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Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6872, 9 March 1883, Page 4

T*b stars in their coarse* are fighting against Mr Redmond, H.P. for Glare. Hardly had he began his Australian crusade when the revelations caused by the arrest and examination of the alleged Phoenix Park murderers made everything connected with Feniimiem, and everything supposed «o to be connected, stink in the nostril* of Englishmen and colonist*. Instead of exciting enthusiasm Hr Redmond finds himself called upon to give explanation*, and whan h* Ar*n no is disbelieved and h : s I

reason* discredited. Icdignatiou meat' Ixtgt ore got op to oosdeffin him. When he talks of loyalty and constitutional agitation, newspapers are ill-natured enough to print extract* from report* of hi* Iriih political speeches in which constitutional agitation is plainly spoken of s* only a preliminary to a final appeal to the sword. Ho one, except possibly a few rabid Tories, imagines that Mr Redmond boa been personally connected with any sooh society as that of which Carey and bis fellow wretches were the instruments. Bat Australians are logical enough to put two and two together, and to argue that iaa country where members of Parliament talk publicly of revolution and the sword, persona less reputable soon begin to arrange privately lor the employment of dynamite, and the dagger, so they bold that Mr Redmond, though doubtless free from complicity, Is not free from responsibility, for the Ffaceoix Park murders and a hundred other hardly less brutal outrages. Fate, is causing men’s attention to be drawn once more to the results of the Land League's mistakes, at the very moment when the League’s apostle is beginning his work in this port of the world, has acted unkindly to Ur Redmond, but very kindly to us. For we wont none of Mr Redmond or his agitation in Australasia. When It was shown that Irishmen by the thousand were literally starring, the people of these Colonies gave readily to relieve them, as they would give again in the not utterly improbable con* tingenoy of their charity being again required. Were Mr Redmond, on bis return from these Colonies, ts denounce them and their ways, os he very possibly will, that would nob stop the flow of assistance. Even were Land Leaguers, Fenians, and their organs to join in a howl of wrath against us, that would not, we trust, dry up the springs of charity. Wo know enough to discriminate between Ireland’s real needs and the unreasonable demands of her misguided sons. A sick man should not be abandoned because he is often unreasonable, fretful, and exacting. But we must show once and for all that the quarrels of parties in the Mother Country are. no active concern of ours. We cannot have men following as across the world to dan'ns with old political debt* that have been long ago, as for. as we are concerned, cancelled. The founders of these Colonies crossed the seas in order to make a fresh start, and free themselves and their descendants from the very troubles into which Mr Redmond wants to draw them. Supposing Mr Redmond’s mission to be right and- reasonable, colonisation becomes illogical and absurd.