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Ireland
Free.
A dispatch from Ireland announces the fact
that Dublin Castle is now occupied for the first time in many centuries,
by the Irish Government. The treaty has been ratified and Ireland is free.
This is a consummation that I have devoutly looked and prayed for for a
long time.
The Irish people have an opportunity to build
up a government for themselves, and I trust that this opportunity may be
embraced. Mike Collins and Griffith deserve a great deal for the fight
they have made and won. I look with great pity and commiseration upon de
Valera. He is evidently, a very fine man and I am sure inspired by a noble
purpose. He loves Ireland as MacSwiney loved Ireland, and I am confident
he thinks he is doing right. But I differ from his judgment, and I
congratulate the Irish people upon this most delightful
consummation.
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A Beautiful
Book.
Looking through some old books in my
library a few days ago, I came across Henry Watterson's "Compromises of
Life." I have not seen this book since about 1890. It is a very
interesting work, full of beautiful thoughts and sound principles. In the
chapter on "The Ideal in Public Life" the following truth is
uttered:
"When the Church is social worth,
When the State-house is the hearth,
Then the perfect State is
come,
The Republican at home!"
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