THE "SPECTATOR'S " IRISH POLICY.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") have read with great attention your footnote to my letter (kindly inserted in your issue of January 7th), but I am still not quite clear on two points. (1) Granted that the new state of affairs precludes any demand of compensation for Southern loyalists who may wish to emigrate—still, how was it possible for the Spectator to give its approval to a proposed settlement which contains no proviso whatever for the protec- tion from further persecution of those who are obliged to remain, nor yet for their compensation- for injuries already received? 1 fail to see how the guarantees obtained by Lord Midleton, open as they appear to be to such criticism as that of Lord Farnham (reported in the Morning Post of December
17th), can compensate for an omission which—in the interests of national honour—one would have supposed to be of vital importance. (2) How is it possible for the Spectator to profess gratitude to a Prime Minister whose policy has itself produced a state of affairs only to he dealt with by an expedient which your footnote well describes as an " appalling necessity "? Is it for that expedient we owe Mr. Lloyd George our gratitude?—I [Our words were :—" Now as to Mr. Lloyd George. That praise unstinted is his due wo fully and gratefully admit. provided that his work proves good, as we devoutly hope it will, Subject to this necessary condition, he has our uneonditional gratitude and thanks."—En. Spectator.]
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