The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

Is MI. SarnellS uOmlnauJ luea, anu GilaI Iue
ultimate object of the Land Leagues agita-
ton is Ireland's freedom, can hardly admit
of doubt. Those who have closely watched
the course of events in ireland for the past
six months cannot fail to see the direction in
which the master mind Of the league is shap-
ing the action of the Irish tenants. Without
appearing upon the ground himself, every
move that is there made is but the active ma
terial response to his utterances in the Brit
ish Parliament. In his position in that body
he measures his words by its rules, but they
fire the Irish heart and keep alive the spirit OF
resistance to English rule. So careful is he
in the choice Of language to express his
thoughts that the Government finds it impos-
sible to proceed against him personally. Mr..
Parnell is a finished speaker, an able advises
and a consummate leader.
This is shown, not in what he says, but
what he means, without saying it. He is
careful not to provoke a decisive conflict for
which the Home Rulers are not yet prepared !:
still he is industriously crystallizing Irish
opinion in a channel that leads to almost
daily conflicts. He has not advised, nor does
he advise, a general uprising of his people.
His tactics are displayed in the manner in
which e~victions in Ireland have been recent
ly opposed. This opposition, in several cases,
has resulted in the loss OF life, still, in 10 in
stance has it assumed a more serious form
than that of riot. Nor does it appear that
Mr.. Parnell and his coadjutors desire to force
it, at present, hey ond that point. He well
knows that riots stimulate, inflame, raise and
keep to a white heat the passions of a people,
while wal with all its attendant horrors soon
cool and break their force. He is not DESTROYS
of precipitating the latter for Mr.. Parnell is
aware that if his countrymen were forced into
all open rebellion against the authority Of
Great Britain it CAL have but one result, and
that result would be fatal to the object he has
in view. Hence without appearing to ell
courage armed resistance to English rule
over Ireland, he is making the most effective
one that has eyer been made in the re, 1t
history of that island. 1t requires three r
four hundred guards and about as many po-
licelnen to evict a tenant, but it sakes but a
small band of ~leaguers TO reinstate the evicted
party.
The English Ministry is not blind to tie
effect of the policy of Mr. Parnell and the
Land Leagues as developed by the recent ae-
ton of the rioters. II sees in it signs of an
approaching crisis in Irish affairs far graver
than have yet been known. 1t is a
new phase of Irish rebellion and the
Ministers of the English Government are
puzzled as tv the proper way to meet it. They
may weigh The island down with British
troops but will find no organized body of
men to encounter. Here lies the trouble.
The work that large bodies Of troops have
accomplished at great labor and expense is
frequently undone by a handful of men. a
leader or two OF the mob may be arrested,
but others spring up and repeat the objection
BILE proceedings. TIT spirit of resistance to
evictions is kept up at fever heat and yet con-
fined to acts not reasonable. Herein Par
nell has shown his ability as an adviser and a
leader. In the councils of the nation he is
battling for his people, and the people are
emphasizing his words by their deeds.
How they view their own actions, what
they wish to achieve and their hope of sue
cess were eloquently set forth by Archbishop
Croke at Thurles, county Tipperary, on the
4th inst. Speaking of the agrarian agitation,
his Grace said:
! have to say that this movement is nolya
revolutionary movement in the strict sense of
the word. 1t is a constitutional movement
it Is a lawful movement. 1t is a movement
which we intend to push forward by moral
force alone. We do not intend to violate any
law We intend to exhaust all Constitutional
remedies. We are perfectly certain that the
elasticity of the constitution Will allow us
the means of working energetically to the
last and finally achieving the result we aim
at. We wish to produce the effect upon Eng
land not by physical force or by any NANTES
tatiOnS of physical force, but by moral means.
What we want is a chance for our lives in
our own country, and we will forget the past
we will forget the numberless tyrannies of
England we will forget all the tears We have
been obliged to shed we will forget the
massacres that have been committed, the eX-
termination of our race, and the downfall, so
far as it was possible for them to accomplish
it, Of our dear country, and we will begin a
new score with the dominant country. We
will let them see that we are not only able to
flourish abroad, out that in our land we cat
not be suppressed. l hear of disagreement
among the leaders OF the people, but these
things are exaggerated. Our phalanx is UNI
broken, our spirit is %unsubdued and the re-
suit is therefore clear as day. We must sue
coed.
That Albany dispatch of the Sth instant,
announcing that President Garfield advises
the administrator Republican legislators to