The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-11-16

somewhat restored the fortunes of the
family.
-. Many Men Of Like Type.
v Scattered all over Ireland, there are
men of this type, separated from the
people by race, religion and by in
treat, and yet often very much liked,
Especially if they were kind to their
tenants. They mixed freely with the
people, drank and ate with them,
hunted and shot with them, and went
through life In that curious down-at-
heel way which is so Irish and with
that genuine kindness Of feeling which
is also Irish. I have seen a landlord
pass on his pipe to his tenant or even
his coachman and then pass it back
when he had had enough of it.
Many of that race came to grief
when the great land revolution came;
some of them died in warehouses;
some of them were kept alive by SUBJ
.scriptions from England, many of them
walked in hunger and in rags through
the streets Of London. They were VIC
tins as well as tyrants, for most Of
them came into properties heavily
mortgaged; they added to the mort
cages At an epoch when any amount
of money could always be raised on
land and when the landlord could al
ways meet an emergency by raising
the rent. And most Of them had be-
sides to make provision for the la
dies Of their families for the landlords
shared the Irish family spirit and al
ways looked after their poor relations,
especially Of the womankind, as u sa-
ored duty.
Those who have weathered the storm
still remain in large number, and still
that they have become sober instead
Of an Incorporate race. In the coun-
try club where landlords still do con-
gresate in the small Irish town, the
landlord now takes tea every after
noon: in olden times they would all
be drinking whisky at that hour.
These men still keep up the old Irish
love Of sport and Of country life. and
you could not get the majority Of them
to live in any other country than Ire
land.
Indeed, that Is one Of the extraordi-
nary peculiarities of ireland, it Is a
sort OF lotus land and 1t exercises on
most people who live in it, however,
foreign their origin, this extraordinary
and indestructible fascination. Among
the most prominent figures in the Irish
struggle for the last quarter Of CEN
fury is Thomas Wallace Russell, or
'"r. W." as he Is universally called.
He was born In a Scotch village,
speaks with Scotch accent, is a
Presbyterian, has been all his life an
ardent teetctaler. is now a Home Rul-
or and a very good one, too, but for
years he was the foremost and most
effective platform speaker of the UNI
ionist party. Ie said to me recently
that he would not live in any other
country in the world but ireland, this
typical unregenerate, Scotch Presby-
terrain.
Living Cheap in Ireland.
Life in the country in ireland Is very
cheap, AMI thus 1t is that many Of
these Irish landlords with moderate
incomes and loving sport above all
things, would not leave Ireland. In
that class an enormous change Of feel
Ing has come within the last quarter
of = century. The land war is p~act-
icslly over; they have sold their es-
tates and have settled down in the
mansions and the parks which they
have saved from the wreck, and they
desire to remain where they are. They
have accepted the fact that IL they
want to live on good terms with their
neishbors. they must fall in with the
national spirit, and many of them
have accordingly become nationalists
within the last few years. They form
4 sort Of middle party in ireland, and
they are now moving to bring about
. compromise between the Orangemen
and the nationalists. Several Of the
most important Of them have recently
issued manifesto in which they de-
clare that Home Rule is inevitable,
and they, at the same time, repudiate
strongly the statement Of Sir Edward
Carson and the other Orange leaders.
that any religious intolerance is to be
,fsared from an Irish parliament. 1t
IL one of the many straws which show
how the wind Is blowing in the direc-
tfon OF Home Rule.
There is another straw which is
quite as remarkable. Anybody who
has ever visited Dublin must have