The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18
Joseph Smith, of Lowell, Gives Some Facts
Concerning the Great Mogul
in Dublin Castle
At Present There is Little Known of Him
Beyond the Fact That He is
Edwards Favorite.

There is Il new viccroy in Ireland
yet the island appears to he geographic
cally located in the same old spot and
the Gulf Stream is hitting the coast in
the same old way.
Republics may he ungEteful; hut
kings and Kingdoms cannot indulge in
the precious luxury of ingrnttudc. The
appointment of the Earl of Dudley to
the viccrcgal berth is an Indication
that his sacred. august and paunchy
majesty Edward. king and emperor,
does not forget the friends and days of
his mnlodorouS youth. writes Joseph
Smith in the Boston Pilot.
The lords lieutenant of Ireland. while
theoretically the representatives of the
English king in that whimsical land,
really represent nothing in particular
except the name of the political party
temporarily on top in England; the
Irish vicerOy is simply some member Of
the House of Lords out of Il job, who
needs Il salary and Il chance to he Il big
man at II small tea-party. The real exc
cutivc is the Chief Secretary for Ire
land, who is usually manipulated by
that permanent fixture of Irish mis-
government, the Under Secretary, who
is the incarnation of all the ilSOlence
NIL hi ,r In 81 In
viccroy's business is to look pretty,
give State balls, squnnder public mon
ry, gladden. the hearts of Dublin shop
keepers, give aid and sympathy to the
lMScnlly landlord element and once in
awhile transform some bogus, sloneen
patriot like Pyle into Il bnrOnct and
his vulgar hclpmatc into a lady"
When he has done these things he has
done about all that can be reasonably
expected from II titled toilcr and pa
triot who is paid Il pittnnce of y25O,OOO
per anllln-tive times the salary of the
President of the United Stntes-for all
these arduous and ncrvc-dcstroying
services.
The Earl of Dudley is Tory and II
khaki hero; he has bravcd the horrors
of seasicincss ana faced the tcrrors
tand heels of Yankee mules in South
Africa, and though lie carefully es-
chewed personal contact with the fight
ing AfrikandcrS, he came back con-
lilent III the gratitude of his king and
country. The value of his sacrifices
and his services cannot be painted
adequately in these columns; nothing
but the passionate artlor, literary skill
and wide knowledge of Burke's peer
age possessed by Max Eliot or the
Chatterer of the Boston Herald can do
justice to the noble earl's merits. 1t is
enough to say that the eagle eye of his
portly emperor was Oh him, and il any
doubts existed in the imperial brain,
they faded away before the knowledge
that the earl was the nephew Of Lady
MOrdaunt of evil memory, whose no.
t0riOus divorce case filled the world
with it's stencil years ago. 1t will be
recalled that the most sensational fea
turc of that efiluvious case was the
connection with it of him who was
then Prince Of Wales and who is now
the King of England and Emperor of
India. Who could in these parlous
times SO fifty represent this cllaste and
vrtuous monarch as the nephew of his
crstwhile paranour! Certainly the king
is neither forgctful nor ungrateful.
AS vicerOy of Ireland Lord Dudley
will be delugcd with the batteries Of
the English garrison in Ireland and it's
toadics, and shall be surprised and
panied il some Of our entcrprising
dime-museum magazines or Sunday
YellOws do not give him the space and
illustrations his unique merit seems to
claim, with a scholarly letter-press
from the talented pen of G. w. Jeems
YcllOwplush Smalley, of Hammersmith
and Brooklyn.
1t is saddening to note that the dis
patches from Ireland deplore the
character of the reception given his
I.Ortlship upon his entry into Dublin;
there was n noticeable absence Of
noise and enthusiasm upon the part Of