New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-17

what may be done In Ireland by policy OF cOncla-
ton and by that appeal TO the generous instincts
of the irsl people which is the political nostrum
most IN favor with a certain class Of political prac-
tItioners. her Sheehy released from XII
manham Gaol because as Mr. Forster told us. there
was reason to believe he might he set at liberty
without danger to the public peace. About the
same time appeared the declaration of the
Roman Catholic bishops in favor of the
Land Act. People who are fond of putting
things together thought they discovered some con-
nccti0n between these two Tucdents-a relation, IN
fact of cause and effect. That is hardly probable
aud would be hardly conceivable TO anybody VINO
did not remember the camor which arose when
Father Sheehy was arrested. To impriSon Roman
Catholic priest was an act Of sacrege in the view
of excitable persons or of persons who wished to
create excitement in Others The great church dig
nitarias who hear sway in Ireland protested less
violently, but they protested, claim was set up
implicit if not express that Roman Catholic priest
should be free from lay jurisdiction. Ordinary pe"-
ME can with difficulty understand why
a priest who breaks the law should not
be answerable to the law. But neither
in small things nor great does Rome ever renounce
preteusion she has set mp. If she dare no
longer openly assert her supremacy over civil au-
thortv she manpuvrrs to relieve herself from public
submission TO it. Ever since Father Shelby was
locked up ntngueS have been going on for his
release Whether a consequence OF these IN
trgues or not, released he is.
Next after Mr. Parnell, Father Shcchy was the
hero of the Cork demonstration" on Sunday, and
made q speech to some thousands of his worship
pers 1t is not the first speech he has made since his
prison doors opened. You recollcct the expressions
of gratitude to Mr. Forster which adorned the first,
cantimg hypocrite" and the like. Having freed
Nv
is now able to devote his very considerable powers
of vituperation to the English in general. What
he said is perhaps not less significant than what Mr..
PANEL said TO which VIII refer in moment. He
proclaimed the new departure of the Land Leagnc.
1T is no longer" says Father Sheehy, $50 much
Down with landlOrdism, as Down with English rule
in Ireland" lie Saluted the mob about him as an
army of hundred thousand fighting men, deter
mined TO make your country nation amongst the
nations of the earth" 1--WE have not" continued
the holy father, compromised with landloriism,
a nd we will not compromise with the English peo-
ME To his mind Ireland suffers and has suffered,
more from the English democracy than from the
English aristocraoy. In his mild and charitable
way Father Sheehy says: " IT was these English
democrats, bowling the gospel of Purtanism, which
might be called Cromwcllism, or any other ism,
who were the force that cut the Threats OF all the
Iyishmen they could get att He culogizcs the city
in which he is hdrangung as rebel Cork tie
raises afrcsh the cry of Ireland for the Irish,
"whcther it means" eXclaims he, "A Parliament
in College Green or whether it means separation
atog Their" There is the rattle Of muskciry all
through his speech. I'VE are not afraid of buck-
shot. and we defy 1t. For the same reason we are
not afraid of those who would employ buckshot and
we defy them"
This is the language of a priest and minister of the
{ t,yh Nlr
Thought innocent enough to he turned loose upon
the country. What must they be who are deemed
worthy of being shut upl This sort of talk IS
meant of course as a challenge TO the Government
The feelings of an ignorant and superstllous peas
antry are much wrought W by the arrest OF Father
Sheehv. 1t is calculated they would be wrought mp
afrcsh by fresh arrest. If the arrest does not fol-
low, the excitement stirred up by the language OF
sediton, nit red boldly and uttered with Hnpuniy,
viii serve Mr.. Parn~is purposes about equally WE'LL
Mr. Parnell YOU will remark, is man who pro-
ceeds not so much by leaps and bounds rs step by
step At Cork. he took two steps. The first was to-
ward q complete naturalization Of the Lcagu"
movement. At his caucus in Dublin, las widcncd
the scope of ms agitation by an appeal To the la
borcr AT Cork he wdens it still further by an
appeal to the shopkceper. If the Land Act should,
by chance says Mr.. Parnell benefit the tenant
farmers il is their duty to refuse the brneht unless
il can be shared by the aborer the artisan, and by
all classes in the country II the tenant gets any
thing from the Land Court, ne now says, upon him
will fall the duty of giving his laborers fair wages
land of paying his debts to the various shopkcep-
ersn There spoke the accomplished dcma-
gogue Mr. Parnel began by caring moth
ing for the farmer Mr.. DavItt taught him
he must use the farmer. and lie used him. So long
rs .he farmer and his grievances answered the pur-
poses of agitation, Mr. Parnell obliylous of the
laborer Now that he has found appeals TO the Gu
uidty of two classes answer, he tries a third. farm
10 every farmer, cottage and plot OF ground ana
good wages every lahorcr, and now full TIL to
every shopkceper with protection to Irish industry
Ii is, of course, the shopkeepers of Cork whom Inc
happens at the moment TO be addressing. Probably
the money-lendcrs and "gOmbeens" will come next
and every one of these bloodsuckcrs will be asked
10 trust to SIR. Parne for his 60 per cent Every
body is to have his debts paid excepting, of conrsc
the wicked landlord. The crime of owning land is
incapable
1t is certainly true az Mr., Parnel boasts, that the
National" cry, which is his second step, is grow
ing louder every day, whOscycr may be the voices
that swell il. To Mr. Parnell the Cork "demOnstra-
ton is one of the mighticst that have shown
the invncible determination of the Irish people to
rule themselves" AS the League absorbs class after
class into its ranks, each by the process of
specious promises of pecunary profit its organiza-
ton becomes in Mr.. ParnePs view, daily more for
midabe. The cry of abolition of rent and land
lords has already grown almost stale as the cry Of
tenant-right. Its mission is daily becoming less
agrarian and more political, ana more revolution
ary. 1t is, III Mr. Parnelrs closing words to con-
vince our rulers that it is absolute necessity for
them if they wish to retain the link Of the Crown,
that the link of the Crown should be the only link
between the two countries" This preservation char
acterstic of Mr. Parnell His talk is not reasonable,
but goes to the limits of treason In technical
sense he has right 10 agtate for the repeal OF the
Union by Parliamentary methods You may agitate
for anything if you will only say you want ParlIa