The Evening critic., 1883-03-20
MR., PARNELL INTERVIEWED.
He Says That the Recent Crimes
Should not be Cbarg cd to the Irish

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The Boston Globe publishes the following in.
terview with Mr.. Parnell In London. Refer
ring to recent events Mr.. Parnell said
~ have felt compelled to refuse to make any
utterances concerning these matters to the
English press, because, no matter how careful
my expression might be made, my jury would
certainly be prejudiced. England is not in q
mood to listen to anything about Irish affairs
that is not condemnatory of the Irish people.
1t is tho fashio n in England now. to cry down
is the doing this. well. Christianity has
the country which has published ed, the
greatest public favor is the preferred and
guaranteed reward Of the English follower OF
Christ who can invent the most excuses for
suppressing the natural rights Of the Irish fol-
lowers Of Christ. The Irish Christian takes
less Friday fish from the north side of the
Englsh channel the English Ih Christian .I nIs less
man his master Why SHOULD the Irlshman
give up hs 10 Gs reaebe cen
wonderful patience and wonderful tact, that
stage of political success wherein their strug-
giles for liberty were confined to parliamentary
tion was secured giving the Irish peasantry
some rights on their native soil. SO prudent
of Tere the frss Of shelr hard o tha
malice has for the time failed, and since the
period of the Minister'S concessions no unlaw-
ful act has been or can be brought home to
the real Irish party. If crimes have been COM
mitted In Ireland, so have crimes been com.
mitted elsewhere, but in 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 as
sign other than revolutionary reasons for their
commission. do not care to discuss the
crimes now under judicial investigation in
Ireland 80 long as the courts OF justice have
them in charge, butI do protest against the
unctvilized 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
damage, and the one at the Times build
ing little II any. The police and
military were at once put in possession, and all
opportunity for any impartial investigation
shut Off. If the London press were conducted
as the American press is, scores OF expert
writer's would have at once investigated the
explosions on the spot, and undoubtedly fully
explained them in all the public prints next
day; but here secrecy and mystery were Sc.
cured, which naturally surrounded the affair
with great portent. Tho next day the London
press, without exception, without investlga-
lion, without reason, charged both explosions
upon the Irish party, describing them as d.
Government. Fair reportorial investigation
might have shown that the explosion at the
Government buildings was caused by gas, and
that the one at the Times building was
caused by any one OF a thousand persons
who imagined themselves. aggrieved. /
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 Ireland.
The irish are struggling for fair policies. They
are accustomed to being hungry and Ill
housed and clad, and they are not murmurlng
| and England ore idle and hungry and danger
ously impatient. You don't see all this In the
editorials of the London newspapers, but you
In a N q
| poor are told, and In the vastly Increased
| number Of crimes and violence. The manu-.
| facturers and trades of England are In bad
condition. The English people are not nihi-
| listic, and never have been; and II they were
there are ten cases in England for nihilism
are the agricultural poor. The poor in Eng
| land are the dangerous poor Of large towns
| and mining districts.
the acts of violence In Ireland or London
| have been concocted by the enemies OF Ire
land. All insist upon Is that the Irish party
| Is honestly endeayoring 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
Irish party has every reason to refrain from
such illegal acts. further may say that,
whether or not the opponents OF the Irish
| party have found II convenient TO engender OF
invent acts OF violence for the purpose OF In
juring the Irish cause In Parliament and be
fore the English people, the fact that they In
variably, 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 o
having, without reason and without inquiry
attempted to convince England that serie.
OF outrages, which will undoubtedly be proved
to be unconnected with the Irish party, wer,
the representative acts OF Irish revenge.
| charge the London press with the politica
crime OF having done this at O critical perloC
in the stage OF Irish remedial legislation, ant
| lay upon that press all the responsibility 10
all the delay which may be consequent on th
| doing OF that justice which the ministr!
avowed Its intention TO give TO Ireland, and 70
all the spirit OF Irish hostility which may b
aroused as q result. declare that the Irisl
| party is absolutely Innocent OF all cause TO
the blame sought to be placed upon It,"