The Washington times., 1920-11-24

Augusta Victoria Dying.
How the Irish Fight.
Eating Worms.
Immiorants WeIeome
immigrants welcome.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. isfo)'


Women always have "the worst
Of it," whether they live like
Nancy, with Bill Sykes. or like Au-
gusta Victoria. former Empress OF
Germany, with the kaiser in his
palace.
Women share equally the mis-
fortunes, and feel the pain more
' keenly. The glory, when it comes,
Is not for them.
Augusta Victoria bore the long
line Of Hohenzollern boys. The
emperor's part was having himself
photographed with them, all in
uniform. some with spiked he'll
NETS. some with skull and cross
bones.
All her sons have been scat
tered, one has killed himself. Now
she lies dying, and 'she must be
glad to go, and finish having "all
the worst of it,"
More fighting and killing in Ire
land. What is the power that
keeps a small Celtic people still
fighting against apparently hope
less odds, after seven hundred
years of fighting and famine?
A hundred other peoples have
settled down comfortably under
the yoke. The Irish never settled
down-still insisting. "We will be
Free"
The Irish blood is the blood OF
the fair-hair Celts that said to
Alexander, I'VE fear nothing, ex-
cept that the sky may fall on u.s."
They belong to the race that once
fought all through the mountains
and valleys from the Dardanelles
to the English channel.
On the island Of Ireland, sepa-
rated from invasion by the chan
mel, the Celtic race has retained
its original fighting quality.
II it could not be conquered
dhu iCdily put oOWh uuiih6 cOvOA
hundred years Of ruthless murder,
famine and hideous economic ex-
ploitation, how will 1t be put down
now? BY generation more
squeamish, if not more gentle,
that must keep up appearances
before the League Of Nations and
before the world?
II you want to be free, fighting
pays. Nothing else will help it.
Professor Shaw, in Colorado, to
prove that angleworms are good
to eat, ate a handful of them fried
in butter, much to the edification
Of the high school class in biology.
The learned professor probably
told the young ladies and gentle
men that among many peoples,
certain Of the American tribes, for
instance, worms, grasshoppers.
mice, snakes, even clay. formed
the principal diet. But, luckily
for those school children and that
professor, their ancestors were all
cannibals. They hunted and ate
the inferior insect-eating tribes,
thus they always had fresh meat
in the house, fed the children
we'll and developed the strong
races that now rule. We all owe
much to ancestral doings that
would shock us now.
The little State of Connecticut
has, within a year, absorbed twen-
k,y nd ,vny
mainly from southern Europe.
This gives you an idea Of the in
flux from abroad that is to have
most important effects on this
country.
immigration will be opposed in
the name of labor, as immigration
always has been opposed, by those
that would like to hold their jobs
without working seriously.
And immigration, which will
help the entire nation, will do
more for labor than for any 9TH
er class, not excepting owners of
coal mines or steel plants.
The we'll named "know nothing"
gentleman asks: Don't you know
that if you bring in millions of
foreigners there will be more of
us to divide the country's wealth,
not enough jobs to go around?"
Well, there are 105,000,000 of
us now, and five dollars a day is
not considered high wages.
When there were fewer than
four million people in this coun-
try, there was just ONE me-
chanic, a New England carpen-
ter, able to average one dollar a
day all the year round.
The population Of the country
has been multiplied by twenty
, five, and wages by at least five.
That is the answer.
Those twenty-five thousand i'm
migrants in Connecticut will take
all that they eat and wear, and the
houses in which they live, right
out of the stony soil OF Connecti-
cut. That soil the native-born,
long ago, pronounced not worth
cultivating.
Give those twenty-five thousand
men machinery, land and a fair
chance and see what they will do.