The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-21
THE AGITAT0R'S VIEWS
ON RECENT LONDON EXPLOSIONS.
parn.ll Doesn't H.,. nueA Faith In the FaIrne..
ofEaElIsh Papers or Juriss-Lmsrlean Press
Heldup As an Irample-Distress and
Sursrins In Esgland and Scotland.

Boston, March 20-A cable dispatch tc
the daily Globe from London contains
an interesting interview with Mr.. Parnell
He says: ~ have felt compelled to re-
fuse to make any utterances concerning
these matters to the English press because,
no matter how carefully my expressions
might be made, my jury would certainly
be prejudiced. II not, it would be packed.
England Is not in q mood to listen to any
thing about Irish affairs that is not con.
demnatory OF the Irish people.
"Why should the Irishman be absolute.
ly slave and the Englishman be his mas.
ter? Why should the Irishman give up
his sstruggles to be free? After centuries OF
strife, the Irish people reached by won
derful patience and wonderful tact that
stage Of political success wherein their
struggles for liberty were confined to
Parliamentary efforts. So good was
that cause that legislation was se-
cured giving thesIrish peasantry somerights
on their native soil. So prudent were these
peasants in the enjoyment OF the fruits OF
their hard toll that malice has for the time
failed, and fince the period OF the Minis.
try's concession no unlawful act has been
or can be brought home to the real Irish
party. Ii crimes have been committed in
Ireland, 80 have crimes been committed
elsewhere. But in Ireland everything
done by persons not in Office must be done
by 1rishmen; and II the acts are criminal
1t seems nearly impossible to assign other
than revolutionary reasons for their com.
mission.
NOT ESRRsETIC ENOUGH.
"Ido not care to discuss the crimes now
under judicial investigation in Ireland so
long as the courts Of justice have them in
charge, but I do not protest against the
uncivilized injustice shown by the English
press toward the people Of ireland since
the recent explosions. The explosions oc.
Cured at 0 o'clock at night, the one at the
Government building doing some $4,000
damage and the one at Tile Times building
doing little, II any. The police and mill
tary were at once put in possession, and all
opportunity for an impartial investigation
was shut of. II the London
press were conducted as the Amer
ican press Is, scores OF ex.
perts writer's would have at once
investigated the explosions on the spot,
and undoubtedly would have fully ex.
planned them in all the public prints next
day. But secrecy and mystery were SO.
cured, which naturally surrounded affairs
with great importance. The next day the
London press, without exception, without
investigation, without reason, charged both
explosions upon the Irish party, describ.
ing them as diabolical plots to punish and
intimidate the Government Fair reporto-
rial investigation might have shown that
the explosion at the Government build.
ing was caused by gas, and that the one at
the Times building was caused by any OF q
thousand persons who imagined themselves
aggrieyed..
DISTRESS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.
~ tell you, Notwithstanding all the
troubles Of the Irish people, there is to-day
as much bitter woe in England and Scot.
land, and as much bitter hostility among
the poor and idle OF both countries against
the lordly power, as there ever was in Ire.
land. They are accustomed to being hun.
cry and ill.housed and clad, and are not
murmuring on that account. But
the laborers in Scotland and Eng.
land are idle and hungry, and
dangerously impatient. You do not
see all this in the editorials Of the London
papers, but you see il in the column where
the stories OF the poor are told, and in the
vastly increased number Of crimes and vic.
lence. The manufactures and trades OF
England are in a bad condition. The
English people are not Nihilistic and never
have been, and il they were there are ten
causes in England for Nhilism where
there Is one In Ireland. The Irish poor
are the agricultural poor. The poor in
England are the dangerous poor Of the
large towns and the mining districts.
~ do not assume even to suggest that
the acts Of violence either in Ireland or
London have been concocted by the enc.
mics Of Ireland. All ! insist upon is that
the Irish party is honestly endeavoring to
secure remedial legislation through the
regular courses OF Parliament; that the
Irish party has no need to resort to such
acts of public violence as has been charged
against ii; and that the Irish party has
every reason to refrain from such illegal