The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-31
ACROSS THE WATER.
An Interview With the Crea
Home Ruler.
AN AUTHORIZED STATEMENT OF THE
GREAT RRITAIN-

by him.
Mrs. Parnell sat on the terrace in front of
the homestead. waiting for her son to return
from drive. The house was built on the spot
where Charles Stewart Parnell was born 1t
IS substantial structure, approached by a
magnificent avenue of oaks
While we were talking on the terrace Mr..
Parnell drove up with rather notwithstanding
lady at his side. She was his sister, Mrs. Dick
son. The family likeness between brother
and sister is very striking.
Mr. Parnell is about six feet high, straight
as an arrow, direct in speech, hearty in man
ner, and imbued with the most splendid conf
dence III the early triumph of home rule. His
enthusiasm is sincere and infectious. He will
be forty-two years old in june
He led the way through the billiard-room-
the walls of which were lined with arrows.
1ssagii shields, snowshoes and imumerable
trophies from various quarters of the earth
into the library. This is cheerful apartment
OF large size completely lined with rare and
historical books. Among them are journals
OF the Irish house of parliament by Mr.. Par
nell's grandfather, Sir John Parnell, when
chancellor of the exchequer here
Mr.. Parnell said cheerfully '1Iy health
has been steadily improving since the rising of
parliament There is no truth whatever in the
stories concerning it to which you allude. In
fact there was never anything the matter with
me except general disturbance of the system
arising from chill to the liver contracted last
autumn twelve months, which renders me still
rather delicate and requires great care and at
tention in living and dietary But no nerma-
nent effect or organic injury is at all likely to
result"
"Do you regard the Balfour government as
sincere?'
81 do not believe there is particle of SIN
cerlty IN the present executive. either in their
use of coercion or in their opposition to home
rule. Their present coercive and ant-Irish
policy has been adopted simply because it
seemingly pays them best and is likely to keep
them in Office for time When coercion is
played out they will be quite ready to turn
round and offer autonomy to ireland, Just as
during Lord Carnarvon's viceroyalty.
Regarding Mr.. Balfour personally, I wish
to say that the chief Characteristic of his adj
ADMINISTRATION seems to me to be its meanness
Let me give as examples of this his conduct in
attacking humble and obscure men under the
provisions of the crimes act for constructive
ofenses, his difference of prison treatment of
such men as compared with his treatment of
Father Ryan, and, lastly, the chief secretary's
untruthful attack upon William OBrien after
he had imprisoned him and thus supposed
that he had sealed his lips and prevented his
publication OF the truth. Newsvenders hon
est. Woodworking small Shopkeepers. had been
imprisoned and treated as felons for selling
copies OF United Ireland and other newspapers
Mr.. Balfours magistrates holding that any
body selling copy of newspaper knowingly
publishes everything it contains! This, of
course, is an underhand attempt to strike at a
free press by intimidating the vendors, While
at the same time Mr.. Balfour has not mustered
enough courage directly to seize or suppress o
single newspaper.
''Obserye, then, how quickly lie discovers
that the prison rules enable prisoner to wear
his own clothes and receive exceptional advan-
tages when the prisoner is priest while OBJ
scure men, guilty from the governments own
point of view OF much smaller otfenses, are vi
olenty stripped naked in midwinter and left
to SILVER for hours in their stone-hagged cells
even the bed clothes being taken away from
them"
"What is the feeling in England as far as
your own observation and information goes,
concerning the present custom of evicting
people from their houses in the middle Of win
II think that the evctions that have beer,
carried out under such narrowing crcum-
stances have influenced public opinion in Eng
land enormously. Such occurrences, even
more than the incidents OF coercion, have
tended to instruct Englishmen as to the real
situation in Ireland under tory administra-
ton"
Il am particularly anxious to get your
views, said ION the position of the govern
ment today on the rent question:
"Ihe order to revise the judicial rents, said
MIR. Parnell slowly is a complete iustitca-
ton of the course that I pursued in the latter
part OF the session of 1886. Had the Salisbury
cabinet then accepted my bill-which proposed
a revision of the judicial rents-the plan of
campaign movement would not have been
started, great number of heartess evictions
would have been prevented and the country
would have been saved from the bloodshed
which the employment of force has brought
about. and which has cast such a stain on LoId
Salisbury'S administration. The propos-
ed reduction in judicial rents is mis-
condition of the farmers is consid
cred. The case is doubly strong when we COM
pare the abatements voluntarily made by the
English landlords with those which Lord Sails
bury is compelled to wiring from his Irish fol-
lowers; but his tardy acknowledgment of the
justice of my action in the session Of 1886 is
another illustration both Of the inability of
Englishmcn to govern ireland, and of Lord
SalisbUry'S aptitude in accommodating his
principles to political and party necessity"
On the way back TO the railroad station |
asked Dayitt what he considered the most
prominent Of Panells characteristics.
Establishes, - was the immediate answer.
when he makes up his mind to do a thing it
would be as easy TO break his determination as
it would be to stick a needle under ledge in
California and turn the Rocky mountains over
with it,"
DUBLIN, January 25-Mr. O'Brcn went 10
Mallow today. He is still pale from the eff
fects of his confinement, bnt is in good spirits.
The tenants of Donegal have resolved to
withhold the payment Of rents during the
llillc llldU 4lI. DltlG anu dlIbE NitI INuGlls
who were arrested at Armagh last Friday, are
kept in Jail. Mr.. Blame and Father McFad-
den are now in Donegal Jail The former is
charged with making speeches tending to in
cite tenants to resist the authorities, and
Father McFadden is charged with holding
ant-polee and anti-landord meetings.
Cox, the nationalist member Of parliament
who was arrested in London, is in Ennis Jail,
the stone floor and walls Of his cell are reeking
with moisture, and the window frame has
rotted from the effects of damp. Cox was
compelled to stuff his muifer in a hole in the
frame to exclude the bitter wind.
Donegal peasants are arnlng ana threaten
to destroy al bridges in the county. Troops
are marching to Dunfa2hy TO preserve the
peace. Trial OF Father McFadden will begin
Saturday next.
FRASCE.
PARIS, January 23.--Au attempt vas made
TO kill Louise Michel at Hayre last evening.
She was making an address at meeting OF
anarchists when q man iu the audience