The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-20
Cooperation steppl1n Emigration.

Cooperation Slipping EmIsratIons
The result shows in economic bet;
terment and In q more wholssome
rural life. A single instance Of the
first result is that the yield gof butter
per gallon of milk has constantly in:
creased during the last ten years and
that Irish buttern now sells readily in
London In competition with its great
rival, butter from Denmark. From
certain counties where the cooperative
societies have done their best work
emigration has almost ceased. Much
has been done toward improving tbs
condition of the cottages and by eS
tablishing libraries, sane amuseIneEta
and helpful recreation in the villages.
The Gaelic league has done good serV.
ice mere. Better be quarreling than
be lonesome" runs the Irish provere
The new village conditions would ban
ish quarreling without substituting
solitude, accomplishing this result by
discouragiug drunkenness and pre-
venting emigration, the two giant evils
OF the Ireland Of yesterday.
Another happy result is the mora
discipline already making itself felt
This has strengthened individual en-.
ergy and the wise use OF cooperation
has stimulated Individual effort, devel
oping taste for work by increasing
the produce OF labor. However great
the material advantages OF coopera'
ton, particularly the cooperative
credit system-by which money 10
lent at low rates for reproductive
work-the educational results are yet
more important.
Technical Education Bearing Fruit.
Close akin to the efforts Of the
cooperative societies has been the pro
motion of technical education by the
state. This work, carried on by the
governments Department Of Agricui
ture and Technical Instruction for Ire
land, is, in way, similar to the. work
of the American Agricultural colleges
and Experiment stations, except that
it is broader, not combining itself to
agriculture and the mechanic arts
1t teaches the farmer and laborer, II
trains in its schools for business, com
merce, agriculture and technical pur
suits. 1t goes further and seeks an
industrial revival by encouragement
of new local factories. The depart
ments work, also beset by difficulties
shows considerable progress. Com
mercial enterprises and an industrial
spirit are appearing in the smaller
towns as well as developing in the
larger centers, Dublin, Belfast and
Cork. The manufacture Of bacon, oil
wooden goods, OF laces, has begun in
villages where ten years ago surplus
labor, unemployed was driven to for
eign lands.
Dear Transportation Heavy Handicap,
3 With created or revived local indus
tries comes consideration of better
transportation. Farm produce and in
dustrial products pay three per cent OF
their value to reach q market in Can
ada and fifteen per cent in Ireland II
costs four dollars ton to get eggs
from France to London, six dollars q
ton from Denmark, and twenty-five
dollars a ton from Galway. ireland.
This condition an Irish parliament
may be expected to seek to remedy.
Just now 1t blocks economic develop
.ment.
ireland is thinking now in terms Of
woolens and linens, poultry and fat
cattle, eggs and butter, banks and rail
ways" said the brilliant T. M. Kettle,
professor of economics in the new
National university at Dublin.
nSociaI and Moral Upiift."
Nor are the Irish at home forget
full of the higher things In life. They
are creating now literature, they are
developing social life, gracious as al
ways in the verlest villages-for your
Irish peasant is born a gentleman
and promoting higher standards OF
morality. In all the constructive
movements in Ireland the religious
question looms large. For religion to
the real freshman, Protestant or Cath
Ollie, Is not an argument, but an In
stitution. Quoting again Professor
Kettle: 1T seems to US as reason
able to prepare children for their
moral life by excluding religion as to
prepare them for their physical life by
removing buS LluSk LAnpOt AeAS 49, "
their brains"
Self Help by Mutual Help.
With this material and in this wise ia
the new ireland In the making. To
the Englshman home" means his own
independent and comfortable corner,
to the Irishman home" means the
cottage of his birth, the social order,
the traditional and familiar environ
ment. This explains the corner gro.
Gerry in ireland, but 1t also explains
the community or clan spirit which
is an all.powerful aid toward coopera.
ton. And the first and last principle
Of the apostles Of economic regenera-
ton in Ireland is "Self-help by mutual
help" The new Ireland is to be made
Of all the old Ireland, tho Orange Flag
and the Green Flag in combination
unto all the islands good.