[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Only last week an
Irish friend wrote to me, "Maynooth has sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind." A good many years ago the then President of Maynooth told a Roman Catholic friend of mine that the place was a hotbed of sedition and that he could do nothing. Things have not improved. I would advise "C. H. F." to read an article by an Australian Catholic, entitled, "A Mad Dog from Maynooth," that appeared in the National Review about, I think, a year ago, also the report of an interview of the Dublin correspondent of the Daily Mail with the R.C. Bishop of Killaloe, Dr. Fogarty, soon after the murderous attack on Mr. McNamara' s shooting party in Clare. The clergy are beginning to find out that in supporting Sinn Fein they have been backing the wrong horse; some of them who have condemned recent Bolshevist outrages have been threatened and told to mind their own business. There are splendid men among the Irish priests, but the majority of the older ones, and practically all the young men, are very disloyal, and have condemned crime in a very feeble
manner in too many cases.—I am, Sir, &c., X. September 17th,
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