The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-11
IREL AND AND THE IRISH
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planted Irish parents; or take Hanna.
ford. president of the Northern Paei-
&c These represent the second crop
OF Milesians, men who do things IN
big and generous way: men who new
er know they are whipped AND Z
man who never knows he Il licked
never Is.
James J. Hill is the supreme type.
Mr. Hill retired from business Twelve
years ago-for one whole day. He
manages two transcontinental rail-
roads and has say in dozen others
Then We have Sir Thomas Shaugh-
messy, president OF the wonderfui
Canadian Pacific railway, Who was
once a switchman and has worked MS
way up, step by step, until he is one
Of the best educated men In the
world and head of the only railroad
in the wrold spanning q continent
When England wants particularly
strong man II has to go over to Ire
land and pick some pink-cheeked boy
And so we hear that Engiano
greatest orator was Edmund burke;
its sweetest and geltlest poet, Ohver
Goldsmith: one OF its greatest scasn-
fists. John Tyndall; Arthur Welies-
ley-the man who gave the Corslcan
his Waterloo was Arthur wellesley
duke OF wellington-al Irish
And surely 1t doesn't take many
Irishmen like George Bernard SnaW
to make dozen.
In the game today we have htch-
ener, Jellico. French and hundred
others right in class A. all very mucn
Irish.
We have had one Irish president.
Andrew Jackson
President Mckinley had goodiy
crop OF Irish blood in his veins.
The willingness of the Irish people
to do away with militarism Is appaf-
emit, for then Irish confetti aid the
blackthorn will come into their own.
Nearly all the heavyweight champions
Of the world have been Irishmen-
Kilrain, Sullivan. Corbett, Jenries,
with numerous other O'Briens. Sulli-
vans. Galatians, Duffys, Makers. XII
banes coming to the fore; Win NC.
Bride the world champion athlete.
In oratory, poetry, history, nnance,
craftsmanship. the Irish have taken
always and forever q great and I'M
portant part.
We are told that there are more
Irishmen in New York than in Ire
land. In politics we have Governor
Dunno Of Illi1ois and Governor Walsh
of Massachusetts as specimen bricks,
with enough more bricks to build
house or start war.
The oppression, poverty and
struggle that Ireland has endured
have been of untold benefit for Its
children, for the law Of compensation
never rests.
Mans business Is to fight eternally
And out OF Ireland have come many
noble Characters who have influenced
the whole round world for good.
No gymnasium can ever produce
the magnificent physician types Of
man and woman that you will see
along the country roads II Ireland
Here is beauty that might make the
Apollo BeIvedere and the Venus Of
Milo Jealous.
Transplanted to q happier political
cline. with room to grow and evolve
and do and dare, the Irish show theli
capacity for work, thought, orsaniza
ton and high endeavor.
The Irish form a citizenship o.
which we can all we'll be proud. While
at times they rub us up, they give
touch OF needed sentiment to the leu
tonic tribes: add passion and zeal tc
the sIow-going Briton; set pace fol
the Italians-and they themselves are
evolved, refined, softened. educated By
the completely OF conditions and ths
new environment into which they are
drawn. -,
ireland today is nearer poitica
freedom than it ever has been In the
past. It's lot is happier now than evel
before in modern history. God Is Ger
tainly good to the Irish. :,
And that's why st. Patrick's day
celebrated.