Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-21
PARNEI4L SPEAKS.
The Land League Chieftain's Views of
Irish Aftairs-The London Press De-
nouncetl
Bost0n SpeciaL, IStA.

BoSt0R Special, 18th,
The Globe publishes, by special cable
rom London, the following interview with
! Mr.. Parnell, giving his views of Irish agi-
tatiOn. After refusing at first TO speak,
he said:
II nave felt compelled to refuse TO make
| any utterances concerning these matters
TO the English press, because, no matter
how carefully my expression might be
made, my jury would certainly be preju-
diced. 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 to British pre-
ferment is doing this well. Christianity
has grown for nearly 1000 years. and
in country which has published the
most Bibles it has come to pass that the
greatest public favor is proffered and
guaranteed as the reward Of the English
follower of Christ who can invent the
most excuses for suppressing the natural
rights of Irish followers of Christ. The
Irish Christian takes less Friday fish
from the north side of the English Chan
mel; the English Christian less from the
south side. 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 years of strife the Irish people
iN't1hChs ~ DdIlGUce ana Won
derful tact, that stage of political success
wherein tnelr struggles for liberty were
confined TO Parliamentary efforts. So
good was that cause that legislation was
secured giving the Irish peasantry some
rights on their native soil. So prudent
were these peasants in enjoyment of the
fruits of their hard toll that malice has
for the time failed, and since the period
OF the Ministry's concession no unlawful
act has been, or can be, brought home to
the real Irish party.
eff crimes have been committed i'm Ire
land, so have crimes been committed else
where; but in Ireland everything done by
persons not in Office must be done by
Irishmen, and if acts are criminal #
seems nearly impossible for Englishmen
to assign other than revolutionary reasons
for their commission. l do not care to
discuss crimes now under judicial inyes-
tigatiOn SO long as courts OF Justice have
them in charge, but l do protest against
the uncivilized injustice shown by the
English press towards the people Of Ire
land since the recent explosions.
1.-The explosions occurred at 8 o'clock
at night. one at the government building,
doing some 1000 damage, and one at the
Times building, doing little, if any. The
police and military were at once put in
possession, and ali opportunity for an i'm
partial investigation was shut off, If the
London press were conducted as the Amer
lean press is, scores of expert writers
would have at once investigated the eX-
pIosiOns on the spot; and undoubtedly
have fully explained them in all public
prints the next day. But secrecy and
mystery were secured, which naturally
surrounded the affairs with great portenf.
Next day the London ppess without ex,
ception, without investigation, without
reason, charged both explosions upon the
Irish party, describing them az diabolicaI
plots to punish and intimidate the govern
ment.
Fair repOrtOrial investigation might
nave SHOWN that the explosion at the gov
ernment building was caused bv gas. and
that at the Times building by any one of
the thousand persons who imagined them
selves aggrieVed.
II tell you, Notwithstanding all the
troubles Of the Irish people, there is to-
9ay as much bitter woe in England and
Scotland and as much bitter hostility
among the poor and idle of both countries
against lordly power as there ever was in
ireland. The Irish are struggling for fair
policies. They are accustomed to- being
hungry ana iil.hoUsed and ill-ctad. and
are not murmuFlng on tha6 account, but
laborers in Scotland and England are idle
ana hungry, and dangerously impatient.
You don't see all this in the editorials of
the London papers, but you see it in the
column where stories of the poor are told.
and i'll the vastly increased number of
crimes and violence.
''The manufactures and trades of Enc
land are in bad condition. The English
people are not Nihilistic, and never have
PeeA, arQ y tley yEele, tAerR are ten
causes IN england for Aihilism where
there Is one in ireland, The Irish po0r
are agricultural poor. The poor in Eng
land are dangerous poor in large towns
ana mining districts. l do not assume to
even suggest that either acts Of v";;;1,,,enca
III ireland or London have been concerted
by the enemies nf Ireland, All insist
upon rs that the Irish party ID honestly
endeaYorlng to SECURE remedial legislation
thfonga the regular courses Of Parlia-
meht, mat the Irish party has no need to
RESORT 20 such acts OF public violence as
have been charged against il, and that the
lflsn paIty ~.OIy IedSOD w refrain
from such illegal acts.
81 further may say that whether or not
the opponents OF the Irish party haze
found it convenient to engender or invent
acts of insolence for the purpose of iniuF-
ing the Irish cause in Parliament and be-
fore English people, the fact that they in
Variably, and without investigation,
charge the Irish party with having perpe-
trated all these crimes, produces the same
result, and is almost equally criminal.
charge the London press with the politi-
cal crime of'having, without reason and
without inquiry, attempted to convince
England that the series of Outrages which
will undoubtedly be proved to be uneon-
nected with the Irish party, were repre-
sentative acts of Ireland's revenge,
9 charge the London press with the
political crime of having done this at a
critical stage in the period of Irish reme-
dial legislation, and / lay upon that press
all the responsibility for all the delay
which may be consequent in doing that
justice which the Ministry avowed its in
tention to give Ireland, and for all the
spirit Of.Irish hostility which NAV be
aroused as a result. / declare that the
Irish party is absolutely innocent of all
cause for blame sought to be Dlacad unon