Colonial Loyalty.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1128, 8 December 1883, Page 2

Colonial Loyalty.

-t '*» l y<l» -U /.A ,^.y /, jyr In an article m the ' Nineteenth Century on the present, candi future \ 4 of the Australasian Colonies," Mr Archibald Forbes mates some remarks on the B^bpve y subject, from which we extract the following pas**. sage : — " We, , aIL knoiy what , pei** here say, and.arei£ifee/to^,;:i^^ 0 Parliament and outside Papli&anentb; on the subject of IrelandV T^ere are men m Parliament who bjave avowed m their places that jib&y are* taking' part m a parliamentary waitfare. : m default of longed-for ability to, en* gage m quite another kind of waW fare. There are men inside and out* side St Stephen's who avouch that they are struggling and plotting fon--the disruption of theunion andnomr^ maketh them afraid. No speaker could do this m Australia with 4 j^* gard to Ireland. The Bedr^ond; Brothers last year visited that; j^.. tinent on a crusade to raise money for ' the oause,' and probabl* y meant to speak m Australia as J xhey hadi been wont to speak at Hr #qb^ But on the very threshold they/ were* warned by enthusiastic paHffca4iß< ot their own stripe that this must.aott be— that Australia si' mp ]y WO uld notfc stand it. So they struck a lower key, spoke even respectfully of great Britain, and with enthusiastic enco* mium of Bi*itv. n ' Sl , Sovereign— So« vereign as welj, they took care to emphasise, ' of. the bright gem, ofthe say. There was droll irony m the anti-climax that their meeting concluded with the National Anthem. But it was m vain that the revolutionary brothers thua ' touted low.' Several of their earlier assemblage^ ere they had ye t learned the full lesson of moderation, were scenes of fierce not, owing to the sturdy Aug* trahan determbaiio.n to have none of this ' seditious gibberish/ ' Tho newspapers nf*ver gave them a ' chance ; some refused their advertise.* ments, and waste^paper basketed their remonstrances : all declined ta i give any prominence to their utteiX ances. The universal Press attitude to them was thus tersely expressed : — ' This is no field for such persons as you; you are not wanted. Your, mission is to. make mischief arid' to stir np the race hostilities which the Australian air tends to lull into dor**. ! manor. We trust that you will'^be exceedingly uncomfortable while" 'you [ stay here ; we shall genially contrii | bute tb this end, aDd so you i( * had better go away.' "