[To TEL EDITOR Or THE " SPICTATOIL")
English and Catholic" writes to you to say that we are not entitled to misrepresent the motives and actions of rebels in arms. Of course we are not. But what are the grounds of "English and Catholic's" supposition? MacSwiney's action, according to him, was a protest against the sentence of a court- martial upon an Irishman who believed that he owed no alle- giance except to an Irish Republic. In the first pleat no Irish Republic exists. Secondly, MaoSwiney had accepted the Mayor- ship of Cork from the British Government. He rightly believed that the British Government existed. How, then, could he possibly believe in another case that he owed no allegiance to the British Government which had established the court- martial, and that he owed allegiance to a non-existent republic? " English and Catholic" refuses to obey his own Church in his theory about suicide. In•my letter to you I stated that the Irish were playing strange pranks. "English and Catholic" is as pranksome as any Irishman I have ever met.—I am, Sir, Gramm Rircars.
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