Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-17
Higher sobool With no Religious Test IL
Planned for Dublin University.
COOPERATION WITH ROYAL COLLEGE
First Governors TO Be Named BY Crown,
Others TO Be Elected
PLAN cAUSEe % FEELING IN ULSTER
Attitr So .slio Bishops Now Awaited
~ with Interest
srocK TRADE OF EMERALD ISLE
william Field, N. p, Says thst Native
Grasers Cannot Compete with For
eiEn Competition Under Con-
ditions Now Existing.

DUBLIN, Feb. 1e-Cspecisl.)- 1T is appar-
ent that the government lie determined upon
its course In creating q new college in
Dublin university. the chief reason being
urged that IL viii give opportunity for
bringing together the youth of the country
during the hours of study.
The government proposes to build ade-
quRte buildings, laboratories and scientific
apparatus. Use viii, however, be made Of
the apparatus of the Royal College Of
Science ana in that way II is thought so
large an expenditure OF money will not
be required.
The new college will be entirely free from
any kind of a theological test Its gov
ernors will be appointed in the first in
stance by the crown and thereafter partly
by the crown and partly by the teaching
stan and the graduates.
According to the plan the Royal uni
versity at Dublin will be dissolved and the
University Of Dublin will be turned into a
national university for ireland, which will
include Trinity college, Dublin, the new
college in Dublin and the colleges In Bel
fast and Cork.
The proposals have been received with
mixed feelings at Belfast and indeed.
throughout UlFter. Leading clerical and
lay opinion, however. Is inclined to the view
that the new scheme is feasible, although
it is expected strong protests will be
made against superseding the present sys-
TEN 80 far as IL permits young men to
take their degrees while studying at home.
No little curiosity is being evinced as to
how the Roman Catholic bishops viii finally
act In the matter Of the proposals.
IriAh LIva stock Trade.
william Field. NJ. p. has Just delivered
a very interesting address before the COM
mittee meeting OF the Irish Cattle Traders
and Stock Onwers' association During the
course OF his address he supplied some
figures which were very striking. A sum-
mary OF the ofacial statistics showed that
during the year 1906 22.6S7 sheep. sS6s cattle
and i.01 pigs were imported every day into
the three Kingdoms. Put In another form
this meant that every hour during the year
sS sheep, isl cattle and a. pigs were landed
in Great Britain, These ngures at once
gave some idea OF the tremndous foreign
competition which those interested in the
Irish cattle trade had TO face. In addition.
Mexico wac now about to send In supplies
Under present conditions ireland could not
hope to successfully cope with such ever
growing competition The first essential
- oson4@uhe Ine prlcSs Wnlch FARMERS
are expected TO pay for their land and
the resultant annuity account should be
| taken OF this formidable and ever increas-
ing competition. But this was not all II
the Irish farmers are TO live at all they mus
consider how this crushing competition
can be best encountered. The foreigners
have great advantages. They have land,
either rent free or at a nominal figure.
The foreign trade is in many cases bounty
fed Against this the Irish farmers have
the advantage OF proximity 10 the market
If the transit OF this country were what Il
ought to be this advantage might count
handsomely in their favor. But under a
railway system which encourages the for
eigner and discourages home products. the
advantage OF proximity to the market prae-
tically disappears.