THE NEW RADICALISM.
LTO THE EDITOR OE THE "BEEOTATOR."]
SIR,—Your admirable articles on the Meath elections might be, perhaps, fairly supplemented by the following extracts from the Lyceum, the intellectual organ of the Dublin Clericals :— "To give a more apposite example, suppose that a Parlia- mentary candidate presented himself in Meath with the pro- gramme of Ca-your . . . . would Mr. Justice O'Brien still maintain that `no question of moral obligation'. for the voters would arise, and that 'the conduct of a voter' who helped them by his votes, would not be a sin ?"
And, again :—
"We have shown further, that the exorcise of the franchise in Meath, as elsewhere, may involve grave moral obligations—obliga- tions under sin, oven mortal sin ; that it may in certain eases be mortally sinful to vote for or against particular Parliamentary anclidates, and that when such a case occurs it may be the duty of a confessor to intimate his obligation to a penitent, and deny him sacramental absolution should he refuse te comply with it."
Now, Sir, many people may dislike the present policy of the Italians, who seem to be most cynically upholding in Lorraine the very tyranny from which they were themselves delivered by France; but it does seem a little hard to send every voter that may believe in a united Italy to Hell for all eternity, and it is a curious form of British Radicalism that would hand over five millions of their fellow-citizens to a v4gime whose intellectual aspirations are given us in this review.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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