The Irish standard., 1916-03-18

poultry, eggs, DeeI, muttOus Veu1oOA
and famous bacons; when the rich
Kenmare mines, once worked profit
ably by that robber.genius. William
Petty-Lansdowne's ancestor, is re-
opened, when the woolen industry
long ago throttled by the Georges, and
English jealousy-the tweeds. flannels.
and the incompatible Irish friezes are
again resurrected and the linen indus
try is fostered and brought up to the
Ulster volume and standard. Your
populace in those future days. which
we are confidently anticipating, will
take on q cosmopolitan aspect. The
broad, white highway, the lower road
to Kenmare will show variety of
peoples. Mingling gaily among its
pure rosy-cheeked, white-skinned
Gaels, will be the ford sassenach, the
olive Latins, the blond Scandinavians,
the sallow Slaves and Teutons, the
tawny Turks, the yellow Orientals and
the sable Africans.
With the foreign influx will como
many cults and creeds. new thoughts
and theories, and strange philosophers,
customs, manners and modes-some
beneficial, some otherwise.
Templenoe will raise new temples
spacious churches and towering
spheres for the greater glory Of God:
there will be many services, pontif-
calls. oratorios, etc.; will be choirs and
converts, sodalities and societies for
all, the spiritual, the benevolent, the
temperance, the literary and the mu.
steal; will be chimes and angelus bells
whose heavenly peals shall float up
the glens, and down the valleys, and
out over the deep calling all to prayer
and contemplation of Him, the author
Of all, Of life and death, Of wars and
peace, of famine and prosperity.
There will be resident pastors
(something that section sorely needed,
and should have had long, long ago)
whose enlightened apostolic zeal
would have introduced so many beau
tiful, refining and elevating devotions
and spiritual exercises, and would
have discovered and developed voca.
tons without number for the Masters
service, among the spirited, noble.
blooded, strong-bodied, robust-minded
children of those ever solidly faithful
clans: ministers-the frown of whose
austere presence would be salutary
check to the petty feuds and follies,
the intemperance and other undesir.
able tendencies which at times were
prone to prevail along there.
The New Templenoe-the "Urbis-in
Hortus" of which we are prophesying
will have schools galore, public and
private, running the gamut from the
elementary to the university-includ
ing the mechanical arts schools-bad.
ly needed institutions where both
sexes may acquire trades to equip
them for the fierce battle of life. The
poor Irish emigrants of the past, with
few exceptions, suffered sadly in this
respect. Leaving agarian Erin for the
colonies and the Americas. they ar
rived without capital, profession OF
trade, their only assets health, vigor
and wit-such conditions necessitated
starting at the bottom-hewers OF
wood and drawers of water for the
stranger.
While the pompous Britisher and
the Continentals who came over with
them In the same ship CASUALLY, too
having the best of the berths and food
etc.-and by the way, after what hap
pened in Liverpool last fall, l hope nc
Irishman will ever again patronize the
Cunard line, which has grown rich on
Irish emigrants) usually had had
trades of some kind, the Englishman is
a factory or office man, or a salesman
of assurance, the Scotch are usually
engineers and stokers, the Scandinav.
ians, nearly every Jackman of them
is sailor or carpenter the German is
a hotel man, waiter, barber or barman
the South European peddlers are dilet
tante artists, fruit and peanut ped
dlers, or some other such ware-this
type Of the European would gather
gold on top of Cnocnaassal
I But the poor Irish boy from Der
reenavurrig and Derreennamucklagh
brought up to no craft or art, had to
buckle down to drudgery. Happily
however, opportunity and fair field
afforded his latent talent and capacity
the means Of rising to the level OF
his genius and ambition which, thank
God, is usually near the top.
Templenoe and the Kenmare Valley
Is surely destined for all this, and, in
finitely, far more. With economic con
ditions, enterprise, scientific applica.
ton, cumulative wealth and popula
ton, it shall avail itself of its great
natural advantages-its thirty-mile
bay, the most safe and central location
of Europe for the trading ships of the
world; the incalculable wealth of its
seas; it's rich dairyland, mines and
water power; its mild climate so fay.
orable for manufacturing and rapid ur.
ban growth.
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