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Show ERIN HAS FOUND ITSELF Richard Croker Says Resources of Island Are Just Being Developed. (By V. P McLaughlin in New York World ) Oh, I met with Napper Tandy and he took me by tho hand. Saying. "How Is "poor ould Ireland an' how' does she stand?" She's the most distressful country that eer you have, soon. For they're hanging men and women there tor woarln ov the green. When thnt tearf'il refrain was, writ to its stiirlng air Ireland was just emerging from tho effects of tho rebellion re-bellion of 179S and the Act of Loudon, Lou-don, which deprived it of Us nationhood nation-hood They were hanging them a-plenty a-plenty In tho60 days. They wero sending send-ing them abroad In prison ships to die bj thousands In transit. They were burning down tho the homes and confiscating con-fiscating the proporty of those who had resisted the sway of the invader, it was a land of tears nnd trlhula-tion, trlhula-tion, and the millions of Its children who fled or wore forcod to bend the kuee to a foreign power rallied with all that was in tbera when they heard tho strains of the "Wearln' o' the Green " But It ifi no longer "tho most distressful dis-tressful country that ever you have seen.'' They arc not now "hanging men and women" for wearing green, or red or any other color. In facL wlien a hanging takes place in Ireland Ire-land it is an 'occasion of nationnl wonder and dismay. "There Is a new Ireland," is the way Richard Cioker of Glencalni, County Dublin, described it last night la the Democratic club. "There Is a country that Is finding Itself after scores of years of struggle. " There-lb There-lb a country whose resourcos have been barely" touched. It Is full of wealth stored In Its bosom In the form of minerals and marblos, and Its farming farm-ing capacity has never been even remotely re-motely gauged. - 'Horc h a piece of anthracite "coaV thc'MDld 'warhorsc said, as he displayed a chuuW about half tho size' tbfr.-i sod f&r tlurf,! "Foi ty e,hilloB Wm, the city of Dublin, in the mountains of Wlcklow, there Is a very valuablo depoblt of this anthracite coal. The blze of the coal field Is, loughly, fifteen fif-teen miles long by twelve miles broad Sir Edward Hull, the famouB geologist and mining engineer, estimates esti-mates that there Is rn this coal basin ba-sin 150,000,000 tons of coal. "And in addition to what I havo seen on my farms at Glencairn I feel sure that Ireland could grow the best crops of boets thattany country In Europe can produce. It has already been proed In experimental plots that Irish beets contain a much higher percentage of sugar than the b-oetB gio-n on the poorer soils of Belgium and Germanv ( "Although a great many of the 'r-ish 'r-ish people aro von poor, thore Is a lot of Idle capital In the banl;3 and government deposit offices In Ireland The people who have this money are only waiting for a lead. Now, If some enterprising Irish-American came over to Ireland and started one of thoso businesses ho would soon attract at-tract a great deal of capital Of course It would take some little time to gt the confidence of the people "There will bo home rule for Ire-r Ire-r land in a year or so. It has gone so far now that nothing can defeat it "Tho land purhaso act. which was a direct result "blThc frftpous tland league agitation directed by Parnell. has worked wonders for the people Tho farmers aro doing fairly well The products of the country are commanding com-manding excellent puces in the English Eng-lish market Iilsh eggs, Irish butter, Irish bacon, Irish whisky and Iilsh tweeds, woolens and linen lead the lit everywhere In England and Scotland Scot-land Emigration has fallen off tro-mendoilbh tro-mendoilbh and I shouldn't wonder to seo a return waio from this country within a few jears "And win shouldn I it be so7 It has the grandest and most healthful climate cli-mate In all tho world Last Julv and August, when New York, Berlin, Paris Par-is and London wero roasting from heat ranging from 90 to 100 degress, It was neer niorc than 73 on tho va-randa va-randa of my place in Glencairn There aro no extremes In the Irish climate "I hao heard somo talk about opposition op-position to home rule In RelfaBt and other places In the north That Is slllj There are a handful of noisy fellows theio who to to force religion Into the question, jbut it is the old J story of the tall Irving to wag the dog The religious Issue has no place In the politics of Ireland Somo of the best Irishmen I have known or read of were Protestants or Presbj -terlano Take Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, John Mitchell, John Martin, Charles Stewart Parnell thev wero all non-Catholic, which, of "courso, does not reflect on the splendid array ar-ray of the Roman Catholic statesmen and patriots that figure all through the pages or Irish history It only gees to show that the turbulent band of Orangemen In thp north who arc yelling against homo rule do not represent rep-resent the decont-mlnded men and women anxious to see Ireland prosper.-Croker prosper.-Croker ha6 been working very hard among business men of Irish birth or extraction since his arrival last week in tne eirort to divert capital to -the Green Isle. Ho believes that If some-' bod. makes the start the result will be amazing "Take tho'parllamcntan leport for 1910," ho Buld. "It shows that tber? as on deposit In the joint stock banks on June 30 last the enormous sum of 52,o0o,00Q pounds, or about ?2COiO0O.O00. In the Postofr.Icc''savinss banks. theretVas ll.lGO.OiVtf pounds, or , over ?70,00,000 None 'of this money draws inoro than 1 or 2 per conL" |