New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-06
THE IRISH MANIFESTO.
| MR. PARNELLS LATEST MESSAGE AND MR..
GLADSTONE'S ANSWER


LONDON, November %.
The appearance Of the Irish Manifesto gave a
fresh interest TO q campaign which, spite OF the
tremendous issues at stake had begun to bore most
people. Mr.. +. p. OConnor's invectiye against the
Liberal party is intended. of course, chleuy 1or
Irish consumption and is adapted to the IRISH taste
Its author however, has lived in England ana Is al
times in the habit of appealing to an EAghSh andi-
ense. He must have been curious to know what
effect his phrases produced on those (of what ne
calls an alien race with whom his lot is cast |
am afraid il must be said that the chief feeling III
the English masses is of amusement.
The Fnglishman is IN comparison with
the Cet, but phlegmanc creature at
best, and he cannot really comprehend. though he
tries, how il is that Mr.. OConner, and the mid
Mr. Mccarthy, and their co-signltorie' contrVe To
climb these heights of passion, This Is bat an
other proof of neradicabe incompatibihty OF tenn
per between the two races. The EngllShinah
thinks the freshman is talking fustian; the Irish
man being all the while perfectly serious.
Mr. O'Connor indeed. is not without rhetorical
skill and would doubtless prefer to pitch his tune
III q lower key. There Is truth enough. from the
Irish point Of vIew in his indictment against the
Liberal party, and his statement would have
gained in literary force by moderation Adjectives
are Mr.. OConnors weak point. Fragrant,
brntal shameless hateful, despotlc.
mean specous peridlous, treacherouS'
incompetent, unprinciplcd, servIe and cowardly,-
such are some of the terms which the President OF
the Irish National League Of Great Britain applies
to the Liberal party. The Liberals shrug their
shoulders and pass They make the mistake
which they have made before now of looking ut the
form rat her than the substance. If Mr. OConnors
phrascoiogv strikes them rs grottsque, they take
little heed of the grievance which undcrllcs these
uncou,h and perhaps baT5aric sentences There Is,
however. as we shall see presently. one Liberal who
docs not think he afford to treat this ontburst
in a spirit of easy contemptuoIsness.
tins ha Conservatives who find themselves most
embarrassed by the Manifesto. The main object Of
il is TO advise Irishmen 10 vote for Conservative
candidates. 1t was well understood beforehand
that they would do so. The Irish ia England
moreover. are well organized They have
machinery not | think less dcspotic, as Mr.. O'Con-
nor would say, or not less efficient. than that Of
Birmingham. They could have given effect to the
understanding between them selves and the
Tories quietly. The Tories have till
now been making believe with great
energy that the Salisbury Parnell coalition il
Pigment Of the Radical Imagination. This mani
festo proves an awkward commentary on their pro-
LESSONS of dIsrntcrested virtue They are reduced
to SAYING that they suppose II must have been pub
lished at this Inconvenient moment in order 10
damage them before the country. One of their
London organs all but hunted that it was only
another Radical lie. There, however, are the
names. Mr.. O'ConnOr and Mr.. Mccarthy and Mr..
Sexton and Mr. lIeacv, and Mr.. Redmond and Mr..
OKelly and last bUt not least, Mr.. Biggar. None
Of these representatives of the IRISH cause has dis
owned the document. The commences of it is, in
fact. mdispuabc.
Mr. Parncll, If the proof were wanting, has certi-
fed to the authenticity of the manifesto. He said
al Liverpool on Saturday that he fully and cordially
approved of every word of it adiectlves included
no donbt. Mr.. Parnell has usually been thought
little frigid in style for an agtatOr. The criticism
has touched him. and he has resolved to show that
he can he as feryIdas anybody when he chooses He
expressed, for example, his belief That under the
Crimes Act (which the wicked Liberals passed and
enforced there were more judicial MURDERS more
false imprisOnments, more crimes committed against
the people than all tae crimes together which the
people in their extremity committed during the
whole Of the Land League movement" The Saxon
has brought another charge against Mr.. Parnel He
has said that the Irish leader wanting in bumOr
1t is enough reply that Mr.. Parnel now makes
charge against the Liberal party that they rose
up aud attempted to intlmidate Lord Carnlrvon
from carrying out his duty AZ n Christian and as II
ruler of the country" They say he has no INA gI-
nation but he tells his follOw-cOuntrymen in Liy-
erpOOl that "the Lishman in this election who
votes for q Liberal Radical candidate will he
voting as much as lies his power 10 hand back
into chains imprisonment and DEATH" 1t has been
limited he holds himself little above his colleagues
In the social scale, bnt he observes that Mr.. Glad
stone. il he comes back with big majority. will
try and cheat the Irish out of the right of ruling
themselves.
! The exception to the general anathena pro-
| nounced by Mr.. Parnel upon the Liberal candi-
dates deserves a moments notice. This Liberal list
| headed by Mr.. COwen. who is not Liberal; who IS
followed by Mr.. Story, of Sunderland and Mr.
! Thompson, Of Durham, who are Liberal nobodies
| The fourth is Mr. Labouchere, who is certainly
somebody, but would rather call himself Radical
! than Liberal. fifth is added later, Captain
! o. hea, tic go-between III the Kimainham Lee0-
tiations. Their merit IN the eyes of Mr. Parnell
is that one and all they voted steadfastly against
coercion That is why hc exercises IN Their behalf
the power no assumes TO bind and to loose the Irish
! vote No service in his mind is equal TO that The
so-called Coercion acts acts by which the Lib
eral Government strove to maintain the asccndency
of law in Ireland. Mr.. PaInell wished to main tain
his own ascendeDcy by helpof the first Coercion act
Mr. Forster defeated him, and put him in prison, and
! broke up the Land League. BY help Of the second
| Lord Spencer brought TO justice many criminals
concerned in those acts by which the reign Of ter
ror came near replacing the reign Of law; and he
kept the peace which the new National League
would have broken If it could Mr.. ParnclPs pro-
ie,s depended for success first on one and then on
the other League, and their agents From his own
point of view he is justified IN singing out the OPP
ponents Of the laws which destroyed or crippled
these leagues as his only real friends. Whatever
the Liberal party has done for ireland is nothing
-disestablishment OF the Irish Protestant Episco-
pal Church. Irish Land Acts, and the rest. They dc
not count. But if a Liberal here and there has
voted against the main tenance of law and order
In Ireland he is 10 have his reward.
Mr.. Gladstone. who shows at times q degree OF
ssnsitiveness unusual in so praotsed O politician,