New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-20

peasanfTy nnGeT Protestant dusi4Its anu 'ii'-
ences. for which we viii presume they have goou
reason but. in thus cutting them of from one
chance Of mirroring Their social and intellectual!
condition, they double their own moral response
blHtv 70 secure the Education OF the roor III
some manner not inconsistent with the presei-
Walton Of Their faith And, seeing "ha' nave
seen and do see Of the uneQualed power OF 'h!s
Prestbood-a power immensely greater IN Ire
land than IN Italy, for there they are generally
REGARDED as the allies of the tyrant and
Numbering class, while here they are doably
beloved as its enemies and victims feel an un-
doubling conviction that simply an earnest de-
termination of the Catholic Hierarchy OF Ireland
tina, every Catholic child in the country shall
receive good education would secure It's own
fufment within five years, and thenceiorth Tor
ever Let but one generation be well educated,
and there can be no rational apprehension that
their children or grandchildren VIII be allowed
10 grow I'D in ignorance and helplessness.
knowledge is selfpepetuatIng, sef-extending
And, dreadfuly destitute as this country Is, the
Priesthood of the People can command the means
Of educating that People, which nobody without
their cooperation can accomplish. Let the
Catholic Bishops unite IN an earnest and poten-
ta call for teachers and they can summon
thousands and tens Of thousands Of capable and
qualified persons from converts, from seminares,
from cloisters, from drawing-rooms, even from
foreign lands if need be- to devote their time and
efforts to the work without earthly recompense
or any stipulation save for bare subsistence,
which the less needy Catholics, or even the
wealthy Protestants, IN every parlsh would
gladly proffer them. There is really no serious
obstacle in the way of this first great step toward
Ireand's regeneration n the Priesthood will zeal
ously attempt It,
But closely allied to this subject and not lne-
nor to il in importance, stands that of Indus
trial Training This Peasantry is idle, the En-
qbsb saw truly enough but who inquiries whe
ther there is any work within their reach
Suppose there was always something to do, what
avails that TO millions who know not how TO do
that precise something Walking with friend
through one of the back streets OF Galway be-
side the outlet of the Lakes, came where girl
Of ten wears old was breaking up hard brook
pebbles into suitable fragments TO mend roads
with We halted, and VI. asked her how much
'Sixpence a carload How long will 1t take
YOU to break a car load p about a fortnight
Further questions respecting her family, &c,
were answered with equal dlrectness and pro-
prety and with manifest truth. Here was
mere child who should have been at school,
delving from morning till night at an employ
ment utterly unsuited to her sex and her
strength, and which should consider dangerous
20 her eyesight 10 earn for her poor parents
halfpenny per day THINK OF thls' ye VINO
talk, not always without reason, OF factory
slaves and the meager rewards OF labor IN
America in any community where Labor Is
even decently rewarded, that child should have
been enabled to earn every day at least as much
as her iortnight's work on the stone heap would
command And even in Galway a concerted
and systematic Industrial Education for the
Poor would enable her to earn a, some light and
suitable employment six times what she now
does
In every street of the town you meet constantly
girls of fourteen to twenty, as well as old women
and children, utterly barefoot and IN ragged
clothing. should Judge from the streets that
not more than one fourth of the females OF Gal
way belong to the shoeweanng arstocracy
Now no one acquainted with Human Nature will
pretend that girls of i0urteent0 twenty VIII walk
the streets barefoot if the means OF buying shoes
and stockings by honest labor are fairly within
their reach But here there are none such for
thousands Born IN wretched huts of rough
stone and rotten straw, compared with which
the poorest log cabin is palace, with turf fire,
no window, and mass OF filth heaped up before
the door untaught even to read, and growing up
in region where no manufactures nor arts are
prosecuted, the Irish peasant-girl arrives at
womanhood less qualified by experience. obser
Walton OF training for industrial efficiency and
usefulness than the daughter OF any Choctaw OF
Sioux Indian. OF course, not all the Irish, even
of the wretchedly poor are thus unskllled and
helpless, but a deplorably large class Is and II
Is this class whose awkwardnesS and utter lg
norance are too often made the theme OF un-
thinking leWty and ndicule when the poor exile
from home and kindred lands IN Newly ORR and
undertakes housework or anything else for Nv
ing The awkwardness' which means only IN
ability to do what one has never even seen done
is not confined to any class or nation, and should
be regarded with every allowance.
An Industrial School, especially for girls, IN
every town, village and parish OF Ireland, Is one
OF the CRYING needs Of the time. am confident
there are IN Galway alone five thousand women
and girls who would hall with gratitude and
thoroughly improve an opportunity TO earn SIX
pence per day II they could be taught needle
work plain dress-making, straw -braiding, and a
few Of the simplest branches of manufactures,
such as are carried on IN households, they might
and would al once emerge from the restitution
and social degradation which now enshroud
them into independence, comfort and considera-
ton Knowing how 10 work and TO earn de-
cent subsistence, they would very soon seek and