The Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY.) S vant la vente. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1883. THE LAND LEAGUERS IS NEW ZEALAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 39, 21 March 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard PUBLISHED DAILY.) S vant la vente. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1883. THE LAND LEAGUERS IS NEW ZEALAND.

It is with sincere regret that we notice that the Messrs BBSHOND.are promised an enthusiastic reception, m Auckland. In Australia their mission has already produced its inevitable reaction. It has provoked a strong feeling against the Land League, primarily tor the reasons that the cause is bad, and is badly advocated ; but chief!/ because the League has been unable to satisfactorily clear itself from what a Melbourne weekly paper terms " the terrible stain of bloodguiltiness." In public opinion, and foe accusation has never conclusively disproved,; the funds of the Land League supplied a murder fund, with its ghastly results of crime, terrorism, and assassination. In public opinion, it is ] this fund that Mr Redmond is inviting Australia and Few Zealand to augment. His experiences m Australia so.far have < not been 'congratulatory. In Sydney he bad a most turbulent meeting, the uproar • being most discreditable and ] unprecedented. Are we m New Zealand anxious to stir up the worst passions of the people, revive old-world j feuds and hatreds, and set class against class, at the instigation of this emissary of the Land League ? We say God forbid. -We.desire to csee peace reign, i and our colonists, forgetting all differ* ences of creed or former political antagonism, unite to. build up this Britain of the fcouth. We want no disturbing elements here. We have seen wfiat agitation has done for unhappy Ireland. Doefi anyone wish the Bcme ghasfc'y "history repeated m this bright land of ours ? Are we anxious to have our [--prospects blasted with the curse of the shadow of religious or political feuds ? Do we desire to say farewell to the hopefulness of life m the colonies, that is the distinguishing feature that gladdens the heart of y the emigrant, elevates him m his own selfrespect, and cheers him under privations and hardship? Our colonists are endowed with strong common sense. Thc-y know that agitation begets turmoil, and that turmoil and progress cannot accompany each other. Ou<" desire is to see bo class differences of any kind m New Zealand, " United we stand, divided: we .fall," should; be the motto of every true colonist, and every true man who honours his Queen and his country, and cherishes warm affection for his- peaceful fireside and the t acted associations 6f the family circle. With Tennyson we would exclaim : — Bing out a slowly dying caune, And ancient forms of party strife ; Bing m the nobler modes of life, • With sweeter manners, purer laws.