Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien made speeches at a great
Mayo demonstration at Ballaghadereen last Sunday, Mr. Dillon admitting (very reluctantly) that there were "germs of good" -in the Congested Districts Act, which he clearly sees to be far too popular in the West of Ireland for the sort of resistance which he would have preferred to organise to it. Mr. Dillon, however, denounced the name of Mr. Tuke as one of the Con- gested Districts Board, on the ground that he is a friend of
• assisted emigration, a policy which he attacked with great warmth, almost as if it had been a proposal to send Irishmen away to other countries against their will, instead of one to enable those who personally desire to go, to go with some pro- spect of success. The Nationalist objection which had been previously urged to Mr. Take produced a very powerful, though, we regret to say, anonymous letter to the Tuant Herald of this day week, on the great work which Mr. Tuke has done for Ireland, showing haw true his sympathy with Irish distress has been, and how vast have been his services to Irish sufferers. The simple truth is, that there is not even an Irishman living who has been a truer friend to Ireland than Mr. Puke, and nothing illustrates the pettiness of political spite more vividly than the animosity shown to Mr. Tuke simply for enabling those Irishmen who think that they shall prosper better out of Ireland than in it, to carry out their wishes without incurring any risk of starvation or failure. Mr. Dillon's view appears to be, that an Irish- man who prefers to be happy out of Ireland rather than miserable in it, is one who ought to be miserable, even if he adds to the misery of his fellow-countrymen.
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