Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1907-03-16
Appointment of Sergeant DOdd
Means Justice For the Ten
ant Farmers.
His Pointed Rebuke Silences
viscount Castlereagh in
Commons.
GAINING IN FAVOR WITH PEOPLE

The new Chief Secretary for Ire
land. of whom none of MS knew much
until the other day, writes the editor
of the Dundalk Democrat, has appar-
emily got some fundamental facts in
connection with Irish history securely
into his brain, and he has developed
a pleasant practice of hurting these
at Unionist orators that reminds one
of the G.. o. NJ. himself. The other
day Niscount Castlereagh took lead
ing part in a debate got up by the
disappointed Unionist office-seeker,
William Moore, over the appointment
of SergeanU Dodd to a judgeship. The
Sergeant is a staunch old Liberal
home ruler, which is the next best
thing to being a Nationalist, and
everybody on our side in Ireland was
well pleased when the Government
gave him his post-the more so as it
is a post which will give him an OPP
portunity of seeing speedy justice
done to the Irish tenant farmers.
The Ulster Unionist cutlery over the
matter is the plant of disappointed
men. The trouble with them is that
the late Government went out of of
flee without putting one of it's loyal
Orange servants into the vacant seat.
The Chief Secretary admitted the
contention of the Ulster members
that there had been a good deal Of
jobbery in Ireland: but he pointed
out that the alleged "iobbery" assoc
ciated with his appointment is quite
a trifling affair as compared with
the jobbery that disgraced the Irish
administration in the ast-iobbery,
as he pointedly observed, involving
not the appointment of a Judge. but
the sale of a nation. 1t is recorded
that Niscount Castlercagh INTERVIEWED
no more IN the debate after this OBJ
seryation. What memories it calls up
of the forgery and fraud" and whole
sale bribery by which the infamous
creature who first bore his title
cheated our country of her liberty.
a judgeship-a Liberal job, forsooth.
But what of the bribes-in places. n
titles, in pensions and in hard CASH
which the first Oastlereagh paid 20
the venal members of the Irish Par
And what of the hundred
odd years of bribery that have passed
since. when the offices that ought to
be filled by the best men of our ma
ton have been the gifts by which
our English taslomasters purchased
the "loyalty" of Irishmen?
Secretary Birrell explained that
Judge Dodd's appointment had been
decided on in consequence of the con-
gestion in the work of the land
courts. He had been notified by the
lord Chancellor that at the present
rate of disposing of appeals ii would
take two years to get through these
pending. The operation of
economy had been suspended in face
of great public emergency. That is
the right way to SET about business.
There is work to be done. It is to
be delayed indefinitely for the sake
of economy" = ECONOMY" being
preached by the gentlemen who have
given the landlords twelve millions
sterling as "bonus" over and above
the inflated purchase price of their
lands that is being paid by too-eager
tenantsi
II Nht Nthlti fpttiohdiN SiOuld iiHu
ii necessary to make any additional
appointments in the offices of the
Estates Commissioners in order 70
expedite their work, we trust he
will make them without delay; and
IL he selects no worse men than Judge
Dodd we Shall have no reason to COM
plain. The congestion On the land pur-
chase department is a sufficiently
serious matter-for tenants especially
who have consented to pay a high
rate of interest on purchase money
pending the advancement of the cash.
There are also the cases of the
evicted tenants. There is need of
urgency there. Men who have been
five and twenty years awaiting the
fulfillment of Liberal promises in
their especial regard may be pardoned
IL they feel little impatient at the
DELAY in securing their restoration.