Show 1 f Comes to the States in the Interest Ii Of the Old Gaelic Language HEUE BEnE ml must mew t be an element of or id- id G ness not to say Bay In of grittiness In Ine Ini i the e Constitution n of or the thc English Ind that it should be after able century century to ho hold ld Itself 1st stubborn s Celtic to eV every ry n ma made Je by Ity nCI neighbors across St. St Georges George's q to better fo theIr estate to secure Ii End nd themselves I to S fo oater foster o larger the traditions political 1111 1 privilege the s and an 1 estate n the tho per- per heart sentiments so dear to the theother tIt lilt ant Is to nothing other r than llian a I he bo the tho American Alner can people and to lo sad nd American temperament ment that Ire- Ire P Aeration so 90 often tut to lo us for tor the lne c coP co- co anti th c sympathy which are aro re rattle r d to ad I her with so nl niggardly a hy by People nearer home om em And now wo we have another visitant that 1 and unhappy island g c e I the tho with n person n nf ot of f Shane Shano Leslie J who Is o ohorn to hunt horn to us f f for or ir n n a c considerable n time V ere fn ct J l is to admire a and who rho Is to in foster t otten otton rl friendships already bet be- be and 4 to make mako nc e r friends for forY Q o cause o of f trio tho educational ith and an liter liter- e e Y landlord life He nf ot hl his Pc people PIc o Ile b belongs to toof class and Ig heir to largo larso tarea Its In Ireland but has committed id 1 itself to tho hUe bile popular cause and Robert Emmot Emmet In re- re or of feature It Is the tope or of the tho that he will still further e e tutu him resent resent- 1 as cHampion of or Irish Inter Inter- bi Mr Leslie now however yep does not nol come L ir as a Cl political Ri t L in th the tho Si interests Propagandist of ot the tha old Gaelic J language literature and folk songs lie realizes how closely the unity of or the trio Irish people Is bound up with tho preservation preservation preservation pres pres- of or Its old native spirit as that spirit expressed itself in the language it spoke wrote and sang sans That language language lan lan- guage e was the Gaelic which duo due to tho the pressure pressure- exerted b by tho the English h and tho the English tongue was becoming more and more muK excluded from rom general use uso till within twenty years cars a move was made f for lr its resuscitation and for or the disinterment of oC its burled literature This move was originally made mado b by T only l i seven se en Interested cd per persons on As Mr Ir Leslie remarked if It the roof root hall hail fallen upon those seven He while engaged In conference cont con- con ference L together on a certain evening the enterprise t from might never have nave been heard from Although the tho I English blow cold upon the scheme of ot r the language and 11 originally spoken and cultivated b by the Irish as all they thoy do o upon everything that C concerns either tho the outer or Inner life liCe of or that people yet ct the Interest of f Americans Is becoming rather rathor strongly Jy attracted to tho the Move Move- Movement ment n f and aud especially Is that the case with the tho Y Germans and to some extent 11 w with the tho French Of OC course the French are arc of oC the same sameh stock as astle the Irish but greatly modified cJ h M by the tho Intrusion of ot foreign material The inc sympathy shown b by tho the Germans I Is due duc dUe Tl to their r interest in the relation of or the Irish language to the other languages lan- lan s f QC of the great Indo European family that had Its original abiding place upon tho high tableland of or Central Central Cen Cen- Central Asia It H is from that source that various arlous waves of ot emigration have rolled Into Europe nn and across to Europe's western borders And nd tho the special feature of In Interest interest In- In terest to students o of language is that the tho Irish preserves almost more perfectly per per- than an any other tongue the radical radical rad rad- ical leal features of ot what was spoken out In Asia thousands of or years ears ago o before be before before be- be fore there was any West vest Indian Greek Greck Latin German French or Irish Stories and myths that begun began out In Asia have drifted across to the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic leaving leaven traces trace of or f themselves in Greek Jn mythology on the wa way vay onh y to appear at last In the lore folk of ot i Doneal Donegal Don Don- on- on egal egal- Tho Tim word as used In Connaught Connaught Connaught Con- Con naught today means ns lumpy lump it la Is- y claimed that that same word had hall drifted drifted drift drift- ed cd across Asia and Europe and that It ItIs itis Is what left its ma mark marlc on the way and anti appears in the French eh a and cl Swiss word Alpes Alpes our word oni Alps Alps p pAs already d said German I As scholars aro are keenly alive o to the revival of Celtic stud study So are arc tho the French universities De has given a world wide reputation to the Celtic chair In Paris Half a n. century ago Matthew Arnold argued for the tho establishment of ot a Celtic chair in Oxford university So that In urging urging- upon us Americans Americans scholars and otherwise to give r.-Ivo thoughtful attention to 10 the thc cause causo to which ho he Is devoted e Mr Leslie Is only asking us to participate In the interest Interest interest inter Inter- est already felt Celt b by large-hearted large and people elsewhere The Gaelic league and the National University o o- o of Ireland aro are diligently furthering their interest A determined effort is 15 being balDS' made to promote tho the continued continued- use ulle of tho the old Irish speech in the several se countries where it has hus been tho the vernacular for or twenty cen centuries cen- cen has already been It Introduced I Into hundreds of ot schools and acquaintance acquaint acquaint- ance with It Is one of ot the conditions of or entrance Into the National A people loses its identity when if it it lo loses es Its native tonS tongue Je Mr Ir Leslie sa says S 'S Jn In n one word the Immortality of or Ireland nd Is at stake tho the guest of ot Mrs Luc Lucy Ta Taylor lor Thomas lson HIg and his mother Mrs Battle Hattle l' l of or Bancroft Idaho aro are visiting here Evelyn E Lewis 0 of of- Provo spent a few tew days In Goshen Albert E. E Cox was a Provo visitor Saturday Mrs E. E Barker of Salt Lake I Is visiting visiting visit visit- ing with her daughter Mrs Irs Horatio Pa Page g-e g Mrs Alex Gourley was a Eureka T visitor Friday |