A chara, - Abraham Lincoln believed initially that his famous "government of the people, by the people, for the people" speech had failed. Minutes after delivering it he observed: "That speech won't scour."
Our own Government seems to gleefully agree with his sense of failure in these days when we the people appear to be of no account. It should, however, have paid greater attention to another of Lincoln's worried observations regarding the office-seekers of the early 1860s: "There's too many pigs for the tits." - Is mise,
Niamh O'Sullivan, Monkstown Avenue, Monkstown, Co Dublin.