Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-01
South Omaha Breaks Into Dispatches
Floated to Steamships.
PRELATE BACK FROM EUROPE
Trip to Vatican and Old Home in
Ireland Good Rest.
SIR HORACE PLUNKET IS BUSY
work of Well known Irish MeI,ber
Accomplishing Much for Farmers,
Encouraged by New system
of Rent Payment.

ocean a week ago today a fellow traveller
said to Rt. Rev. Richard scannell. bishop
of Omaha
you had better hurry back to your
| home, they need you there, as a mob is
tearing down houses and breaking in
store fronts in South Omaha and many
have been injured
| Thus the bishop got the &C. @ D." moro
than three days before he reached New
York. The wireless had been busy during
the night and the prelate enroute home
after three months abroad was told of the
| riots in South Omaha a week ago yester-
day almost soon as people knew It in
Omaha. WHO waited for the morning news
| papers at the breakfast table.
The bishop needed the &C. Q. D." not
that he thought he was needed in South
| Omaha. but because he was in a hurry
to get home, and he went from the ship
to the train in New York City, arriving
| In Omaha Sunday morning.
In good spirits, and having enjoyed a
good rest. the bishop talked interestingly
| at his home last evening. after he took a
long walk passing the new cathedral Of
st. Cecelias, which has made progress
during the three months he has been
absent.
News Scarce Near Source.
I'VE did not learn from the papers of
Italy as much about the earthquake in
Sicily as you knew about it here" said
Bishop Scannell. "They printed the news
there in n series OF short kilograms or bull
letins, not any more satisfactory than
those we received aboard the ship. They
do not summarize news there and handle
1t like they do American newspapers
so we were comparatively uniformed as to
the details of the earthquake horror. AS
for securing lists of the dead and injured
they never will get a complete list or any
thing like it, All Italy went to work to
relieve the situation, but not a great deal
was known of the details from the press.
IAN Europe seems to he in a state of
unrest and fear. The eastern question is
unsettled and seems likely to make serious
trouble. My impression was one of con-
flicting interests always near a clash, in
dustrial. social. political, and no morning
dawns when people can be sure that there
will not be an ominous war cloud blowing
up from over the border of another coun-
try. There is no such peace and no such
era for progress and advancement as
there is in America
Sir Horace PIunkets Good Work.
"In Ireland conditions are much better,
and in this connection the work of Sir
Horace Plunket, whom Omshans know,
means much to the people. His work for
cooperation has resulted in better handling
of the lands and It might be said they are
being handled in some such scientific way
as in the United States. They have their
co operative organizations for handling the
dairy, poultry and general farming inter
ests Ireland is going ahead, at least in
the country, while the towns are declining.
Transportation rates in England and Ire
land are too high and give industries there
a hard struggle. America can successfully
compete with the factories of England be-
cause goods made In the United States can
be landed in one of the great ports for less
than they can be hauled on Great Britains
railroads from one end of the country to
the other,
"The new system of handling the land
rents whereby the tenants will become
the owners in fee simple, has given encour-
agement to those working the lands The
rents now much reduced 10 what they
were under the old landlord system con-
stitute partial payments on the lands, and
this means the people will own them In a
short time.
"In England there Is much unrest Pa
rades of idle workingmen are common.
Their banners make ominous shadows So
cialism is making some progress. It grows
stronger In England It is increasing on the
continent, though not so much as some
people imagine II is easier for socialism
to increase in the countries where so few
people own property. Socialism is not max
ing the progress in this country which 1t
can make In Europe, because such a large
percentage of people own their homes"
King Finds Old People.
One Of the natural things In the world
was noted by Bishop Scannell while In the
British Isles. An old peoples pension has
just been established ''The king never
knew he had so many old people in his
realm" was the comment of the bIshop
OF Omaha. They are finding more old men
than they ever thought existed"
While in Rome and within the Vatican
the short service was celebrated for the
beatifieation OF Joan Of Arc. by which the