Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-25
IRISH ENRAGED AT
FANCIFUL SCREED
HEARST YARN DRAWS STORM
OF PROTEST
Recent Imaginative Sketch Shows
Women Of Emerald Isle az Fawn.
ers at Feet Of MaheIle
Gilman Corey


dignant over a fanciful screed entitled
"Mabelle Gilman's Fond Dream" which
was published In a recent Sunday Ex-
aminer supplement. The writer of the
imaginative sketch which Hearst tried
to foist upon the public for truth told
the following tale:
Galway is a typical west of Ireland
county, and in the west the poverty
| is greater than In any other part of
| the country, which of course Is, in
a general way, the most distressful In
| the world. The scenery Is very beau
tiful. There are stretches of incon-
ceivably green grass and beautiful
| woods and hills almost rising to noun
tains in the background. But the soil
| Is very poor, the peasantry cannot live
| on even the richest kind of grass, and
they have to exc out a miserable ex-
| istence on a few potatoes. When the
| potato crop falls a trif1e below the av-
erage they starve.
MANY of these poor peasants live in
huts made entirely of turf, without
windows. The floor is of mud and
often soft from water and other causes
| The pig, IL the family is fortunate
enough to possess one, lives indoors
with his owners, and usually occupies
the center of the floor. But compare
lively few families In Galway are pros
porous enough to own a pig.
"These huts are frequently inferior
to those of savages, but they are the
abode of a noble Christian people
Often the inmates have no artificial
means of warming themselves. Peat
| Is the only economical substitute for
coal, and that is useless unless care
| fully dried. Works have now been
started for drying and COMPRISING
peat into form which is practically
coal, but this article will be beyond
the reach of the poor Galway peasants
1.-THE poor peasants are not safe in
the possession of their miserable huts
| for II the landlord can find a wretch
who can pay penny a week more rent
| he evicts his tenant and thrusts him
out with his family in the cold and
rain, even though 1t be in the depth
of winter. Men are found in this coun-
| try willing to work for Is cents a day,
and sometimes they cannot get that.
! MRS. Mabelle Gilman Corey intends
to scatter her gold among these poor
people, who are singularly grateful and
appreciative, and she expects to win
from their gratitude position like
that of a queen among them.
when she drives around in her car
riage or auto she will enjoy the hon.
age of an admiring populace, instead
of the cold disregard of her neighbors,
which Is her fate in New York.
"They will not inquire into her past
or trouble their minds as TO whether
her husband is a divorced man or not.
| The fact that she could not get into
| New York society would not bother
them, even IL they knew it. They will
| lift their caps to her enthusiastically,
and bow the knee, and greet her as a
gracious lady sent by heaven to rule
over them and distribute blessings
among them.
"They viii express appreciation with
racy Irish humor of her good looks and
also of her fine voice, If they happen
to hear it.
'She will be asked to give the prizes
| to the school children at the local vii
| lage school at Shrule, and will be treat
| ed with the same honors as If she were
a royal princess. At all sorts Of local
affairs of this kind she will have an
opportunity to play the gracious pa
! troness.
"In this humble, poverty stricken and
yet attractive country Mrs. Mabelle
Gilman Corey will be able to live In an
atmosphere Of f1attery and adulation
instead of one of contempt and ostra-
| cism, which has been her lot in Amer
lea for several years."
Takes Matter Up
| The San Francisco Leader has taken
the matter up in behalf of the Irish
and Celtic citizens of California, who
share a common interest in having such
preposterous bosh branded in the way
it deserves. The Herald takes pleas
ure in relrinting the San Francisco
Leaders scathing comment on the
Hearst invention. The Leader says:
1.-THE foregoing is a bit of choice
| literature taken from recent issue Of
the Sunday Examiner supplement. 1t
is an extract from an article entitled
'Mabelle Gilman's Fond Dream
1.-THE Examiner is we'll noted for its
anti-Irish proclivities. OF late 1t has
let no opportunity pass to insult peo-
pie of Irish birth or descent. The limit
W ould seem 20 b. reached, however at
this larest and most outrageous out
break.
people world famous for their devo-
ton to family ties, noted above the
other nations of the world for their
| loyalty to their marriage vows, are pic
tured as groveling in the mire before
notorious American character for the
sake of a few dollars which might
come from such fawning.
"'Savages the people of Galway are,
according to William r. Hearst. The
family circle there Is incomplete with
out the presence of a pig And, of
course, the pig occupies the center of
the family gathering!
| "'Galway will not bother it's head
about Mabelle Gilmans past author
itatively states Mr. Hearst. Money is
| all the people want, and, even though
Mabelle Gilman's presence would not
be tolerated in virtuous New York, the
peasants of Galway will fall down in
worship of her, expectant of a shower
| of gold.
May, more. they will greet this Ma
belle Gilman, New York outcast.' as
she is pictured by Mr.. Hearst, as q
gracious lady sent by heaven to rule
over them and distribute blessings
among Them
what do you think of this estimate
of your kinsfolks. you Irishmen who
read this article: How do you fancy
having your women classed as fawners
at the feet of a woman who by her
marriage with a divorced millionaire
merited the scorn Of all decent men
and women?
you take the Examiner. maybe. Can
YOU in all sincerity say that you are
doing your duty to your mother, your
wife. your daughters, by paying out
your money to a sheet which SO grossly
insults them?
"No race of men on the face of the
earth has greater regard for the virtue
of their women than the Irish.
"Are you going to submit to this un-
called for, gratuitous and most con-
Itemptible insult to all you hold dearest
| and most sacred from rag of the
stamp and stripe of the Examiner?
Read the extract at the beginning