The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-12-20

more strove to deceive the English people in
regard to the condition of ireland. He act
ually maintained that Ireland was better off
in every respect but enc than either England
or Scotland! need not tell the reader that q
hundred pens have disproved HIS assertions and
shown that in his address he descends to the
vilest arts of trickery and Misrepresentation.
The one matter in which he acknowledged the
Irish to be worse off than the British was that
of facilities for public educatio1 He clearly
showed that we are not half as well educated
because we have not half the opportunities OF
rather because we have no opportunities at
all, unless we renounce the Catholic faith.
Two facts he mentioned are worth repeating.
Out of four millions of Catholics or more there
are only LAG students in arts attending the
universities recognized by the State in Ireland,
and only 1O8 mfles and females receiving in
termediate education out of the endowed
schools of the country In pointing out these
and similar facts Lord Emily did we'll, but he
wound up badly, as if a perverse genius were
at his elbow. He deplored the rejection o.
the Gladstone University Bill as the greatest
misfortune that had befallen Ireland for TWEEN
ty years. He is not likely to be better judge
then the whole Irish Episcopate, all the Irish
Liberal members and their constituents, all of
whom declared emphatiesliy against the mea
sure. But it is natural enough after all fol
Lord Emily to defsndit,. He was in the posi-
| ton of parent speaking for his own offspring
THE GREAT RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY.
The great controversy aroused by Mr.. Glad
stones pamphlet is dying ont in this country
From Catholic Ireland the answer given t.
Gladstone is-"we acknowledge that the Pops
! has in certain we'll known cases the right tc
| absolve Us from our allegiance TO the crown
| and if you want Us to say that in those cases
we will obey the State rather than the Pope
that is, rather than God, You shall never get
that promise. For the present we are not
over loyal, but, as it happens, it is not the
Pope who makes US SO. 1t is he, on the con-
! trary, and the Church who prevents us from
| being moro disloyal than we are" Some Irish
Catholics-a very few indeed-have, however
| adopted different tone-have, while ac-
| knowledging that they accept the Vatican de-
crees, gone down on their knees, as it were, to
proclaim their utmost loyalty to the English
Sovereign, Amongst these is of course The
O,Donoghue N. P. for Tralee. But the loyal
protestations of this individual, while they
have not evoked-what he expected-the
praise of the English press,-have been made
the subject of scornful attacks in Iralee and
all through Ireland, and every Irish Catholic
who has spoken or written on the subject mas
plainly said that the Vatican DEGREES would
have stood just as we'll without the letters OF
The O'Donoghue to the Times. A man who has
betrayed his country, is not the fttest to de-
fend his Church. 1t is not my part to notice
the manner in which the English Catholics are
answering Gladstone. must confne myself
to the irish replies, aud up to the present there
have appeared in the field from Ireland the
following championships O'Conor Don, the
new bishop of Clogne, Dean OBrien OF i'uf-
erick. Mr.. Lewis (M P. Carlow borough), The
ODonohue NJ P. Mr.. E. Dease, M P. Queens
Co. } not to talk of the newspapers, of which
the Nation, the Freeman, the Cork Examiner,
and other iourna ais have written well and bold
Iv on the whole subject. OF all the replies by
inSiridudls that which like best is that OF
Mr.. Owen Lewis NJ. P. for Carlow borough.
Mr.. Lewis is a convert to Catholicity. In q
short letter he shows Gladstone to be hum
bug, a hypocrite and bigot. IT, he says In
snbstapce, Gladstone feels such sympathy
with the propositions condemned or rather
zb;ob be assumes to be condemned in the
Syllabus, why did he not show the fact in deal
inc With Ireland If he is for unlimited lib
erty for the press, why did he gag the IRIS"
press Mr.. Lewis, in short, completely I'M
horses the great Liberal leader.
THE LEAGUE OF ST. SEBASTIAN.
Gladstone is apparently determined to keep
for some time at any rate in the No-Popery
line. A week or two since the Anti-PaPai
League, whose headquarters are at Edinburgh
formally called the attention OF the Prime