PLAIN TALK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2152, 23 November 1885, Page 2

PLAIN TALK.

A remarkable letter (states the 'St James' Budget') has been wrjtfcen by Miss Aunusta Jane Goold to the wives and daughters of her late fathers extensive estates in the south of Ireland. Miss. Goold has always been noted for generous dealings with tho tenants, and a few weeks since she held a knitting festival,\ attended by women who are employed by her all the year round at knitting lyork, tlie remuneration for wl)icli considerably increases the earnings of the cottiers, The cottiers, however, met and passed a resolution expressing doubt as to the nationality of the festival. This wap regarded as a gross insult by Miss, Gooid, who

withdrew the kii ifctipg indußti-y.' The 1 women concerned then presentedarespectful address to her displeasure. MiBS Goold in reply, states that she does not blame the women, but refers in severe terms to the action-of their male relatives—men, she says, whom she has saved from the workhouse by paying their arrears of rents and costs, and who aro indebted to liQr for house and home,' Fellows whose wives and mothers she' was - employing at much expense to herself were now, like noisy ours, beginning to bark attheirbenefactress. It was men of this class who' were injuring the 1 - cause of Ireland—the Pats, Micks, and Tims, who talked, drank, smoked, swore, and '' resolved" to their heart's contei.t. She declares that it must be understood that she shall not continue to make sacrifices for those who repay - benefits with ingratitude and presumption. A wilder exhibition of folly by , idiots could not, she says, be seen, and she advises the women not to believo those who may try to'persuade them that Bome fool's paradise is'coming in which the whole population will live at ease, and in which steady work will be superfluous.