In his second letter, Sir F. Milner points out that
he did not assume the truth of the statements, either against the Evicted Tenants, or against those to whom the failure of the 13th Clause of the Irish Land-Purchase Act of 1891 was im- puted; but he did think that a Commission which did not in- vestigate these imputations, and which did not contain a single member who could be supposed to represent the landlords, could not be expected to pave the way to the only end which the general public would approve,—namely, the assisting victims of misfortune, and not fraudulent conspirators, to be reinstated in their holdings. To this letter, Mr. Morley has probably sent no reply. At least, none has been published.
Nor was it to be expected that he would have replied. It
seems perfectly clear that Mr. Morley does intend the Com- mission to answer the purpose which Mr. Sexton, in his
exultant speech at Cork, attributed to it,—namely, not to ascertain which of the evicted tenants ought to be reinstated, but to reinstate them. In other words, what Mr. Sexton and Mr. Dillon require of him, Mr. Morley obediently performs.
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