LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
[Letters of the length of one of our teading paragraphs are THE BRITISH MONROE DOCTRINE. :To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
Sra,—After reading Our editorial "The British Monroe Doctrine" in the Spectator for June 28th, I cannot longer refrain from writing to you to express what seems to be the feeling of every decent American I know or meet. I believe ninety per cent. of us were as much disgusted as the writer at the hoodlum banners and placards carried down Fifth Avenue in a recent Hibernian parade; and the smile of amusement with which a few years ago we would have greeted this latest characteristic exhibition has altered toquite a different emotion : surely a man'6. memory must be short not to recall that this same group of Irishmen deliberately arrayed themselves with the enemies of the whole civilized world at the greatest crisis that world had known. And now they come begging for money, and using the political cowardice of those Congressmen who fear the Irish vote, with an appeal for "liberty" as a moral
issue! Quite beyond the fact that we all realize this whole Irish question is as completely a concern of Great Britain's as cur own negro question is our concern—if we did have to say anything in the matter, we'd feel that Sinn Feiners' true deserts would be a removal to Heligoland under the beneficent
ltur of their German allies. Herr Ebert recently announced that Germany couldn't die because it still had "ethical treasures to bestow ": let them be bestowed on these noble patriots who did their small best to scuttle the ship in the gale.—I am, Sir, Sze., HENRY W. LANIER.
The Players, 16 Gramercy Park, New York City, July 15th..
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