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Show Ireland and the King. Mr. M. McD. Bodkin contributes a paper entitled "Why Ireland is Disloyal," Dis-loyal," from which we quote only ono passage: The King is personally popular in Iicland; far more popular than was ever Queen Victoria, whoso coldness and neglect to tho last year other reign awakened bitter and natural resentment. The Queen mado no secret of her hostility to tho great Home Rule statesman Mr. Gladstone. Tho King, as Prince of Wales, displayed dis-played his friendliness and admiration never moro openly than when Mr. Gladstone was engaged in the strug-glo strug-glo for Homo Rule. Tho story goes that His Majesty, when ho last visited Ireland, was sorely troubled to find that hero alono within tho .vast circuit cir-cuit of tho Empire, was there actlvo disaffection and disloyalty, and, it is believed, that he was sympathetic and statesmanlike enough to seek tho remedy in Justice and conciliation. Rightly or wrongly, the belief Is general gen-eral among Irish Nationalists that His Majesty personally favors tho great conciliation scheme of Mr. Gladstone for tho reconciliation of the two nations." |