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outlook.
Apparently Mr.Li george is incapable of learing any thing
from the past in respect to the Government of Ireland,
It does not require much imagination to foresee that no
one is less likely to be a successful chief Secretary than an
English barrister. Mr.Birrell and Mr.Duke (the latter of
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whom certainly did uis best) were no t able illustrations of
this fact, On the other hand, the most successful holders of
the office during the last 30 years were Mr. Balfour and Mr.
Walter Long nei ther of whom is by any means learned in the
No thing is known about Hr.Shortt, except by his con-
freres at the Bar. We are well aware that the Prime Minister
must have found it difficult to get any body to take this
invidious post at the present moment, but surely he might have
do no better than choose an English K.C. who apparently is
law.
opposed to couscription
to apply in Ireland,
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which Mr.George has solemnly promised
We admit that Mr.Shortt cannot be a greater failure than
some of his immediate predecessors; and that his courage in
taking theplace will probably eventually get him an appointment
to tue Bench. But we fail to see how this helps Ireland, or
the Irish maddie,
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