THE IRISH QUESTION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 349, 10 September 1889, Page 2

THE IRISH QUESTION.

Some people have a remarkable way of trying to decry the success of an opponent, by stigmatising his success as a defeat. The English Tory Press has bean greatly agitated over the visit of the Irish delegates to the colonies, and at regular intervals we get bulletins cabled out from the old country, conveying the wonderful information that such and such a Tory paper has an article which states that the Irish delegates to the colonies have completely failed in their object, and that they will barely pay working expenses. It does not seem to strike these opponents of the Irish cause .that the colonists are best able to inform themselves on such matters, and that we can reckon up for ourselves that two and two make four, although for convenience sake ardent Tory journals may try and. convince their readers that two and two only make three. The best method of dealing with such dishonest tactics is to leave those who employ them to continue in their course, ignorant that the result of their effortswill be to make them the laughing stock of all persons who for a moment pause to think; But we will just let our readers know what is Mr Dillon’s opinion on the subject. In his letter to the Auckland Reception Committee, Mr Dillon says the wonderful success of the mission of the delegates in these colonies has made it necessary that they should give a great deal more time to the work than they had calculated on. Mr Dillon cannot yet state whether his two colleagues will accompany him. He has found it necessary to postpone his visit till November. He leaves Sydney in the latter part ot October. If we may judge by a cablegram just received, the Tories sre even now anticipating defeat, The cablegram reads :—“ The Marquis of Hartington, speaking in Yorkshire, said that if the result of the next general election was the return of a Home Rule majority the Unionists would compel the country to reconsider the question, and use every resource the constitution allowed, to prevent. so great a change being hurriedly made.” We have no doubt hey will, although they make “ criminals” of Irishmen who fight for the freedom of speech.