The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-14
Efforts Made to AdDerfise
 Fineness of All Irish Good.

partly free. the centre Of lIrht ana r..r,,,. Tor the people of Ireland. W TT MT Healy. who seconded. also spoks f,rst ,,a,.a , s he observed that he did not be- the saxon in support Of a resolufion ,rb,ct ne believed had the support af sha s,~- ny of the people of Dublin.
 a.uetman MWaiter said thai the coypc- .s,. on were only making fools of them <ssa. Deeause It was absolutely certain mat irish would not be- made cornpnlsorv The statements of the bishops bsa r,,,. pieteiy knocked the bottom Out af tha cl.s-,, TOT compulsory Irish, and those counrit,ors s,,s,, wne were sdyoeating compnisien woiiid bs eating tRs;r Is Mora MSe lot 4 whippsd CUTS and aL 1T adopted. would drive tho srudents te
 Pratieal Educafson.
 Aldermsn Reign supported the motion but ct the same time urged the need of d practical edacation. If students went to Belfast at first. It would be just as well to separate the wolves In sheep's clothing from the sheep. and not to have their pure. innocent Irish students contaminated with British and Saxon, Ideas.
 Alderman M.waIter: Are the bishops woivesf tLaughter.D
 Alderman Leigh said he did not say so. but he thought fthe bishops were faen who had been reared and educated on @the old scholastic and ciassicai lines. The corpo- ration has q right te express their opinion onthe modern wants of. the people.
 Twenty-fcrr voted for tho. resolution. ana Alderman M'waIter alone voted against 1t II was thersfors declared carried by the Lord Mayor. f.
 meeting was held in Athione to, pro- mote the cause of compulsory Irish in the new National University. pr. Dou~las Hyde, president oe the Gaelic League, was q Rtr4~H ns.~ ~I~.. na lA. A.t Roman Catholic Bishops had admitted that the question was ono for argument. The Bishops thought that Irish should not he made essential, but the Gaelic League held that Ireland had been araxwea off the path of national development by main torce and it would srequire quits gen tie exercise of pressure to put 1t strafeht ag9ln Nothing less than the drastic meas ure of compulsion would strike the fnaagi- nation of the Irish race at hat1ae and abroad and show them thAk they really haa d na- ticnai university.
 The organ Of the Sim Fein party here de- elares that Is the Senate of the National University agrees with the Roman catholic Bishops that the Irish language should not De cornpuisDry the people must treat the new University aa.ian enemef. .ssinn Fein'' states that the creduiity of the Bishops has made them the easy victims of English in- trigue, and 1t urges the county councils to
 
 guage movement.
 report submitted at the meeting of the Belfast Board of Guardians bx the Infirm- ary Committee made specific reference to the statements recently laid before the committee by pr. Fuiton,y the medical su- perintendent of the Tnfirmary. relative to the cost and treatment of alcoholic pa tients The report contained some stra- ting facts and figures. not the least imy portant of these being that according to pr. Fulton's computation the weekly cost of de- ilrium tremsna ease was sis, while the guardians were only entitled by law to charge S1.60 per week for such patients as were able to pay This sum pr Fulton con- sidered ridtculousiy insufficient. During the year 1908, he stated, there were ASH cases treated in surgical wards of the work house. Alderman T. J. Condon. M. P, of Clon- mel reports that the long-desired settle l ment has been arrived at as regards the o'Brien property at Mullinahone The Es- tates Commissioners have decided to pur- 1 chase the whole property, including part of the town of Mullinahone and lands adjoin- | Ing, and will at once proceed to reinstste | he evicted tenants who number thirty. i The property was evicted twenty years ago. | and one of the stiffeSt fights under the Plan of Campaign took place there for | years There were wholesale prosecutions i and imprisonments J. D. Redmond. M. P, l defended some of the prisoners. The evic- | lion almost ruined MuIlinahone, a whole | street of houses built by industrious tens l ,nts being left derelict.