The age-herald., 1901-12-01
LONDON GOSSIP

the chief objection being the small num- Der Of great houses where he could be entertained Again, the majority of the Irish members of the nobility are impov- erished. They have no money to expend on themselves. much less on him. .In- deed, many of them would feel like touching him for a small loan. At one time the King was popular in Ireland. when he was about half his present age. Now he is not; and as he loves applause he hates tD run the risk of sullen re- ception. When the late queen went there scarcely a cheer greeted her except from the Trinity College students. King Ed wards friends fear that he might be hissed for the country Is as much dis satisfied now as it has been at any pe- riod in It's chequered history. America has republicanized Ireland, and, as John Bright once said, if she could float her. self across the Atlantic she would gladly do so. These are not the exact words, but they express the idea.
 Speaking, or rather writing about Ire land, while the government finds 1t diff ficult to get soldiers there 1t has not. the slightest trouble in getting well-paid of- flee holders. Take, for example, the re- cord of one Irish family alone as dis closed In newspaper this week. "'The IcCOT0 Ol lue 1lDSOn IaIully IS nara 10 beat in any annals of nepotism. On the list are a brother and a brother-in-law on the bench. a brother-in-law a county court judge another brothenin-law a le- gal registrar, two sons smaller place men, besides brothers, cousins, etc.. in minor places. Altogether a family. record of over eighteen thousand pounds sterling a year received from a devoted govern ment and the unhappy taxpayers" Here in England the Cecil family Is not orious for it's nepotism, the members of 1t being quartered in some of the highest and best paid offices of state.
 The slaughter of the children in the concentration camps in South Africa is appalling, and cannot fail to leave an indelib1e stain on the name of England. I know scarcely anything so horrible in the pages of history since the middle ages. Look at the ghastly record as dis closed in official figures. In four months ending with September 30, five thousand two hundred helpless little creatures were taken to their graves out of these pest holes. In one month alone nineteen hun dred and sixty-four perished Were this rate maintained" says Truth 1t would mean the death of twenty-three thousand five hundred and sixty eight children in a year. Such figures tell their own tale to every man and woman of ordinary human feeling. To attempt to whittle away their significance by special pleading or statistical jugglery is as idle as it is offensive" If this horrible crime against humanity were being perpetrated in the dominions of the Turk, every news paper in the kingdom would be fierce In denunciation of the barbarians. the pulpit would ring with condemnation of the savagery and demand the interference of the powers to rescue the little ones, but the deed is done under the folds of our glorious flag in country in which we profess to be endeavoring to civilize, and not voice Is raised in protest. All the responsibility for the murder that is going on is thrown on the Boers. Why don't they lay down their arms? Why don't they tamely submit to the robbery of their country? These are the ques- tions asked by the supporters of the gov- ernment and by its hired apologists. But the questions which the historians of the