The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-11-02
THA IRISH UNIVERSITY !.
Justin McCarthY's Views as to How
the University Question Can
be Settled. ...: !.
WHAT THE IRISH PEoPLE e WANT.

WHAT THE. IRISH PEOPLE WANT.
They are Entitled to a System Of Educa-
tion Based Upon Catholic
Principles OLly. Il.
Since Brutus- -Balfour threw out the
hint recently with regard to an endowed
Catholic University in Ireland the best
prononncement on the subject that has
appearedis the article in this months
issue of the LONDON Contemporary Re
view from the pen OF Justin Mccarthy,
M. This article covers the whole
ground, and presents in admirably clear
form whatit is that the Irish people
really want. As1t must be interesting
to the readers of the TIE IRISH STAN-e
.DARD we reproduce It's most important
parts:
+ once asked the celebrated Marshal
Prim, when he was an exile in L0pdOn,
whether Spain was likely to become a
Republic. He answered by another
question, How can on have q Republic
without Rspublicans?" / would put
the same question as to the greater
part Of Ireland--How can you have, q
mixed education system without mixed
seducationalists? The vast majority OF
ireland are not mixed educate onalists.
We have to come back to the plain,
blunt truth announced bY the famous
Archbishop OF Tuam'' John OF Tuam," !
as he was commonly called 60
years ago. 81 Ireland is a Catholic coun-
try, and as such the vast bulk OF her
people are entitled to have system Of
education based upon Catholic prin-..
ciples.' SO said the great Archbishop
One man, according to the old proverb,
may prlng ah0rse to the water; twenty
men cannot make him drink unless he
feels so inclined. Any minister can
set up clustersOf schools aud colleges
on the mixed principle in Ireland; the
whole force Of ParliamenJ cannot make
the Irish people send their children to
be educated there,
very much wish the English public
had the advantage which / have had OF
reading the memorandum prepared by
the Catholic Archbishop OF Dublin,
Doctor w alsh, on this whole subject,
It ought to have been published for the
benefit of all the people in Great Britain
who take an interest in this subject of
Irish education. 1t is not a contrOver-
sial essay in any sense. It does not
devote one sentence, one line Of argu-2
ment to the task Of show that the Irish.
Catholics and the Irish Episcopalian
Protestants are right in the principles
which they uphold. Itmerely explains
what the prineipl les, and describes what
the existing instltutic cnssare. and leaves
it to- bes ssen bYs an impartial man
whethenx xiisee INSTITUTE IONS can possibly
satisfy 6osa @ lip,siinnci 3D. An the far past
dayaSsoff NhatelY, Episcopalian
Archbish shob|of Dublin, there mightstill
,havfsb been some reason in the Imperial
mind ,ftE u ding the system Of mixed
aAducati poctor Whately decla, ed
over aud over again in his private cor
respond since published, that his
object was that OF weaving the Irish
from the abuses of Popery.." Mixed
education, he declared. was his only
hope Of complaining this object. He
could not openly aYow this PURPOSE, he
admitted; he had to fight the battle
l.....With one hand, and that my besS, tied
behind me-" In our. days no. rational
man who knows anything about the
subject has the slightest hope OF being
able to controvert or to bribe or to de
lutte the Irish. Catholic Celt into Protest.
antism., Mr.. Balfour. / am certain, has
no notion of the kind and would blandlv
smile at any ignorant zealot who had.
The English Government and the En-
glish people must make up their minds
that ireland must be governed just as
French Conadais governed AS q region
Of whose population the great majority
are and will remain Catholics. May i
add, as matter Of mere personal OBJ
seryation and convection. that, having
seen a good many countries, 7 have
never seen any in which reli gioas
bigotry was less known than in the
provinces ofiAIreland? Z believe the