THE BAN OF THE 'TIMES.'

Evening Star, Issue 7212, 14 May 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE BAN OF THE ' TIMES.'

The following passage is taken from Mr Dillon's speech at the last meeting of the National League in Dublin:—"l recollect a great number of years ago—it is just exactly twenty years ago now—when the right hon. gentleman, Mr John Bright, who then as now represented Birmingham. I was a young boy then, and I recollect hearing him in my father's house when he was in this city talking about the London ' Times '; and he declared in my own hearing and, although it is twenty years since the words were uttered, they have remained in my mind—he declared that during the whole of his political career he looked on the London ' Times' as the organ of the Devil upon earth. These are not my words—they are the words of Mr John Bright. It is a very sad tiling to sea ' the ergan of the Devil on earth' holding up Mr John Brigkt week after week as a pattern to politicians. Who it is that has altered their opinions I leave it to them to settle. But, in my opinion, as long as I have been in politics I have never seen a cause that had any good in it that was not abused to dirt by the London ' Times' ,* and I am bound to say that if the London" ' Times,' instead of ealling us murderers and robbers—as I am happy to say they now call us—had a good word to say for us, I should feel bound to examine my conscience and see what crime I had committed. Trust me, when the London • Times' oalls-you a villain you may

begin to think there is something good in you j and, when the London ' Times 'begins to use bad language against a cause, believe that it is not only a good cause but a winning cause."