Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16

Of language increases the opportunities in
this direction, both in personal intercourse
and in reading Each race has some
thing characteristics, something beneficial
Through q translation into a foreign Ian
guage it loses its national character its
national color.
Language and Patriotism.
Just the fact that a knowledge Of a Ian
guage makes possible more confidential
intercourse with people who speak that
language Is a sufficient reason why every
one should make a reasonable effort to
retain his mother tongue. When people
speaking the same language meet in a for
eign land, how # draws them together, and
II they are countrymen they are at once
like brothers. Then the love of parents,
brothers, sisters and relatives! Does it not
demand that they should be spoken to
in their mother tongue? What do they
| and their countrymen think of member
Of their circle who IL ashamed OF his
mother tongue, tries TO forget It, tears 1t
out of his mouth and casts It away? How
can person who has the intelligence and
feeling that distinguish him from the
lower creature commit deed so mon
strous?
Only he who knows Bohemian songs
/
| the heart at the sound Of a Bohemian
song. Some one has said, Let me write
the songs of people and I viii let you
write their laws" Songs have a very
strong moral influence.
Value of Bohemian.
The preservation Of the Bohemian Ian
gusge by Bohemians in America is desirable
because It broadens the mind and affords
a means for more confidential intercourse
with the people speaking that language.
II would be contrary TO American principles
If used as means Of attaining visionary
dreams OF race preservation.
Some people go 10 the extreme with their
mother tongue. There are those who try
to forget II, are ashamed OF IL and deny
II. Often they are children OF parents who
only know their mother tongue. In every
race there are individuals of whom the
race is ashamed. But he who Is ashamed
OF the Bohemian race certainly does 50
through a lack OF knowledge Of It's history
Bohemian who knows the history OF
his country knows that he does not nee
TO be ashamed TO say. Il am a Bohemian
Then there are some who brag Of thell
race and try 70 magnify themselves by re
lating its deeds. They do Il in such q
Haunting manner that II ofIends other PEG
pie. Why should not a person simply tel
the truth, neither belittled nor exaggerated
That he is a son OF a certain race is no
OF his own will. It is an accident for which
he is not responsible I'm a Bohemian
has In America a meaning according TO oui
deeds ana our lives. Brothers, let US striv,
20 give Il a meaning that would win Il,
the respect Of our American fellow citizens
theoretically, II seems that the small
races Of mankind are bound 10 disappear
The trend OF modern evolution is CONSOLE
dalton and large organizations.
Languages OF Europe.
Mr.. Bryan j. Clynch writes In the May
Messenger:
In Europe, at the beginning OF the nine
tenth century, or fifteen years later a
the congress- Of Vienna. French, English
sian Turkish, Dutch, Danish and Swedish
were the only languages recognized az
European, either in an Oftcial or literaFl
sense. The last i've were almost unknown
nearly without literary use. French va
the universal language of diplomacy an,
the educated classes everywhere In CONVEX
satiOni ana even used by foreign scientist
Ike Humboldt and CeTvier In Hungar.
ana Ia Poland, ~ IN before the loss o
independence, Latin was the oficiaI Ian
guaEe Of public business and law. an
German OF French that OF conversation 10
the educated classes. The national tongue
IN both those countries had a position no
unlike that Of Irish IN Ireland during IN
eighteenth century. Conditions were SINH
lar with the old national languages OF IN
I various states OF the Austrian dominionl
Of the Christian races Ia Turkey. and eve
81 Belgium and Norway. 10 tie Educate
/ classes through Europe generally, eight,