IRELAND AND MILITARY SERVICE.
[To ma EDITOE ON TES "SPECTATOR."
TIE,—I do not know whether you will allow views which differ from your own to be published, but I protest against your statement in last Saturday's Spectator that "if the Irish people through their representa- tives tell us that they prefer not to fight the Hun . . . then let them receive their inglorious exemption." Let us be consistent. " If the Scotch, Welsh, or Lancashire men object through their representatives to fighting the Hun, exempt them." This is a monstrous doctrine. " Oh, but the Irish are disloyal," you say, perhaps. All the more reason for not encouraging their disloyalty. German shells and bullets would not respect them at the front and they would rapidly become loyal The way of the transgressor is hard; the way of the disloyal should be harder. We reward disloyalty and punish patriotism. No wonder we get the disloyalty we pay for.—I am, Sir, duo., A UNIONIST DISGUSTED WITH HIS PASTE WHO HAVE BETRAYED UNIONISM.
Previous page
