Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-09
Balfour and Parnsn.
The Tory Secretary and the
 Irish Leader Interviewed
ABOUT THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.

One Thtnks It's Power Is Practically
 Home Rule Is Constantly Gaining
 Strength and Supporters.
 NEW YORK, June 9.-Blakely Hall, the New York Suns foreign correspondent, cables his paper interviews Oith Irish Secretary Balfour and Mir. Parnell, the first that have ever been granted to an American journalist. Mir. Balfour said England was very anxious to promote industrial progress in Ireland, and that the government wes now maturing a great policy of public works in Ireland He said he himself proposed to introduce three bills involving very large outlay of public money for the purpose of a scheme of arterial drainage and that he hoped to follow it up next year with schemes of similar character.
 He said that emigration continues from
 Ireland, but not from the most congested
 districts While it would materially relieve
 these, the emigration is rather from otEer
 districts. The young and able bodied men
 left, while the old and feeble remain.
 He said there was more money in Ireland
 than there was twenty years ago. and said the commercial condition of Ireland had i'm proved in every way. He said resistance to
 evictions was merely the result of the Nation
  ing less The English, he said, have always
 been extremely anxious for the prosperity of Ireland.
 The interview was ended as follows: "You will continue your fight against the National leaguef'
 "Yes. The statement that the league is in anything like its old form is absurd The league is far weaker than it was. It is de cidedly on the decline"
 "Do you contemplate any change in your policy in IrelandF'
 promptly. ''The present policy is doing its work we'll When last saw Mir. Parnen in Ireland he told me that his plan was to assist English business a8d encourage English legis- | lation, until the Usionists quarrelled among | themselves. MT. Parnell has done neither | one thing nor the other," said MT. Balfour, ! with emphasis. ''He has neither broken the Unionist party nor encouraged English legis- | lation."
 Mir Parnen, in speaking of Mir Gladstone, | said his health wes wonderful, and that he was three years younger to-day that when he | tried to pass the home rule bill in 1886. His ' own health, he said, was only fair. Mir Hall asked:
 "How does the home rule question stand ! tonight!"
 'At no time since the general election" | said MT. Parnell, decidedly, "hnvo the pros ! poets of home rule appeared so bright as they | do to-day. You may say with all confidence that the results of every by-election, with
 the exception of Doncaster, prove that ab- | stentionist Liberal voters of the former | period have all returned to their allegiance,
 and that if an appeal to the country should be made tomorrow Mir. Gladstone would be
 returned with a majority at least to that of ! the present government"
 MT. Parnell continued: Everything is moving well If Mir. Bal | four thinks that he has injured the National league he is very much mistaken, for he is really only at the beginning of his fight with that body. He has attempted to sup press several branches, but has only suc- ceeded in increasing their vitality. l Nothing makes a tree grow so vigor-
 ously and rapidly as clipping the branches To kill you should strike at the root. MT. Balfour pruned the National league to a limited extent, and the results are highly | gratifying to us. We shall not rest until we have established the right of every one of the clipped branches to meet, free from the 1 prosecutions of the police and the penalties
 of the coercion laws"