Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1911-08-26
Facts Show Capability OF Race
to Rule the Affairs OF
Nations.
Prominent i'm Parliament. in
Literature in Arts and
Science.
ARMY and LAW LEADERS

Writing in London. L. G. Red
mond-Howard, nephew of the great
irish leader, tells this interesting
story:
Doing the other day in one of the
club rooms of the Inns of Court (the
London law schools), l felt myself
suddenly awakened by the closing
words of political discussion.
"Of course" said the voice, 81 ad-
NIT you Irish have all history upon
your side; that politically self-gov-
ernment is the most elementary right
of nation, and that economically
home rule would be the salvation OF
Greland-but-"
"Yes?" / exclaimed.
You are incapable of ruling
your own affairs" concluded the
voice.
unable to manage our own af-
fairs" l gasped. why Irishmen
rule the English empire"
The speaker did not mean to be
offensive. l could see that. He had
merely succumbed to what I might
call the original sin" of English pol
itics.
To begin with the army there
could hardly be found in the last
twenty-five years a more brilliant
trio than was formed by the late Sir
William Butler (the man who could
have saved the nation from the Boer
war had his voice of warning been
listened to-, Lords Roberts, of
Khandahar, and Kitchener, of Khar-
toum-a man of steel and the Eng
lish Bismarck. Yet each of them in
herited Irish blood. Then take the
navy. Who so typical of the breezy,
popular English tar as Lord Charles
Beresford? Yet what family has
taken a greater part in Irish history
than that from which, as second son
of the fourth Marquis of Waterford,
he takes his name?
AT the top ef-the~9eeliiitt cal Ia adde's
again stands today John Redmond
"The Dictator'-the present leader
of the Irish Nationalists, party
which, as a party, we'll deserves the
reputation it has acquired of being
the strongest and best equipped
fighting unit in the House of Com
mons.
In the sphere of lawit would be
hard to single out among the hosts
of brilliant Irishmen one who can
represent his race more efficiently
than the rest, but we may mention
men like Sir Edward Carson and
Gill, two of the leading X. Cs., while
on the bench we may point to Lord
Ashbourne, an Irishman. In the
NH bOln
few, If any, more prominent at the
bar than the late Lord Russell of
Killowen.
In church matters the question
admits of many sides, according to
he color of ones own belief; but
whatever they be, few will deny that
ireland is nation of churchmen to-
day just as much as when Celts were
the missioners of the West Cardinal
Moran, Cardinal Logue and Cardinal
Gibbons, representing Australia, Ire
land and America, are as brilliant
figures as any in the Sacred College.
In science, II anything a test of
there is no name which
is more known and respected in
foreign universities than that of Sir
hAAAAah hOmoOhs AhS AobC NoAN
Kelvin. Yet he was an Irishman from
Belfast, and during the whole of his
life devoted a great part of his in
terests to the furthering of Irish edu-
cation.
Going on to the application OF
science to invention, Castlebar, in
ireland. can boast of her Louis
Brennan, the originator of the cele-
brated torpedo, superintendent of a
factory called after hill,
and the producer of the gyroscopic
mono rail system of transit. As to
Marconi, son OF an Irish mother,
and married to an Irish wife, say
nothing.
AS to playwrights, there is only
one Bernard Shaw, not only in his
own opinion and that of English
playgoers but also in the estimation
Of many foreign critics.
AS soon as one touches the de-
partments OF literature the names
occur in their thousands. take
them at random. Frankfort Moore,
the novelist; Justin Mccarthy, the
veteran Historian OF our own
times" and playwright and novelist
as well; De We're Stacpoole, Bran
Stoker. L. Il. Meade, George Moore,
and others.
In music few men have so caughR
the popular ear as Sir Arthur Sulh~
van, the collaboration with Gilbert