THE TROUBLE IN IRELAND.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1879, 13 October 1913, Page 5

THE TROUBLE IN IRELAND.

Sit,— Being a constant reader of Tub Dominion for some years past, I was always under tho inipreßsion that yon did not believe moro than half or tlio news item 3 cabled out hero until I read that nows item last week concerning Sir S. M'Caughey giving tho rebo! loyalists in Belfast authority to draw on his bankers for any cash required to keep up the noise in Belfast. To show your belief in tho matter you must needs write a loadoretto on tnc subject extolling tho virtues of Sir Samuel in the matter.. I havo been enjoying that joke since, andothors no doubt are still doing tho same. To anybody knowing Sir Samuel and his ideas on things in general and the uses of monoy in particular, it is highly amusing. A little more discernment on your part in dealing witli those outside-Now Zealanders might cause you to drop booming Sir E. Carson pd his infatuated followers, and mako it up in sonto news of moro importance, or at'deast moro interesting. Your sympathy evidently is with tho disturbers, Dut tho majority of us hero may not sea it in that light. There

is nothing moro certain than that tho whole thing is a huge bluff, and is considered so by tho leading peoplo and newspapers in Groat Britain; by scaro head-lines and other little devices you try to mako out it is an important- matter in itself. It is woll-knoivn that the sohemo .is financed and supported by a number of disgruntled members of the peerage as a means of hitting back at tho Hon. Lloyd-George and his fellow Ministers in tho Cabinet, for thoy will go any distance to injure him politically. You havo partly put the show away by giving the names of a number of the nobility supporting tho disturbers wellknown for their selfishness and narrowminded propensities. But leading men like Lord l'irrio, head of tho <? rent est shipbuilding firm in the world, and scores of others of equal importance, aro dead against Carson's foolery, and strong supporters of a National Parliament. Your disguise is too thin. Personally, I objcct very much to the editor' of any colonial paper trying to foster a spirit of dissension in an enlightened country such as we livo in, in doses however small. Even tho great Tory papers of England, right on tho ground, have never degraded their great traditions by supporting this hysterical campaign, knowing full woll how tho game is engineered, and how it will fizzlo out. In wading regularly through, newspapers from every State in Australia and Homo papers as well I fail to find any lagging so far behind as your paper-does'on this and similar subjects except one, in tho unproOTossive city of Brisbane, a place I have just visited after an absence of fifteen years; I don't suppose for a momont that this letter will load you to higher and more progressive planes of thought on such matters, but I would ask you as a favour to consider that we are not without a certain amount of intelligence, however little, and that applies to tho majority in Now Zealand.—l am. ec., J. M. O'HAGAN.

[Our correspondent, wo suspect, is too partisan on the Home Rule ques* tion to be open to conviction on tho point lie raises concerning the seriousness of the Ulster agitation. In any case lie is quite in error concerning tho attitude of leading journals in England; and leading politicians also of nil parties. They have no doubt as to .the danger which threatens any attempt to force Home Rule on Ulster.]