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Show EDUCATIONAL BRIBES. Irish Bishops Protest Against Catholics Catho-lics Entering Trinity College. At the recent quarterly meeting of the standing committee of the Catholic Catho-lic hierarchy In Ireland held In Dublin, Dub-lin, Cardinal Logue presiding, a resolution resolu-tion was adopted unanimously to the effect that in view of the "insidious attempts now being made by the authorities- of Trinity college and some of Its protectant supporters to induce by pEculniary reward the youth of our Catholic schools to enter that Institution, Institu-tion, so often condemned by their pastors." pas-tors." Catholics should be warned against the "danger of accepting those educational bribes." The present attempt is regarded as in no way differing in principle from the attempts made by the college "for the last three centuries to wean away the Catholic youth of Ireland from their allegiance to their faith and their country." Trinity college is. according to the hierarchy, no place for loyal Catho'ics who cannot frequent its halls v ithout the greatest danger of detriment detri-ment to their faith. No tru? Irish Catholic will accept the proffered scholarships, schol-arships, and thopc who may do so may rest assured that their f.llow countrymen country-men will never forget their recreancy. Trinity college and Queens college the hierarchy regards as no places for the intellectually gifted youth ' of a race that has prised religion as its most I precious inheritance. BAR OUT THE BULK OF THE PEOPLE. PEO-PLE. "It is intolerable," the resolution con- j tinms. "that these institutions should ; hold their endowments as if to serve ! the Irish people, when the small sec- I tions of the population which they do serve mercilessly bar out the bulk of ; th? people from university education! in any form acceptable to the nation j at. large." The resolution concludes by saying that the matter will only build up the determination of Catholics to obetain at last for higher education their pro- i per share of th? income which Trinity ! college draws from eighteen Irish ! counties, and that if there is any objec- ! tion against a fresh grant to provide a university for Irish Catholics then the Irish bishops, the Irish representatives representa-tives and the Irish people are bound to take all legitimate means to secure that the endowments of Trinity col- j lege and the mone" annually voted to i Queens college are made available for university education in a way the nation na-tion will indorse. The Irish World. |
