Speaking at a Conservative meeting recently Loid Salisbury said ; "Tile Nonconformist pastor is the leader of the Radical advance,” end " the chapel is the centre of political organization,” Referring to Irish affairs, he compared the Irish National League to a boa constrictor, and the Irish landlord to a rabbit. Lord Roseberry, a few days after, wards, retorted that " whereas the Liberals would conciliate the boa constrictor, the rabbit, hoping that in time the rabbit would eat up the boa constrictor.”
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 28, 16 August 1887, Page 3
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