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Show ALL MORE OR LESS IRISH. In a letter from Ireland to his own paper at Emporia, Kan., William Allen Al-len White, a journalist of national renown, re-nown, says: Nearly all Americans are more or less Irish. If they are not Irish by blood they are by temperament. So any journey to Europe pretending to be a visit to the home of our forefathers fore-fathers would be a miserable failure if it omitted Ireland. For Ireland's influence in-fluence is one of the big things of our life. And we must come to Ireland to realize it. To superficial observers, such as we are in the very nature of the case, Ireland seems to be so much like America that one wonders whether wheth-er or not England or Ireland is tho real fatherland. In the first place, e Americans talk English as it spoken in Dublin. The American can come nearer understanding the common com-mon people of England. Whatever accent there is between the three of us English, Irish, Americans islrish. The Irish language is full of words that the Americans understand. |
