LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
IRISH HATRED OF ENGLAND.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATORn
SIR,—In your article in the Spectator of September 28th, on , "The Chicago Convention," you express a somewhat naive wonder that we Irish still loathe, as we do, the very name of England, and look forward with hope and longing to the time —certain with God's help—to come, sooner or later, when we can stamp out every vestige of English power in our own country. Does it never occur to you that among the minor causes of this hatred is the practice of certain well-meaning English journalists, yourself among the number, of writing of Ireland as if she were a child or a lunatic, to be coaxed or coerced into submission to your judgment and acquiescence in your views Your ideal Ireland appears to be a sort of minor England, admiring and imitating her more powerful sister. I think I am speaking for an overwhelming majority of my countrymen when I say that rather than resemble that nation which is said, by one of her own greatest writers, to consist of "an upper class materialised, a middle-class vulgarised, and a lower class brutalised," we would endure another eight centuries of English insolence and English mis- rule. However, with the help, under Providence, of our countrymen "beyond the Atlantic foam," neither alternative will be necessary.—I am, Sir, &e., A CELT.
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