The knowledge brought with it first of all a feeling of intense irritation.

It seemed to him that all religions were in league against Ireland.

The Roman Church seized the scanty savings of one section of the people, and squandered them in buying German glass and Italian marble.

Were the Protestants any better, when they spent L20,000 a year on Chinamen and negroes?
The Roman Catholics took the best of their boys and girls to make priests and nuns of them.

The Protestants were doing the same thing when they shipped off their young men and young women to spend their strength among savages.