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New Zealand Tablet, 17 April 1924, Page 11

*From this censure I desire expressly to exclude Mr! Davitt. His faith was in nationalisation of the land, and his opposition to the Vyndham Act, or to any-other scheme of peasant proprietary, was consistent and perfectly legitimate. It has always been a consolation to me to remember that in all those years of controversy no word personally hurtful to Mr. Davitt has ever escaped me. His last letter to me upon a private matter shortly before his death was as full of manly friendship as if nothing had happened since the period of loyal comradeship he and I spent together during the hard years when the United Irish League was being formed out of. the ruins, of the National movement. Nobody with any-intimate knowledge of Mr. Davitt will doubt that had he been alive at the time of the Baton » Convention he would have forbidden with indignation the preparations for that orgy of violence or Would have separated himself with loathing from ,its organisers.