The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-16
Irish Education.

Every representative institution in the
land ought ut once to declare its views on
the subject, and even the strongest and
most bigoted governments must yield TO
the pressure of public and popular opinion.
Municipal Councils. Boards of Guardians,
Grand Juries-all institutions representing |
the people-ought to take steps to urge on
the Government the absolute necessity OF
settling this great question at once III ac-
cordance with Irish ideas, and the wants !
the subject as SO intimately bound up, so
absolutely identified, with the Catholic
faith that we would not be surprised to see
the Bishops of Ireland coming out from
their sanctuaries, and, crozier in hand,
heading their focks to another series OF
monster meetings.
The people are beginning to feel that
there is an intention on the part of Pro-
testant England to continue, under the in
strument of education, the Protestant pro-
selytism which has been carried on in Ire
land for three hundred years.
The people now feel that they have been
! BETRAYED on the most vital question of all,
that which lies at the root of the national
faith, and which it would seem the English
Parliament is now determined to resist, Tor
| a reason of which few can be ignorant.
| What is the policy of the English Parlia-
ment on this subjects 1t is this, that the
ONLY education which it will tolerate In Ire
land must be based on the Latudinarian, II
not the Infidel principle, hoping that by
such means it may effect the object which
the PROSECUTIONS of Elizabeth and the sword
of Crom W ell failed to accomplish. Secular
education is the new weapon of England to
prosely tie the Irish people, and to destroy
the ancient faith for which their forefathers
had made so many sacrifices, and through
out Europe the Infidel party make no secret
%b,t thu subtitle nOiROn of secular education
ia the means by which they hope to propa-
gate their opinions. This is the settled
1oiicy of the British Parliament, if all Ire
iandSthe priest in his pulpit, the leaders
of the people from their platforms-do not
boldly declare that they will never yield to
such policy.
The example of action on this matter
! given by the corporation of Waterford has
f been followed by the town councils OF
: Limerick and Cork. The special hardshipf
arising out of The force of contrast was elo
> ouently put, in an excellent speech by Mr.
8 Reilly in Waterford. He urged:
D In every other European country thu
: universities of all religious denomination
'. are recognized, and treated with eqnal JUS
y tice, in this respect by the Governments o
their different nations. In Austria tn
Protestant Summaries are so treated, ant
Z, even in ruthless Prussia the Catholics ar
e as fairly dealt with and as secure in :thi
II regard as they we're in the Propaganda a
's Rome but yet those educational right
} are denied to Irish Catholics by our pateI
,, nal Government at home. In Sydney tn
lie Catholics have a university endowed by til
t., Government of Australia; in Lower Car
+; ada the Catholics enjoy the same great pr
3, vilege, granted by the Queen but it is
I'd Dublin, and in Dublin alone, that the c;
0. tholic is denied that justice. 1t is plain,
I'd think, the object of that refusal it is dor
ne for the purpose of driving Catholic childre
I'd into educational institutions condemned /
d. their Church, condemned by those they a
So bound to respect and to obey.