THE BAN OF THE "TIMES."

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2323, 31 May 1887, Page 2

THE BAN OF THE "TIMES."

The following passage is taken from Mr Dillon's speech at the last meeting of the National League in Dublin:—"l recollect a great number of years ago—it is just exactly twenty years ago now—when the right lion, gentleman, Mr John Bright, who then as now represented Birmingham. I was a young boy then, and I recollect hearing him in my father's house when he was in this city talkiug about the London Times; and he declared in my own hearing—and, although it is twenty years since the words were uttered, they have remained in my mind — he declared that during the whole of his political career he looked on the London Times as the organ of the devil upon earth. These arc not my words— they are the words of Mr John Bright. It is a very sad thing to see ' the organ of the devil on earth' holding up Mr John Bright week after week as a pattern of politicians. Who it is that has altered their opinions I leave it to them to settle. But, in my opinion, as long as there have been any politics, I have never seen a cause that had any good in it that was not abused to dirt by the London Times ; and I am bound to say that if the London Times, instead of calling us murderers and robbers—as I am happy to say they now call us—had a good word to say for us, I should feel bound to examine my conscience and see what crime I had committed. Trust me, when the London Times calls you a villain you may begin to think there is something good in you ; and, when the London Times begins to use bad language against a cause, believe that it is not only a good cause but a winning cause."