Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1905 — IRELAND’S NEW SECRETARY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IRELAND’S NEW SECRETARY.

Representative of Laud System Which la Abhorrent to Irish. The Balfour "‘cabinet has not strengthened itself by the appointment of the successor to George

Wyndliam, w Ii o has resigned the chief secretaryship of Ireland. Wyndham resigned because bis policy, which - favored a wider extension of government powers to the Irish people, was repudla te d by tu e House of Cora-

mons as well as by the cabinet, and naturally his successor was selected because of bis opposition to such policy. And that is for what Walter Long, the new secretary, essentially stands. He' Is one of Ireland’s absentee landlords and is resolutely opposed to all concessions to Irish feelings. He is a man of mediocre ability, without one atom of distinction of any kind. For a score of years be has sat in parliament, but never did any-

thing to raise Ids name from the dead level of a commonplace party hack. As an absentee landlord, he stands for a system which has been the bane of Ireland; and as *an opponent to all concessions to Ireland he has already invited the hostility of the Irish people. Instead of being a strength he is a weakness to the Balfour ministry, which is rapidly tottering to its fall.

WALTER LONG.