THE IRISH QUESTION AND THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2986, 20 January 1881, Page 3

THE IRISH QUESTION AND THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

[To the Editor of tho Daily Telegiuph.l Sir, —Will you allow me, even at the risk of advertising your morning contemporary, to ask every Irishman in Hawke's Bay to read the leading article in this morning's issue of that paper. The writer finds " a striking analogy between the Irish question at borne and the native difficulty here." Oh shades of O'Connell, and all the great men who have pleaded and suffered for Ireland, listen to this! "In both cases the English wished to do justice to the conJuered." "Tbe troubles of both the rish and the Maoris come in a great measure from idleness and improvidence." •' As an Englishman loses temper at the incompetence of the Irish or the Maori to understand arguments which seem to him irresistible, so the Irishman or the Maori, failing to make his reasoning understood, flies from words to deeds of aggression, and has to be repressed by law." Such are a few of the ideas this sapient journalist has, upon a question which has baffled the wisdom and ingenuity of English statesmen for centuries past. It is to be regretted that the vast historical knowledge of these questions displayed by the writer of the article in question is not available to Mr Gladstone and bis Cabinet at this critical period in Irish affairs.—l am, &c, O'Gradv. January 20, 1881. '