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Show Wyndham's Insolence. CHIEF SECRETARY WYNDHAM, of course, . like all English officials offi-cials in Ireland, has the characteristic char-acteristic impudence of claiming to be a better friend of the Irish people than their own chosen representatives and leaders, as William O'Brien noticed as follows in his speech' the other day at Westport: "One of. Mr. Wyndham's favorite pieces of insolence to suggest that for political reasons we don't want to see the landquestion settled, and that we are willing to leave our people in misery. mis-ery. Mr. Wyndham, who is here today to-day and will be away tomorrow Mr. Wyndham, who unselffchly accepts 4,500 a year of our money for defying the will of ninety-five out of the hundred hun-dred and three representatives of IrelandMr: Ire-landMr: Wyndham modestly claims to be the only person who has any compassion for, the Irish people or any knowledge of their business; while we, whose ears are filled every day of our lives with heart-breaking stories, of all that our people have to suffer we who see around us' every day, until our eyes ache with the sight, those vast solitudes soli-tudes of splendid land that might be the salvation of the people we are mere professional agitators who ought to go to Dublin castle to learn lessons in morals, and in unselfishness, and in i compassion for the people." Wyndham draws that salary of $22,500 a year out? of the pockets of the Irish people,' and' even though he were their friend he i3 surely well paid for it. But the Irish themselves ought to be considered as capable of knowing who their friends are, and certainly they don't count Mr. Wyndham as one. The man dare not and never does appear ap-pear on a public platform in Ireland outside of Orange Belfast. When we say he dare not, -we do not mean that any personal violence would be done to him. We mean that he would not get a dozen Irishmen to listen to him in any Irish part , of the country; which means four-fifths of it. If he stood for election to parliament in any Irish constituency of four-fifths of the constituencies, he would not get a dozen Irish votes. Yet he has the gall to claim to be more of a friend to Ireland Ire-land than William O'Brien or John Redmond or Michael Davltt. Truly there is no impudence to be compared with the Anglo-Saxon sample. |