"..THOUGHTS ABOUT IRELAND."
[To THE Enrroa or THE "Sezoreroa:"] Sie,—In the course of your admirable article entitled " Thoughts about Ireland" in the issue of June 22nd -you suggest the -need for propagandists in this country to lighten our -darkness about English aims is the present war. Permit an old resident to say that the masters of Ireland would punish any one attending the meetings of such propagandists, by -the boycott, if not by actual violence. Acts, not words, are wanted -here. We understand acts, and have been .surfeited with words, -We would like to see it demonstrated that England is strong enough to punish her foes, and safeguard her friends. The Sinn Fein rulers :of this country can do both, as we see every day. We would like to see Conscrip- tion fairly enforced, instead of another toll being taken from the devoted and fast dwindling band of loyal Irishmen, while rebels are left undisturbed to coin money out of the war. We would like to -see corporate bellies of rebels, whether ecclesiastical or lay, who draw grants from the Imperial Exchequer, deprived of those grants _until they come to their sense. And the money thus saved might be devoted to the benefit of the soldiers who have " made Ireland safe" for the capers of such rebels. We would like to see well-known Loyalists, with sons at the front, able to get petrol to transact their business, and Sinn Fein enemies deprived of the same, when wanted to raid for arms and arrange for cattle drives. We would like to see rebel newspapers inspiring enmity towards England and friendship to Germany stopped altogether, and their editors shut up, and kept shut up till the end of the war. We are a primitive race, to whom facts appeal very strongly, and we know how to draw correct inferenees
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