CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3] — Page 398

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As the present system, by which the Police Force is publicly prohibited from taking any action in the matter, has now been nearly seven weeks on trial, it seems to me expedient to bring before Your Lordships somewhat more fully than I have yet done the actual position of the question and the prospects of success, which may reasonably be expected from the present experiment.

I have been somewhat assisted in this last by the appearance in the "Daily Press", one of the local morning journals, of the enclosed article on the very subject, and which comprises all that can be said from an anti-government point of view against the present system.

Enclosure No. 3, 2 March 1892

The arguments, whilst put with some ability, are also urged with an unrelenting acrimony, which may be accepted as a satisfactory guarantee that nothing against the existing system is omitted, whilst those, who understand the antecedents and animus of the journal in question would probably infer from its bitterness that the arrangements of the Executive are likely to succeed.

It is not, however, for the moment to be denied, that to an untutored English reader many of the points made by the writer...

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As the present system, by which the Police Force is publicly prohibited from taking any action in the matter, has now been nearly seven weeks on trial, it seems to me expedient to bring before Your Lordships somewhat more fully than I have yet done the actual position of the question and the prospects of success, which may reasonably be expected from the present experiment. I have been somewhat assisted in this last by the appearance in the "Daily Press", one of the local morning journals, of the enclosed article on the very subject, and which comprises all that can be said from an anti-government point of view against the present system. Enclosure No. 3, 2 March 1892 The arguments, whilst put with some ability, are also urged with an unrelenting acrimony, which may be accepted as a satisfactory guarantee that nothing against the existing system is omitted, whilst those, who understand the antecedents and animus of the journal in question would probably infer from its bitterness that the arrangements of the Executive are likely to succeed. It is not, however, for the moment to be denied, that to an untutored English reader many of the points made by the writer...
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2.

As the present system, by which

the Police Force is

publicly prohibited

from taking any action in the matter,

has now been nearly

seven weet to

to me expedient

trial, it seems to bring before Your Lordships somewhat more fully than I have yet done the actual position of the question and the prospects of success,

which

may reasonably

be

expected

from the present experiment.

2. I have been somewhat

assisted in this lasti by

The

appearance

in the "Daily Prefs","me of the local

morning journals, of the enclosed

artide

ww

the

very subject, and

which comprises all that can be said

Enclosure No 3

2 March 1892

fran

an

anti-

3.

398

ernment point of view,

govern

against the present system. The

It's

rguments whilst put with some

ability,

are also

also urged with an

arverigelow acrimony, which

be accepted

As

a satisfactory

-may

guarantee that nothing against the existing system is omitted, whilst those, who understand the antecedents

and anime

of

the journal in

question would probably infer from

it's bitterness

that the

a re

arrang.

evn

ents

of the beecutive

3. It is not, however, for

listely to succed.

لة

an

moment to be denied, that to untrowelled English reader many of

the points made by the writes in

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