ST. PATRICK’S DAY IN INVERCARGILL.

Western Star, Issue 727, 28 March 1883, Page 3

ST. PATRICK’S DAY IN INVERCARGILL.

'TO "TtlE KIiXTbE. gxS,—’W'ould'you'kindly allow We sjjace in •rour valuable paper to pass ft few remarks iv e «Irish man V letter Which’ appeared in yOur last issue, as'l thinkno true Irishman should •leave such assertions as liis go bytWchallonged. ‘First he says'“it may as well be known there : a re two classes of Irishmen—loyal and eminently dilloyal.” Now, what ! 1 Would like to 'knew is this, was it'fOr the iiiforlbation of the '‘Chinese and Maoris 1 he made that ’statement, ■or does he think there is a British subject born : that did’nt know thftt before'? 1 will •now, for his information, Sfty that there "are ’Englishmen, "and Scotchmen fts well, both 'thoroughly ‘loyal land eminently disloyal. Anyway it is easy to see which class he belongs to,"and certain it is, to his shiarae that he ramie 'the'inference ftn excuse-‘for being "an Irishman. How a mar could be fftid to be •« eminently disloyal” on account of the way in '•which‘he worships the Supreme Being, is a 1 thing‘l will leave “ Irishman” to ans wer. He is'no doubt'very‘fond of coihing words—"usually‘Ugly ones they are (“ apeing” for instance), but I’CftnVseC hdW Mr O’Reilly 'imitates Parnell, except perhaps in sincerity and good Weariing, ftnd that slur too on ’ O’Shannassy'is not altogether ’the correct 'thing. Twould respectfully remind 'him of 'Garfield. Dufty has proved'liimself. What Mr “ Irishman” will say against 'him Won’t 'harm. I woUld like to 'kndW where is the south” that Mr “ Irishman” speaks of, so 'blest with“ and leagues, seorefftocieties, (dbes v he mean (Orangemen ftnd Masons ?)” and a Ipeeuliar propensity of sending anything (mark ■you) direct to heaven, &c.” I suppose the 'south of'lreland is the place he means. Was 'he ever’there ? I dOubt it. If he read the 1 cablegrams lately, he woiild not’have referred Ito one particular spot; he would have seen, 'that a party of men wOre’tried and sentenced 'in Belfast for landlord shooting. Mr'" Irishman” is vCry complimentary to our future 'king when he’foretells a “ Cromwellian” state ■6f affairs after his accession to the 'throne.: ’We, in New -Zealand, “ should he neither English, Irish Or Scotch,” and yet he can state thorougly thaf“ all true Americans are truly English. Why, Mr “Irishman,’ you 'must be forgetting the Heclatfetion of Independence. If Mr Parnell, on whom the confidence and gratitude of millions will -always rest, committed himself in the least way treasonably, he would not be a free man ’now, although Mr “Irishman” would doubtless be as well satisfied as after “ a good meail ’it the great reformer was sentenced to penal servitude, innocent-or guilty. And now, Mr Editor, I don’t want to take up more of your time than I con help, so I’ll finish by asking 'Mr “Irishman” eue other question. i Is it ’possible for a man to'be contented and law- ; abiding when 'his stomach is-empty, and he has nothing to eat, at the same time the land he lives on producing enoiigh to feed him and ’to spare ? Surely any “white washed‘Yankee” 'can guess and calculate that.—l am, &c., E. F. ’Otautau, March'26th, 1883.