The Irish standard., 1902-08-09
EXIT LORD CADOGAN.

Lord CadOgaG has resigned the Lord
Lieutenancy, and his resignation has
been graciously accepted by the king.
His term of office has approached, if
it has not surpassed, the continuous
tenure of any of his predecessors says
the Dublin Freeman's Journal For
seven years he has been lord Lieu
tenant General and General Governor
Of Ireland" If the proper object of
the responsible head of the Irish Exec
utive he to establish friendlier rela-
tons between the Irish people and the
Imperial government. those seven
years have been absolutely barren.
Lord Cadogan found Ireland In peace,
the ordinary law in operation. and the
people eagerly eXpectant of the estab-
liShmcnt of mGdus viv'andi between
themselves and the empire of which
they form Il part. He leaves it with
the CONSTITUTE II practically suspended
over half the country. and the Jubilee
Coercion Act. with all it's hat full and
degrading provisions. in full swing.
Lord CadOgan. instead of Steering I'll
even keel between the landly rds and
the people in Ireland. has delivered the
machinery of the Castle into the hands
of the landlord gang.
Lord Cadogan takes his departure,
and his sole contribution TO ''the settle
ment" of the Catholic Education CUES
ton has been his unspttlcment of the
Catholic Industrial Schools. Already
an extra crop of juvenile criminals in
Dublin has rewarded that heroic effort.
The Financial Relations Question was
another upon which the departing
Lord Lieutenant Indicated Il view
favorable to the Irish demand. Need
less to ask what Lord Cadogan has
done to advance his expressed view.
The addition of 100000 to Irish
taxes since 1884, the addition of
fG5S,OOO last year, and at least E3OO,-
600 this year is the financial monu
ment which the administration 10
which he belonged has bcqueathed
Ireland. Notwithstanding all this
plumber the programme of education
which Lord Cadogan's Commission
recommended in the National Schools
cannot he carried out for lack of few
thousand pounds year. 1t is evident
that the treasury was never battered
by Lord Cadogan's advocacy of the
Irish interest.
The Land Question was another Of
the questions upon which Lord Cado-
gan limited mt great achievements. The
Land Act Of 1896, by which 'no land
lord in ireland was penny the
worse" MS it's authors avowed, and the
Land Bill of 1902 are the relics here.
The war upon the tenants combina-
lions is the honest expression Of his
lordship's intentions. For the Local
Government Act we need not thank
/ the administration. 1t was passed he
cause. even though his Home Rule Bill
was killed. the principles of Gladstone
threatened even verse to the Irish gar
ris,n unless seine concession was
made.
! In his hcstowal of patronage I.o"l
Cadogan has been the host friend of
the Protestant interest since tire days
of Lord Rehesdale. The judicial
! Bench has been left with three Cath
olics-two being jury-packers-as a
mamcry Of the days when the mass of
the Irish people saw Mt least half the
Bcnch occupied by their co-religionists
The County Court Bench is as thor,
oughly ''disinfecteh" There is not Il
single Catholic amongst the Law
Officers Of the Or 'wn in Ireland. The
government of the police never for
thirty years so closely resembled the
government Of the Orange Lodges. AT
the Local Government B ard one tame
Catholic is kept as an exhibit.
Reviewing what Icrd Cadogan did
one Is surprised that the Irish people
were ever so foolish rs to have their
good will captured by what he said