Its leading article--the staff may have danced in a ring round the office table while composing it--declared that now at length the Irish had proved to the world that they were all, without a solitary exception, irredeemably vicious corner-boys.

Miss Augusta Goold was warmly praised for having demonstrated once for all that 'patriotism' ought to be written 'Pat riotism.' Deep regret was expressed that those who attended the meeting had not been armed with revolvers instead of stones, and that the platform had not been defended with Maxim guns instead of comparatively innocuous wooden chairs.

Had modern weapons of precision been used the _Daily Express_ would have been able to congratulate mankind on getting rid of quite a considerable number of Irishmen.
The _Freeman's Journal_ and the _Daily Independent_ were awkwardly situated.

Their sympathies were entirely with Mr.O'Rourke, and they were exceedingly angry with Miss Goold for interfering with the collection of funds for the Parliamentary party.

At the same time, they felt a difficulty in denouncing her, not for want of suitable language--the Irish Nationalist press has a superb command of words which a self-respecting dictionary would hesitate to recognise--but because they felt that push of the horns of the dilemma on which O'Roun'y-had been impaled, and they were obliged to sand their denunciations between layers of stoutest pro-Boer sentiment.
All four papers contained reports of the proceedings which were practically identical up to a certain point.