User:Liberlogos/Answer to A Warning to Belfast

The Times, Monday, Oct 08, 1888; pg. 13

Letters to the Editor

Sir, - I have read with much interest Professor Goldwin Smith's letter entitled " A Warning to Belfast " which appeared in a recent issue of The Times. Having lately returned from Canada after a residence there of 15 years, I know something of the country and am able to bear witness to the truth of every statement made regarding the French population of the province of Quebec by the learned Professor in his letter. There is a remarkable similarity in character and habits between the French of Quebec and the Celtic Irish. Both are alike bigoted Roman Catholics and are equally ignorant, superstitious, and preist-ridden. They are both alike agressive in their temper and are similarily animated by hostility to England and hatred to Protestantism. Both are clannish in their habits and have a similarily low standard of comfort. Both races possess extraordinary fecondity and multiply more rapidly than the Anglo-Saxons.