New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19


MEDAL LEGISLATION.
GBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TEDUSE.l
BosToN, March 1S-A cable dispatch to The
Sunday Globe from London contains an inter
view with Mr.. Parnell. He says: 81 have felt
compelled to refuse TO make any utterances con-
cerning these matters to the English press be-
cause, no matter how carefully my expression
might be made, my jury would certainly be
preudiced. If not, 1t would not be packed. Eng
land is not in mood to listen to anything about
Irish affairs that Is not condemnatory of the Irish
people. 1t is the fashion III England now to cry
down Ireland. The surcst way to British preferment
is the doing this well. Christianity has grown for
nearly 1000 years, and i'll the country which has
published the most Bibles it has come 10 pass that
the greatest public favor is the pre-
ferred and the guaranteed reward of the
English follower of Christ who can
invent the most excuses for suppressng
the natural nights of the Irish followers of Christ.
The Irish Christian takes less Friday fish from the
north side of the English Channel; the English
Christian less from the south.
"Why should the Irshman be absolutely slave
and the Englishman be MS masteri Why
should the lrshman give up his strug-
giles to be frees After centuries of
strife, the Irish people 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 that cause that legIsla-
tion was secured giving the Irish peasantry some
rights on their native soil. So prudent were these
peasants III the 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 OF can be brought home the real Irish
party, If crimes have been committed In Ireland so
have crimes been committed elsewhere But in
Ireland everything done by persons not in Office
must be done by Irshmen and If the acts are
criminal it seems nearly impossible for Engsbmen
to assign other than revolutionary for their
commission.
II do not care to discuss the crimes
now under judicial investigation in Ire
land so long the courts Of justice
have them in charge, but do protest against
the uncivilized 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 Government build
ing dong some $4,000 damage and the one at
The Times building doing little, If any. The police
and military were at onco put in possession and all
opportunity for an impartial investigation was shut
OF. IT the London press were conducted
as the American press is, scores of ex-
pert writers would have at once
investigated the explosions on the spot, and un-
doubtedly would have fully explained them in all
the public prints next day. But secrecy and mys-
tery were secured which naturally surrounded af-
fairs with great importance. The next day the
London press without exception. without invosti-
CATION, without reason, charged both explosions
upon the Irish party, describing them "a
diabocal plots to punish and lntlnldate the Govern
ment. Fair repOrtorial investigation might have
shown that the explosion at the Government build
| thats st. nt TIa
Times building was caused by any one of thousand
| persons who imagined themselves aggreved
"Itell you, notwithstanding all the troubles of the
| Irish people, there is to-day much
| bitter woe IN England and Scotland, and as much
bitter hostility among the poor and idle of both
countries against the lordly power there ever was
in Ireland The 1nsh are struggling for fair pol
icies. They are accustomed to being hun
CRY and ill-housed and clad, and are
not murmurng on that account. But
| the aborcrs in Scotland and England are idle and
| hungry and dangerously impatient. You don't
see all this in the editorials OF The London papers,
but you it in the column where the stories OF
| the poor told, and III the vastly increased
num6er of crimes and violence. The manufactures
| and trades of England are in bad condition. Tho
| Tugiish people are not Nhistic and never have
been aud if they there are ten causes III Eng
land for Nibilisn where there is one III ireland. The
Irish Door are the agricultural poor. The poor IN
England are the dangerous poor of the large towns
and the mining dlstrlcts Al, -,
" do not assume even 10 Suggest titU tne acls ol
violence either III Ireland or London nave Dcoh CON
cocted by the enemies of Ireland. All insist upon
is that the Irish party is honestly cndeayorins to
secure remedial legislation thTough inc regular
courses of Parliament that the Irish party has no
need TO resort TO such acts of public violence as
have been charged against 1t; and That inc irisn
party has every to refrain from such lcgal
! acts | may say further that whether or not
| the opponents OF the Irish party have found
it CONVENIENT to cngender or invent acts ol lnso-
ence for the purpose OF njurng the Irish cause III
| Parliament and before the English people. the
| fact that they invariably and without investiga-
tion charge the Irish party with having per-
petraed 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 England that series OF out
! RACES which will undoubtedly be proved to be
unconnected with the Irish party, were the
| representative acts of Irish revenge. l charge
| the London press with the political crime oil
having done .hs at critical period in the stage oil
Irish remedial legislation, and l laY upon
that press all the responsibility for all the delay