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Show HAVE ALWAYS FREELY GIVEN Openhandedness a Characteristic of the Irish Race Wherever They Have Settled. The following sentences are quoted from "The Old World in the New" (1914), by Edward Alsworth Ross, professor pro-fessor of sociology In the University of Wisconsin : "Along with their courage and their loyalty, the Irish did not bring the economic virtues. Charity visitors know that the Irish are often as open-handed open-handed and improvident as the Bedouins. Bedou-ins. They are free givers, and no people are more ready to take Into the family the orphans of their relatives. The Irish are near the foot of the list of crime. Among a score or more oT 6 "nil y v f i St. Patrick, From an Old Print. nationalities, the Irish stand nearly at the foot of the list in the commission of larceny, burglary, fraud or hAnl-clde. hAnl-clde. Rape, pandering and the whiteslave white-slave traffic are almost unknown among them. No immigrant is more loyal to wife and child than the Irishman. Irish-man. As compared with their immigrant immi-grant fathers, the proportion of laborers labor-ers among the sons of Irishmen is halved, while that of professional men and salesmen Is doubled, and that of clerks, copyists and bookkeepers Is trebled. There Is no drift Into agriculture agricul-ture or into mercantile pursuits." |