HOW IRELAND IS GOVERNED.
LTo THE EDITOR. OP THE SPECTATOR...I
Sm,—An incident has recently occurred which is interesting as an evidence of the state of feeling which is now general throughout Nationalist Ireland. County Councils and similar bodies are granting large increases of salary to persons in their employment, in consequence of the increased cost of living. Mr. Fogarty, who is employed as an accountant by the Galway County Council, applied, with others, for an increase; but in his case it was flatly refused. Two reasons for the refusal were given by the Council; first, that he had been heard to express regret that he had not gone out to France to fight the Germans; and secondly, that he had gone out with a gun in his hand, ready to shoot down the Galway rebels in Easter week, 1916. It was pointed out by one member Of the Council that it was absurd for him now to ask the representa- tives of these men—and in some cases the men themselves—for an increase of salary. And yet in 1916 the English Radical leaders, from Mr. Asquith downwards, pretended to believe that there was no sympathy with the rebels outside Dublin!—
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