Mr. Cosgrove shows the true spirit of democracy—. a spirit
with which the Spectator fully sympathizes— when he declares that the doctrine of Mr. De Valera and his supporters can be described as " the people have no right to do wrong." It is the Irregulars who are to decide what is right and what wrong. " From the very beginning it was obvious that they were deter- mined to resist the will of the people by force." That, of course, is the true Jacobin spirit, the spirit of the Communists in Russia and of many of the Communists here, and of all the friends of Direct Action. There is nothing so undemocratic as a Revolutionist. He does not want the will of the people to prevail, but only some absolute policy.; and he is willing to go to almost any extreme in order to force that policy on the people. Persuasion he despises. Death is his instrument and his deity, and he is prepared to placate it with vast offerings of corpses.
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