Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-19
PARNELL PRENTS
His Views on tho London Explo.
sion.
The treat Irish Leader Charges the London
Press With disappearing His
People and Retarding Re-
medal Legislation.
IRISH PARTY DECLARED INNOCENT.

IRISH PARTY DECLARED INNOCENT.
LONDON, March ia correspondent
sought Mr.. Parnell for the purpose Of So
curing for him for publication statement
Of his views Of the present general attack
of the British press upon the attitude Of
the Irish agitation. Mr.. Parnell was at
first firm in his refusal to speak for publi-
again, never did Ireland more need friends
in England, and never have the friends Of
Ireland been so constrained to silence"
BEING pressed, he said: "I have been
compelled to refuse to make nay utterances
concerning these matters to the English
press, because no matter how carefully my
expressions might be made, my jury would
certainly be prejudiced If it would not
be packed. England is not in q 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 preferment is the doing this we'll.
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 the
proffeYed and the guaranteed reward of the
English follower of Christ who can invent
the most excuses for suppressing the nat
ural rights OF the Irish followers OF Christ.
THE Irish Christian takes his Friday
ish from the north side Of the British
channel; Tho English Christian l. from
the South. Why should the Irishman be
Absolutely = slave
and the Englishman be his master? Why
should the friedman give up his struggle
to be free? After centuries OF strife, the
Irish people reached by wonderful patience
and wonderful tast, that stage Of political
success wherein their struggles for liberty
were confined to parliamentary efforts.
So good was their cause that legislation
was secured, giving the Irish peasantry
some rights on their native soil. So pra-
dent were these peasants in the enjoyment
of the fruits OF their hard toll that malice
was not at the time foiled, and since the
period OF the ministry concession, no un.
lawful act has been or can be brought home
to the real Irish party. III crimes have
been committed in Ireland, so have crimes
been committed elsewhere. But in Ireland
everything done by persons not in office
must be Irishmen, and If the facts are
criminal II seems nearly impossible for
Englishmen to assign other than reyolu-
tionary reasons for their commissions.
~ do not care to discuss the crimes now
under judicial investigation in Ireland so
long as the courts of justice have them in
charge. But do protest against the
Uneiyilized Isiasstee
shown by the English press towards the
people Of Ireland since the recent explo-
sions. The explosions occurred at 9o'clock
at night, the one at the government build
ing doing some "a, 900 damage, and the one
at the Times building doing little If any.
The police and military were ut once put
in possession, and all opportunity for an
impartial investigation shut off. II the
London press were conducted as the Amer
ican press scores Of expert writers would
have at once investigated the explosions
| on the spot, and undoubtedly fully ex-
planned them in all the public prints the
next day. But secrecy and mystery were
secured, which naturally surrounded the
affair with great portent. Next day the
| London press, without exception, without
| investigation, without reason, charged
| both explosions upon the Irish party, de-
| scribing them as diabolical plots 10
Punish and Intimttsate
| the government. Fair reportoria. investi-
| CATION might have shown that the explos-
| ion at the government buildings was saus-
| ed by gas and that the one at the Times
| buildings was caused by any one OF thou
| sand persons who imaged themselves ag.
| grieyed. tell you not withstsnding all
| the troubles of the Irish people, there Is to .
| day as much bitter woe in England and
| Scotland, and as much bitter hospitality
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 III. l.housed and clad, and
| are not murmuring on that account. But
| the laborers in Scotland and England are
| idle. and hungry and dangerously impa.
tient. You don't see all this In the edi-
| torials OF London papers, but you see it.'n
| the columns where the stories Of the poor
| are told, and in the vastly increased num-
| Der Of crimes OF violence. The manufac-
| lures and trade of England are ia bad con-
dition. The English people
Are not Nihflistic,
| aud never have been, and IL they were
| there are ten causes ia Eogland for Mill
ism where there is one in Ireland. Ine
| Irish poor are the agricultural poor. The
| poor in England are the dangerous poor oI
| the large towns and the mining districts. |
| do not assume to even suggest that either
| the acts Of violence in Ireland er London
| have been concocted by the friends OF Ire-
| land. 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 pub
| lie violence as have been charged against
| il, and that the Irish party has every rea-
| son to refrain from such illegal acts"
| II further wish 10 say that whether or
not the opponents of the Irish party have
found it convenient TO endorse or invent
these acts Of violence for the purpose OF
| Injuripg the Irish Cause
in Parliament and before the English
people. The fact that they invariably and
without investigation charge the Irish
party with having perpetrated all these
| crimes produces the same result and Is
almost equally criminal charge the
London Press with the political crime OF
having, without reason and without inquiry,
attempted to convince the English mind that
q series OF outrsges, which will undoubtedly
be Iproyed 70 be connected with the Irish
party, were the representative acts Of
Irish revenge. charge the London press
with the political crime OF having doae
this at critical periods in the stage of Irish
remedial legislation; and lay upon that
press all the responsibility for all the delay
which may be consequent In the doing ot
that justice which the ministry ayowed us
intention to give 70 Ireland for all the
spirit of indignation which may thus be
aroused. declare that the Irish party Is
absolutely innocent OF all cause for the
blame sought 10 be placed upon It.
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