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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6267, 1 October 1891, Page 2

A pbivate telegram sent from Napier for publication in the New Zealand Times contains the following statement:—" The result of Mr Cox's visit is most satisfactory, £200 has been subscribed." We are not going to question the amount subscribed; it may or may not be correct. But we wish to say this, and that is, that in • all probability very many of the subscribers could illafford the money. . We have heard of one case in which a subscriber was compelled to go t3 a trademan in this town and express his regret that he could not pay his account, because he had given it to the Irish Evicted Tenants Fund. This must have been eumewbat less satisfactory to the tradesman than to Mr Cox. For our own part we think it | nothing short of disgraceful that political partizans should come around and extract sorely-needed money from tho pockets of poor people, whose soft hearts can be melted by one-sided statements aided by a jack-o-lantern. The simpleton who can express his satisfaction at the result of such a begging. mission is worthy of pity. To think that £200 should have gone out of this town in aid of a cause which is ap-. parently being made use of for political and electioneering purposes is a matter for deep regret. A general election takes place next year in Great Britain and Ireland, and the two.contending factions in Ireland—both, pretty well penniless—are moving Heaven and earth to raise funds. Both sides have nearly exhausted the sources of supplies, and so what do we find ? Both Parnell and M'Cartby—Cox is a M'Carthyite—are imploring Irishmen in all parts of the world to subscribe to the Evicted Tenants' Fund. All the time Parnell is saying, " Don't give your money to M'Carthy; and M Carthy is saying, "Don't give your money to Parnell." And while Parnell is singing out for funds, and while the McCarthyites are travelling with magic lanterns, and telling ancient stories of distress and misery, there are £40,000 locked up in the Paris banks, money raised for evicted tenants, but which is going to be used to fight the elections. Verily the world is made up of rogues and fools. And to think that there are simpletons who say it is satisfactory that, -in a village sixteen thousand miles away from the miserable faction fights of an ignorant and savage peasantry, two hundred pounds have been collected in aid of the sinews of war! "And the music of the sheep is ba-a."