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Show THE CITIZEN 9 UUIIIIUHIIIIIIIUIIIIIUIIHIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUHIIU; AMONG THE NEW BOOKS Salft Lake Ytoeaftire IRISHMAN LOOK8 AT HI8 WORLD. By George Birmingham. Published by George H. Doran Company, New York. 3 NIGHT8 8TARTING Next Thursday . Comedienne the joyoue musical comedy LADIES FIRST With Al Roberts, Florence Morrison and original N. Y. cast. Snappy Tune Catchy Music Six months Nora Bayes theatre, New York; three months Cort Girl Prety The Rev. James Owen Hannay, better known as George Birmingham, has written a light and mildly humorous book about his country and the Irish question. No doubt his views on the Irish question will bring down on his devoted head some bitter denunciations, but if you do not enjoy hit disquisition on this subject, there is much else in the book to absorb and charm your attention. Perhaps it is best to begin by quoting his point of view on the political impasse and get the subject behind us. Compromise, he says, is impossible where opinions never change. Talk of compromise always ends in a refusal to compromise. Nothing remains but the appeal to force: The most hopeless feature of the political situation in Ireland is that neither party has any plan at all for dealing with its opponents, except one theatre, Chicago Lower Floor $2.50, $2.00 $2.00, $1.50 Balcony . $1.00 Family Circle 50c Gallery Plus War Tax force. Up to a certain point both Nationalist and ..Unionist appear to believe in conciliation. Ulster every Nationalist has said it over and over again will be given every safeguard, every guarantee consistent with the integrity of Ireland. Ireland has not every Unionist said it must have every fair play, every concession, every chance, all she asks, consistent with the maintenance of the Union, Ulster. But if at least for North-EaUnionist Ulster will not even say what guarantee she wants but if Nationalist Ireland will not be satisfied with any reasonable concessions, then there is nothing for it but firm government; the firm government of a Dublin Parliament, or of Dublin Castle. In the end it comes to this: If the others wont agree with us and we are most reasonable, quite easy to get on with and full of good intentions then the others must submit, must be made to submit. No one, not even the peacemakers of our shadowy middle parties, not even our most moderate and conciliatory men, have anything to say in the end except that.- - No one has suggested any other way out of the bog in which we flounder. Perhaps there is no other way. st BINGHAM GARFIELD RAILWAY ! AND I The Scenic Line to BINGHAM 1 Where Copper Is Kina PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULE NOW IN EFFECT Leave Salt Lake City The author gives us a chapter on Irish parties, and he pays full tribute to the genius of Jim Larkin, who succeeded in creating an Irish labor party. No one liked Jim Larkin, and the politicians least of all, but none the less he succeeded for a time in making a sort of truce between Belfast and Cork. He even made an army: Arrlrc Salt Lake City No. 110 No. US a. m. 6:10 p.m. H. W. STOUTENBOROUGH, Assist General Passenger Agent, 1207 Deseret Bank Blda. Phone Was. 140 Salt Lake City, Utah ? is is iiBiieiiiiisiiaiisiiaiisiiaiiiiisiiiiiiHSiisiiiiiaiisiiBiisiisiiBiiBiisiis'r Volunteering was all the fashion in Ireland when Jim Larkin worked there; and he was not to be outdone by any politician, Unionist or Nationalist. He established and drilled a force of his own and called it the Citizen Army. The war clouds, threatening devastating tempest, were already gathering In Central Europe. Ireland was, apparently, ready and most anxious to fling herself into a battle of any kind. Besides supplying men In large numbers to the Imperial, the regular, army, she had on foot no less than four private armies of Irish volunteers, and the Citizen urmy. Whatever she became later, Ireland was then no city of refuge for distressed pacifists. In a country wholly given over to volunteer The author finds it difficult to write of religion in Ireland because of those inconsistencies in human nature which make it impossible for a man to be two things at the same time. Ireland, he says, is the only country that has escaped the blight of materialism, but Ireland is both frankly Christian and frankly Pagan. The Paganism is a little below the surface and the Christianity is on the surface, but both are present: We are, for instance, a church-goin- g Attendance at mass or people. matins Is not indeed a proof of deep spirituality, but it Is evidence that religion has a certain grip upon our lives. A few years ago people in England, with a taste for statistics, used occasionally to work out an amateur census of church-goincounting in some particular locality the number of people who passed through the doors of the churches on a Sunday. Such a reckoning was never made In Ireland. The figures would not be worth the trouble required to get them. No one would think of counting the number of people who wear, hats out of doors; though there are a few persons who prefer to' go bareheaded. g, a young (PASINO I I Show neginnlng Sunday Mntlnre for Three Days JACK PICKFORD 1 An Irishman once took i Home of th 2 in ing even Tolstoy might have been militarized. Whatever side Ireland It seemed certain that she would joined. take part in any fighting that was going, do intensely military was her spirit 8eat Sale Tomorrow (Monday) for the Engagement of America's Premier Singing In i iiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiininiMiiihiiwimmiiMiiwiiiiiiiiHiHMawwHwimniHHiiHHiiiiiHHMiiMiuiiUHiiimuiHiiiwiuaaiwmiiMHHimiiiiHMiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiy AN LOEWS 1 in THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF 1 KINGDOM COME A Gold wyn Picture nud Six Big Acts of Vaudeville Continuous 1 to 11 p. m. Weekday11c.Mntlneea, 20c; Kiddle m, Evenings and Sundays, 80c. riiimiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiHiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiii THIS BEAUTIFUL COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA Will put cheer into your home. foot- man over to London with him. On Sunday morning, being careful about the spiritual interests of his servant, he asked the man if he wished to go to mass, offering to tell him how to reach the Brompton Oratory. The footman was quite confident that he could find the way himself. Til just step into the street, he said, and then follow the crowd. Christianity demands, not only that men shall believe things, but also that they shall do things, and here, says the author, Ireland responds to the test very well. Those who thing it wrong to eat meat on Friday very seldom do eat it. Those who think that Christ damned alcohol are actually strict teetotalers. There is very little adultery in Ireland, and divorce court proceedings are rare. The Irishman has an unfailing recognition of the Divine interest in common things. If a man says that with the help of God he will dig his potatoes tomorrow he actually means it. A maid seeking a situation will ask anxiously as to the proximity of the church. Yet, and this at first sight seems an odd thing, Ireland is very little interested In religion. Conversion from one faith to another is extremely rare; which may be a sign of great faith- fulness and loyalty, but is much more likely to be the result of general apathy. If any one does venture to step across the boundary line and pass from one church to another he Is, very naturally, regarded as a renegade by the members of the community which he has left. But, what seems unnatural, he is very coldly received by the church he has joined. No one In Ireland even pretends to regard converts as sheep once lost now happily brought safe to fold; prodigals for whose sake we should make merry and be glad. On the contrary, the poor convert, who iiiiiwmini i ' Older, than the STvnTorUTAM- - has perhaps gone through much spiritual suffering, is looked upon as a thoroughly untruthworthy person. A man, so we feel, who would desert his church even to join our own might do anything, rob a widow or burn down an orphanage. We decline to see any merit in spiritual questioning, whatever answer comes to light. The Gaelic League has not succeeded in popularizing the Gaelic language. It has succeeded in many other things, but not in this. Irish is the mother tongue of a dwindling number of people, and it is least popular among those to whom it is the mother tongue. They are indifferent to it. Dublin, says the author, is an easygoing city. No mans feet are pinched in Dublin nor his corns trodden upon. But Dublin is a talkative city. Like ancient Athens it wants always to tell or hear some new thing, and particularly to tell it. And as there are not very many new things the old things are made to serve for conversation. Dublin is so very friendly that in business matters it may be suspected of slackness. There is a story told of a man in tlio south of Ireland who opened a fish shop, but he had to give it up because people kept bothering the life out of him for fisli. |