Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-21
John REDMOND THREATENS
GOVERNMENT WITH THIS
Promises by Present Ministry to Con-
slider Home Rule Have Not Been
Kept-Exetlng Flag
Episode
M TIMOTHY ,. O'CONNOR
,.i cahIo 70 The Herald.

lowing IN the mouse VI COhihVio,
government may lose the support OIL
the Irish party.
John Redmond. interviewed upon lhe
subject declared.
'When the present government came
into office they said that tney were
about to consider me scheme FOR CON
ferring self-government on the people
of Ireland, ans in the circumstances
the Irish party decided It would be a
wise policy to give ministers ampF
time to mature their plans.
"At the present moment the lrlsn
party and people stand face to race
with most critical, delicate, ditiicult
and vet most extraordinary political
situation. The members of the govern
n1ent. with two or three exceptions are
avowed home rulers, and we are tolu
that they will introduce bill next year
dealing with government for ire
land This is on the highest authority;
but the extraordinary lSrtlon OF tne
situation is that we also are told that
that home rule government Is only 10
irtroduce what is called administrative
home rule.
''The Irish people stand where they
always stood. We declare that noth-
ing short of a complete measure OF
home rule--and by that / mean an eA-
ecutjve responsible to it-that nothlng
short Of q complete scheme of home
rule can ever be accepted as settie-
inent Of the Irish question:
Exciting Flag Episode
A curious scene was witnessed at
custom house quay Dublin, recently,
when an alderman of the corporation
cut down a steamers flag on wnlcn
the Union Jack was quartered and let
i. fall into the water At the invltatloh
of Alderman Cotton iumber OF guests
were invited to the opening of the nam
drainage works at Pigeon House Tort
The works, which have been carried on
for several years, have just been COM
nleted at a cost of $S.0OO,000. The gusets
assembled on the steamship Shamrock
shortly after noon, to be conveyed 10
the Pigeon House. One of the last 10
arrive was Alderman Thomas kelly'
who, on observing the Union JACK ilylng
at the stern, taking a claspknife from
his pocket, deliberately cut the ropes
and the flag fell into the Liffey.
While no one objected to his action,
the incident created much excltemeIlt
among those on board. When spoken
10 afterward the alderman said he had
cut down the flag because 1t had no
business there. 1t was an insult to his
nationality, and he added that when
Alderman Coffey saw it he would not
40 on board. "I understand" he said,
i'that all passenger vessels must fly an
ensign, but this is not passenger
yessel it is corporation mud"barge-
The objecting aldermen also refused
to drink to the kings health.
Is Irish La1guace7
At Belfast last evening Father DIN
ne I has ain raised the question, Is
Irish as a spoken langua ge to die IN the
districts where ii is still the vernacu-
lar2 The author of the Irish diction-
ary is very fpprehersive of the fat
that threatens the living language in
its last homes. While splendid pro-
yress is being made in the schools ana
in the English speaking districts. the
area in which Irish IS the language or
the home and the market is growing
steadily narrower, while the languH ge
itself is being DEGRADED and impaired.
Father Dinneen points out that the
very conditions that have preserved
the spoken lanouege so far tend to
preyent the development that Is the
condition of its ultimate survival. To
deserve to be called a living language.
Father Dfnneen saws truly, 1t must be
the natural and sufficient medium in
which men of education can express
themselves, ii must be q medium of
social intercourse, firTlv linked to the
literary the commercial and the social
life OF the people.
After a severe illness, which brought
him absolutely to de- this door, T.. NJ.
Lahiff, formerly prominent IN Chicago
politics. has been declared by his doc
tors to have reached the turning point,
and to be now on the road to complete
recovery. Mr.. LahiT was compelled to
leave CHICAGO for Florida last Novem-
ber on account of overwork, his health
ut that time being completely shat
tered. His doctors decided that after
a complete rest of fu'lV a year his
health would be completely restored.
Before the year was up he cane to Ire
land aln'ost fully recovered. but did not
engage in any activities until bout two
weeks ago. when he went 70 Dublin and
Wicklow on hurried trip in further
ance If noiseion which he received at
the hands of The United irish League
Of America, of the executive OF which
he is p II eu' ber Dr. Charles Ronavne,
DR. Towrev and Dr.. nrDeu of Youghal,
and Or Dundor of Cork have been i'm
constant attendance on him. and now
declare the crisis has passed He is
now residing at Fro@more, Youghal
but hopes to settle permanently near
Cork.
Tunnel to En1Iand
The Irish channel tunnel scheme will
be resuscitated during the forthcoming
ising conditions than before.
II Is proposed TO bore the tunnel he.
tween the two nearest points % South
ern Scotland and Northern Ireland in
the vcinitv OF Straprae er and Tarr,,
The cost Of the tunrel is placed at $780,
100000, and IL Is estima ted that it would
take thirteen years To complete.
One OF the chief obiections-fhe en-
cheering dimculty Of crossing the bot
tom OF the north cha npel becouse Of n
deep chasm called Reaufort's DYKE
viii be overcome by the tunnel skirting
the dyke.
The new problem includes the maxi
ing OF railway from the point where
the tunnel touches ireland across the
country TO Blacksod Bay, which is Ia
be made a calling place for line of
steamships across the Atlantic. Bv
this route i is estimated consider
able apr cunt of tire can be saved n,
the mails from ENGLAND through to
Japan and the east. via Canada.