. Review of reviews and world's work. professed friendliness for the Boersis only a new way to express their old hatred ofEngland. Those who are frankest in these ex-pressions, like Miss Maud flonne, who has cometo this country from Ireland to participate in thepro-Boer agitat;ion, do not hesitate to say that itis their policy to assail England whenever thechance offers, regardless of the right or wrong ofEnglands position. They hold that Englandsdifficulty is Irelands opportunity. -, ^. ,. This position has also been taken by Nationalists , \ , „ /. i -kt and tlie shattered fragments ot tlie
. Review of reviews and world's work. professed friendliness for the Boersis only a new way to express their old hatred ofEngland. Those who are frankest in these ex-pressions, like Miss Maud flonne, who has cometo this country from Ireland to participate in thepro-Boer agitat;ion, do not hesitate to say that itis their policy to assail England whenever thechance offers, regardless of the right or wrong ofEnglands position. They hold that Englandsdifficulty is Irelands opportunity. -, ^. ,. This position has also been taken by Nationalists , \ , „ /. i -kt and tlie shattered fragments ot tlie JNa-Fenians. tionalist party in Irelanc!^ and the fac-tions have patched up at least a temporary truceunder the leacUnship of Mr. Jolni Redmond, inorder tlie more effectively to nag England inParliatnent while the war trouble lasts. This, itneed not be said, is wholly foreign to the spiritof the English Liberals, whose attitude towardthe war proceeds from love of their country andsolicitude that its true principles should prevail. MISS MAUDE GONNE. in the carrying on of its vast empire. The be-havior of the Irishmen looks dangerously likedisloyalty. Some day soon the newspapers willperhaps create a passing sensation by disclosuresconcerning the undoubted efforts of the extremeIrish wing to precipitate at this time an invasionof Canada. We do not believe, of course, thatsuch an attempt will actually be made ; while,on the other hand, we do not in the least doubtthe rumors that it has been plotted. Our Cana-dian friends, if they choose, may send all theirfighting men to South Africa in perfect assurancethat the United States can and will restrain itsown Fenians. With Irishmen fighting the bat-tles of the British empire in South Africa, asthey have fought British battles everywhere elsefor a century past, English opinion can affordto be indulgent toward the whimsicalities ofthe Eenians, and also to be far more generoustoward the real grievances of Ireland than ithas been in the
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