A MANDATE FOR THE IRISH!
ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.")
Sra,—As you appended a moral to my letter of December Gth I am going to ask the privilege of a postscript. It is unsafe to think that because an American can be whimsical on the Irish question ho therefore lacks sympathy with the Irish case. My suggestion of an Irish mandate for Armenia was a joke, but it had implications of a more serious nature; the one, for instance, that a people who had shown ability to govern others might be trusted with self-government. The American may resent the fact that, to misquote a well-known epitaph, Ireland shakes the Senate and the world, but his resentment at the lack of Home Rule for America will, if he is logical, make him all the more eager for Home Rule for Ireland.—I am, Sir, tee.,
A VISITING AMERICAN.
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