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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 22, 28 September 1894, Page 8

(Melbourne Advocate ) Ab for Irish-Australians, if there were any troth in the charge Mr Redmond has brought against them he should have been the last man to make it, for, next to Mr Parnell, it was he who did moat to die courage them. His defecion and that of his followers did more to cast them down than anything lhat has occurred in the House of Commons or the Ho, se of Lordg. Their treachery has at h< me and abroad inflicted greater injury on the national cause than anything ts open enemies have accomplished, aad as we cannot believe that

he is unconscious of that fact, we cannot avoid regarding the imputation he has cast on Irishmen abroad as a proof that he |. rlrin. rapidly , n bis bids for Tory favours. Nothing could please Lord Sahsbury and his followers more than an assurance that the Irish abroad are fall.ng away from their countrymen at home on the Home Bu.e quest.on, and with that assurance Mr John E. Redmond has delighted them. Aa they would be willing to purchase at high price a desertion of the kind, Mr Redmond was no fool if it occurred to him that anyone who brought them news to hat eff ct would bo earn more than empty grat,tude at the.r hands. But the reward would have been obtained on false pretences. Leaving the Irishmen of the Wed States to speak for themselves, we can assure our friend 8 in the old land that nothirg but the deep and unprecedented depression which preva.ls here prevents Irish-Australians from contributing to the national cause. No oae who knows how fortunes have disappeared here, how wages and incomes of all kinds have betn reduced, how sorely aft -ted thousand, are by actual want, und how great a dram their condition is upon those who have succeeded in saving anything fr,,m the wreck, could be surprised that no money is going home for national purposes from Australia and to Mr Redmond these facts must be as well known as they are to anyone else Conseqiently, it would be scarcely possible to stigmatise his imputation m terms too severe.