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Show I IRELAND'S UNIQUE RECORD. f Thinking: people should give some i special thought to Ireland, in manv respects the most remarkable country m earth, says the Leader of Richmond. Va. Xo where in history is there record of a territory so sniah irnd a people so few giving t lie world so much. Xo other nation has its blood so widely dif- I fused among the strong peoples of the i earth, adding strength, energy and dasn I to tna best of thfm. Xo other people 1 has sent its blood to be shd on so I many battlefields and in so many I : urpr and so invariablv far to tne I front. ill is one of the familiar but pathetic humors of history that the Irish have lone more for almost every land on the globp than for Ireland; and there is much truth in that famous and somewhat some-what flattering sneer that the Irish j n'i'. ;i" countries but Ireland. They have contributed to everv department de-partment of human endeavor. In this republic Irish names and Irish stock are everywhere active in the doing of things, from the digging of ditches to the leadership of armies and th crea- Hon and conduct of great enterprises, j A very large majority of the citizens I of these United States have more or I ss Irish blood in their veins, and con- i soqucntly sympathy with and affection I for Treland. Aside from that, all the people must recognize the debt they owe to Irishmen Irish-men for achievement in war, for brilliancy bril-liancy in statesmanship, for potrv litwaturc. art. science and commercial' and industrial triumphs. "" , When we recall that th island is v .nbo.it thrpp-fourths the size of the 8,81(1 of Virginia am; at its most f populous period nver had more than right million people. we must be as lonished at the influence it has' had in the world and at its rich contributions contribu-tions to the roll of heroes and the greatness great-ness of mankind. |