The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-01-22

to alien religions and developed the re-
sources Of the world in alien money
centers, and put Irish names upon the
Office doors of every government
speaking the English tongue. All this
she has done under oppression and
tyranny. And yet through it all she
has maintained her spiritual and COM
mercial independence and has built
up and maintained three free cities
Dublin, Cork and Belfast-Irish in
dustry and Irish local pride are as
strong as the pride of any nation on
earth at its most prosperous capital
The national Irish spirit, as evidence in
It's street signs and business enter
prises, challenges the admiration of
the traveller. Everywhere we see the
word Irish. in the stores of the cities
and towns. They are indeed a sub
ject people. But their "head, though
bloody, is unbowed." English soldiers
may parade in their red coats in the
streets; and the English garrisons may
govern the island. England mvy write
tho laws OF the people. but the Irish
customs are as they were In the be-
ginning. The Irish race is still un-
conquerable. The people have not
adopted, English ways. They still ride
III the Irish haunting ear; the donkey
still pulls the two wheeled cart with
the pig and the calf to the Saturday
market; the ancient Irish customs pre-
vail in the intercourse of the people.
They remain as polite and pupctilious
as an unvanquished people. They have
preserved their pure English. undeflled
race Integrity and have a pure blood
after all the coming and going of their
conquerors.
But the days OF the cruel conquest
of Ireland are over Not only has
the world passed tho point in civili-
zation where one people can seriously
oppress their equals, but England is
finding out the enormous financial and
economic folly of the old tactics with
Ireland. Hence, some Of the best and
fairest legislation Of recent years from
the British Parliament has related to
ireland. The evil of landlordism is be-
ing cradicated Tenants arc buyins
their land. The Parliament made this
possible by passing laws which pro-
yided for appraisement and purchase
Of the land by the tenant from the
landlord in fifty years payments, the
money for the purchase being ad-
vanced by the general government Tor
the tenant; so that the tenants credl-
tor ia not the landlord, but the gov
ernment, and the landlord is paid In
cash by the government for his land.
A new law is now proposed making II
mandatory on the landlord to sell at
the appraised price. Under this law
there are now, according to news
paper statement, 100000 landholders
in Ireland. That is something like one
landholder in ten men. women and
children, or about two pieces OF land
for every three families-a high aver
age. And 80 Ireland is blooming. The
prosperity of the country is amazing
tn those whose notions Of the land arc
formed by reading accounts or condl'
tions twenty years ago. We saw more
good up-to-d date farm machinery II
ireland than in any European coun'
trv. New houses are building every
where. Where two families lived II
ora bouse. now each has house an(
the children don't have to cro"o lii''
the cities as they do in England no"
mr. an thew did under old conditioh'
in Ireland. And excepting the SWISS
no farmers seemed so prosperous Il
us this year as the Irish farmers
Perhaps they are happy in any cir
.cumstances. Anna Kelly, wife 9
Thomas Holton, mother Of grandma
and grandmother Of daddy, and grea
grandmother of Bill and Mary-Ann'
Kelly, born in Dublin and married ii
the Catholic Church at Longford, Oc
toher, 1929, with Patrick Leavy an
Catherine Corrigan as witnesses-Ann
Kelly had the Irish temperament and 4
y times of greatest calamity and ad