Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1893 — The Thrifty Welsh. [ARTICLE]

The Thrifty Welsh.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. You never see a Welshman begging,” said Albert C. Owens, who was at the Southern yesterday. “He is too proud to beg. and despite the verse in which- Taffy is rhymed about, he is too honest to steal The Welsh in this-country are industrious and thrifty, and they are all either comfortably situated or wealthy. You probably do not know that Wales has given three Presidents to the United States—Jefferson, Adams and Monroe. Thomas Jefferson was pure Welsh, too, and the Welsh - men of New York are_nQW organizing a movement to erect a grand monument to him. There are 5,000,000 Welsh and their immediate descendants in this country, and over 1,200,000 pure Welsh and their first descendants. The Welsh, Irish and Scotch are, in my opinion, all offshoots of a little band of Aryans that passed over from Little Brittany and settled on what arc now the British Isles.