The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-19
Two Disguised Men Attempt the Life
of Lady Florence Dixie,
And She Is Only Saved from Death by tho
Courage of a Faithful Dog and the
Strength of Corset Steel.
PARNELL'S VIEWS.
Protest Against the Tone of the English
Press Toward Ireland

Press Toward Ireland.
LONDON. March lin the course of an
interview with Mr.. Parnell. he earnestly pro-
tested that Never did Ireland more need
friends in England and never have the
friends of Ireland been more constrained to
silence. have felt compelled to refuse to
make any utterances concerning these mat
tiers to the English press because, no matter
how carefully my expression might be made,
any jury would certainly be prejudced, ii it
would not be packed, England is not in
mood to listen to anything about Irish affairs
that is not condemnatory of the Irish people.
1t is the fashion in England now to cry down
Ireland The surest way 10 British prefer
ment is doing this well. Christianity has
grown for nearly two thousand years. and in
the country which has published the most
Bibles it has come to pass that the greatest
public favor is proifered and the guar
anteed reward of the English follower of
Christ who can invent the most excuses
for suppressng the natural rights of
the Irish follower of Christ The Irish
Christian takes less Friday fish from the
north side of the British Channel, the Eng
lish Christian less from the SOUTH Why
should the Irishman be absolutely slave,
and the Englishman be his master? Why
should the Irishman give up his struggles to
be free? After centuries of strife the Irish
people have reached, by wonderful patience
and wonderful tact, that stage of political
| success wherein their struggles for liberty
were confined to Parliamentary efforts. So
good was their cause that legislation was Sc
cured giving the Irish peasantry some rights
on their native soil. So prudent were the
peasants in the enjoyment of the fruits of
their hard toll that malice was for that time
foiled, and since the period OF the ministry's
concessions, no unlawful act has been or can
be brought home to the real Irish party, If
crimes have been committed in Ireland, so
have crimes been committed elsewhere. But
i'll Ireland everything done by persons not in
office must be done by Irishmen, and if the
acts are criminal, it seems nearly impossible
for Englishmen to assign other than revo-
iutionary reasons for their commission. |
do not care to discuss the crimes now un-
der judicial investigation in Ireland, so
long as the courts of justice have them
in charge; but do protest against the un-
civilized injustice shown by the English
press toward the people of Ireland since the
| recent explosions. The explosions occurred
| at O'Clock at night the one at the govern
ment building doing some $4,000 damage,
and the one at the Times building doing
little, if any. The police and military were
at once put in possession and all opportunity
for an impartial investigation shut off If
the London press were conducted as the
American press is, scores of expert writers
would have investigated the explosions on
the spot, and undoubtedly fully explained
them in all the public prints next day. But
| secrecy and mystery were secured, which
naturally surrounded the affairs with great
portent. Next day the London press with
out exception, without investigation with
pharUa1 hnih oxp1ncianc
the Irish party, describing them as diabolical
plots to punish and intmidate the govern
ment. Fair repor,oria investigation might
have shown that the explosion at the govern
ment buildings was caused by gas, and that
the one of the Times building was caused by
any one OF thousand persons who imagined
themselves aggrieved.
DISTRESS IN SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND.
II tell you, notwithstanding all the
troubles of the Irish people, there is to-day
as much bitter woe in England and Scotland,
and as much bitter hostility among the poor
and idle OF both countries against those
lodged IN power as there ever was in ireland.
The Irish are struggling for fair politics.
They are accustomed to being hungry and
ill-housed and clad and are not murmuring
OH that account. But the laborers in Scot
lrnd and England are idle and hungry and
dangerously impatient. You don't see all
this in the editorials of the London papers,
but you see it in the columns where the
stories of the poor are told, and in the vastly
increased number of crimes of violence. The
manufactures and trade of England are in
bad condition, and the English people are
not Nihlistic, and never have been, and
if they were, there are ten cases in
one in Ireland. The Irish poor are
the agricultural poor. The poor in England
| are the dangerous poor OF the large towns
and mining districts. l do not assume to
even suggest that either the acts of violence
in Ireland or London have been concerted
by the enemies of Ireland. All insist upon
is that the Irish party is honestly endeavor-
ing to secure remedial legislation through
the regular courses of Parliament; that the
Irish party has no need 70 resort to such acts
of personal violence as have been charged
against it, and the Irish party has every rea-
son to refrain from such illegal acts.
II further maintain that whether or not
the opponents OF the Irish party have found
it convenient to engender or invent acts of
violence for the purpose of injuring the irish
cause in Parliament and before the English
people, the TACT that they invariably
and without investigation charge the
Irish party with having perpetrated all these
| crimes produces the same result and is al
most equally criminal charge the London
press with the political crime of having
without reason and without inquiry, at
tempted TO convince the English mind that
series of outrages, which will undoubtedly
be proved to be unconnected with the Irish
party, were representative acts of Irish re-
| venge. / charge the London press with
| the political crime OF having this done in a
critical period OF Irish remedial legislation.
and | la upon that press all the RESPONSE