The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-13

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 The interest which thousands of your readers are taking in the English cleo tions prompts me to give them a word of warning with reference to the reports concerning the conditions in Ireland. II is worth noting that all these reports come from London and are the production ot London news agencies. Such of your readers as are acquainted with the tac- tics of London news agencies regarding Irish politics know how to discount all those grossly exaggerated accounts of riots and bloodshed, but their number is few compared with those who believe all they read.
 I have taken an active part in several general elections in Ireland and l have never known a time when all that fire cracker and tin-pan game wasn't put up by a few rabid unionists in Ulster They speak of themselves as Orangemen, while as a matter of fact there are thousands and thousands of Orangemen who vote for the nationalsts and are as ardent home-rulers as Redmond himself. Figures speak the truth, and it is easily calcu- lated how numerous are the Ulster union- ists when they can elect only nine mem bers out of l03: and of these there are three from Belfast. There are nine coun- ties in the province of Ulster. and that part of Ulster where all this disorder is being carried on bears about the same proportion to the rest of Ireland that a postage stamp bears to an envelope. It is little short of an insult to the intelli-
 6ar fo af tn nic- lead him by such false and exaggerated reports.
 The moral support of the American peo- ple is a great factor in the struggle the Irish people are making to obtain home rule, and the unionlsts would try to alie- nate that support. Well knowing how ab- horrent must be the prospect of civil war to nation that has hardly recovered from the effects of one, the unionists are doing their level best to foment 8 condi- ton that would bear such semblance and then hasten to spread the news over the world The whole proceeding is base lv contemptible, and only serves to show to what tactics a defeated party will have recourse. There will be no civil war in Ireland either before or after home rule, and there will not be enough blood shed to write ''unionist" son post card
 t r. l. MONK.
 Birmingham,s December 12, 1910.
 Father Coyie Condemns statement To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Thank God for euphemisms. In the essay of "Savoyard in last Sundays Age Herald appears the following: Had uet such popes of Rome granted indul- rences to commit sin nobody would have heard of Martin Luther. The state ,uent is teuphemism), "condemned falsehood' and Savoryard in making i, is (euphemism) condemned falsifier.'.
 Really. MT. Editor, the hoary old le- eer.d that the church ever licensed sin, or that Roman pont.ffs, for a considera- tlon. be it well understood, ever granted to make footballs of the ten ( ,mmandments has been exploded time and time again. We Catholics. in re- fitting and re-refuting it. are like Tenny- sors Mariana, "aweary, aweary.''
 marvel much, however, that such an oft exploded fable should appear in the pages of such q well edited metropolitan i..,rnal as The Age Herald is Nova days. such (euphemism) "condemned filsehoods" usually appear in the crazy screeds of some lockwood, miserable, ra ving. ranting. purblnd Oh, m forget ting my euphemisms) bigots. Lest l for get myself further, I'll abruptly con clude. JAMES E. tOYLE.
 Birmingham December l2.