MELAND AND HOME-RULE.
[To TILE EDITOR OF TER " SFTCTATOR:1 Snt,—Many of your English correspondents in 81)e:eking and writing of Ireland go on the assumption that there is only one Ireland, and that the settlement of the complaints of the Nationalists will bring peace to the oountry. As it is, there are two Irelands, and the establishment of a Home-rule Parliament in Dublin would be the beginning, not the end, of the trouble. The Protestants, who number one-third of the ropulation and who control most of the industries, will face civil war rather than submit to an Irish Parliament. Are your correspondents prepared to crush us by means of the British Army ? If such a course is adopted, you will establish in Ulster a body filled with hatred for the English nation, and which may use the opportunity in after years for having revenge. That is one consideration. The second, and from your point the more important one, is that the number of Home-rulers in Ireland is yearly decreasing. It is safe to say that fully half the Irish people have no desire to see a Parlia- ment established in Dublin. Were it not for the paid agitators, you would hear nothing about Home-rule. In Parnell's day more money was contributed by County Cork for the Nationalist movement than is now contributed by the whole of Ireland. If the movement had to depend on Irish- men, it would die a natural death in three months. Home-rule
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