THE JEWS IN LIMERICK.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I see by the Spectator of April 23rd that the so-called persecution of Jews in Limerick has attracted attention in England ; there is also a letter on the same subject from the Director of the Irish Mission to the Jews in your paper of April 30th. Now there is no doubt that this Jewish persecution is much exaggerated, as stated by County Court Judge Adams a few days ago at Limerick Quarter Sessions. The fact is, there would have been very little beard of this matter, only that the opportunity was too good to be lost for making an attack on Romaniam or Popery, as it is called, on the principle that " any stick is good enough to beat a dog with." Now, who are those who are raising all this outcry about the persecution of the Jews ? Why, Sir, they belong to the very same party who for many years denied the Jews the rights of citizenship, who bitterly opposed their admission into Parliament, while at the same time the Irish Catholics were returning Members pledged to support equal rights and privileges for the Jews with all other denominations, and their admission into Parlia- ment. I do not write for the purpose of justifying intolerance in any shape or form ; certainly not. The Jews in Limerick are entitled to equal rights, privileges, and protection with
all others; and no one, either clerical or lay, has any right to persecute or hold them up to odium. This is the genuine land of liberty, and in no country in the world have we Catholics such genuine freedom, liberty, and protection as we enjoy in these countries.—I am, Sir, &c.,
A CATHOLIC IRISHMAN.
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