EDUCATION
for obtaining Home Rule?
Editor: My answer is yes and no. To give millions a knowledge of English is to enslave them. The foundation that Maucaulay laid of education has enslaved us. I do not suggest that he had any such intention but that has been the result. Is it not a sad commentary that we should have to speak of Home Rule in a foreign tongue?
And it is worthy of note that the systems which the Europeans have discarded are the systems in vogue among us. Their learned men continually make changes. We ignorantly adhere to their cast-off systems. They are trying, each division, to improve its own status. Wales is a small portion of England. Great efforts are being made to revive a knowledge of Welsh among Welshmen. The English Chancellor, Mr. Lloyd George is taking a leading part in the movement to make Welsh children speak Welsh. And what is our condition? We write to each other in faulty English, and from this even our M. A.'s are not free; our best thoughts are expressed in English; the proceedings of our Congress are conducted in English; our
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