Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-21
Liberals May Have Support of Their Irish
Allies in House,
Union JACK is TGRa FROM STEAMER
Patriotic Dublin Aldermen Will Not Ride
with British Emblem.
IRISH LANGUAGE is Losing GROUND
Father Dinneen snyS native Use OF
Gaelic IL Narrower. while
81 Grows In the
Schools.
TROUBLE THREATENS FOR GOVERNMENT

DUBLIN. Oct 2O-(Special Cablogram TO
The Beel-Having lost the support Of Mr.
Keir Hardies socialist following in the
House of Commons, the government may
lose the support Of the Irish party.
Mr. John Redmond. interviewed upon the
subject. declared:
When the present government came INFO
office they said hat they were about 70
consider some scheme for comforting SELF
government on the peorle OF Ireland, aud
in the circumstances the Irish party decided
it would he wise policy 10 give ministers
ample time to mature their plans. ...
At the present moment the irish party
and people stand face to face with most
critical. delicate, difficult apd yet a mpsI
extraordinary political situation. lhe hlcIN-
bers of the government with two or three
exceptions, are avowed home rulers. ana EH
are told that they will introduce a blli
next year dealing with sclf-goyornm"nt
for Ireland This is on the hlghest Hu-
thority: but the extraordinary portion or
the situation is that we also arc told that
this home rule government contingent ere
only 10 introduce what Is called 'admlnls-
trative home rule
The Irish people stand whore they always
stood We declare that nothing short of a
complete measure OF home rule-aild ny
that mean a parliament freely eiected,
with an executive responsible to it-that
nothing short Of a complete scheme OF nome
rule can ever be accepted as a settlement OF
the Irish question.
Union Jack Torn Down.
A curious scene was witnessed at Custom
House quay. Dublin, recently when an
alderman of the corporation cut down y
steamers flag on which the Union Jack
was quartered and let IL fall into the water
I At the invitation OF Alderman Cotton a
number OF guests were invited to the open
! ing OF the main drainage works at Pigeor
House fort. The works which have beer
carried on for several years have jus
/ been completed at a cost of S,OMOW. The
! guests assembled on the steamship Sham
/ rock shortly after noon. to be conveyed t'
| the Pigeon House one of the last Il
arrive was Alderman Thomas Kelly who
on observing the Union Jack flying at thu
stern. walked Immediately toward IT, and
1 taking clasp knife from his pocket de
! liberately cut the ropes and the flag fel
into the Liffey.
; While no one objected to his action, thu
incident created much excitement amont
those on board. When spoken 10 afterwar'
the alderman said he had cut down the flai
! because 1t had no business There. II wa
an insult to mis- nationality. and he udde'
that when Alderman Cofey saw 1t he woul
not go on board. Il understand" he said
that all passenger vessels must fly al
ensign, but this Is not a passenger vessel
it is a corporal ton mud barge"
The objecting alderman also refused I
drink to the kings health.
Gaelic Losing Ground.
At Belfast last evening Father Din
neen has again raised the question, 1
Irish as a spoken language to die in tn
districts where it is still the vernaCular
The author Of the Irish dictionary is yer
apprehenslve of the fate that threaten
the living language in it's last homes
While splendid progress is being mad
i'm the schools and in the English-speadn
districts, the area I'm which Irish is tn
language of the home and the market
growing steadily narrower, while the Ian
gauge itself is being degraded and I'm
paired. Father Dinneen points out tina
the very conditions that have preserve
the spoken language so far tend to pre-
vent the development that is the conditio
! of its ultimate survival. To deserve to b
called a living language, Father Dinnee
says truly il must be the natural and sui
hcient medium i'm which men of educatio
can express themselves; 1T must be me
dunn of social intercourse, firmly linke
. to the literary, the commercial and III
! social life of the people.
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