The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-02
The Irish Patriot.

The situation Is novel-Charles Stewart
Parnell In association with VIM. Ewart
Gladstone, premier Of England, in the task
Of effecting settlement Of Irish grievances
and putting an end to the preventible causes
of Irish distress.
Mr.. Parnell Is still young man. He was
born In the year 1916, at Avondale, in the
county Of Wicklow, Ireland, the son Of
gentleman who was at one time high sheriff
for the county Meath. His mother was the
daughter Of an Admiral in the United States
navy, and this connection gives additional
interest to the story of the young statesman's
life. Mr.. Parnell's grandfather was the last
Chancellor Of the Exchequer of the Irish
Parliament, and bitterly opposed the identi-
fication of Irish with British interests In the
Parliament Of the United Kingdom. The
subject of our sketch was educated at Mag.
dalene College, Cambridge, England, from
whence he was graduated. In 1875 he was
elected Member of Parliament for Meath,
and represented that constituency until the
general election of 1882, when he was re-
turned for three constituencies, including
the one he had represented so long. He
preferred to sit for the city of Cork. He be-
longed at the beginning of his parliamentary
career to the Irish Home Rule party, in
which he soon lose to eminence, although q
Protestant and personally not popular with
the leading members. This fact probably
accounts for his failure, in 1870, to recon-
struct the party by means of a national con-
vention; but In October Of the same year he
founded and was made first president of the
National Irish Land League. The harvests
of 1877 and 1878 were very bad and that Of
1870 total failure. Irish discomfort arose
accordingly, and Mr.. Parnell and his fellow
Land Leaguers' opportunity of successful
agitation. Their objects were In brief: /. A
reduction Of rents and refusal to pay If such
reductions were refused. 2. A final and en- =
tire change in the land laws, peasant propri-
etorship to be substituted for that OF land
lords. simultaneously with an agitation
which In 1880 made Mr.. Parnell the supreme
Irishman and the virtual ruler of his coun-
try, extraordinary means of relief were
adopted for the relief of Irish distress, in
which both England and the United States
took . conspicuous part. In January, 1880
Mr.. Parnell visited the United States and
created a feeling which crystallized itself In
the formation of Land League associations
that have proved the main financial supper,
of the home organization. Two years age
| this month he was chosen president of the
Home Rule party in place of Mr.. Shaw. To
ward the close of 1880 information of sedl
tious conspiracy was applied for by the
| Crown against Mr.. Parnell and certain of his
association, which resulted In trial brought
to an ndeterminate issue, but their virtual
acquittal by the management of the jury
When he took his seat for Cork, the young
statesman was made leader of the Irish party
in the House of Commons. His tactics Of
obstruction produced strong feeling against
him In England, and under the Coercion Act
which was thought necessary by Mr.. Glad
stones Government In order to the restora'
ton of the power of the Crown In Ireland
ne was, IN OctopcF, 1901, afiesaeu 10 sos'
pect T" and imprisoned in Kilmainham Jail
He was released only the other day as the
result of letter to the prime minister, In
which he is understood TO have offered his
cooperation with the regular authorities in
the restoration of order and the devising OF
measures intended to obviate the causes OF
political trouble In his native land. He had
scarcely resumed hts seat In the Commons
when the murder of Lord Frederick Caven-
dish, the Chief Secretary, who had succeeded
Mr.. Forster and was the minister of concili-
alton, and of Under Secretary Burke created
q degree of CONSERVATION which temporarily
checked concerted action by the British
Government and the Irish party.