"INFAMOUS POGROM."
PROTESTANT'S "BLOOD BOILS."
"I am not a Catholic, and I have no love for the Papacy. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and I am never likely to desert it for the Catholic faith. But it is because I believe in the liberty of the Protestant faith that my blood bolls at the infamous pogrom against the Catholic population of Belfast, which has been carried on for two years, and is being continued to-day under the auspices and by the forces of the Ulster Government.
The whole Catholic population of Belfast is living under a terror that recalls the Middle Ages. They are iriven out of employment by the thousand and by the ten thousand; their homes are burned over their heads; they are shot down in the streets by the armed hordes of the Ulster Government. The poor wretches retaliate, of course. If you govern by murder what can you expect to reap but murder? But who are to blame but the infamous authors of this savage pogrom?
What is its purpose? It is the same purpose as that of the rebels in the Four Courts. It is to destroy the Treaty. It is to make peace with Ireland impossible. It is to drag this country once more into a war of conquest in Ireland. Let us take care that this criminal plot does not succeed. Let us remember that the enemies of peace are not only in the Four Courts at Dublin, but in the Parliament House at Belfast. —A. G. GARDINER, former editor of the Daily News."
[We are as certain as one can be of anything that Mr. Gar. diner's reckless and unsupported innuendo that Catholics are being shot in Belfast under the auspices of the Ulster Government is without any foundation of fact. If there is a man living who is anxious to prevent murder and civil strife it is Sir James Craig. If Mr. Gardiner can prove his state- ments let him do so and we will offer him our sincere apologies. If not, he should offer his apologies to the Northern Government which he has so violently aspersed. If he does neither his action will be condemned by all self-respecting men. We await his reply.—En. Spectator.]
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