The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-07-04

u.,,rd in the Last Fifty Years
o<i ir 1oi6" By Earnest Barker, Ok
i for England, Press.
THE hook is boon tor those VINO
! III, ,ot time to read all the elab-
have and exhaustive discussions on
9 Gr,a,d and her wrongs. The amount
lfei ;a.nfIormation packed into the lH
OF M of This book &c amazing. 1t
pages on eminently fair statement OF
seeii' s;des of the vexed controversy.
D Is2o have a brief review Of Irish his
we 10" aacknowledged facts stated very
tIay,,v The book opens with the
statement:
nTbe contact, which too often has
-" conflict, between England and
neeh n.,d ;s as old as the University OF
HH' ciad The university began some
w about 1867; the entry OF Eng
, m into Ireland came. in the year
diversity INV is thus $50 years old"
Then comes an attempt to define
hat that question is, and it is
JUS essv to do so. Many have as
no. Md < was one of race, but it can
SUM he simply a conflict between
a eou ~ and Celt, for England has
Sad sad Saxon and Celt in Wales and
, .ho northern part of Scotland. and
md ns there is very large admix-
-, .nas of Celt in the England Of today
~. .sat we call Angio-Saxon. And the
.na,..,,rv-oId conflict cannot be laid
s the door of religious faith wholly.
a. aven originally, for it was Mary. J.,
" :. aCatholic Mary" wife of the big
o. o.od philip III of Spain. who first
ottempted the conquest Of the Green
Isle. which was continued by Enza-
beth. never real Protestant. WINE
Iceland has ever manifested an almost
fierce loyalty to chieftains, yet 1t
never adopted the feudai system, ana
a sure DRIFT for long time has been
awards pure democracy. 1t IS point
ed out that geography and climate
have been great factors. The various
nnheayals Of Irish history are men,
toned, causes riven, results named
and the shifting scenes which toll
loved. OF course much space is piver
he modern movement which had 1T
principal source in the famine OF 1910
IL. those of us who lived before tina
dav remember we'll its pathetic ant
distressing features. Following tina
famine, owing to potato rot, began tn
great emigration to the United States
we'll remember when the shipload
began to pour into Boston; railroa'
was then building through my nativ
village, and the Irish laborers wer
some of the refugees. and l had neve
before seen men clothed in such rag
and have never seen such sight
since: yet notwithstanding rags an
dirt / was impressed by their light
heartedness and love OF strong liquor
as laoorers they were easy to manag
but tricky to the last degree, and t
see them Kill time" was amusing I
the beholder, and when he was d.
tected he turned it off with some littl
witticism and even the boss" had I
laugh. Thew worked hard, saved the
money, sent for wife and children, {
else sent their savings to the old toll
at home; and from that time ne
era began in Ireland.
1t is a curious fact that the Iris
Home Rule party began with Pro
estant, Charles Parnell. 1t was sar
movement following the ridiculol
Fenian efforts which had in our coul
trv curious outbreak at the close
the Civil War, when the former lri!
soldiers of our federal army tried
attack England by attempting to ca
-ture Canada, making military "a
from St. Athens, VT, across the III
into Canada, which ended in dust al
worldwide laugh. But that Feni
sentiment is today the core of t
pushing for an independent Irish I
public.
But all through these troubled yea
all conditions have improved in Ii
land; economic, educational and
ligious; abundant evidence proves
This little book gives mass OF int
esting information along these lin
some of which must be revelation
many Americans. The oDening OF
last chapter on Ireland today is $
-nificant: "Irelard has not rebell'
There Las been a rebellion in Irelar
there las. not been a rebellion OF
land
The Lon Road of Woman's Me
ory." By Jane Adams. This is "'
Jane Adams" of the Hull House
Chicago. The subject was sugges
by the curious experience they had
Hull House some years ago. The
port got current that they hae
Devil Baby" with clcven feet, poi
ed ears and diminutive tail. Th
were two versions. one Italian and
other Jewish; and each was to sh
that some wicked parent had de-
God and this awful child was
punishment. No denial was suffici
to stop the rush to see the monstl
ity, and the denial of its existence
taken as additional evidence OF
reality, and the crowds and clai
almost stopped the regular work