Dublin, June 19, 1888.
_To the Editor of "United Ireland."_ Sir,--As this is, I believe, the first time I have sought to intrude upon your columns, I hope you will allow me some slight space in the interests of fair-play and freedom of speech.

Those interests seem to me to have been quite set at naught in the attack, or rather series of attacks, upon Mr.Taylor in your last issue.

Mr.Taylor's views upon many matters are not mine.

He is far more democratic in his opinions than I see any sufficient reason for being, and he is very much more of what is called a land reformer than I am; but on an acquaintance of some years I have ever found him an honourable and high-minded gentleman, and as good a Nationalist, from my point of view, as most of the members of the Irish Parliamentary Party whom I either know or know of.

Of some of the charges made against Mr.Taylor, such as the seeking for Crown Prosecutorships and the like, I am in no position to speak, save from my knowledge of his character, but I understand Mr.Davitt knows all about these things, and I suppose he will tell what he knows.