La Junta tribune., 1908-12-19
DECEMBER 10. 1908
son or OLD SOD
REstNTS CRITICISM
Of NATIVE HEATH.

In reference TO Mr. fatteEsons
recent Irish letter ! would beg 10
call the attention sof my fellow citi-
zens to his misstatements and TO
the gross injustice he does the Irish
people by his looking at their faults
with great microscopic vision
virtues. In the first place he speaks
of Mr. Guinness as a land owner and
a distiiler in Kerry. l would beg to
tell Mr.. Patterson that he is neither
a land owner in Kerry nor distiller.
His estates were in the counties of
Rnscomon and Mayo. and his place
Of business is at E1ham Quay. Dub
lin, where he brews a drink called
porter. Dunvilie and Jameson are
the Irish distillers. The county of
Kerry being very mountainous l VIII
readily admit its reAourses are very
limited, being chiefly confined to
q small treed of cattle distinctly
known as the Kerry COW. Yet here
he fails to speak of any cattle at
ali. and also of the very. beautiful
mUCIOSS -tbDFyt Aoi ~ 80
in Kerry but goats and loafers He
speaks with some surprise OF the
lakes being called Leanes. Leane is
the Celtic word for learning and the
lakes were SO named in reference to
the College of Mucross Abbey. in
the days when Ireland had the repu-
tation among the countries OF Europe
OF being the Island of the Saint and
OF the Scholar.
In his visit to continental Europe
he investigated its agricultural re-
sources. I would ask him why not
pursue the same course In Ire and.
but he conveys by implication. that
Ireland has no agricultural resour-
ces to investigate. l would beg to
tell him in Ireland he would find as
fine an agricultural country as lies
within the temperate zche.
Has the gentleman travelled
through the golden vale which COM
prises the greater part OF Tipperary,
Cork and Limerick. or the Plains OF
Boyle and Mullingar? The wales OF
the Liffey and the Lagan. Here
he would find short horn cattle that
would discount the Durham on her
native pastures and also the ram
ous breed of Bailenaslow sheep
which surpass the Leicester from
which they originally sprang. To
be as fat as Muliingar cattle mas
passed into proverb among the cat
tie buyers of England.
AS to Irish architecture Mr.. Patter-
son has seen nothing except the
matched cottage and / have no doubt
he will be surprised when tell MIN
that in ireland can be seen the proto
type OF the Capitol OF this land OF
the brave, of the White House at
Washington. in what we fondly can
"the Castle by the More NOT Is
II Is to be wondered that the irisn
architect, James McDermott. VINO
with the French engineer. L'Enfant.
MANNED the White House. shoaid
model 1t after the home of the Ger
aldinies, for to the lover OF free-
dom It Is indeed shrine During tne
british occupancy of Ireland this
noble family gave twelve OF its
members to the cause Of Irish free-
dom. eleven were hanged at Tyburn
prisou. London, the twelfth. Edward
Fitzgerald, the bosom friend OF
Robert Emmet, after successfully re-
etst,ne arrest by two British ON
GERS was mercilessly shot down Dy :
'third-by the cowardly Major SIT.
and he died Of his wounds at New
gate Prison. London,
Again would beg to show my
fellow citizens how Mr.. Patterson
tries 20 hide from your knowieose
that Ireland has any manufacturins
tndnstries. He travels to the Tyne
and he devotes several newspaper
COLUMNS to its ship building indus
tries while have failed to read :
single line Of his in regard TO tne
ship building ON the Lagan IN ire
land. where are built the largest
and fastest steam ships that sahs
the seas. The floating palace Of
the White Star line By the nrm q
Harland 1 Wolf, and the present
general manager, Mr.. Pierre. the
home rule mayor Of Belfast
Axain We may note while Mr.. Pat
ter,on va visiting the Cathonc
CsthedraIs Of Belgium, and admir1ns
.p r.arrrse INV n It he failed
q y,sit Daay and Louvaini, the trcas-
rre houses Of art Of the British ana
80 f.hu,cs, ~. z-r - eyi-
Asut; ~ ssn1A not Nxite very Se'i