Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-04

of this county, and no DOUBT Wluel
read by the same, becomes a law
full subject for criticism. OF cours
the fact of a two days flying tril
Through Ireland In which only tw'
towns were partially seen, woul'
not entitle Mr.. Engle to the mucl
abused name of tourist. However
as he wrote with such dogmatic tom
and such a spirit of cocksurednes'
which possibly may deceive the un
wary, I feel constrained as an Irish
man to challenge the statements o
this will-o'-the-wisp, and lay tn
truth regarding present Irish condi
lions before my fellow-citizens.
In justification for this proceeding
l may allege a six years residence
in Dublin, and a young manhood
lspent in the Green Isle.
Mr.. Engle is a dismal failure az
a statistician. The average eighth
grade pupil in any country school
would be obliged to know that Bel
fast has not a population of one
million. 1 wonder II Mr.. Engle's
holy misconceptions of the Scion OF
the north-Belfast-are not to be
attributed to the position he holds
as secretary of the State Sunday
School association. Can 1t be that he
is familiar with the padding meth
DDS OF Sunday school membership?
AS a matter Of fact, Belfast has a
population Of $50 1000 and of which
one third is Catholic. Boasting, as
he does of the great industries OF
Belfast, and assigning to them a
Protestant origin-ship-building and
linen mills-we beg to remind him
that in the sacred scriptures there
is reference made to a man who
was clothed in fine linen, but whose
end was not eminently satisfactory.
Mr.. Engle's biblical scholarship will
see the point. We beg to assure Mr..
Engle that Peters bark has car
ried to salvation many more millions
than the Belfast ship-building COM
pany. The Titanic, it's proud pro-
duction, left many at the bottom OF
the deep, but Peters bark sails
peacefully over the waters. We
in conclusion, ask him when
linen and ships became infallible
marks of the true faith. Is then
Dickinson county a land of pagan
1t has neither flax nor ships.
/ am very glad that Mr.. Engle
at a temperance hotel in
Dublin. / regret, however, that. he
is so Incorporate in his remarks
concerning the city. Any n who
las the slightest knowledge of Ire
and knows that the national vehicle
s not styled a cart, but a al Mr..
Engle associates the huge size OF
he Clydesdale horses in Scotland
With the shorter catechism. Per-
laps the absence of the latter diet
n Ireland may explain the UNDER
ize of the Irish horses. Here Mr..
Ingle gets the horse-laugh indeed,
or did he know anything of horses
lesh, he would understand that the
IRISH hunter is scarcely excelled by
he Arab steed.
But let us be just to the tourist. I
,ater on in his article he makes
mends for his calumny on the
rish breed of horses by saying that I
ne of the greatest horse fairs In I
ne world is held in Dublin. !
Regarding the business hours of
as of cities in the British t
ingdom generally, it may surprise J
lie tourist to know 8 o'clock is the t
hour as enforced by a '
ecessity in a northern climate. Fur G
lermore, the Irish merchant does t
OF pursue the nimble dollar so +
arnestly as his American brother,
that the family has a prior a
ght to his attentions. U
We thank the tourist for the one r
remark in his letter, viz: t
lie sad drain of the Irish race. Even c
lie blind can see this and would 0
now to what to ascribe it-Eng- a
nd's tyranny for seven centuries b
ut Mr.. Engle unwilling to see the 81
use of this said depletion, must z
cribe it to his favorite bug-bear, a
e choice subject of his Sunday CT
hool lesson, an infallible pope in b
ome. England's infamous misgov- Il
in ireland has drawn down VI
ION her the censure of every just 81