Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-28
How to Fight Back is Pulling tho
Liquor Men,
SALES ARE BADLY CUT DOWN
Dry" Movement Curtails the Thirst
Demand.
ISLANDERS ON THE wARPATH
Fortune I'm Copper Ore az the bot
tom of brandon bay IL Great
Attraction for Treasure
Seekers,
BY THOMAS EMMETT.


DUBLIN, Aug 2T.--(Special TO The Bee -
The brewers and distillers in ireland are
face to face with peril which far out
weighs the hailed Lloyd George budget. and
they are at a loss to how 10 meet IT,
1t is the "catch-my pal temperance
movement, which started some months ago
in Ulster and is rapidly spreading through
out the island. Already II numbers more
than 10000 members in Ulster and is
growing with such rapidity that Il already
has seriously cut down the consumption Of
beer and spirits, with the apparent lilxeli-
hood that in some communities the sale
OF their alcoholic beverages will be wiped
out completely.
One of the most remarkable temperance
demonstrations ever held in Ireland took
place recently at Baronscourt, the seat OF
the duke OF Abercorn, when about 5000
members from districts all over North
Tyrone and part OF MidTyrone attended
started from n Spark.
Rev. r. J. Patterson, founder of tho
movement, said that a year ago 1t was
started by a spark, so to speak, from a
passing train and that spark had set the
whole Ulster prairie on fire. He believed
that not only would Ulster be affected, but
the whole of the three Kingdoms would be
stirred TO the depths by the movement
Some people objected to the name Catch
My Pal, but his fellow citizens OF Armagh.
the grand old man of Evangelical ChEtsten-
dom, the prlmate OF all Ireland. said I'm his
own cathedral that no was glad the move
msnt had got that name, as II had a half
playful twang about It that appealed to
the popular imagination. He (the speakert
looked forward TO the day when two or
three hundred pals would present Catch
Ny Pal brooch 10 the queen, and he sug-
Eested that the duchess OF Abercorn would
be the medium whereby they might convey
the brooch. When Queen Mary wore .
Catch My Pal brooch it would become the
fashion and every lady in the land would
do the Same.
The huge assembly at the close repeated
their pledges and their watchword; I'VE
will see this thing through"
Job for n Collector.
There is q situation in the Western Isles
that would delight the soul of Charles
Lever.
Futile attempts have been made to collect
rates from the people OF Aran, vSlentia.
and other islands off the main land. but
the police or saigh diuri dubha Cblack sol
diers) as they are called, have been unable
30 land and have returned to their boats
with the rate collector accompanied by the
Jeers Of the recalcitrant islanders. The peo-
pie of Aran are determined TO maintain
their opposition to the Galway council. al
though, in the past It viii be blood
less battle. and they will probably merely
push the boats off as they approach.
Their attitude is rather that of the Orange
farmer, who told his Catholic friend. Il
am saying, Willie, II 1t coiues to war and
you and me finds ourselves on opposite
sides l will shoot over you head and you
will shoot over mine for, man dear. ia be
loath to kill ye"
Galway County council has been giving
the subject much consideration, and at the
usual quarterly meeting a collector was APP
pointed after much discussion. One appli-
cant for the post stated that he was "a
strong man, five feet, eleven in height"
THAT Is the man we want" observed the
chairman, amid loud laughter.
Ireland now has her sunken treasure
seekers. For nearly seventeen years $35O,oOO
has been lying at the bottom Of the sea in
Brandon bay Kerry coast. this large
amount being the cargo OF the Glasgow
ship, Port Yarrock, and after various ef-
forts by saIvors to raise the cargo, the task
has now been undertaken by the firm OF
Irish salvors Messrs. T. Ensor & Son OF
Queenstown The Port Yarrock, a ship of
1900 tons laden with 1900 tons of high
1894, while bound from Santa Rosalia to
Glasgow. The work Of salvage in the pres
ent enterprise has already been started.