The Osceola times., 1880-01-10
MISS PARNELL on HOME RULE.
The Views Of the Daughter Of the Great
| Irish ARttator.
n. Y. Star.

J.
have noticed that American opinion
on Irish subjects is usually formed with
happy disregard of facts, which at first
l found irritating, but which now / find
only amusing.
We console ourselves with the refsc-
ton that in the American Revolutionary
War the only nation that had good
word for America was France, which was
then Ireland's enemy. So now, the only
nation that has thorough sympathy with
Ireland is Russia.
II is bad thing for a country, how
ever, to rely on the. at best, interested
sympathies of other countries in a life
and death struggle such as is now going
on in Ireland The less outside sym
pathy we get, the more We shall be
thrown upon our own mettle and our
own confidence in ourselves. So long as
we require to be upheld in the baby.
jumpers of other peoples praise and pity
30 long are we unfit to be nation.
left Ireland five years ago when
Home Rule was all the cry. Then peo-
pie said that the slightest advance to-
ward giving Home Rule was out of the
queetion. Now We have Gladstone ad-
vocating it--in a modified form, II is true
but who has not heard of inserting
the thin end of the wedge? The land
lords of Ireland are now in great num-
bers putting themselves forward as
Home Rulers, because they think that
measure OF Home Rule will stay for q
time the ravenous appetite OF the Ma
tionalistic Cerberus Men who, five years
ago, would rather have committed mur.
der than take the Home Rule pledge,
are now announcing themselves as Home
Rule candidates for the next election.
Anything seems less dreadful to them
than loosing their land. They are, how
ever, greatly mistaken, for though Home
Rule and the Land question are of equal
importance in the long run, the Land
question is of the most immediate i'm
portance and will have to he settled first.
When the landlords discover this they
will be the first to force the Government
to buy up their land from them, for they
will have no alternative between that
and ruin. II itwere not for the intense
political stupidity that characterizes the
average Irish landlord they would nave
seen this long ego, and would them
selves he foremost in the agitation TO get
the Government to purchase their lands.
In year or less they will see it; and
their influence in Parliament Is still SO
great that there can be little doubt that
between the united clamors of Irish
landlords and Irish tenants the obstin-
acy of the Government will have to give
way.
There is false prestige attached TO
the possession of land both in England
and Ireland which is now gradually Civ
ing ways This is one thing which makes
the landlords cling SO desperately ~
their land. The name Landlord" stamps
them as aristocrats, and gives the social
position. As, however, realities must
eventually assert their sway, the prestige
will not last long after the money has
ceased to flow in. When the landlord
no longer receives any rents to spend in
Dublin or London or Paris, he will be
relegated TO obscurity. His only chance
of recovering his social position will
then lie in selling his property. And to
whom can he sell? Clearly only to the
Government or TO the tenats assisted BY
the Government. F. PARNEIL.