IRISH AGRICULTURE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2516, 1 June 1909, Page 5

IRISH AGRICULTURE.

CABLE NEWS.

ROOSEVELT’S TRIBUTE TO SIR HORACE PLUNKETT’S WORK.

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ERNMENT.

Unitkd Press Association—Copyright (Received May 31, 10.10 p.m.)

LONDON, May 31

Ex-President Roosevelt, in a letter to the British Minister at Washington, pays a generous tribute to Sir Horace Plunkett’s initiation and successful conduct of the co-operative movement in Irish agriculture, which, he says, tad inspired MY. Roosevelt and bis fellow workers in tho task of attacking somewhat similar problems in American rural life.

The “Times,” in view of tho special character of a representative natural message, with which Mr. Roosevelt, on the eve of quitting office, invested If s communication, says that perhaps it would have been more courteous of the British Government to have accorded it . publicity here, on their own inLOative, instead of permitting its existence to become known through the American press, months after it was written. Considering the circumstances wherein Sir Horace Plunkett ceased to be VicePresident of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, the ex-President’s encomium is likely to embarrass those responsible for his (Sir Horace Plunkett’s) saentice to Nationalist antipathies.