The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-03-19
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4 great many men wore a shamrock. |
or even a green necktic, yesterday as
they say " is ~. Patrick day. They
will he doing the snme thing in Cal.
cutta Rio Jauiero. Auckland, Pontotoc,
Cape Town, and any other place on
earth where the Irish have wandered.
There may Ice some place where Pat
has not gone. hut IL there is, u must
be n settlement of 4. L. As M around
the North Pole somewhere. Everywhere
else Won will End him. fighting the bat
Ties Of his adopted land. reducing IL.
w~ilierrcsscs. operating the machinery
iu it, factories, twisting the brakes on
the railronds or managing the same,
making town laws A. aldermen aud en-.
forcing them as puliremcu.s writing
bright things iu The newspapers, confess.
ing the sinner aud closing the tired
ewes in death. OF truth humanity
Knows no such glorious figure of woman.
hood n the Irish sister II charity. whose
life j. given up 20 he care of the sick
and lame and homeless. There ian Z
much Il florence in their suhlimity and
that of the brothers whose hospital.
ARE open io the unfortunate Of every
creed. aud sleeple-s vigils and tender.
ct care are given the rur scuti aud
the millionaire. Que no more than an.
other. know something about this
phase Of the Irish, having encountered
q IN many parts OF the world. aud
am here 90 say that while | ana q
pretty hard hnt. measured los orthodox
standards. I nu filled with deep rcver
cucc IT them. Humanity knows u,
such offering AZ they give, and ha.
abundant reason to call them blessed u
the HFtH uU.l fNa -. of Muu
The adaptihility of the freshman Il
something wonderful. lie lights on hl
trcf always. and you will be sure 8,
ind lin putting his best foot forward
~ well ~ loo u. pulling his share an,
more ~ the load. asking odds Of NJ
body. Mighty seldom do YOU find hin
mixed up In any c~ussedncss. aud geneT
ally when YOU do IL will be because %
his fni.hfulness 10 some friend VIII
got hin into the scrapc. Loyal Away
n staunch partisan ever. when you hca
~ an lrishman m trouble. YOU can he
u was one of these two traits that 20
him there. No nation could successful
" get along without the Irish. The
nre the great mixing ingredient OF n
nations, they furnish half of the poetr
and music If earth, the enthusiasm an
open. heartedness OF the breed hcIng it
%corporated In every race. Their pul
nacity keeps every nation alive that
worth keeping, except their own. goa
cess 10 the old Emerald Isle. seeing 'hi
the Irish have outgrown IL, aud II a
Of them were Ia zoe rounded up Their
there wouldB Z be room left for a hl
Of potatoes. There is still the sen
mental regard for the bit Of land thi
gave the Irish to the world, but u
American Irishman. the Brazilian Iris
mhu, the Australian Irishman, the Be-,
Irishnlsn. the Indian lrishman and q
Canadian Irishmau loves his count
best of all, and Is ready ~ die for
rs freely and readily AS he would 4
old Erin herself. That j. the kind
c%hinquepin the real freshman is.
The man who b~cgrudgcs ireland ~
the Irish their 81. Patrick = day il O
omadhOun and n narrow bigot, whom
IL not worth while 20 consider IA n
human class. Any nation and any pc
pie who would Venernte any saint near
two thousand years, and have rs MAI
troubles of their own aud other pcOp
NJ the same time have a sacred rigl
to IL. They are justified by truth. Il
~. Patrick has fhc edge on many
the saints. lie actually lived, wherei
there Is q strong reason for doubt q
TO many other uf the bcatifed gcntr
lie was 70 historical fact. II j. a lou
time now since he figured in histor.
about as long one way a. statehood al
pears TO bee thr other way, bat the u
cords are there In the first place
was not an lrishman a; all. that il b
birth. unless we rnnrede a. true m
old statement that no matter where u
irishmau is born. he is an lrishman any
how lie was born iu Fitzpatrick, Scot
land, IN the year 4. H. 1913. Of poor hl
honest parents, and grew u husky a