Reorganising' Lord Aberdeen

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, 21 March 1907, Page 9

Reorganising ' Lord Aberdeen

The Empire is : once more in_ danger, the Throne is rocking,' the Bible is in a bad way. - So much, in substance, we learn from an alarm raised in the shape of a, resolution by the- Grand' Orange" Lodge in Dublin. The cause of the coming cataclysm is* a \»isit which Lord Aberdeen (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland/ and Lady Aberdeen had the unspeakable audacity -to pay recently to the Man of Sin— the "' Pope, o' Room '. The gifted couple are being treated to some of the chunks of old ; red sandstone . which the saffron brethren have been heaving off and on at the King' and Queen. , But the viceregal pair know their minds. • They know, .their Ireland, .too— how (among other things) a large landslide from the Orange ranks- has crossed the valley to . the side of the men who # love their country ; they see the shadow of impending events ; and they are not likely to sit up- o' nights worrying over busybody .resolutions passed by the ultra-Tory leaders of the. Yellow Agony." Lord and Lady Aberdeen are very popular in..lrelahd. And since the days of. Lord Fitewilliam," no viceroy Jn the Western Isle has come so -near to the ideal expressed in Chesterfield's words : ' I would -rather be called the Irish Lord Lieutenant than go down to posterity 'as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland '. Therein lies the head and front of Lord Aberdeen's offending.— In all probability he will be the Home Rule Viceroy. If the brethren want to dish and carve him, they had better . let the contract to somebody else.