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Show "Wonderful Chenges in Ireland.. Rev. J. Phelan of Grand Junction, la., who recentlj- paid a visit to Ireland, says wonderful changes have been effected ef-fected during the last quarter of a century. cen-tury. Father Phelan is a native of County Carlow. where he was ordained twenty-five years ago. Since that time he has labored in the United States, and is well known in the middle west as an author and speaker. This was Father Phelan'p first visit in eleven years, and he thus compares his visits: I have noticed a great improvement in the country wherever I have traveled since my last visit to Ireland eleven years ago. There is more general prosperity pros-perity noticeable on all sides. A great improvement has been effected by the building of laborers' cottages, by taking the people out of the wretched hovels in which they lived and providing them with decent, sanitary dwellings and plots of g.-Tound.' The land conditions, so far as tliey affect the farmer and the country generally, are also getting to be more satisfactory. If Ireland continues contin-ues to improve in the next ten years as she has in tie past, she must indeed become prosperous. I am glad to see that the land i taken from the people in days gone by,-through war or confiscation, confisca-tion, is being restored without bloodshed. The general, prosperity is attributable to the laiul conditions, which are more favorable than they were. We in America Amer-ica largely attribute these favorable conditions to the continued activity of the Irish party and it would be well that the party which has been doing so much for the country would be generously gener-ously suppoited. Xor should the progress prog-ress of the party be hampered by sectional sec-tional differences and opposition. In the United States we know that the Irish party is the main channel the great factor in redressing Irish grievances. Their principles seem to be the most practical; and by persistent constitutional constitu-tional methods and by united action the party are certain to obtain further substantial sub-stantial installments 'of justice. |