Excerpt from The Leader, Vol. 9: A Review of Current Affairs, Politics, Literature, Art and Industry; 27th August, 1904
Those barren and dreary bigots, the Parliamentary representatives of the Intellectual Sahara of Ireland, have been recently giving object lessons on the floor of the House of Commons which throw a strong and in teresting light upon the methods of the party who pos sess all the civic virtues in this country. Those shining lights of the Simpler Christianity, who represent the wealth and intelligence of the country, strenuously pre tended to want a full investigation of the Anderson case, and so during a recent debate in the Commons, one of them moved a make-believe vote of censure upon their humble and devoted friend poor, sweet, soft-spoken Mr. Wyndham. To their dismay, however, the Nationalist members readily supported the motion, and pressed for a full enquiry into the Anderson case. The poor Arabs of the Intellectual Sahara, who were only doing a cheap Sir J ohn Falstaff, and letting ofi some stage thunder, and sound and fury, when they saw that the motion meant business, not bogus, with characteristic Sandy Row valour, they turned tail and fled. When the danger was over, militia Colonel Achilles Ajax Saunder son, chief of the Sahara staff, breathed the defiant, sulphurous phrase: they had no objection to an eu quiry, The Anderson case very probably couldn't bear investigation, no more than many other underhand doings of England's Faithful Garrison, which is so suit ably represented by the Arabs of the Intellectual Sahara of Ireland. Investigation indeed of the doings of Orange and Masonic secret societies! The next time Brother Sloan preaches fire and brimstone to his gentle Fuzzy Wuzzies around the Custom House steps, he should preface his sermon with the prayer: Lord, save us from investigations.
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