The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-08-25
Irishmen DO Well
But Not 1t Home
Sons Of Erin Are to Be Found Every
where and Have Succeeded Better
In Every Land Under the Sun Than
In Their Own.

in people, SO long exposed to famine.
finally exhibiting unmistakable evi.
dences Of being well-nourished.
"Englishmen, Scotchmen, Jews, do
we'll in Ireland-Irishmen never" says
George Moore. Even the patriot has
to leave Ireland to get hearing"
There is some truth in this remark.
It is not best even for an Irish-Amer-
lean to confine himself to an Irish
American community. The Irish race
is really leaven. It is needed to lift
the world. 1t must not segregate it.
self; Jumped and isolated, it misses
it's best incentives. But, of course, its
prosperity when transplanted, is also
largely due to better civic conditions,
and escape from oppressive laws and
institutions.
The Eighteenth Century.
Macaulay illustrates this In the fol-
lowing passage referring to the status
of the Irish, who migrated to the con-
tinent Of Europe in the eighteenth CEN
fury:
There were, indeed" he says, Irish
Roman Catholics of great ability, en-
ergy, and ambition; but they were to
be found everywhere except in Ireland,
at Versailles and st. ndefonso; in the
armies of Frederic and in the armies
of Maria Therese. One exile became
Marshal of France. Another became
Prime Minister Of Spain. If he had
stayed in his native land he would
have been regarded as an inferior
by all the ignorant and worthless
squireens who had signed the declara-
ton against transubstantiation. In
his place at Madrid he had the pleas
ure of being assiduously courted by
the ambassadors of King George H.,
and of bidding defiance in high terms
to the ambassadors of George III.
Scattered over all Europe we're to be
found brave Irish generals, dexterous
Irish diplomats, Irish counts, Irish
barons, Irish Knights of st. Louis and
st. Leopold, of the White Eagle and
the Golden Fleece, who If they had
remained in the house of bondage
could not have been ensigns of march
ing regiments or freemen of petty
corporations"
We may, in this connection recall
the story of an Irish schoolmaster,
who was examining class in geog-
raphy. "Now, my lad" he said to
clever little chap, "tell us what lati-
tude is" The clever little chap
smiled and winked. Latitude" he
said, "oh, sir, there's none o. that in
Ireland; sure the English n'tallow
us any sir"
The Nineteenth Century.
Their national vicissitudes. have
been parturitions out of which the in
ternational Importance of the Irish
race has developed. 1t is probable
that in 1900 there were nearly as
many Irish-born persons, and twice as
many of Irish parentage, living out
side of Ireland as within the, native
isle of the race. ...
So the whole world and all nine
teenth century history are dotted
with distinguished names of this ex-
patriate people. O'Higgins commands
the Chilean army, Plunket is Governor
of New Zealand, Duffy is an Australian
premier, O'Doherty is Archbishop of
Manila, Hennessey is Governor of
Hong Kong, O'Donnell is premier of
Spain, Taafe is premier Of Austria,
Mcmahon is president of France,
O'Connor is British ambassador to
Turkey, Lord Russell of Killowen is
chief Justice of England, Fitzpatrick is
chief justice of Canada, Walsh is gov
ernor of Massachusetts, Glynn is gov.
ernor of New York, Sheridan is com.
mander-in-chief of the American army,
and Irish grandsires have furnished
five presidents of the United States.
Their Mission.
An American Bishop has written
a book on the Religious Mission of
the Irish Race" The Irish have done
more to spread the Catholic Church
in the last hundred years than all its
missionary forces in three hundred
years. They have built a thousand
churches in the great south sea con-
tinent of Australia. They have thrown
a million of their race into England
to begin its reconQuest to the faith.
They have made the Catholic Church
numerically by far the largest and
most influential Christian denomina-
ton in the United States. While
there are today twenty-five Catholic
Bishops in Ireland, there are more
than hundred Catholic Bishops with
Irish names In other parts of the
world.
st. Patrick's Day is, in our time,
the most widely celebrated of national
anniversaries. The salvo with which
it opens in Dublin is caught up in
Paris by descendants of the Irish bri-
gade, echoed by students of the Irish
college in Rome and by bands Of Irish
soldiers in Cairo; Bombay is -a-wearing
Of the green. Melbourne is in gala
attire, San Francisco is in mass meet
I. ing assembled and n hundred other