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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 43, 15 February 1889, Page 11

There was one rather significant passage in the uncompromis" ingly Radical speech which Sir George Trevelyan delivered tfi Newbury. hneakmg ot " the bill now before Parliament for th^ relief of Irish landlords, ' ho paid — • • Think what ten millions would do. How many countiew ( f England might with that sum have bad the Allotments Bill earned out m fine style ' (Cheers.) How many small plots of ground sullicient to keep .i h ml-working man and his family in corntoit, and Mill bmaller plots Miflieicnt to enable a man earning wages to eke out .% livelihood, might be provided if only the S r ate were willing to lend to English peasants on the terms on which they lent, not to liish peasants, but to large, wealthy Irish farmers, an l not for their sake, but for the take of a few great noblemen who were intimately conreoted with the Government !" Sir George Trevelyau's questions will call out for an answer some day. To make experiments in Boei ilism is to start on an inclined plane — you cannot stop, and the p.ice becomes faster the further you ride. — Pall Mall liudgr t