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Show O'Donovan Rossa O 0 the" old bummer is dead at last. He has - been a burden on his credulous countrymen for two score years. For all that time he has lived on his pose as an Irish patriot. All that time he has been a patriot for revenue. He has never done an act worth a thought, never spoken a word worth remembering. He suffered a little in his youth for a cause which was utterly impracticable and which for more than a generation has been dead, but posing pos-ing on the ghost of it he has appropriated to his own use the gifts which his misguided countrymen country-men have contributed to the cause. For forty years he has simply been a dignified sponge living liv-ing on unearned money obtained by false pretenses. |