IRISH RAILWAYS.
[To 'MR EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I am writing in the hope (as one of your readers) of en- listing the advocacy of your paper to expose another breach of faith on the part of the Government, and more particularly the Prime Minister. In the early part of the great war he took over Irish railways, and promised to return them to the share- holders in the same condition as he got them. Since then he enormously raised the pay of all railway workers, and conse- quently had to subsidise the Irish railways to the tune of £1,500,000 annually. The expediency of this suited him for the time, but now that he doesn't need our help he proposes in August twelvemonth to return us the railways, not as he got them, but rendered virtually bankrupt. We are to be thrown to the wolves, and naught he cares, if he can pose as the pacifier of Ireland. He promised us bread, and he offers us a stone.
Almost all my wife's fortune is invested in Irish railways. With Got ernment bungling, she stands to lose almost the whole of it. If the Prime Minister has any principle of honour left, he should at least continue the subsidy, without which every railway in Ireland will be bankrupt, and every share- holder will for ever curse the day he was trusted with our
destiny.—I am, Sir, &c., As IRISHMAN TRUE TO ENGLAND.
Previous page
