The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-11-07
New Under Secretary of Ireland Is
Nephew of Notorious Ex-
Mayor Nathan of
Rome.
Position Puts Him at Head of Dub
lin Castle. Irish Press Bitter
Against Government
Act.
Act is a Betrayal of Irish Interests.
Home Rule Party Should
Have More Influence.

Have More Influence.
(From The Leader, Dublin, Ireland.)
The announcement in the daily
press that a Sir Mathew Nathan had
been appointed permanent Under
Secretary for Ireland must have
struck all who saw and knew with
amazement and stupefaction. For
those who do not know, the following
particulars will prove Illuminating.
Sir M. Nathan was first military en-
gineer, then in turn Governor of
Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast,
Governor of Hong Kong (China),
and Natal (Africa); then Secretary
of the Post Office, lately Chairman
of the Board of Inland Revenue. He
is now Chief Civil Executive Officer
of State in Ireland. Sir Mathew is
a Jew, we hope we do him no injus-
tice in suggesting that he is also a
Mason.
The only employment wherein ex-
perience could be claimed as a quail
ication is that he was sometime Gov
ernor of Yellow and Black skinned
races. He is now actual Governor
of the Irish.
What is the Under Secretary of
State in Ireland? He is the active
agent of the British Government in
ireland of which the Lord Lieuten-
ant is the titular representative. He
is to keep the British Government,
through the Chief Secretary, who is
a Cabinet Minister, and as such not
permanent, informed of local circum-
stances, conditions, feelings, tenden-
cies, national opinion. By reason
whereof he has his hands on all the
Government Departments in Ireland.
He is member, and controlling
member of the Congested Districts
Board; he controls the Local Govern
ment Board, the Department of Agri-
culture. He can, in addition and does
greatly, influence every Board in Ire
land. He is the head of Dublin Cas-
tie in ireland. An English Jew,
probably Mason, is now the domin-
ating Government influence in Ire
land. Irishmen, Catholics and Pros
testants, do ye understand that?
Yet there has not been any outcry
against the outrage, for outrage it
is, by either Parliamentarians, Car
sonites, All-for-Irelanders, Sim
Feiners, or Irishmen of any class So
ever. Are we all drugged? A man
without experience, an Englishman,
a Jew is hoisted into the first Gov
ernment post in Ireland, and Ireland
is silent at the insult. When was all
this done?
It was indeed the present that AS
ouith brought with him to the Man
sion House Meeting. The gross gov
ernment outrage was made public
the day before the meeting, and the
late Governor of the Mongols and
the new Governor of the Irish sat in
the meeting. The audience, many
of whom did know of the scandal,
did not by word or deed protest
when the Chief Secretary who had
lust recruited the first salaried post
in ireland from England, asked
Irishmen to shed their blood for
such government. Again I say, are
we all drugged?
The time, too, is striking. The
"Freeman" the Parliamentary Party
state Dramatically that Home Rule
is a fact as we'll as an Act. If that is
really SO, how comes it that Ireland
now for the first time has an ex-nig-
per Governor for her chief executive
officer. To whom is Mr.. Birrell re-
snonsible for such an appointment?
Are we under Home Rule still slaves.
and have the Parliamentary Party
nothing to do with. the appointment
of Government officials under Home
Rule What is Home Rule, when an
inexperienced, ex-Mongol, ex-nigger,
English-Jewish Governor is perman-
emily planted at the head Of Dublin,
Castle? Some answer must be given
e.. thu ortrape Public opinion
must awake and sweep away such
corruption ere it be too late. for
worse may be- behind.
Home Rule is now an Act. and
the date of the Kings signature Is