A remarkably candid letter by Cardinal Logue was read from
the altar at Dundalk on Sunday by Father McKeon° :
"I don't know what Dundalk is coming to or how it will end. It must have a rare supply of rascals and robbers. I am deliberating whether I should not go up on Sunday and put the whole place under excommunication. That would not affect the desperate characters who fear neither God nor man, but it might deter some people who have a rag of consciousness left from co-operating with, or aiding and abetting, them. They are drawing a respectable town into disgrace."
Shall we, we wonder, see .a repetition of the Vigilance Com- mittees of Western America ? If so, there would be an end to the outrages in Dundalk. Irish history, however, forbids such optimism. There is no country in the world where people submit so easily 'to intimidation by a minority as in Ireland.
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