The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-14
IRISH PROTEST
 AGAINST CUTTING SCHOOL EXPENSE
Government Policy and Retrenchment Is Success
 fully Opposed.

Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 14-Irelapd ! has just passed through a vigorous and successful agitation against gov ernnent methods of retrenchment. It l is a tradition of Irish government that some of its services are eXtrem me1y costly in proportion to the needs Of I the people, while others are starved
 The treasury in determining to effect war ec0nomics. proceeded to attack one after the other the ssstarYed ser v3ces9e leaving mostly untouched the larger and less useful items. They thus irrftated the largest possible
 nunnber of people and interests for the smallest return in cash.
 One of the starved services is edu- cation. The National library in Dub Iiny the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the teaching of science in secondary schools and agricultural education all suffered, or. were threatened. Among the grants to be discontinued was the This brought the Gaelic league into the fray, and throughout every part of Ireland, resolutions of public bodies, and public meetings, cul1ninating in 9 meeting in the Dublin Mansion House, conveyed to the government the pop ular indignation. The Irish Catholic Bishops also passed a series of reso- lutiops of protest.
 It was not only the educational grants that suffered. Ireland has been receiving a grant of 10000 pounds a year for the. eneouragement| great breeding ground for army horses and it's merits in this respect were recognized before the war not only by the British government but by foreign buyers. It was announced that the horse breeding grant was to be stopped through 2 simiIar grant of larger amount given to Great Bri-I tain was not only to be continued but increased. Protest in Parliament led to the Explanation that army horses could be more conveniently bred in England because it was nearer to the seat of war, and because the provision of army horses might be an urgent matter of hours Instead ef days: As an argument against grant for breeding horses in Ireland this was not regarded as conyincing. Meanz while no serious attack was made on the swollen items of Irish expendi- tnre The police cost over a million and a half g year of pounds sterling, though. for some years past the record of the country is almost erfmeless, and presented with white gloves by the Sheriff because there are no cases to try.
 IreianGs taxation since the war has increased from about eleven npiIli ons to about seventeen and half millions and the treasury methods of retrench- ment would be ineffective for any real ccntri button towards V ar economies They are said to have been due to the blnnder of some minor officials in Dublin Castle or in Whitehall unac- quainted with the country. At first they were defended in the House of Commops by the treasury chiefs. But after the representations made by MT. Redmond, MT Dillon and other Irish ParIiamentary leaders it has been decided that these small economicsI detrimental to national efficiency will not be further persisted in The maj ton among people of all classes and sections of Irish opinion Wqo7/ have shown great sympathy with the war. and admit the necessity of wise public economies,