Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-14


To the Editor of the Globe.
ST.. PAUL, Feb. 10.-The within editorial
from this weeks issue Of the Northeastern
Chronicle expresses the honest conviction
and sentiments of the Irish people, and as a
measure of justice to them and Mr. Parnell
I ask you to give it place in your columns.
Yours respectfully,
G. M. MAcCAnTHY.
Northwestern Chronicle, l4th.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL.
The Irish agitator, Charles Stewart Par
nell, will be in St. Paul and Minneapolis
on the 26.h inst, and preparations have
already begun to give him reception that
will do honor both to the cause which he rep
resents and to the prosperous and noble
State which he proposes to visit.
Mr.. Parnell has crossed the Atlantic as the
messenger of the tenant farmers of Ireland,
to place their case before the American pub
lie, and through them before the intelligent
opinion OF the world at large. MIR. Parnell
has the undoubted right to plead for his
constituents before the b'r Of public opinion.
He sought justice at the hands of the British
parliament, the tribunal. SO to speak, of
first instance which it was his duty to ad-
dress, and there justice was refused. British
law makers would not even listen to the
complaint. Not only they proposed no remedy,
but they denied the need of a remedy. What
was to be done, but to appeal to higher
tribunal, to the worlds supreme court? This
supreme court in medieval days would have
been the church, the mother and the leader
of Christendom. In the nineteenth century
it is public opinion, before which the most
potent and stubborn nations bend and sub
NIT. In this age of telegraphs, of newspa-
pers, of RAILROADS.&C. question is easily brought
before its notice, and its verdict is prompt
and effective. Let the world
once take cognizance of wrong,
whether on the part of
ono nation towards another, or On the part
of nation towards its subjects-the wrong
will soon be righted. England knows we'll
the power of public ooinion; no other coun
try is more apt to appeal to it than England
when the evil to be remedied is one that she
herself desires to have suppressed. She is
we'll versed IN agitation against existing or
supposed evils in other countries, and it ia
the proper thing to turn her own arms
against her, when she herself is the guilty
party, as she decidedly Is in the present cir
crmstances.
England will not long resist public epin-
ion were it once openly and strongly made to
espouse Ireland's cause. While her hist Try
shows her to be ever ready to throttle her IN
nocent victim in the dark, she is often found
to put on the voice and demeauor of charity
and Justice when she believes that the world
is eyeing her. In the case of Ireland par
ticularly, she has never done one simple act
of Justice, of her own free choice. She has
been a mere time-server, giving in presence
of moral or physical compulsion, and giving
even then as little as it was possible. The first
relaxat ION of the penal laws was accorded
while the world was quaking beneath the
thunders of the American and French revo-
lutions. The act of enamel patton vas pass
ed because population of eight millions
was prepared to rise III war
at O'Connelrs bidding. An affort
was made to give partial relief to the
tenant farmers, and the State church was
discstablished because Fenianispl was gain
ing the worlds ear, ard FeniaDs were firiag
the London docks and lsveling English jails
and barracks. 1t is Gladstone himself who
made the mission that all highlands con-
cessions to Ireland were wrung from her
through force or fear. Ii ever the tenant
farmers Of Ireland are to have the means of
escaping periodical famine. by securing q
change in the laws to oppr ass them. If over
Ireland is to enjoy the blessings Of home
rule, she must agitate Mt hrune and abroad -
agitate persistently and forcibly. In no
other way will England hs made to hearken
to her prayers. Let Ireland nurse her woes
in silence, and endure With quiet resignation
the pangs of hunger and tho horrors OF
death from starvation, England will no;
even notice her sutferings, rejoicing secretly
we may add-snd her past record
iustifies Us in saying this
that Ireland does suffer aud is dying
Parnell ia no revolutionist, no anarchist
He recommends no violent shedding OF
blood, no communistic oniscation of prop
erty. In seconding his agitation, We need
not fear that We are committing ourselves &c
| ternational policy. AS men, as American
! ten to cry of distress and of suffering
whencesoever it may come, and to lend oul
voice that justice may be done. This
is all that Mr.. Parnell desires OF
| US; he will stats the case of Ireland
leaving IL 10 OURSELVES 10 say Wudt IL
England's duty, to speak our conclusions on
American soil, as we would on the soil OF
England herself. 1t is a false and pernicious
| document that the citizens of one country
| cannot and should not observe and condemn
the wrongs done within the territory of an
other country. Nations, it is true, owe to
one another a certain respect, but over and
above this duty of international respect,
| men have duties towards men, which they
cannot overlook, without smothering within
their breasts the last instincts of humanity.
Nor is the present an improper time fol-
| an agitation in favor of the Irish farmers.
The people of ireland, we are told, are
starving-let US feed them. Yes, let US feed
them, but at the same time let US look into
the causes of these periodical Irish famines,
and seek to prevent their constant reour-
renee. 1t is not the most judicious charity
that will cast to day loaf of bread into the
lap Of the famished poor, careless altoggethe,
of the lot which tomorrow will bring to
him. Now precisely is the time to put
before the general public the ubiquitous
land laws Of Ireland, when their
fatal results are palpable and visible,
and when no far fetched argument is needed
10 bring to bear against them the ioathinp