The Irish standard., 1908-10-03

OF endeavor for Ireland may rest as
sured he has been helpful to this great
but unfortunte people, and in the
great struggle for the social better-
ment and the political uplifting of the
Irish people he can with CHEEKY
satisfaction declare Il helped a little"
oh! Ireland is a beautiful AID d
bountiful land! No wonder her chill
dren have loved her with devotion
unexampled in history. It is a land
worth loving and dying for. Her poet
patriot, Davis, has said: ~.u i, e
The Great God never planned .-.
For submissive slaves a home so
grand
The far-off visitor. soon realizes the
truth of this. Nature seems to have
given Ireland the grandest and most
sublime manifestations of her. power
This. perhaps, made her sons in the
long past centuries love her with an
intense devotion, causing her to be
the seat of learning and the abode Of
sanctity, the home Of saints and
scholars. The many ruins of abbeys,
monasteries, churches, yet remaining,
attest unto our day all this, though
these storied records of ,bygone ages
prove mans inhumanity to man."
which have caused countless thou
sands. aye millions, to- mourn. All
latter and in our own days. been the
il.spirative source Of all that death
less devotion and life sacrificing love
which have been manifested even to
the present generation.
While there is cheer and gladness
for all that has been won,. and an
ardent hope that even greater good
will come, everywhere there is sad,
a doleful note. almost vail. that all
be fruitless
Ireland's heart is hopeful buoyant,
yes, almost defiant. 1t bounds with
enthusiasm and devotion, but, alas, in
that brave heart there is a va.vular
leak. Her blood is dripping away.
Forty thousand year of stalwart
sons and daughters, the flower of, the
land. are leaving her. Notwithstanding
all that has been won. They leave
with hope. and yet with the saddest
Of hearts. that their own dear land.
as yet. cannot give them employment.
They go with love for Ireland and
with the vengeance the London
Times of 1s4s declared they carried
with them against their oppressor. In
Gods good time they will be His in.
struments in destroying the power
which has caused the woes Of their
dearly loved land. vengeance is
mine. saith the Lord" and the scat
tered Irish the world over are now,
and will be more so. His Instruments
by which retributivc justice will be
manifested In the world as one OF His
attributes. Endeavors are widespread
to provide industries so as to hold the
people to their native land. Every
such effort will stay the dripping Of
Irelands blood.
OF course there is an "other side" to
this bright picture Of present Ireland.
There always is to any Irish aspect.
ireland is sunshine and tears. Let us
enjoy the sunshine of the present and
indulge the hope that now cheers her
resolute sons.
Difficulties and trials arc yet in her
path. hut il her resolutes do not Gross
the bows of each other all will be
we'll. She will stumble; but never fall,
in working out her self government,
but let not Americans harshly con-
denim her mistakes, but ever relmem-
ber. If they know aught OF their coun-
try's history beyond school book reci-
tails, that the United States, now great.
powerful and grand, oft stumbled. too.
in making her way and establishing
her constitutional form of self-govern-
ment. Ireland will benefit by her OK
ample. The battle for libe-ty., contin-
ued for over seven centuries, can new
er end until 1t is won.
The car is ready for your Honor"
says Boots (what an odd name for a
hotel porter). So off I start to see
this old Spanish-Irish CITY Of the
Thirteen Tribes with houses vet
standing built Years before Columbus