Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
.|R|SH-AMERICANS
ARE GOING HOME
Work of Home Going Association
lust Beginning to Bring
Forth Results
ECONOMIC NEED IS WORK
America Offers Surest and Rich
est Market for Goods Made
in the Emerald Isle
ECONOMIC NEED is WORK

DUBLIN, July 2-The Irish Home
Going association has begun it's first
years practical work and already the
Irish Americans are arriving in Ire
land, many of them for the first visit
they have made to their own country
since they left 1t or since they were
born. There is no doubt a very large
Irish h-American public that desires to
see the old country and needs only the
Jog of the association, "to srystallize
the idea into action" 1t is one of the
touching and hopeful things about the
race that the people do really care for
the country of their ancestors, and II
from one reason or another they nave
left it. their thoughts turn back to 1t
with affection and often with prac-
tical aid.
The great double economic need of
Ireland Is to keep people at home by
finding them work to do which shall
satisfy themselves. procure them hap
piness and at the same time establish
ireland on a sound working basis as
an active and progressive country.
America offers the richest and sureSt
market for many Irish goods, mar
ket which once opened can be 1ndef-
initely maintained and made growing
source of honest income. 1t Is great
thing for a country seeking to estaD-
lish its industrial life to find its pros
pective customers coming themselves
from afar in search of knowledge of
its products, and coming, too, with a
sympathetic attraction-a racial de-
sire, so to speak-to do the very best
that is possible to increase its pros
perity by direct personal action.
1t is obvious, says the Freeman
Journal that on the one side and the
other too much must not be expected
at once; the homegoers must not oe
pestered, and they must show an un-
derstanding patience for Ireland IN It's
backward condition. They Will see a
great deal of ruin, and 1t is possible
that, viewing hastily the actual pres
ent they may fail to see the moral
forces which are already beginning 10
tell toward the upbuilding. Few or
them can have followed minutely the
course of Ireland of late years or dur
ing the last quarter of a century; they
NAV we'll recognize the signs or tne
decay that it has not been possible 10
arrest in a decade and not perceive
that the effort of the past decade Is at
last showing it's fruits in the begin
ming of the better spirit of hope ana
determination which will in the long
run, especially with friendly help from
her natural friends, give her the key
to radical improvement. The irish, on
their side, must not expect marVels'
Industries come by industry. not by
sudden windfalls; they are not to be
propped by artificial sympathy, which
can do no more than call attention TO
excellencies which might otherwise es-
cape unnoticed The Irish owe 1t TO
their guests and to themselves to snow
the visitors the best of welcomes and
70 send them away with a happy feel
ing of ireland as a country not only
In dire need of future" but with the
win and the capacity to make it. as far
as material conditions. internal and ex-
ternal. allow or can be forced or per-
suaded into yielding