The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-12-05
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Protests Against Interference
School Affairs.

School Affairs.
Archbishop Bagshawe, an English
Catholic prelate, takes issue with John
Dillon in regard to English educational
troubles. The Archbishop says: MFR.
Dillon claims that the Irish party
should have perfect liberty as to the
tactics to be pursued | should rather
say that in the defense of the interests
Of the Catholic faith in England the
tactics to be pursued should he direct
CD by the English hierarchy and by the
Catholics of England rather than by
the representatives of Irish constitu-
encies."
The Archbishop is absolutely right.
says the Chicago Citizen. On the
principle of Home Rule the settlement
o. distinctively English questions
should be left entirely in the hands
Of the English people. The English
school question is q, local question,
and participation In making laws for
the settlement of this local question
by Representatives Of Irish ccnstitu-
enciee' shows the absurdity of trying
to satisfy ]ocal needs through the
medium Of an imperial parliament. We
advocate Home Rule for England as
we'll as for Ireland, and acting on
this principe. we believe 1t is con-
trary to justice that Representatives
of Irish constituencies should vote on
purely English business. OF course
they have the right to do so, as long as
the despicable English Catholic Tories
are permitted to vote for every act Of
oppression. and against every act of
amelioration affecting the Irish people.
There never was a coercion act passed
against ireland that the Duke OF Nor
folk did not vote aye" There never
was an act passed comforting even a
minimum of benefit to Ireland that the
Duke Of Norfolk did not vote mo-"
This champion English Catholic, this
heir Of generations Of church robbers.
this participation in the oppression and
robbery Of the Catholic people Of Ire
lend, is but a type Of the whole tribe
of English Catholic Tories. Let us re-
peat it once more. This eminent"
English Catholic was In such haste to
vote against a bill brought forward to
compensate Irish evicted tenants for
the improvements made by them-an
act of the commonest Justice between
man and man--that he hired a special
train to enable him to record his vote.
L. that be Christianity. hell is full of
it. and we don't believe there is q pre-
late, priest or layman who will dispute
1t. We lose all patience when we think
of these dastards. these fair weather
aestehtic Catholics, who offered sacri-
flee to the gods in the stress of perse-
cution, and now come back to parade
as the flower of the Catholic church,
looking for red hats. and soma having
the audacity to demand an Anglo-Sax-
on pope. When we look back to
the election of '26, when brave Irish
farmers, at the cost of all that was
dear to them. dared all and suffered all
t." crush Protestant ascendancy and
force Catholic emancipation, including
the emancipation Of cowardly English
lords, we are astounded at the black
hate and ingratitude that these same
English Catholics have always shown
for the people Of Ireland There is not
a religious reform, an amelioration of
the condition Of English Catholics and
Of English Jews. that has not been won
by the representatives of Irish con-
stituencies." We found the Jew CRATE.
full and sympathetic; but ingratitude
and enmity are the only returns we
have ever received from English Cath
olics.
If the representatives OF Irish con-
stituencies should take the Most Rev.
DR.. Bagshawe at his word, and leave
ia the representatives Of English con-
stituencies the settlement Of questions
affecting English Catholic interests,
we believe such a course would be
wise and polite, and have great edu.
cational value with English Catholic
Tories who look upon Ireland as
Nazareth from which nothing good
can come.
A Military Mass.