davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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half the rebel army were from Ireland"
Mr. O'Briep dryly suggests that the mistake Of
these guesses natural, enough Irishmen to
make up So per cent. of an army would surely
appear like so per cent. in fght{i
The contention, frequently heard that there was
little Irish emigration to America before the Revo-
luton except from the north of Ireland is taken
up boldly by Mr.: o 'Brien. There is no way to ar
rive at the facts he says except by digging up the
passenger ship arrivals from Ireland in that
period. From the newspapers of 1771-74 he com
piled list of the Irish ships arriving at New York
and Philadelphia:
''Of SIC sailings during these four
years only 247, or about f.; per cent, to and
from those northern ports where the ScotchI Irish
emgrantS would naturally embark and 329, 81
per cent. were to and from those parts of Ireland
where the old Irish admittedly the predomi-
nant element Mr. O'Brien, who says that evil
dence of this character on this subject has never
been presented before submits that it is indisput-
able; and he adds guess which is likely to find
some assent in Ulster, THAT not the most
thusasic advocate of the Scotch Irish theory can
claim that the entire population of Ulster of
Scotch descent" Also, an emigrant from Donegal
llG.Where FROM Donegal, Hew'r the pratiesf
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Army in the very interesting Proceedings of the
Parliament of Ireland, and the Inhabitants of that
Country, which have been lately communicated,
not only as they appear calculated to those
heavy and tyrannical expressions on their Trade,
but to restore to brave and generous people their
ancient Rights and Freedom, and by their opera
ton to promote the Cause of America. DESTROYS
of impressng on the minds of the Army Transae
tons so important in their nature, the General di
reefs that all Fatigue and Working Parties cease
for tomorrow, the 18th, day held in particular
regard by the People of that Nation" General
Washington added his hope that the celebration
of the day would not be married by disturbances
Mr. O'Brien has been careful to set down, in
hundreds of footnotes the authorities for his
statements, particularly when they refer to mat
ters which have been in CONTROVERSY. He has not
spared the bayonet in attacking alleged distOrers
of facts about the early American Irish, and he
takes particular delight in showing, by means of
the army rolls, the slips that were made, even in
Government publications, by writers whose esti-
mates of the Irish population in America before
the Revolution were ridiculousy small.
HIDDEN PHASE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. By
MICHAEL, J.. o BsIEN. Tbs DsTia Adair Company, 81
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low figure of per cent. representing these ele
ments we arrive at total of 37.S3 per cent, or
substantially IS per cent
In his labOriOus search for contemporary opinion
on the number of Irish in the Revolutionary army
Mr. O'Bren discovered, in the Library of Con
gress, some original issues of the Royal Gazette
published in New York in 1879. These contained
the testimony, given before Parliamentary com
mittee of inquiry, of Joseph Galloway, lOyalist
attorney from Maryland In answer to question
as TO the composition of the rebel army Galloway
said: -. - .''
''The names and places Of their nativity being
taken down [ answer the question with pre-
cision There scarcely one fourth natives of
America; about onehalf Irish the other fourth
were English and Scotch. ..,. p.
They Fought Like Fifty.
Another bit of contemporary evidence used by Mr..
OBrien is the testimony of General Robertson on
June 8, 1879, and printed in the Parliamentary
Register Edmund Burke said to Robertson:
How. are the provincial corps composed:
whether mostly of native Americans, or from emf
grants from various nations of Europe?
General Robertson answered, in part 81 re-
member General Lee telling me. that he believed.
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Irishmen in Our Revolution

Some Surprising Facts Dug Up by Michael ]. OBren
Respecting Gaels Who Fought for American Freedom
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Very small! Howdye eat emf Skins
an y, as Irish county as there is
in Ireland. would sail from Letter
kenny or Londonderry, north Of Ire
land ports. Mr.. 'Brien's research
makes him conclude that between
1857 and 1774 America received
32,G40 Scotch-Irish' immigrants
and g., $50 "plain Irish - immigrants.
Kellys. Burkes and Sheas.
Well, then, says the interested
reader, there must have been a large
number of Kellys, Burkes and Sheas
ih the Revolutionary army. Mr..
o Bricn, anticipating this yearning
for concrete information, presents it
fully. On the rolls of the Revolution
airy army there were 695 Kellys, 221
Burkes and IS Sheas. There were
494 Murphys, 322 Ryans, 266 Sulli-
vans and 231 O'Briens. There
were IS separate and distinct John
Kellys. Mr. O'Brien does not as
sumo that every Patrick On the rolls
was an Irishman, admitting that
there was a fondness for that name
among some of the Highland Scots,
but he adds that when a Patrick APP
pears on the rolls it is usually in con-
nection with a surname strictly IN
digenous to Ireland:
lone cannot be mistaken, for ex-
ample, as to the racial origin of the
AZ Patrick Kellys, the 81 Patrick
Murphys, the 81 Patrick SullivaRs
and Patrick Ryans, or the IS Patrick
Reillys
In an appendix Of $50 pages Mr..
O'Brien presents the names of the
officers Of the American army and
navy of the Revolution who were of
Irish birth or descent; and also the
muster roll of the non-commissiOned
officers and enlisted men who bore the
twelve Irish names most common.
The author quotes General Wash
ington's order for the celebration OF
St. Patrick s Day in 1850:
"The General congratulates the
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clarke III his introduction to
Michael j. 0 'Brien s A Hidden
Phase Of american History, che
establishes unequivocally that 50 per
cent. of the Revolutionary army that
won American independence was
Irish. This, of course, is enough to
carry any dialecticPn on the sub
Jcct of Ireland pro or con, further
into the book. The hidden phase"
meant in Mr. O'Brien's title is the
part the Irish-not the Scotch Irish,
or the Pcruyian-Ir or the Estho-
man Irish, but the regular Irish-tOOk
il. General Washington 5 great drive
How Mr. o 'Brien, who is the his
Photographer of the American Irish
Historical Society, arrives at his per-
centage is briefly described in one of
the 500 pages of his volume:
II have not examined all of the
muster rolls, but have selected num-
Der indiscriminately from each of the
original thirteen Colonies.
have made a careful calculation %,
by counting the total number of SOL
diers i'll each unit, and (2), by sep
arate count of those of undOubted
Irish birth or descent In some COM
ranies / find the extraordinarily high
percentage of Is per cent Irish
while, on the other hand, it must be
said that in other companies the per-
centagc runs as low as 10, and in
some New England regiments and
SEINE of those raised in the old Dutch
districts of New York and the Ger
man settlements in Pennsylvania no
Irish names at all appear. But on
averaging them all up | have deter
mined that 1888 per cent of the sol
diers of the Revolutionary army were
Irish. TO those must be added some
small percentage of those Of non-Irish
names, and not recorded as Irish and
it is proper also to consider the Irish
proportion of those scattering bodies
not attached to the regiments of the
line. If we take the cOnservatively
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A HIDDEN PHASE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. B,
MICHAEL, J. o RsIxS. Ths Dsvia Adair Company s.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

Quite number attended the ice
cream social Friday evening at the
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. farrell spent Sun
day at the home of their daughter,
Mrs. Chas. Peacock at Georgetown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Kies and fam
lily were Sunday visitors at the John
Cullen home
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Kohler and
daughter Wilma visited Sunday at the
home of his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Kirk spent Sun
day at the home of Mrs. Kork' par
ents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Peacock and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06
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ADVERTISEMENTS.

HOUSE AND OTHER PROPERTY
FOR SALE The undersigned Of
fers for sale my frame dwelling house,
barn and lots situated on North St.
in the village of Potosi. Also $50 acres
of island lands in the township of
Potosi on which there is a quantity
of hard and soft timber which can be
converted into lumber and other pur-
poses. Philip Roesch, Potosi, Wis.
22w3c.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06
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BIG PATCH.

Misses Ruby and Sarah Thomas Wis
tied Monday with Miss Lenice Raw
son.
Miss Maude Riege visited friends in
Benton.
Floyd Rawson has been spending
the past week with relatives in Du-
buque.
Mrs. Jas. Peacock and daughter
Fleta visited Thursday afternoon at
the John Peacock home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN-From
our pasture in EllenbOro twp, one
Black Angus yearling. Please notify
Vesperman Bros. 24p3.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06
FARM FOR sALE-I offer my farm

FARM FOR SALE-I offer my farm
for sale consisting of 219 acres sit
uated in the town of Potosi, one mile
esat of British Hollow and two miles
northesast of the village of Potosi.
About 100 acres under cultivation, the
balance in timber and pasture with
running water. There is good
dwelling house, large barn and out
houses on the premises. For terms,
ETC., see me. Joseph Berg, Potosi,
Wis. 23c3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06
Grant County Teachers, Institute

UIUnO OUunUy ItTClI6IS IMSJIUuUVT y
Grant County Teachers Institute
will be held at the high school build
ing in Lancaster during the week of
Aug. IS to %. The first four days
will be devoted to intensive demon
stration work along lines of agricul-
ture, geography, and methods, while
Friday and Saturday will be given to
the regular examinations.
E. j. YOUNG,
Co. Superintendent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06
Notice: Fine City Property.

PROPERTY FOR SALE-Lots 1884
and in block Ryland's addition to
the city of Lancaster. House and
barn on property. Lots in one body.
These must be sold together. This is
as good location as can be found in
tosi, Wis. 11tfc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

FOR SALE-Or will exchange for a
good windmill, a practically new s.
horse gasoline engine JOS. Wright
Farmers phone 1925. 21tfc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06
GRANT COUNTY HERALD

Independent Republican Newspaper.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY,
a. L. SHERMAN, Publisher & Editor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

LOST-A red bull calf about six mo.
old. Has been missing since July
10th. Please notify Frank Holzer,
Ri. 1, phone 1881, Lancaster, Wis. 23tf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

DR.. GAULT is again doing general
medicine and surgery; calls city and
country promptly attended; special
attention given to Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

FOR SALE Two yearling heifers.
Roam Durhams. Priced right. Lorenz
Rekenthaler, Lancaster, Wis, Rt. 5.
24c2.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

FOR SALE-My residence property in
the 4th ward. Inquire of Mrs. Hell
en- Judd, Bloomington, Wis, or Vern-
on G. Judd, at Burrows & Winskill
Garage, Lancaster, Wis. 23tfc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

FOR SALE offer 160 S. G. r.. /.
Red hens, IA months. old, at $3.50
each. A few spring cockerels- at 75c
each. Offer good to Aug. Is, 1919.
G. Chatfield, Liberty, Wis. 24p2.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

Entered at the Post-office in Lancas-
ter, Wis, as second class matter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

Registered, one year old. Good one.
John McAuley, Lancaster, Wis. 24p2.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

family Sundayed at the 3. S. earns
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Corlett Of
near town visited Sunday evening at
the George Thomas home.
The Sunday school picnic will be
held Thursday, Aug. at the picnic
grounds. Shullsburg and Big Patch
will play ball. Everybody come.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06
Wire and Fence Car.

Wire and Fence Car.
Baxter e Draper have rocoived
carload of Apex field fence and posts.
Those desiring Apex material should
place their orders promptly.
Adv. Baxter Draper
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

FOR SALE-A house in 3rd ward.
Good, substantial building. Must be
moved away. Inquire of James Nc
Kelvey, Lancaster, Wis. 23tfc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06
.ROaS
For Threshers

Men working all day long get hungry and require nOursh
ing food They like juicy meats and the farmers want them
to have the best.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

FOR SALE-8-room house and Z ac-
Wis. 23p4.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

LOST-A gun case on Grant river
road. Tudy Wright "a.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06
Good Threshing Roasts

Can be had at store Our blocks always have the best
in meat of all kinds No order small to be appreciated
too large to be filled We handle meats right from
the hoof to the block and be is always right
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06
Prepared Meat Products

Again wish to call attention to prepared meats We
make great variety of cured meats and sausages When
in doubt as to what to try
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-06

FOR SALE-The Blewett business
building in Lancaster. Inquire of
Jas. T. Webb, Admir-. 6tfc.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21
THE HOMELESS MAN

Since our earliest recollection poll
ticians have harped upon the great
things they were going to do for the
farmer Oh, yes, when they went
to Washington they were going to
revolutionize the flaming business.
The only thing we can remember of
having been done for the farmer
was the establishment of the Farm
Loan Banks. That, in a way, was a
benefit to the farmer and enabled
many to start farming who had form
erly rented
That law could be improved con-
siderably, and no doubt will be as
time goes on.
But there is another class who
have never been promised legislation
and who perhaps will never get it,
yet little help by the government
would make good citizens of a lot
of embryo bolshevists.
We speak of the laboring man and
the salaried man. Here is a class of
citizens who are as useful to society
as any other, yet they never figure
in Congressional debates. They are
the unorganized individual workers
who have borne the brunt of every
price increases with comparatively
little increase in pay.
This is the big renting class. Few
of them are home owners owing to
the pecularities of their calling.
And the high rents of the present
day are grinding them down.
Cannot there be legislation that
will reach this class as there was for
the renting farmer? Why could not
the government issue bonds and build
houses in every town in the United
States to be sold on small payments
and on long time. The property
would be good security for the bonds.
Make the bonds of small denimina-
tons and allow man to buy them
until he has accumulated, say hun
bred dollars when he could become
the possessor of government home
to be paid out as rent.
Then, should he lose his position in
one town and found it necessary to
make change he could turn the
property back and take up another
in the town in which he located.
In this way the people of the Unit
ed States would become a home
owning people and not one of the
fellows who had paid out a govern
ment home, or who was paying it
out would ever turn Bolshevist.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21
FLOUNDERING

The President, Congress, the
public in general are becoming ex
cited about the high cost of living
There is a universal demand that the
cost of living he reduced?
But how?
"Swat the profteers" echoes the
chorus and the President, Congress
and the public in general start look
ing for the profiteers.
Will they be found?
We think not.
To our notion the chase after
profiteers will be about as futile as the
chase after the end of the rainbow.
In the first place we arise to in
quire who will conduct the inquiry?
Who can tell whether or not bust
ness is making an exorbitant profit
except one acquainted with the de-
tails of the business?
We read in a paper a few days
ago statemdnt that the farmer
was profiteering; that he received too
great price for his wheat, corn,
cattle, butter, eggs, etc. and that the
way to reduce the high cost of living
would be to reduce the price the
farmer charges for these products.
Now do you farmers believe that?
We do not But the people of the
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21

manufacturing centers believe 1T.
They blame the farmer.
And, just as these people lay the
blame for the high cost of living at
the door of the farmer, we of the
agricultural districts of the United
States, lay it to the manufacturer
the jobber and the wholesaler, and
even some go so far as to lay it to
the retailer.
Now, is it not possible that we are
all wrong?
We have put in some good, hard
thought on this matter, ands we have
read perhaps thousand columns OF
remedies, of Investigations and the
like, of food supplies confiscated, and
a dozen and one ideas as to the cause
and remedy, and as yet we have only
begun to arrive at conclusion.
1t is mighty easy for the section
boss on an eastern railroad to say
that those Kansas farmers are get
ing rich while am kept poor buy
ing their butter and eggs, but bless
your heart that is not making the
farmer rich by long shot.
Then is it not possible that the
manufacturer and the jobber and the
wholesaler is just as innocent?
We do not know.
What we have concluded in this
connection is that the real cause of
the high cost of living is that every
thing we eat, wear or use changes
hands from three to five times be-
tween the producer and the consum-
err, and that in these changes we get
the excessive price the consumer
must pay.
We realize that there must be a
distributing system whereby the pro-
ducts of the farm, mine and mill
may be distributed to the retailer,
but we cannot help but think that
there are two many steps in the
stairs of distribution and that each
step costs.
Congress and the Department of
Justice seem to be going mad. In
vestigations that will cost us millions
are being started and we do not think
they will amount to a red cent ex-
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21
LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Certainly, the League of Nations
will be adopted. 1t may not be what
you would have made it; it may not
be what l would have made it. But
it will re adopted. When Oklahoma
became state the Democrats elected
the men who drew the constitution
for the state and the Republicans of
the state played the same stunt that
some people are playing over the
League of Nations: "Well, we
didn't write it, and it's no good" AS
a matter of fact, the Oklahoma con-
stitution was one of the greatest
freaks as a basis for fundamental
state law that was ever prepared.
Time has never proven that there was
even one real statesman in the Okla
homa constitutional convention. But
that had nothing to do with the ques-
ton of adoption. The people want
ed statehood. The people had spoken
in the election of constitutional dele
gates, and they were certain to adopt
the constitution. The Republicans of
Oklahoma fought the adoption of the
freak document.
1t was adopted by about ninety
per cent of the voters and the Repub-
licans of Oklahoma were so badly
beaten in their "Holier than thou"
attitude that they have never been
given a seat in Oklahoma politics
since. The attitude ruined the party
in Oklahoma.
The League of Nations may not
suit everybody but there is popular
demand for it and it will be adopted.
The people elected Woodrow Wilson
as president and the Republicans who
stand in the way of the adoption of
the League of Nations will be fiat
I tened out by the political steam roller
and left as stepping stones for those
who follow.
Surprising that every nation in the
world undertakes to dissect the
League of Nations and write it ac-
cording to their phraseology and con
/ ception of international law! II
that event the League of Nations WI
be unanimously and universally
agreed on the 31st day of September
in the year 2919 Anne Domini.
The above is from the pen of q
man who has been a lifelong Re
publican, the recipient of a govern
ment position at the hands of Re
publican president, and an energetic
party worker. He knows whereof hi
speaks regarding the matter of the
Oklahoma statehood matter, having
been there when the history was
made. There is not a Democratic
hair in his head.
His conclusions are simply the re
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21

cept to make government revenues
go faster. A law regulating the
number Of times an article may
change hands between producer and
consumer, and curtailment of gov
eminent expense to tighten the tax
burden will come nearer curing the
evil than anything that can be done.
In other words cut out the brok-
ers, and confine distribution to
licensed jobbers under government
regulations, and eliminate the fellows
whose only purpose in business is to
take a profit.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21

therein. If any of our readers would
like to see what silly, childish, bunch
represent up in Congress we invite
them to call and look over this: For
instance, in discussing the packers,
one gentleman brought up the sub
ject of goats. One man says he,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21

Will Townsley, editor of the Great
Bend Tribune writes from Colorado
that rooms cost S14 day there and
intimates that the people of Colorado
are descendants of the Jesse James
family. Wrong, Townsley, your sights
are set too high. We got a room
for a dollar night-but we didn't
stop at those "high brow" hotels.
They're for Millionaires and not
editors.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21

After we went to the trouble and
expense of electing them, the blame
fool congressman decided to take a
summer vacation right at time when
the Nation needed help worse than
ever before. True, it is bright and
very much interested bunch who
essay to represent the people at
Washington.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21

Now all you folks who would like
to be editors think on this. We lost
a subscriber this week because we
did not run the Want Column to
suit him and one last week because
he didn't like the editorial column.
1t certainly is somt job to get up all
the departments to suit the people.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21

could not tell a goat from a guinea
and another supplies the information
that the way to tell is simple, that
the tail of sheep sticks down and the
tail of goat sticks up. $1,000 per
year salary for Congressman. Oh,
you high cost of living.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21

suit of a clear vision and knowledge
of existing conditions, and he has
come nearer hitting the nail on the
head than anyone we have yet come
across.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21

The Democrat is in receipt of an
edition of the Congressional Record
through the courtesy of Congress
man Tincher, who has some remarks
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-08-21

Do forget that handle CrOckery and Enamelware
We expecting large shipment of dishes any time