id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
home_rule--13998	McDonnell, Michael, Sir	Ireland and the Home Rule Movement	nan		.txt	text/plain	81960	2200	49	The proposals as to the settlement of the University question were nipped in the bud after advances had been made to the Catholic bishops to discover what was the minimum which they would accept, and this was done although Mr. Balfour had declared at Manchester in 1899--Unless the University question can be settled Unionism is a failure. Mr. F.H. Dale, an English Inspector of Schools, who, in the last couple of years, has produced two comprehensive blue books on the state of primary and secondary education in Ireland, declared that he found the desire for higher education in Ireland greater than in England; but in spite of this, so far, neither British party has advanced one step in the direction of a permanent solution, pleading as excuse that the fear of strengthening the hands of the priests blocks the way, albeit a university under predominatingly lay control is all that even the hierarchy in Ireland demand; while to add to the groundlessness on which intolerance is based the only institution of a satisfactory kind which is endowed by the State is a Jesuit College supported by what one can only call circuitous means. In Ireland Government did not meet the headlong violence of angry power by covering the accused all over with the armour of the law, as in Erskine's famous phrase it did in England with regard to those imbued with revolutionary principles.	cache/home_rule--13998.txt	txt/home_rule--13998.txt