We have just been reading an article in the Freeman's
Journal which is the kind of thing that is read quite literally by English Liberals, and which might have been the text of some of Mr. asquith's vague and perilous reproaches against Irish rule. The Freeman's Journal protests that since the second Coalition was !ormed Dublin Castle has been " re-stuffed with reactionaries of the most pronounced type. Not outside Berlin or Simla could a more Prussian-minded set of bureaucrats be found." The simple-minded English Liberal reader probably assumes that English and Scottish reactionaries have been imported into Ireland in order to suppress a noble, high-minded, and naturally resentful people. But when we look at the list of officials mentioned by the Freeman's Journal we find that with one exception they are all Irishmen.
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