
than dignified. and there is 4 general
air OF ambition having outrun achieve
ment Exploring its bFways, one dis
| covers a strange discrepancy between
its inhabitants, though the same is
true of all Irish towns.
In Ireland you see people who are
| able to control their own destinies and
| within stones throw OF these may
| be found people OF the same lineage
so STEPPED in the hopelessness of ac
cepted poverty that they have ceased
| to regard themselves as entitled to
any rights as individuals and who are
| apparently unaware OF the squalor in
| which they exist.
II is hopeless sign. however. that
-
| wholly to towns and cities In the re-
! motest country districts scarcely any
OF its worst forms are visible. Every
where the people tell me the same
thing: that the country is much bet
ter than 1t has been and is constant
ly improving Almost always they
add: IF you think it bad now, you
ought to have seen 1t 20 odd years
ago, before the land agitation" An
other point they are always ready tc
insist upon is that the land is comine g
into their own hands by purchase
through the government.
This land purchase becomes more
noticeable the farther south and south
west you travel Wherever the land
is OF least value the landlords are sell
ing 1t, while in the interior OF the
country. where the richest land lies
It is in the hands of graZiers.