Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-17
Ireland and the Irish
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/ Il has five million inhabitants once It had eight
and when thinks OF absentee iandlordisn, VIC
wonder why the other five millions did not go, 700
The Emerald Isle IL very beautiful The winds
blow in from the and supply a humidity that
makes the flowers blossom and the plants grow
In Ireland the pasture lands and meadow lands
bossom-decked and water-fed crossed and recrossed
by never-endng Indigenous that stretch away and
lose themselves in misty nothingness. are fair as
poets dream
Birds carol in the hawthornes and yellow furze all
day long, and the fragrant summer winds that blow
lazily the fields laden with the perfumes
OF blossoms.
The Irish love the land OF their fathers with
child-like love. Their hearts bound up in sweet
memories. rooted by song and legend in hooks and
curious corners the tendrils of affection hold them
fast.
whenever an Irish family embarks for the New
World part OF the five million inhabitants go down
the waterside 20 see them off.
Not long ago / stood on the dock Queenstown
watching two fine lads walk up the gang-psnk OF the
steamship clad in corduroy, each carrying a big. red
handkerchief containing his worldly goods.
And the next day kept thinking of those two fine
young men, and thought of the wonderful OF
many just such Irish boys thesel
The boys had health. strength, ambition. They
were receptive. eager earnest And yet there was
something rolcksome about them, after ALL
Doubtless they could dance and sing; and knew
perfectly well, II necessary, they could fight, and
perhaps they could fight when It necessary
When the two boys with their big handkerchets
arrive In America they viii get jobs they will work
hard and faithfully they will carry big burdens
out OF the work they will get a deal OF laughter
And II pivotal point where the average
man lays down and quits, these boys win work
into the night and show the grit OF the Irish race
They will become foremen superintendents owners
such has been the typical career OF hundreds OF
Irishmen in America.
Think Of John +. Mcdonald, who came TO this
country with the peat mud his bare feet, and who
built the New York subwaysan engineering job that
mad been declared by so-called engineers i'm
possible
And how about William C. McAdoo, John J. Ryan,
Morgan j. OBrien. William r. Grace. Henry Ford
big boys whose forebears were fed on spuds and
spinach
can remember a time when the section men on the
railroads OF America all Irish. we used 10
sing; Paddy the railroad, fifty cents a day" Rut
We do not sing II
II you want to find Paddy just look for him in tho
general offices
The Irish possess initiative originality. energy
They can plan, devise, build
Take up official railway guide and observe
the names OF presidents and vice presidents superin.
tendents. general passenger agents. traffic managers
and you can easily imagine you are looking through
Dublin telephone directory.
There were the Harahans, father and son. president
and general superintendent OF the Illinois Central
railway And of the engineers and builders lust a
little removed from the peat bog let name Harri-
man, Flood oBrien, Larkn, Sullivan, Gary Geary
Lanahan Kenefick, Driscoll Mackey
William T. Noonan, the railroad president ,s +.
typical son OF transpanted Irish PARENTS or take
Hannaford. president of the Northern Passfic These
represent the second crop OF Miesians, who do
things in a big and generous way; men who never
Know they are whipped. And man who never knows
he Is licked never is.
James j. I'M is the supreme type. Mr. Hill re-
tired from business twelve years aEo-for one whole
day, He manages two ranscontnental raaIIroaas nd
has say IN dozen others
Then we have Sir Thomas shaughnessy. president
OF the wonderful Canadian Pacific railway yh6 vas
once a swchman and has worked his way up step nv
step until he is of the educated men In the
ord and head of the only railroad in the world SPAN
ming continent
When England wants a particularly strong man IT
has to so over to ireland and pick some pin-cheeked
boy.
And hear that England's greatest orator was
Edmund Burke; its sweetest gentlest poet oliver
Goldsmith one of its greatest scientists, John Tynda;
Arthur Wellesley-the man who gave the Corscan his
Waterloo was Arthur Wellesley duke OF wellington
all Irish,
And surely it doesn't take many Irishmen like
George Bernard Shaw to make dozen!
In the game today have Kitchener, Jellico,
French and hundred others right in Glass A. all
very much Irish.
We have had one Irish president, Andrew jackson.
President Mckinley had a goody drop OF Irish
blood in his veins.
The willingness OF the Irish people to do away with
miltarism Is apparent for then Irish confetti"
the blackthorn will come into their Nearly all
the heavyweight champions Of the world have been
Irishmen--Krain. sullivan Corbett, Jeffries with
other o Briens Sullivans. Galatians Duffys
Makers. Kibanes coming to the fore; with Mcbride
the world champion athlete.
In oratory. poetry. history finance. stAtssmanship
the Irish have taken always and forever great and
important part
We are told there Irishmen in New York
than In Ireland In politics have Governor Dunno
OF Illinois and Governor Walsh OF Massachusetts, as
specimen bricks. with enough bricks TO build
house start a war.
The oppression. poverty and struggle that Ireland
has endured have been OF untold benefit for It's chill
dren for the Law OF Compensation never rests
Mans business is 20 fight eternally $50 -
And out Of Ireland have many noble char
scters who have influenced the whole round world
for good.
No gymnasium, ever produce the magnificent
physical types OF man and woman that you will see
along the country roads IN Ireland Here Is beauty
that might make the Apollo Belvedere and the Venus
of Milo jealous t.1
Transplanted a happier political Cline with room
grow and evolve, and do and dare the Irish show
their capacity for work. thOught organization and
high endeavor.
The Irish form a citizenship OF which We can all
well be proud While at times they rub up they
give touch OF needed sentiment to the Teutonio
tribes; add passion and zeal to the going Brton;
set a pace for the Itslians-and they themselves
evolved refined softened educated by the complexty
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