McCarthy as Irishman.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 52, 25 December 1902, Page 2

McCarthy as Irishman.

After our exposure of Mr McCarthy's ' Catholicity ' our readers will r.ot expect very much from Mr McCarthy as Irishman. They will know exactly what to expect and it will be no surprise to them whatever to be told that he is a very purebred specimen of the ' Shoneen ' — a character the very thought of which makes a genuine Irishman mad with indignation and shame and a t> pc of being which is happily becoming more and more rare in Ireland. One specimen of Mr McCarthy's ' patriotism ' \vi Ibe sufficient. At a time when Ireland has been placed under a coercion regime which, for brutal tyranny, is absolutely without parallel in any part of the English speaking world this defamer of the Irish people wtites thus: — ' The British laws are in force in Ireland ; and the same laws prevail in prosperous Protestant Ireland as in degenerate Catholic Ireland, without an iota of difference. Nay, more ; the laws in force to-day in Catholic Ireland are the same laws wri h are in force in Middlesex, Glamorganshire, Lancashire, and Lanarkshire. If a combination of Londoners, or of Protestant Irishmen in Antrim, were to proceed to put the ' plan of campaign ' into operation for preventing- the exercise of his legal right by a common creditor, the laws would be enforced against them, and in all essentials they would be put to trial and punished just as are the tenants on the De Freyne eslate.' And this, as the Sydney ' Freeman ' aptly remarks, is written by an Irish barrister who has presumably heard of the London Dock strike and the Orange ruffianism of Belfast ! Gratitude has been defined as ' a lively sense of favors to come,' and that hits off the evident sentiment of Mr McCarthy towards the British laws and the beneficent British Government in Ireland.