WHAT ULSTERMEN MAY EXPECT.
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Stn.,—In your issue of January 31st I find a letter from Mr. Herbert O'Hara Molineux, who makes certain statements which need correction. After protesting against your " racial and religious bigotry," Mr. Molineux says that he is sure that something would be done to you in America. "There are places," he declares, "where they would come some dark night and tar-and-feather you and ride you on a rail out of the town." Perhaps Mr. Molineux may know of such places. If there are any, I am quite sure that they must be few and obscure. But the implication that this is an American method of securing the " truth, justice, liberty, and the uprooting of envy," which are so admirably recommended in the letter, is, to say the least, misleading. The statement that "there are few families in the United States that have not Irish blood in their veins" is unquestionably a mistake. The Irish in this country have been very prolific, but they are still far from constituting a majority of the American people, and for obvious reasons there has been comparatively little inter- marriage with the Protestant part of the community. In fact, this assertion is about as near the truth as that of the enthusiastic Irishman who maintained that the virtues of the Japanese statesmen, Count O'Yama and Count O'Kuma (sic), were due to their Irish blood! It is not my purpose in writing this letter to discuss the subject of Home Rule, but I must add that no very strong argument for it could be derived from the political conduct of the Irish in America. Their influence in municipal government, especially in New York and Beaton, has been very great, and very generally has made
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