We are glad to see in the political notes in
Tuesday's Times that a movement is on foot to pay a personal tribute to Sir Horace Plunkett in recognition of the work he has accom- plished in Ireland during the past eighteen years, and that a. Committee has been formed to raise a presentation fund. Among those who have joined the Presentation Committee are Lord Monteagle, Lord Ivor, Mr. T. Sinclair, Mr. Butcher, M.P., and Mr. Field, M.P. The movement is one which will have, we are sure, the heartiest sympathy of all, whether Irishmen, Scotchnien, or Englishmen, who desire the welfare of Ireland. When the present Government yielded to the Nationalist demand to get rid of Sir Horace Plunkett they committed very foolish as well as a very cowardly act, and we should think there mult be many Ministerialists who would be glad to atone for it.
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