23 MARCH 1912, Page 13

QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In some editorial remarks on a letter you ask why six Irish counties, which you claim to be sufficiently infected with the " scum of Scotland" may not vote themselves out of Ireland? For the same reason why six English counties may not vote themselves part of China ? Twiggez-vows P And why Ireland should not lose forty members P Take them and be damned ! It is only another British perjury which breaks a condition of the fraudulent " Union." Perjure away, old boy 1 British labour will make short work of all that is represented by the Spectator and the Times.—I am,

[This anonymous and vituperative postcard, which, if we are to judge by internal evidence, is the work of an ex-Nationalist M.P., shows bow helplessly angry—helplessly angry people always become abusive—liome Rulers become when con- fronted with the demand that they should apply their political principles to Ulster.—En. Spectator.]