The Irish standard., 1896-10-03
Points Out Where He Was Willing
To Sell the Irish
Party.
His Education Bill He Strove to
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Get at Any Cost But
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{ Lost it.

and Tory government. In this effort,
aided by the brewers and publicans, and
! Crangemen, he succeeded: but with what
results? After the little worldly religious
qualification of seeing back in power the
old aristocrat:c party additionally and
fatuously affected by "our old Catholic
families" whose foremost members
might learn lot of the genuine Chris
tianity from radical John Morley even if
he did write God with little "g." here is
all that the good people have thus far to
thank the Salisbury government for in it's
first year Of power.
It has sent costly military expedition
into the Soudan to help out the anti
Catholic, Masonic, Italian governments S
4 vain ambition and ruinous attempt in
FAbyssinia to show off as one Of the great
powers.
IT. has let pass pure beer bill of no
use of all, but bills brought in by the
Archbishop of York and two other mem
bers of the Lords and really affecting the
brewers profits by restricting the sale of
drink were summarily defeated On these
z vain efforts to get any aid to morality
from Salisbury wit wrote these verses
in the Westminster Gazette
LORD SALISBURY, AND THE BISHOP
February Z, 1896.
The Bishops went in solemn state
The Premiers d;ctum to await
And he by them harangued.
At first he somewhat seemed amazed,
Then on the gathered host he gazed
And muttered, "You be hanged!'
''Why came. you here, you sanity crew?
= I've got SO many things to do
Far more than you are thinking.
Eo{ 4f fest~ 10 ora ind
Around above, before, behind;
can't attend to drinking.
Besides, why try to interfere
With what true Britons hold so dear,
Deep in their bosoms sunk?
The brightest jewel in our Lot
1s this--that every English sot
Has freedom to get drunk.
s.'Before that liberty bow
With bated breath and serious brow;
worship it devoutly.
So,reverend brethren, I must say
That must tell you straight today
4, Isstand against you stoutly. a.- .
"Ours governmental course is clear.
We steadfast stand four square for beer.
It's power we ne'er will cripple.
Wee we to Bacchus grateful thanks
Anf sitting on our serrid ranks,
c. England, home and tjpple!"
Il the measures it has passed it has
& ated uniformly in the interest of
! tndlords by one bill easing them in
31 rates to the amount Of 100000
.,9,.tt it was especially for what it was
$40 70 on behalf Of religious education"
.hnfnst the goddess radicals that Sal
= .ry's party enlisted on the part of
0fl dinal Vaughan and the Catholic
cgy of Great Britain such devoted
4mpa: gning as was hardly exhibited by
the Irish clergy on behalf OF Parneli-
and when exhibited was, not without
English Catholic influence, reprimanded
by 'sthe Holy Father Well what has
come OF. the party's legislation for relig-
tous- legislation, said Cardinal Vaughan,
4ssit leaves us no better Off than We were
before" Its increase Of government
grant to the paroohial schools is more
than absorbed by the extra expenditures
IT calls for, The parsons of the Church
Establishment and the squires were will
ling enough to get Catholic votes for
their party, but when the party came to
formulating its educational bill the in
nored for the wishes OF the Establish
nlent's parsons and squires The popu-,
lar representation in the school manage
i Ilent which the Liberals and the general
nublic sentiment demanded, and the
Catholics would concede, as the price of
allDwing the denOminational schools to
share, with the board schools, in the To-
cal rates, was distasteful to the squires
B and parsons, as restricting their auto,
cratic sway in the. rural districts, whilst
with their abundant endowments and
4 wealthy membership they felt them.
selves ia no need of what to the fCathO-
\ Tics was q matter Of life and death, aid
from the local rates, and proudly refused
4 sit They ''sold the pass, and sold their
Catholic fellow Tories and the Catholic
4 schools, but they won their own real OBJ.
sdert politics triumph and social as
HHeendancy. They got as a. much closer
SsDreSerTe than before the large area OF
sfhe rural districts over which the edu-
Ssstal ional bill gave them monopoly Of
q the school management sweeping into
g5I III eir schools, taught only by Church Of
Y ENGLAND teachers, all the Nonconforms
ssasts children also. There are many
N ilauses sin the Bill. D said John Dillon
M I4sffgh hfeh shetray far more political bias
" Bts the politi tical IN onconformist than
4 lSi5 {5F zea eal for the voluntary schools q
Sss Xsi1ueasure humoring England. s over7$
III III ana ogues sof the irish Orange:
he Est tabl ishment' 's clergy and op
IES ISIf5 HA III So large and influential ar
3It sof the English home rule forces
&2 for ,isttl ntliists deserved scant sup
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