RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "
SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Yott have once or twice permitted me to endeavour, through your columns, to warn British readers that a probable consequence of Home-rule in Ireland will be the persecution of Protestants. This has already begun. In the Daily Express of Dublin, there is to-day a list of extracts from letters received by the secretaries of the Property Defence Association, from which I extract the following,—it is from County Mayo :—" All Protestants in this district are boycotted. The poor ones left are dying of starvation and intimidation. Cannot sell their cattle or crops."
I do not mean that an Irish Parliament would attempt to make persecuting laws. The work would be far more effectually done by a hostile populace and a careless police—I am, Sir, &c.,
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