The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-13
lreland's Hopes Of Home Rule
Significance Of Sir Anthony MacDonnels speech-The Irish
Police Fund Scandal

istered, and now a crisis is reached
Some subscribers are demanding that
the fund be wound up and the money
something like 1000 ,OOO-be distribut-
ed at once. An ex-policeman-who
name for the moment must be sup
pressed, but who is prepared to give
evidence before committee of the
House of Commons when the time
comes-makes some startling state
ments.
What right has any government"
he says, Ito use this fund for secret
service purposes and hand much of It
over for bogus information regarding
alleged secret societies? myself have
handed over some of this money for
information which I afterward found
to be false. l knew an inspector who
was attached to the crime branch of
the service who used to draw $50 a
month for years out OF this fund for
distribution among informers."
A committee is now being formed
among pensioned policemen in Dublin
to push this winding up scheme along.
and Tim Healy. M. p, will be entrusted
with the leagl side of the matter when
he returns from the United States.
Whatever poets. politicians or rail-
way guides may say, there is no spot
In Ireland that is more in need of the
friendly provisions of the new housing
act than the city of Limerick. It is
squalid beyond description and in
few years hence, If something is not
done. it will degenerate into veritable
plague spot. The new act is to be nut
In force at once and it may he that in
ABOUT ten years from now the poet of
the period may have some justification
for writing-"Limerick is beautiful as
everybody knows"
This is what the most Rev. Dr.
Dwyer. the local bishop has to say on
the state of the beautiful" city. at
is an anomalous and improper state
of things that there should be thous-
ands of our fellow citizens living in
homes into which no sane man would
put domestic animal he was inter-
ested in. Such state of things is not
only painful and humiliating to every
philosophical citizen. but it is also
dangerous to society. Living in such a
condition the people do not know what
home is. Too we'll know what the
lanes OF this once fair city are and
often wonder how it is that their in
habitants are so good and so religious. -
Some time ago Lord Iveagh offered
to give donation of $4,000 towards
the erection of workmen's dwellings, IL
LEGAL effort could secure another $685.
900. but there did not seem to be suf-
ficient enterprise in Limerick to raise
the money and the matter was dropped.
The Duke of Manchester has Just
been appointed deputy lieutenant of
the county of Armagh by the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland. The post is
entirely an honorary one without pay,
without emolument and with less pow
er or authority than an ordinary po-
liceman. Deputy lieutenants are more
plentiful in Ireland than the familiar
milestones. Any successful pork
butcher or a cattle dealer who likes to
see himself in knee breeches and
buckled shoes, and who cares to be
under an obligation to the lord lieuten-
ant OF his county, can become possess
ed of the additional burden of CARRYING
the letter oil" deputy lieutenant)
attached to his name. He can confer no
patronage and is merely empowered to