It really is tyranny when a colonial Governor endeavours to push through his Legislative Assembly or even otherwise make statutory legal measures which deprive his subjects of certain commonly admitted rights. This is precisely what happened in Trinidad at the end of last year and at the beginning of this. The Governor, through his educational policy, decided to close the Assisted Training Schools for teachers, and compel the students, who intended to make teaching their profession, to be trained at the Government Training College. That is to say, he closed the Catholic Training College, and insisted that the Catholics who wished to become teachers should be trained only in the Government Training College.

There are three preliminary statements to be made about this proceeding before we deal with the matter itself of the Governor’s enactment:—

(1) The Catholic population of the islands of Trinidad and Tobago is at least one third of the whole population of these islands.

(2) The Government College has as its headmaster, and has had for many years, an admirable gentleman from Cambridge who has publicly and privately denounced the system of denominational schools.

(3) The curriculum of the College as printed by the Government under the date August, 1925, and with the specified approval of the Acting Director of Education, gives as the subject of the first year’s history lectures :