MR, QUEREE ON IRELAND.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 8

MR, QUEREE ON IRELAND.

Sir,—l was altogether surprised ami. subsequently . rflthor amused! at. Sir'. Lavvlor's acidulated criticism of tlio impressions I ga\o vo\U' rei'-esentativo (ho other day on my travels m Ireland. When I did so 1 had no thought'of raising anything in the nature. of clannish issue?, nor did tlio thought of . any North v. <S.o.utli Jealousy..strikov .My impressions were qui to sincere, .being bused on my powers of- observation,: whatever they may bo. I repeat that I certainly did tliink that things .' wcr« much brighter and certainly more prosperous ill tlio north than in. tlio .south, and 1 do not fancy that you will;.find: •anyone who has been Home recently to seriously dispute the incontrovertible fiicfc. 1 am -sorry .to. learn. that the remark of tlio old Kerry woman ("What can llomo Hub do now? Wo havo lost our sons and rtnr daughters, , and the countiy i<; omptj of inonej and people"! should bo regarded a"s "too fvinny by half." To me it was infinitely sod to ice. so heauiiful a. country short, of. tlio two great o.sst^iit.in! 3 ;innlco : for i>t<>3ponty. Mr. bawlor says—"Take t1i0... whisky tracio awLthc ship-buildinK:froin 'Ulster's retiiriTs, ! aii.d . she Avoiild boi outJ o( Hip mmimg " Vrrj liUh. Tako tlio frozen meat and. the wool industry,away fiom Xcw Zoalaro, and she would, stagger a little cbnimereially,—l . am, 010 ' THEO. QVEREE.