The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-07
-IRELAND'S CHAMPION.
"Wanderer" DescantS ON Chas.
Stuart Parnell.
A SHREWD POLITICAL LEADER.
The Dubiety of Roaring" Hugh
'Hanna and His Brethren-The
HydrOphobia Scare.
A SHREWD POLITICAL LEADER.
BELFAST, January 30, 1885. -

1t has been said that the man VIII,
does not change his opinions is a fool
If this be the untailing test of sanity O.
insanity the rule will prove that nearl,
all the political writers for the grea
English journals are On the proper sid
OF asylums when they ale on the out.
side. The CHI inge OF opinion which i
now specially called to mind is that re
garding the capacity and patriotism O
Charles s. Parnell. OF course. YOU hay,
long since heard of the defeat OF the
Conservative ministry, but the talk now
being INDUCED in to make Parnell chic
Secretary for Ireland under the Liberia
government, while it is not likely TO be
realized, is singularly illustrative of Tie
radical change that has taken place in
the op Mon of the English people since
the beginning of last August. At that
time the claims of ssMr Parnell to come
to the then approaching Parliament IN
such strength as to demand CO... ces-
sions, was secuted by nearly all Liberal
and Conservative journals alike. AS
the weeks passed change in sentiment
regarding the Irish political leader be-
came very manifest. The plan adyan
ced by him, which, in the beginning
was treated with derision and con
tempt, with astonishing rapldity re-
ceived a more and more serious and
finally an alarming consideration and
after these months, the man who was
branded as political glutton, a money
grabbing patriot whose claim to intu-
ence was due to willing Obeisance 10 a
crew little less brainless and unscrupu-
lous than hi,' self, is now frankly re-
cognized by many OF the Journals
which SO bitterly assailed at the begin
ming of the campaign as the one man
most fitted for the position of chief
secretary for ireland. Time does work
wonders, and it doesn't take so much
time either. Mr.. Parnell is not patriot
in that sense of the word which is sun
posed to impel man to sacrifice every
individual interest to the one consum-
ing passion-love of country. If report
be true his political connection with
Ireland has made him quite wealthy
man; and this fact has given rise, and
the appearance of truth, to the state
ments that his love for Ireland depends
solely upon the manner in which that
love lines his wallet; but there is little
doubt that he has a genuine love for
the country he represents and has her
welfare at heart--loves her not less, but
himself more. He has succeeded ad-
mirably in organizing and keeping or
ganized a representation for Ireland
which accomplished much good for the
country, and in all probability not
little harm. The result of the recent
elections has proven him also to be one
of the mos t (if not the most far-seeing
political leaders in the United King
dom. The election has resulted as cal
cllated by him with almost unerring
certainty; and were it not for the very
fact that his declarations prior to the
campaign were made with such auda-
cious frankness and so persistentlv re-
peated the result might had been due to
one of those fortuitous freaks of cir
cumstances with which fortune some
times seconds her favorites. Be the
result foresight or accident, it has hap
pened so opportunity as to give the
Home Rule movement a remarkable
prominence and advance Mr.. Parnell in
the opinion of the public as shrewd
and far-seeirg political leader. Despite
the fact that a single valid argument
against Home Rule is yet to be found,
the opposition is still great, because, of
the separation "bugbear with which the
fearful and the tricksIer are tickling the
ears of the public, and Home Rule APP
pears to be among those things which
1856 will never see realized; but that
or attempts at concessions,
will be made in the hope of satisfying
the demands of the Irish Parliament
arians is an undisputed certainty. Tn
less the concessions are much more
favorable to Ireland than any one hopes
them to be, the present Parliament Will
be 2 short-lived one. Without great
detection from either Liberals to Con
or visd versa the defeat OF
either party will depend entirely upon
he vote of ParnelI and his following.
such a detection is an improbabillty OF
he most pronounced character, save
II The Irish question; which. once set
ed any way, would leave the parties as
hey now stand and the ministry at the
nar-v of the Irish, to whom revenge
you'd be sweet, sure and speedy from
IS possibility. These defeats will.re-
ult in a series OF short ministries Or q
of Parliament or such a
.raposition as the Irish viii accept
rom one ministry or the other. Which |
# the three will be the condition time
lone can demonstrate. But the re
-ulsion of feeling regarding Mr.. Par
leu. unless some untoward cIreum-
tance arises, is likely to be followed -bY-l
corresponding favorable sentiment in
,ehalf Of the people Whom he repre-
Despite the bright pictures of Roar
ng" Hugh Hanna. Rev. Kane and
,thers of the great prosperity OF III
ter. which were painted in the recent |
oval meeting in Belfast, it Is notori-
ms fact that hundreds OF families are
now starving in this manufacturing
centre. while the poor-houses are Iull.
Tbese reverend blackguards remind me
If their brethren in Utah-they are en-
gagged in gathering fund for the pur-
nose of misrepresenting Ireland while
people in their ewn parishes are starV-
ing.
on bydrophobia have occasloned ter
T1bIe scare on the subject. Notsbecause
of any failures on the doctors part, but
for the reason that the subject has been
brought into such prominence that
overy fellow who owns pup IS IN con-