The examiner., 1881-12-17
Why MT. Parnell did not come to this
 Country,

Country.
 Some time before the close of Parlia- ment the papers announced that MT. Par nell would visit this country this fall for the purpose of arousing more enthusiasm among the friends of the cause here. But the dissolution of Parliament and the pas sage of the land act made a new policy and l line of action necessary.
 During the discussion, and pending the passage of the land bill, the land league leaders antagonised the measure and did all they could to oppose and lay bare the himsY fraud before the people; but while the agitators were thus engaged the other side was not idle. The immense power and influence of the British government through it's literature and paid emissaries aided by faint hearted land leaguers, had created quite sentiment in favor of the bill by representing it as a good and wise measure and we'll calculated as 8 panicea for all the ills and grievances of the Irish people.
 After the passage of the bill, the ap- pointment of the commissioners and the establishment of the land court, it became necessary to call convention of the repre- sentatives of the Irish people in order that they might determine the proper course to pursue in this important crisis.
 The convention that responded to the call of the land league was in all respects the most truly representative assembly that ever met in any country. All parts of Ireland was represented by the ablest, the bravest and the best, and from all &C., counts the deliberations were marked for harmony, ability and unanimity.
 The only question that caused any diff ference was the land bill. The voice of Michael Davitt, Buman and Kettle, came from the dungeons of Killmainham and was ably seconded by Dillon and Eagan i; that the land bill should meet with no con- sideration. But the intrepid leader Charles Stewart Parnell, stood boldly forth and advocated an immediate trial of the act. He showed with great force and reason that if the bill was not tried, the enemies of the movement both in Ireland and America would say that the leaders were unreasonable; that they were incapable of meeting Gladstone and his villanous scheme. He showed further that the land league had nothing to loose by testing the bill because it would not stand the test, and that it would afford them an oppor- tunity of demonstrating to the Irish peo- pie and the world that it was trap and snare. and thereby give it the stamp of legal as we'll as official condemnation. MT. Parnell's wise council prevailed, the convention unanimously decided to make selection of test cases, and committee was appointed to take them into court and see that they were properly defended. This was too much for Gladstone; he saw that the skillful generalship of Parnell was sure to defeat him he saw that his politi- cal trickery and deception was about to be exposed, and then for expediency-which always stands before justice with the dis honest politician-he resorts to 8 course which he has always condemned in others. in order to save himself.
 Gladstone acknowledged defeat when he left the field where constitutional warfare was the issue and fell back on the resort of the coward, brute force. Because Gladstone had the power to arrest Parnen on the himsy pretext of ''suspicion," does not show that he had particle of right or justice on his side. Why Gladstone has publicly declared oyer and over again that the land lec que was not an illegal or ganlzation; but now when they comply with the law and go into the court for the purpose of advocating and defending the cases of the poor people with the chances of success on their side, the wiley politi- elan immediately turns graceful somer- sault from his. former dignifed position, ar rests the leaders of the government and | with the British army at his back forbids the holding of meetings and declares the organization illegal.
 It was determined at the convention that some one should go to America. The movement was commencing to lag, all the information going to America had to pass through the British sieve, and some of the papers were only too glad to accept everything as truth and enlarge upon it. It was thought necessary for some one to go to America missionary to preach the true gospel and to arouse the people here to more united support of the move ment.
 MT. Parnen was the most effective man that could be selected that fact was plain there as we'll as here and his associates urged him to accept the mission but he wisely declined, saying that the great cri- sis was at hand, and as the Irish people had stood by him through all the trials and excitement of the past three years he would now remain with them and fight in the front ranks of the battle. The Rev. Eugene Shehy, Hon. T. P. O'Connor, and Hon. T. M. Healy, were then selected as to America and their selec- tion met the hearty approval of MT. Par