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Show THE HEART IS NOT TO BE ENSLAVED. EN-SLAVED. Walter Wellman, the correspondent and lecture, who traveled recently in Ireland, has been speaking his impressions im-pressions to the public. He told a Chicago Chi-cago audience the other night that to his mind, "there is notning finer, nothing noth-ing more inspiring, nothing more glorious glori-ous in the annals of the human race, than the r:im.i'r in wLtch the llikh have kept their homogeneity as a peo-pje-have kept their national traditions tradi-tions and aspirations alive have kept themselves. This they have done through storm and stress, through suffering suf-fering and death, through time and through troubles, through the darkness dark-ness of the famine and the shadows of even the most prosperous years. Throughout it all the attiude of the Irish people has been: 'You may take our goods and chattels, but you cannot take us. You may take our lands, but von cannot tnke our hearts. By force you mav take the flesh, but the spirit is forever beyond your reach.' Courage for a dav or a year is admirable, cour age for a decade or a generation is splendid, but courage th it r tcs through scores of generations, through century after century defying time, defying everything is sublime. The martyrdom of atf individual who suffers suf-fers for a moment for faith or prinoiple lives in' history. Who can write the story of the martyrdom of a whole people peo-ple suffering through ihe ages?" Mr. Wellman is not an hishman. His connection con-nection with the American press has made him a man whose praise is worth considering. |
