The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-03-06
Emmett Spirit Would
Safeguard the Nation

people In their struggle for liberty
and home.
a gifted son, speaking OF the pco-
pie OF Ireland In 1880. described
them as the school boys OF the heart,
people Of sympathy, by instinct
brave. by inheritance generous. Then
to put his penegyTIo to the test. he
said: Enter the home OF an irish
peasant. do not say you will find
the frugality OF the Scotch, the com
forts Of the English, or the fantastic
decorations Of the French, but / do
say that you will find sensibility the
most affecting, poIlteneas the most
natural. hospitality the most CRATE
full. and merit the most unconscious,
Their look Ia eloQuence. their smile
is love, their rotor Is wit, their re-
mark Is wisdom. Try to deceive them
and see with what art=they detect.
Try=to outHit= them, and ReeZwIth
what humor they elude. Attack tL,,nm
with argument and you will stand
amazed Mt the strength of their ex-
preston. and the rapidly Of their
ideas" In short, God seems to have
made the people like the country
around the one, He has thrown a
Wild and magnificent rudeness, while
into the other, He has infused the
simplicity OF genius and planted the
seeds of Justice.
Life Rich in Experience.
Such was Ireland March 4, 1888,
when the grey light Of new born
day stole through the window Of
her soul, in the BIRTH of Robert En-
met. Patriotism and duty received
him, courage and truth attended him.
He belonged to the period of the
United Irlshmen, and died in his
twenty-si2th year-but. measured by
heart throbg and feelings, many years
were crowded into his life. He at
tended Trinity, where he found many
kindred spirits whose hearts heat
in unison with the great movement
for human freedom then agttatlng
the world. To the debates OF the
college he brought fine intellect
and fluent utterauce, and was soon
recognized as the orator OF the patrl-
OTIS party. So fervid was his clio
qnence and so unanswerable and far
reaching his logic that he was ex-
PEELED in 1898 and the society sup
pressed. He then visited France,
where he met Napoleon and Talley-
rand and laid the foundations for tho
insurrection that, In July 1903, left
him a ruined, onscience-stricken
man and cost him his life. In all of
Irish history there ia no name that
touches the heart like that OF Robert
Emmett. He was a rare combination
OF such admirable qualities, with so
many claims upon our sympatteG,
that he stands absolutely without
a parallel, He was the product of
his conditions. and typihed the as
nirations of his people. He possessed
an Unborn might that elevated him to
heights supreme. He ruled himself
and called no man master. He was a
graduate OF the remorseless school of
experience and had little respect for
mere Formally. He broke the bond
age OF tradition and threw aside the
superstition OF the past. He thought
truly, and his eloquence has fed a
nations spiritual hunger. He lived
truly and his life has become noble
creed. He shattered the political des-
J potism OF the hour and established
I Int 4lkut " Iulnh anu 10 RoTk anu
to worship God according to the die
tates of the human soul. Nothing
could buy the good faith that filled
his heart. The granite fibre OF his
manhood stood in unbought majesty.
( true emblem OF his character and his
native land. He won the victory
from death because he was true. and
with step triumphant and heart OF
cheer. he accepted his place and
mado the fight without hesitation or
fear. He say his hopes fail, the
things the world holds dear fall from
his grasp, yet he kept the faith and
trusted self. His belief taught him
that God in His plan of development
had appointed each man to walk
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