Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-09-28
AROUND THE WORLD
OVER THE LAND OF THE HAMRO IN AUTO AND
SADDLE.
BY Doctor w. 3. P.Imor..

The warm stream flowing out of the
Gulf of Mexico, northeastward. through
the Atlantic. like the Jewish rae flow
ing on through the cold. unsylnpathetic
ocean OF humanity, and still retaining
Its identity, makes possible a'wonder-
fully genial, productive and beautiful
Emerald ISLE more than 1000 miles
further north than the city OF ST. Louis,
in North America. That such a garden
of fertility, with such a balmy CLINE.
should In the twentieth century contain
superstition, squalor. Ignorance n
AFFECT poverty, is an indisputable proof
of the fall of q n his tubbOrn
persistence in disobedience and sin.
1T was hymned by Il bard that the
planets once
Charmed from their passionless home,
Assumed the fair features OF women
And dwelt in the valleys OF Rome;
But surely If a land e'er presented
Temptations to angels 1t is ours.
And that vision of song was invented
Mid scenes in these fair sunny
bowers"
We have seen lands where nature
seems a cruel stepmother. opening no
generous hand to her foster children,
who We're terracing the barren noun
tain sides. making them yield all they
can to the tmperiOus demands OF an
overcrowded populations. But it is not
so In Ireland. Nature cannot be blamed
here for the woes n wants of man.
The causes must be sought elsewhere.
Thirty years ago. in jaunting and rail-
way cars. we Travelled from one end
OF this land To the other. This time
we have Travelled exclusively in the
day time, in the saddle and automobile,
as we'll as jaunting and railway cars,
from Glen Garriff, in the extreme
southwest, to the
Giants caussway,
In the extreme northeast. with out ears
and eyes wide open. We have not only
studied the churches. schools. courts
n other public institutions. but we
have gone into the homes of the people
n examined books on the center ta-
BILE. and especially the prayer book. We
have never before so fully realized the
pre-enlinence OF the mother of Jesus
In the worship OF this people. A closed
bible and Mariolatry are evidently the
great barriers to their progress and the
foundations stones of much of their
ignorance, superstition n poverty.
Satan's counterfeit for the holy spirit
is ardent spirits. and he is not only
using the multi millionaire distillers
and brewers, but the illicit mountaineer
or "moonshiner' to paralyZe the phys
ical energies. darken the intellects and
deaden the consciences of the people.
Well dressed. attractive stand
in thousands of gilded bars dealing out
liquid calamity to men, women and
children. while barely clad. barefOoted
women haunt the mountain highways,
begging the passing pilgrim to buy
their "mountain dew" as they call 1t,
distilled by illicit mountain moon
shiners.'
We are glad to say there are many
evidences of improvement since our
last visit. Thirty years ago we rode
one day in a third class car to study
the conditions and sentiments of the
absentee landlord. and for hours their
oaths and curses fell oun us like
burning birthstone and peals of forked
lightning. On this trip we have ridden
IN all classes of cars II mingled with
almost every class of people. but suf-
fered no such indignity. The British
government has been buying out the
absentee landlords and making it pos
sible for the tillers OF the soil to own
and improve the land. The government
Is also erecting. in the rural regions.
Homes for Labcrers.
These lome are much more sanitary
than the ones formerly occupied by
many laborers. They are made of stone,
brick or concrete, and covered with
DA~sS' LhS 1oASS, VI CcIIIIttl room, with
a smooth stone floor. serves as kitchen
and dining room. Door from this cen
trail room open into three nice little bed
rooms with wood floors. There is also
q large pantry and wood or fuel room.
An acre of ground goes with each
house. and it is surprising how much
the laborer can raise on this acre by
intensive gardening or farming. All
of which rents for only one shilling.
or 25 cents, a week. No one can occupy
or rent such houses but laborers, who
can now work for whom they please.
Formerly, when he occupied a house
owned by his employer, he had to give
the employer the option. or first choice.
OF his services.
Millions Of American laborers have
left the farms in the country to huddle
in the over-crowded cities to starve.
steal or beg. Humane. patriotic and
benevolent millionaires might do a
great work for their country, for the
laboring poor. and especially for the
farmer, by erecting such homes in the
country, as the government in Ireland
is doing, and renting them for a low
or nominal sum. This would really he
more far-reaching in it's benefits than
the building OF tenement houses In the
slulns Of the cities. Boys and girls
born in the poverty Of saloon-cursed
cities do not have a fair chance in life.
The place to raise real men and wom-
en-. with strong bodies. clear minds and
good morals, is in h country. Good
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