GOOD EFFECTS OF THE RED MOND MISSION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 29, 16 November 1883, Page 21

GOOD EFFECTS OF THE RED MOND MISSION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE N.Z. TABLET. Sib,— ln reply to Mr.^ Nolan, afiow me to say that I cannot conceive how any reader of, ordinary. discernment would be led to think by. my "communication" that the 'mission of the"Messrf. JBedmond t& Chnstchurch was an " absolute failure." .; What I said with regard to indifferent Irishmen does not, cer* tainly warrant such an opinion ; if it does, Mr. Nolan has not mended matters, for he has made the same admission. ' ' ' • . •; In substance, your readers have got the same -information fr6ni both letters j the difference being, Mr. Nolan has conveyed it more admirably. To say that , every Irishman went home from the lectures proud of his country and exultant over these two specimens of Ireland's public men,; that those, who had been trained to expect of an ' Irish agitator 1 wild and .impassioned.. .declamation were dumbfounded to behold refined. : and polished gentlemen who werejtfe&perate argumentative, .and logical,, aa wej.l as vigorous ai|^ eloquent " is, after all, but another w.ay of sayipg that the visit isr- wirtfoj&W than money to the Irish cause in Christchurch. * -'^ i.« ;&'^ olan ■^■v " Owing t0 a a.Unfortun.ate oqcftrreh'ce which hapy*fted here some few years ago a raftra *f : ourjwop'le have ever since been afraid to. raise their heads in society," and that any appeal to those people to take part in a movement for the good of Ireland, was answered in a sort of subdued tone, that it would be unwise to have anything to, do with the League at present v a F? r , tbe lif 1 e .^ f me 1 cannot see how the foregoing description of bad Irishmen differs from mine.; Except that it may be more agreeable to their feelings for Mr. Nolan to say » that they would have nothing to do with the movement than for a ' Leaguer ' to put it that they gave the ticket-sellers a cold Shoulder."' * There is a charm in variety. They can take which fits best. < Likewise, if they would have it, that they speak of their country ma "subdued tone," rather than in a •« very low whisper," I bee to withdraw my way of putting it, and dutifully uphold our president in his more experienced manner of giving a soothing rub to " timid Irishmen, who, I have now learned, were literally prostrate at the feet of those who neither understood norxespected them.— l am, etc.. A Leaguer.