The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Effect of the Refusal of the Irish Leader {.
Disclaim the Leagues Responsibility
for Outrage and Murder.
A Public Alliance of Radicals and
Parnellites No Longer Possible.
Russian Nihilists Again Making Threats
Against the Cars Life The Golos
Suspended for Six Months,
IRELAND AND ITS AFFAIRS.
Forster's Attack on the Land League-Effect
of ParneIrs Failure to Reply.

IRELAND AND ITS AFFAIRS.
Forster's Attack on the Land League-EGect
of ParneIrs Failure to Reply.
New YORK, Feb. 24.-G. w. Smalley's Lon
don cable letter to the Tribune says:
Mr.. Forster's destructive attack upon the
Land League and Mr.. Parnell has put every
thing else in the shade. Ever since James
Csreys testimony, discriminating the Land
League, was made public the House has
looked to Mr.. Parnel to refute the daily
growing suspicion of the Irish leaders COM
plicity in the crime Appealed to and chal-
lenged repeatedly from both sides of the
House, he sat for a whole week silent Mr..
Forster, on Thursday, sent him word that he
intended to accuse.
The House was thronged. Mr.. Forster
spoke with an energy and directness that car
ried everything before him. He began his
speech by charging that Mr.. Parnell still
remained the leader of an agitation which
had organized and promoted outrage
and murder, and that from outrage
and murder he had derived advantage
and power. If he dsapproved of
this campaign in crime, why had he never
audited funds of the Land League? When did
Mr.. Parnell disown Sheridan, Boyton and
| Redpath, all accredited agents of the Land
| League, and all publicly advocating murder?
When did Mr.. Brennan cease discharging the
double duty of paid secretary of the Land
| League and Irish correspondent of the Irish
| World, which was the paymaster of the Land
League and the open advocate not only of
murder, but of the wholesale destruction of
English lives and property? Would Mr.. Par
| nell disavow United Ireland, a newspaper
owned partly by him and Mr.. Mccarthy,
which Systematically treated murder arson
and robbery as incidents of the league cam
| paign? Summing up these and many other
| grave matters, and admitting himself that
probably no more serious charge had ever
| been made by one member of the House
against another Mr. Forster declared that
| Mr., Parnell had either connived at the out
| RACES and crimes, or had remained in willful
| ignorance of them, accepting the authority
and influence that were due to them and
never condemning them.
| When Mr. Forster sat down the whole
House turned to Mr.. Parnell, who still re-
fused to rise--the first time in history that
member of the British Parliament ever de-
clined such a challenge.
meeting of the Irish party held imme-
diately after this scene, resolved that Mr..
| Parnell must speak. After twenty-four
hours of reflection, Mr. Parnell resolved to
leave Mr.. Forster unanswered. Speaking last
night he excused himself on the ground that
Mr.. Forster had no right to put such cues
| tions and make such statements. The truth
is that Mr. Parnell, though perhaps person.
| ally disliking outrages, knew from the begin
ming of the agitation that his own leadership
and the authority of the Land League both
| depended on the prevalence of crimes and
| violence. To have denounced them formally
would have ruined him with the vast ma
| jority of his followers, who have either
committed or approved of outrages To
| denounce them now would have the same
| effect
| Having to elect between the English pub
lie and the Irish public, Mr. Parnell chose
the latter The result is a total breaking-up
of any possible public alliance between the
Parnellites and the English Radicals Not
one English journal, not even the Daily
News, the Pail Mall Gazette, nor the Echo,
ventures to lift its voice to-day in Mr.. Par
nell's defense. All over England and Scot
land there is one outburst of indignant con-
demnation of the leader who deliberately
| refuses to disown the outrages, and to disa-
| VOW any possible connection between the
murderous societies and the Land League
Mr. McCarthys vain effort to cover his
| leaders retreat took the form of harangue,
| crowded with bitter personalities and meas
| ured insults to Mr.. Forster. Mr.. McCarthys
responsibility for the Land League organ,
United Ireland, being established it would
seem a good time TO bring out also the Daily
News's responsibility for Mr.. Mccarthy, who
continues his connection with that journal
as writer OF editorials.
Mr.. Trevelyan, who followed Mr. Parnell,
described the latters speech as having dried
up all hopes of concliaton, and as leaving
the government to continue unhesitatingly
| to punish crime in Ireland, until the Irish
can be educated to see that crime is criminal
Mr.. Chamberlain, who closed the debate
for the Ministry left Mr.. Parnell to his fate,
devoting himself to an attempt to re-explan
the Kilmanham negotiations, and to excul-
pate himself from the charge of intriguing
against Mr.. Forster. Unlike Mr.. Parnell,
Mr.. Chamberlain met the oft-repeated ac-
cusation with denial, which his friends
profess to believe.