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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 81, 17 December 1887, Page 3

An English Badical paper says :— The Irish question is entirely of money. More than half the coercionislg are connected with Ireland in a pecuniary sense. The corrupt corporation of the City of London, and the capitalists who have appropriated the trade guilds, have trust estates in Ireland. Some fifty or sixty members of Parliament are associated with the corporation, or City companies, Seventy or eighty members are Irish landlords. As many more are married to Irish women, the daughters of Irish landlords. Thirty or forty are directors of insurance companies, having interests in Irish land. About the same number are usurers, money-lenders, bankers, who have advanced money on mortgage at a high rate of interest to the bankrupt Irish landocracy. The. Irish, consequently, are being treated like the Egyptians. They are our domestic fall been, from whom we intend to extort impossible rents by the Coercion Kourbash. If we note this point, we have the key to the Irish riddle. Money, usurj—there is a motive, the mainspring of the war which England —not Wales or Scotland—has declared upon the Irish democracy. We have outlawed Irishmen ; we shall see how the outlaws will respond '