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Show What To Do With the Orangemen. Of course Mr. John Redmond was right in his repudiation and condemnation of the sentiment, "To hell with the Orangemen," by which he was interrupted by a voice in his speech at the. recent Irish ' 'convent ion in Xew York. "Xo, no," said he, "far be it from me to tolerate such an expression. The Orangemen are Irishmen. Irish-men. They are mistaken Irishmen. 'They are, to a large extent, uneducated Irishmen. I admit they are intolerant Irishmen. What is our duty; What is and what should be our mission; To drive these men from Ireland; Xo. Educate them. Enlighten them."' That, of course, was the right-thing to say, and what Mr. Redmond advised is the right thing to do. It is best to educate and enlighten the Orangemen, or at least try to do it, difficult though ihe task may be; to cure them of their intolerance, intoler-ance, apropos of whicli we find the following in answer to a "correspondent in the latest issue to hand of Reynolds' Xewspaper (Loudon) : , . "Have you" noticed that when Cardinal Yannu-lelli Yannu-lelli visited Armagh the Protestants created a most disgraceful riot; that the Orangemen in Belfast and other northern towns are always attacking their Catholic fellow 'countrymen, who happen to be in the minority, whereas in the middle, south and west of Ireland, where the Catholics are in the majority, you ' never hear of attacks upon Protestants;" Xcvortholess, the proper tiling to do is to educate edu-cate and enlighten" "these misguided mcii and make them good Irishmen, if at all possible. Freeman's Journal. ' . ' : L "i |