NATIONALIST UTTERANCES IN IRELAND.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I would ask for a little space in order to draw attention to the recent utterance of Mr. Reddy, M.P., as reported in the Irish Times of May 9th. "Look," he is reported to have said, " at the five miles of land owned by the Goodbodys. Was that class of thing to go on? No, the Goodbodys would have to give up the land and be content to retain their factories and industries." Later on in his address, however, he seemed to think that even the factories and industries required attention, for he is reported to have said further: " The Insurance Bill would tickle them, and make them give fair wages and pensions to their workers. It was said that the Goodbodys were large employers, but it was the people who made them." The Messrs. Goodbody thus alluded to are well known in Ireland as a Quaker family who have for generations adhered to the best traditions of their sect; and who have suc- ceeded in creating in King's County what that portion of Ire- land needs so much, viz., a manufacturing industry, employing about 1,000 people. They are kind and charitable and 'solicitous for the welfare of all around them, and yet for some reason or other they are thus attacked byMr. Reddy, M.P. sow, the process of tickling, however delightful for the ticklers, is not so pleasant for the tickled, and it is no wonder that mercantile and business men throughout Ireland view with dismay the setting up of a Legislature in which men of the type of Mr. Reddy would be so largely repre- sented, men who cannot discern that in killing the goose they are also thereby destroying all prospect of golden eggs—and it is no wonder that in the face of such utterances as those above quoted the checks and safeguards promised by Mr. Redmond are regarded as but of little value.—I am, Sir,
Ex-M.P. Co. Armagh. (Liberal.)
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