onlighting atrocities of four
weeks in County Limerick, the County Inspector, who had just returned
from a conference with Mr. Morley, said to me:--

"Everything is ve-ry quiet. We're going on very nicely now." But the
_Gazette_ gave particulars of the shooting in the legs of the four
members of the Quirke family, and Mr. Morley was obliged to admit the
fifteen outrages which constituted County Inspector Moriarty's idea of
"quiet." Subordinates will say there is peace when there is no peace,
if the master requires it. The Bundoran outrage is not susceptible of
exaggeration. Call another witness.

The _Sligo Independent_, which being published on the spot can speak
with authority, says that "the intolerant and bigoted Roman Catholics
of Bundoran and surrounding districts look upon Protestantism as a
kind of leprosy which ought at all hazards to be stamped out," and
further states that "even the ladies did not escape their fanatical
hatred and fury. Several people were severely injured, and a clergyman
who was coming to the meeting with his Bible in his hand, was thrown
down and badly beaten, the Book being torn from him and destroyed.
What may Protestants expect should the Home Rule Bill ever become law,
when such disgraceful outbursts of religious bigotry are quite common
under the existing _regime_? The natural conclusion is that all such
Gospel meetings would be put down with a strong hand, and Protestant
religious liberty trampled under foot by their unscrupulous Roman
Catholic fellow-countrymen. And yet Loyalists are told to trust in
them and all will be well!" Thus the Sligo journal; and its editor may
perhaps, under the circumstances, be pardoned for suggesting that "it
were better for Loyalists not to put themselves in the power of men
who have proved themselves unfit even to associate with civilised
beings. Bundoran will feel the evil effects of these insane attacks
upon defenceless people next season when tourists and pleasure-seekers
will avoid this seat of stupid bigotry, and visit some other summer
resort where they will at least be allowed to worship their Maker
according to their own desires." Exactly. Many visitors left at once,
and will never return. During my six hours' stay I heard complaints of
the falling-off of business. If the place be empty next summer the
people will attribute the loss to the British Government, and
especially to the machinations of the Tory party. An old fisherman
said the fis