LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
WHAT ULSTERMEN MAY EXPECT.
[To rut EDITOR or rat '• SPECTATOR:1
SIR,—You say that the Orangemen of Ulster should not be pet under the rale of men whom they detest and loathe. I inquire why Irishmen should remain under the rule of men such as you, whom they have good cause sincerely to hate and despise ? I have been asking bow long you, with your bald appeals to racial or "religious" bigotry, would be tolerated in America. I am quite sure that something would be done to you. There are places where they would come some dark night and tar-and-feather you, and ride you swiftly on a rail out of the town. You would certainly be quickly extinguished by one method or another. Civilization has advanced sufficiently on this continent to eliminate men, how- ever sanctimonious, who fan the embers of envy and hate on mere or pretended differences of nationality and creed. It is a bad thing for England that you are not an exception but the type of a species. You are representative of that governing body of moral ruffians who, showing the whites of their eyes and singing psalms, have made the later history of England a catalogue of infamy that is unique in Christendom. Irishmen throughout the world have little quarrel with the average Englishman. But towards the men you represent they have but one feeling—a desire for your utter extermina- tion. No one can read the pages of English history without seeing that you have been the enemies of the English people as consistently as you have ruined the life of Ireland and committed innumerable crimes against innocence and High Heaven wherever you could do it with impunity.
Do not think that your antics can be restricted merely to the gaze of your admiring countrymen. The world is drawing closer and can now take an interest in what is going on in every part of it. If you hope once more to see enacted on Irish soil the infamies of other days, remember you will have to encounter the judgment not merely of the United Kingdom but of the world. Do not think you can play the part of persecuting bully and bounder in little Ireland's regard, and then come fawning to the young giant of the West as a fondly foolish relation who has all along been dissembling his love. There are few families in the United States that have not Irish blood in their veins, and they have no prejudice in your favour. They laugh at the things for which you fancy they fall—your asinine titles, your soiled and greasy ermine, your " society" palaver and humbug. In pedigree and real dignity many an Irish tiller of the soil outstrips you all. Truth, justice, liberty, and the uprooting of envy will do more for you with the American people than all your alternate patronage and cringing. I do not argue the question of Home Rule with you. That was settled as soon as it was broached in the minds of all sensible and all decent men. This I say to you and your associates: Get out of your shell of hardened conceit into the minds of your opponents. Try, for instance, to figure to yourself an England ruled from Dublin, with a colony or garrison of IrisliZeoto ragamuffins in Lancashire, who talk "red blood" at the suggestion of an England ruled by Englishmen, whom they " detested and loathed."—I am, Sir, den, HERBERT O'HARL MOLINEIJX.
40 Gramercy Park, N.Y.
[Can we wonder that the people of Ulster do not desire to be placed under a Dublin Parliament? Our correspondent's prudent desire to select a " dark night" in which to "do for" us is deliciously ingenuous.—En. Sped afar.]
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