| Show HAVE ALWAYS FREELY GIVEN openhandedness a characteristic of the irish race wherever they have settled tho the following sentences are quoted from tile the old JV world or I 1 d in the new 1914 1014 by edward alsworth bloss professor of sociology in tho the university of wisconsin along with their courage and their loyalty the irish did not bring the economic virtues charity visitors know that tile trish irish tire ore often as open handed and improvident ns as tho the bedou bedell ins they are free givers and no people tire more ready to tako take into the family tile the orphans of their relatives the irish are near tho the foot of the list 11 ast 1st of crime among a booro or more ot 61 t W 4 st patrick from an old print nationalities the irish stand nearly at the foot of tile tho list in the commission of larceny burglary fraud or 1 liall I 4 ill elde clde liepe pandering lina tile white slave lave traffic are almost unknown mong them no immigrant Is more loyal to wife and child than the irish annn As compared with their heir immigrant fathers the tha prop proportion of 0 laborers among tho the sons soils of irishmen Is halved while that of professional men and salesmen Is doubled and that of clerks copyists and bookkeepers fis trebled thero there Is no drift into agriculture ture or into mercantile pursuits |
