The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-07
SCHOOLS Of IRELAND
IN NEED Of REVENUE
LIQUOR Trade Does Not Furnish
Sufficient in Taxes for Their
Support.
TEACHERS IN WoRKHoUSEs
Pedagogues So Poor They Live on
Public Bounty CT Exc Out Lives
On Misery Pensions.
TEACHERS IN woRKHoUsEs
spscLs. cas!e o The Tr!bune

specIe. Cable 10 The Tribune.
DUBLIN MAY s.-Pree uiinenv in the
errors Engilshuen have made OF govern
lnE Ireland Is lhs mUddle they have made
O. education. I; IL not so deep gTiev-
arce as religious persecution. nor 80 crue!
| as lsnd,ordism. but where these evils are
vel! nigh ended. or at least pailiated
Ir!sh education Is as deep In the slough
O. despond as ever before.
One could not attend the National Con
ference OF irish Teachers IN this city
without feeling that the speaker was
right who saic that FOR Irish education.
England had mot only no money. but no
consideration" a grievance lTisfmen
cannot gs. over Is that the standard %
national intelligence should depend OH
whisky money. On the front wal OF the
Ancient Concert hall there naged forth
before the delegates these significant
phrasinss OF lEeir demands: Ireland
drunk IS Ireland educated, Ireland sober
Is Ireland i!litsTate.'
The point at issue. however. is no, the
moral one Of whether or not the children
should be sent TO school on the proceeds
from the whisky traffic but the economic
issue that arises because these taxes are
not enough.
Liquor Trade OveTtaxed.
The liquor trade in ireland has reached
the maximum Of taxation: when 4 was
earmarked for educa tiOr7I purposes years
! "tthes' oi evil which were collected from
IL would al length be exhausted. But be-
ginning with 1900. liquor taxes. height
ened as they Sere. have yielded less and
less each year, through the sheer dis
couragcuent OF consumption the increased
price thus entailed.
so the folly Of making the vital con
csrn Of education dependent on such q
fluctuatirg source has been viyiGly re
Fsa.eG. In 1900 the amount Of money
available FOR Irish education Ras S755 i0y.
p rr-y iae= r
IN the meantime the school Popula tion
had Slightly iucTeaSe1-Ia tns hIgGer
grade schools. known a. the intsTEledi-
stes, u mad gone UP 81 per cent. Besides
educational methods have become vastly
more thorough and complex in tho in
teTvsEing ten years as improved facilities
q al sorts nave been adopted in schools
Thus. for funds az any rate. Irish eiu-
cation Is in an absolutely intolera Die
state Scotland. with practically the same
the imperial treasury amounting 10 al
most half as much again as pass through
| the nigsardly hands Of Dublin Castle
for prizss and zoo egy gec,Die5ts @ ys sllaos STo.
vided for; now $4,000 has 20 suffice and
! only -ss chances ars left 10 ambitious
young Ireland And there are today quite
| twice as many candidates for distinc-
TONS as IN the generous days OF decade
ago,
Teachers in Workhouses.
A particularly scandalous feature Of the
business was further brought out in this
conference in the uiserly pension provl-
sions for superannuated teachers. There
are At present Ill teachers in the work
houses OF Ireland, and many more too
proud 70 accept relief. but living on pen
sions less than the scanIy old age allow
ance Itself When told Of these facts
chancellor Lloyd-George Is said 10 have
been affected 10 tears. But no one has
yet been affected TO action.
But after all. IL Is only the rezulat-
ing hand that is needed. The spirit and
the quicken ming impulse are revealed In
the success OF the National University.
whose constituent colleges az Dublin,
Cork, Galway. and Belfast have all grown
Tap!dy in the past two years
The movement for technical and aert =
cultural instruction. started only some five
years ago, was the subject only the other
day OF very hearIeniug official report
The way the farmers BOYS attend the
TicEety little buildings that are used
staying far into the night TO clear up
knotty points, the long tramps pupils are
willing TO take 10 get 70 them and the
pTohloitiye weather they Will breast are
constant source OF marvel TO the in
structors and supervisors. Girls tecflui-
cal schools, as well. have been spreading
under the leadership OF the United Irish
women, and the domestic instruction thus
available threatens to tighten up the
servant problem IN America by keeping
lrish girls at home.