The Present King
“The present King is very good. He is a gentleman very fond of visiting, and well pleased with every class of people he will meet.”
The Old Age Pensions
“The old age pension is very good, and as to taxes, them can’t pay it that hasn’t it. It is since the Boer War there is coin sent back from Africa every week that is dug from the goldpits out there. That is what the English wanted the time they went to war; they want to close up the minerals for themselves. If it wasn’t for the war, that pension would never be given to Ireland. They’d have been driven home by the Boers if it wasn’t for the Irish that were in the front of every battle. And the Irish held out better too, they can starve better than the rest, there is more bearing in them. It wasn’t till all the Irish were killed that the English took to bribing. Bribed Botha they did with a bag of gold. For all the generals in England that are any good are Irish. Buller was the last they had, and he died. They can find no good generals at all in England, unless they might get them very young.”