ULSTER AND HOME RULE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2172, 10 June 1914, Page 8

ULSTER AND HOME RULE.

Sir, —WouK you bo good oiionph to afford Die an opportunity •Of replying to your correspondent, Mr. D. B. .ForgWf.oii> or rather correcting sor.io of the italf-t ruths contained in that ptentlematfs epistle of Juno I ro the. Home Bulo■ Bill? Sir. Ferguson protests against. Messrs. Kennedy and .Cabill arrogating to . Sheiussltees 'the entire ,r.fectf tW ift. Zefcland, and in- doing so Mr, l erguson is perfectly within his rights, but i hereni lies tfno half-truth i<J which I have alluded. N<SSf %eft3:ajttfl) like ijiaiiy flwftr places throii&hoitt tbo world, is blessed or rather cursed ivith classes of Irishmen—who juaj' ho (.wrcetjy described as real Irish aiid. t-lstor Irish. who arft Tliey themselves claim to bo a' separate people from the otiier Irish, and undoubtedly they are. of another "r.ntionaHi.v." Th.ov ■' are desce.ndante of vSsotch and English settler.; in the_ extreme of IrcknAt who displaced, the j.iativo teal Irisl) from their lands. Now I am an. Irish Protostaittt, 'horn in Belfast, of Pre.sbvtorian parents on butb sides, and t<j which brand .1 believe Mr. h'erjzuson also belongs,. And 1 ■ take it that neither Mr. M, Kenncly, whom I have not the pleasure of nor Dr. Ciliill, with whom I am dsKghted to be personally acquainted, drsira to be accused of represj3i-.t)ii;;c tiir.t brand of Irish to .which Jtr.. Fergusfuj iitul self belong, and who .by t.heir attihulo admit that' i hey -are unwilling and in--' deed Incompetent to rule themselves. Mr. Ferguson concludes his unfrracio'.is tiiado by calling licland his "dear old land." Assumi'if! that I am correct as to Mr. Ferßiison's parentage, to las ancesiors ft;vd : .,iirit!c, Xrelanfl was only dear so !&%. : 4s. it jajfbrded^_ t3iom' rnaterial gaili by ceiiqueft—dear' in tliafi for them it meant monopoly, and iiuliistrial and. commercial privilege, which monopoly and privilege the pseudo-Irish enjoy to-d.ly .ta tlio degradation .and isulTering of the Irish working cl.asses fif Belfast and iks surrotutdttiffs. T« ttr'hafc I term the real Irish, who ''inhabit fourfifths .of their country, and who supply three-fourths of the population, and who are worthily reprcsente'd in this land by Messrs, Kettnedv and Cab ill, Ireland Vll- - history—dew in her suffering —dear in tlie nobfe sclf-sacriitce of her people—and .dear hi her K.ra.nd and protracted st regale for self-govermnon't, n<nv Kanpily neanng 1 have, ovry hope that that domniwo ant) possession of monopoly and privilege so long unjustly helil by I'lster Ir.ishnieu s-ttcji as I Jinie ineffitioned "will, witli': fcho. advent of Homo Rtile, b-v «wept asvar, and that Mr; T r orgn.?on and tbosp who think with him, realising the jusiieA rtf the demand which the r.n'fort.miato Irish race Isave so persistently made. ■ will work r-n hannonj;, regardless of creed, with the re.al Irish for the cfsinnion wclt'a.rfe of Ireland. . . , In conclusion I feci sure that nobody coiild the tenor of the cablegrams, sent to Messrs. Asquith ■and Srfmo'nd-vth.c ; y worn certainly not intended to niisleail an.ybody, and thc.T were unqtie-stionably the truth,—l am, . FRANIs MORRAH. Adclphi Hotel, Welling'on,