HUNGER-STRIKING IN AMERICA.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] enclose an item I cut from the Daily Chronicle, which I thought would be interesting in view of the hunger strike of the Lord Mayor of Cork, which occupies more space in the Spokane papers than affairs of more serious importance in Europe. Of course, in this country a negro ranks lower than a dog, but yet it may show the Fenian in Ireland that England is not to be condemned for -using measures to combat those forces which, in every country and under many names, are simply working for the same end as they have achieved in Russia. The Irish and Germans compose a majority of the population of this city, so the newspapers cater to their opinions; but I am glad to say that the intensely anti-British atmosphere which prevailed before the -United States went into
the war has clignged, especially among the better educated
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