Her Irish policy may be summed up in four words--intrigue with the Vatican.

In Ireland the power of the faithful garrison is gone.

The Protestants in the North are sick of being fooled by one English party after another.
The landlords, or what's left of them, are beginning to discover that they have been bought and sold.

The Bishops, England's last line of defence, are overreaching themselves, and we are within measurable distance of the day when the Church will be put into her proper place.
There is not so much as a shoneen publican in a country town left who believes in the ranting of O'Rourke and his litter of blind whelps.
Ireland is simply crying out for light and leading, and the _Croppy_ is going to give both.

You always wanted to serve Ireland.