To the Editor of the "Norra-Cawa Dairy News."
Smm,—I trust you will favour me with alittle of your valuable space for a few remarks upon the news which you published on Saturday, news which ought to rejoice the heart of every honest and Pattriotic Irishman, whatever his creed or politics, except those of " bigoted and intolerant minority. I fear thit few Irishmen and fewer Englishmen in the Far East, fully occupied as we are with our own affairs, are acquainted with the circumstances leading up to or with the significance - of the incident in ques tion. It is admitted on all hands that the Irish Land Act of 1903 is in the main an excellent measure, notwithstanding its minor defects against the inclusion of which the Irish members vigorous) but unfortunately in vain, protested. Rather than that the Bill should be withdrawn, which was threatened if they persisted, the Irish members withdrew their opposition on the distinct assurance given by the author of the Bill, that its administration, upon which it was foreseen much of its value depended, should be fair and honest, and should be subject -to the criticism of Parliament. The re-
For some time the reason was a mystery until the Irish members became aware that the Irish Government were giving such instructions to the administrators as frustrated the intentions of Psrliament as embodied in the Act.
The reposted requests of the Irish members that these instructions should be communicated to Parliament were persistently refused by the Government under various pretexts, they onfidential, they wore informal, ti verbal, or some other obviously insincere reason for their suppression was given, until the Irish members ware driven to move the reduction of the vote for the Commissioners, which move being endorsed by the vote of the house led to the defeat of the Government.
It may be some little satisfaction to patriotic Irishmen to know that the excessive zeal of the bigoted and intolorant minority, who pride themselves upon being the "British Garrison," the loyal minority and the main support of the anti-Irish Government, and who are thirsting for the blood of the Under Secretary, has boon directly the cause of the downfall of their best friend the late Chief Secretary and indirectly the cause of this last victory of the Nationalists.
Since the pitiless exposure, by the Irish Members, of the commission of crimes by Government Agents, the conviotion of innocent men of these same crimes by the perjury and the suborning of witnesses by the real criminals, the rewarding of these criminals by promotion and by gifts of money, and the Government's reluctant but full admission of the whole of these facts, the ce. have directed their attention towards the manufacture of bogus outrages in Connaught, but the Irish Members have replied by extracting from the Government an admission that by far the proportion of the crimes committed in the whole of the country is confined to the sacred territory of these same "loyalists," viz. Belfast and the North Eastern corner of Ulster.
This last vote of the House would seem to indicate that at long Ist lia ment is awakening to the fact that the government of Ireland by upwards of forty independent and it ible Boards, ander the control of Dublin Castle, contrary to the will of the vast majority of the people, and the most extravagant Government of sny civilised country, is a failure, and that until some consideration is accorded payers, and cannot reign in to the will of the vast majority of the tax.
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sion on cial Relations, the country te the Report of ne ina Royal Gomme has long been taxed by more than two and Yhree-quarter millions above its taxable capacity.
Tam, ete., Us Dovynvpas.
26th July, Civil Appointments, and Ching Hou (ex-Vice-President of the now abolished Mukden Board of War) is appointed Manchu Senior Vice-President of the Board of War.
(8) Shou Chi is appointed Manchu President of the Censorate.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.