The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-07-11

of thousands of people. saw a rude
act by man or youth to another.
When crowd Of persons came to.
gether, one group of them who had
gratified their feelings would give
way and say, Now let others come
forward with a considerate and
courteous manner which would do
honor to any assembly of the wealthy
and what we call the educated clas-
ses. Gentlemen, believe a moral
peasant is more of gentleman than
one who is merely born or bred so.
The manner, too, in which they make
known their qualification or their
joy is the same throughout. I have
seen for miles along the road houses
shut up. the windows and doors
closed but all adorned with flowers
and boughs. when they who had left
behind them these emblems of their
good feelings could not receive a
word or look of commentator in
return. 1t was their way of showing
the spontaneousness of their feel
ings. and this was the case all over
the country; the same form of de-
monstration seemed to prevail ever..-
where" What is interesting to note
is the almost identical testimony Just
borne by Mr.. H. G. Wells to the
kindly bearing of people in the
streets of Russian cities. During the
recent visit he never in the streets
heard one coarse word, saw any ami
NAL misused, or a child struck.
The associations between Ireland
and Cardinal Newman are familiar
enough. One recalls first of all some
words, light enough in themselves.
but linking together two Princes of
the Church, he one of them, and Car
dinal Cullen the other. II used to
say of him that his countenance had
a light upon it which made me feal
as if. during his many years at Rome.
all the saints of the Holy City had
been looking into it and he into
theirs" The Irish Cardinal, who
(said a witty achieved in politics the
COLONIZATION Of Ireland. sat for his
portrait to several artists; but some-
how it is this portrait by an English
pen that presents him most fairly
and recognizably to our minds.
Gentlemen" said Cardinal New
man to Dublin audience, ut is i'm
possible to doubt that future is in
store for Ireland for more reasons
than can be enumerated. First, there
is the circumstance that the Irish
have been so miserably ill treated
and misused hitherto; for, in the
times now opening upon us, national
tiles are waking into life." One
wonders whether the events of the
last few days have retarded or other
wise the fulfillment of that predic-
tion. At any rate Cardinal Newman.
portrait-painter in words himself.
would not recognize in the northern
presentment of their Catholic fellow
countrymen the true lineaments Of
those whom he found to be mot only
a. Catholic people, but a people Of
great natural abilities, keen-witted.
original, and SUBTLE"
Cardinal Manning had Irish blood.
and gladly would that wearer of the
robes dyed with the blood of the Ro-
man martyrs have shed his own for
her sake. "Holy Russia" he once
said in an irony rare with him; but
Holy Ireland" with all his heart.
For years I have been saying these
words. The Irish people are the most
theoretically Catholic people on the
race of the earth They have also
been afflicted with every kind of sor-
row. barbarous and refined-all that
centuries of warfare of race against
ton has nearly come. ho. TO seq
race and religion against religion can
1nflict upon a people has been their
inheritance. But the day of restitu-
tide when the people of ireland will
be readmitted, as far as possible, to
the making and administration of
their own local laws, while they shall
still share in the legislation which
governs and consolidates the EN-
pre-" A thousand similar words
could be quoted from the Cardinal:
but they are not observation-disclosures
Visitor.