Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 32, 11 August 1904, Page 9

Irish News

mjotns l ,, declared that in his experience, extending olver a pe(rip<d of eight years in his two 'lirisih Viceroyaltics 1 , he lhajd known Instances of religions intole£a!n,T:e, but he ha,d Miown no instance of that intoleaiance on tihe part ofl the Catholics of Ireland, Ireland and the Tea Duty

Wfhen Ijhe Finance Bill was under coiusLderation in the House of Commons Mr. Hugh Law moved to amend the clause fixing tho CusKoms duty on tea at B<d per Ib, so rtjhat it sholuM not apply' to Ireland. Sir William HtUfqaurt s.'pobo for special consideration for the Irish ppor in Uus mutter. Sir Michael Hrckg-Beach took sucih a line of action w'hon he re/dUced the maize dluty qn account of its injurious opera/tion on Ireland. Mr. Joih|n Rejdmonfcl m'ai'n Gained that there were in Ireland, in proportion to the Whole population, mpre people t,o whom tea was a necessity of life than t/liore were in England and Scotland, and therefore the tou'rden of the tea duty upon Ireland was proportionately far greater tha,n the burden* uip on the rest of the Unitod Kingdom. Mr. T. W. Russell urged preferential treatment Tor Ireland, and warned the House that if Irelarid had to keep, pace with a aricli country like E'ngla.njd, Ireland would be landed i\n absolute banl^rtiptcy. Mr. Winston Churchill urged that Ireland's claim ior preferential treatment was greater even tfoian qha,t of Ceylon, for she furnished more soldiers for the war than all the colonies together. Mr Law's motion was negatived by 270 votes to 185. Wise and Timely Words

His Eminence Cardinal Loguc, in an aXtdross to tihe Maynooth, stvufdents, said some wise anid timely words of which the country will take flote. He expressed the fear that not only the primary ediuca.tioin, but als>o the secondary education of the 00-uhtiry is abolut tjo be thrown into the meltijig-pot by empirics. 'We have some of them,' said tihe Cardinal, ' going tihrotujgh the country now taking notes— no doubt distinguished men, but they are men who seem to think that everything is going wrong here in Irelanjd. They are preparing fojr us— a tiling' we are always likely t« ge<U— sluits of the cast-off clothes of the learned man anJd slc(hools of England. When a system of education is worn out in Ejngl'amd, we are likely to come in fpr it here. They seem inclined, to tlhrow everything into the melting-pot. I Wojuld not be at all surprised if the result) were miucfh the same as> it was in 'the case of the Isrjaeli'tes, who took their gold and silver atnd precioius jewels when Mosies was on, the mountain and threw tfliem ifntio .the melting-pot, alid what come out ? A calf ! I would not be surprised' if, after all this work t^afc is going on about primary, secondary, a'Jrtd technical education, and! aftor all the experiments that are being made, it w:il end in something that will have as. mVich relation to the intellectual lifo of the country as the calf had Ho. tihe intellectual life of tihe Israelites.'