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Show WYNDHAM'S RETIREMENT. Chief Secretary of Ireland Wyndliam i;,.. eumbed to the inevitable by stepping !o-.Vi: ;ip.! His retirement was announced by Bui;,.;; - . ( I 1 141 ' ill : . ' House of Commons on last Monday. ? The more immediate cause of Mr. '. ..,.-discomfiture ..,.-discomfiture was his disagreement with -,, . to discipline Assistant Secretary Mr I .,ii:i. !. ;( his retirement may fairly be rtriiur .i ,: realization that the Irish people eaiun.r torily nor successfully ruled by the ernmenr. This denounient is theref-.re .iti .i1. ,. tory for home rule and. it i-. to l. ',.;,' , , . , j reasonably be regarded as an encouraging .n:. i i i its final and complete triumph, in ;lu- i : , f future. Mr. Wyndham is by no means a h, j i is, indeed, a manly man, and merit a. Imi i v . ... i esteem as a broad-minded, genen-u-ly-di-j' ; patriotic statesman; towering, in 1 1 1 1 n , . , and shoulders above the generality i. ..... . freres. 'Tis t pity that a man of .... . character must bear the brunt of the i'.W . ' : associates. - His attitude toward his under -en . ; ;i : . . . , , so justly antl naturally incensed the Iri-h n i !, an unpardonable blunder; but that it wa a i 1 . rather than the deliberate exhibition of .t;i "lL:;. and unfair spirit, no one who has 'ii'l;r,i man's public career and utteraun - wiii i. . clined to doubt. Just to what extent hi- i-oitr- ( this matter was influenced by hi politirai- ;;-freres ;;-freres it is difficult to determine. The whole affair affords another ! -i h- 1 1 -1 r.-i f of the fact that the English government i- u;;, ;.-incapable' ;.-incapable' of successfully coping with tin-problem. tin-problem. If its nio-t "benevolently di-po-nl ;n, 1 ablest statesmen prove themselves -, lament;!! !.- obnoxious and incompetent, what can be exr from its ordinary, mediocre, and narrowly -ehi-i, type of politicians |