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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 43, 27 October 1904, Page 18

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A < Qaelic Revival ' Episode A correspondent to an English paper records that he was being driven on a jaunt in g-ear recently through the Donegal Highlands, aiYd after a time the result^ of his observation came to the surface in the following query ' 1 Driiver ! I notice that when you speak to your friends -whom you meet on the road you invariably do so m Ins'h, but whien you address your horse yoiu do so Mi Knglish. How is this ? ' To which came the retort : ' Musiha now, thin. Isn't English good enough for him ? '—an answer which probably gave the tourist a new insight into the Gael's idea of the mere Saxen. Mr. Tom Mann ' Cets Home ' Whatever may be thought of Mr. Tom Mann's advanced political ideas everyone miust give him credit for his honesty and fearless outspokenness. Speakiing on a recent] Sunday afternoofti, he thus dealt it out to Ui 1 jingo dupes who have been sto badly foolod over the South African business : The averago nmn and wo mam wept over aJnld ohceieta 1 the fatheads who were willing to go to help slave-dri-\£rs in. South Africa ; but the fool of a man who was greater to blame was he who threw up his hat in favor of jingoism, and who was mean enough to throw stones at the men Vino honestly and openly declared what tthey; believed to be true (cheors). How tfhitn&s came homo to roost. But mot often did they cbrne home So quickly and sto plainly. The South African business 1 , if it i ha4 done nothing else, had enabled sio.me people to get their eyes opened (qheeTs). Dx. Rowain said v hc Chinese were working in that country, but they weie ntot allowed to work in the good places, and it was known why. Those 'in the Know ' knew tihat mineral wealth existed in abundance, ahd the ' obows ? were) not allowed to work in those valuable places. The mining companies were to have paid £30,Q0'0,000 towards the war > which cost £25*0,0.00,000, an(d now they AvLsthcd to dodgej their liability. They had dodged it so far, a.nd were now working up an outrageous lie in regard to the ' cjiows,' whom they took there ' because there was no payable gold ' (laughter). But it was not South Africa alone that was in the hands of t!ie financiers ; Australia was in the same hantdsi, too (cheers). A New Temperance Agent While Mr. Soddon is growing? gjrey trying to settle the liquor problem in this country a new and unexpected temperance agent has been unearthed in England It is a s-orU of flying apostle, carrying reform at lightning s>pe6d into the highways and by-ways of the land. Its name is the motor car a,nd its discoverer Mr. R. Ki'nltng. The erst Jingo poet thius explains the bfcneficent mission accomplished by the march of the motor : 1 There are on the twenty odd miles 1111 11, 1 he slays, ' which 'divide me from the nearest toun westward thirty-one or thirty-steven pubs. In frcmt of each I used to fund at least two unattended horses. Now thtfire are fewer beasts outside, and those within are not so sedden. They keep one ear upon the road ; they set down tVheir tankardw ; they leap from the bar ; they run to their Worses' heads. They break, if it be but for an instant, the haMt of ages. What has wrought the change in olur midst ? Tracts ? Blue ribbons ? The Fifth Standard ? That would not be the Te-rewth. 'It is Ifce car —the Unexpected Car round the corner.'