Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
PARNELL AT NOTTINGHAM.
He Says Ireland Must Herself Develop
Her Industries.

A large audience listened yesterday at Not
tingham to the speech made by Mr.. Parnell in
reply to one recently made by Lord Salisbury
at the conservative conference. Mr.. Parnell
declared that there never had been a move
ment of such magnitude to the country which
was so comparatively free from crime as the
land league movement. The object of the
home rule movement, he said, was to regen-
crate Ireland, especially with regard to her in
dustrial condition.
He said that manufactures might be devel-
oped to such an extent as to take the strain off
the land and enable the people to look to other
means than farming for gaining living, but
the idea was not tenable that Ireland could be
governed by England's promoting her indus
tries. irishmen themselves must promote
Irish industries by building and clearing out
the channels of rivers and retaining waste
lands-not at the expense of the English ex-
chequer, but of the Irish exchequer. or, best of
all, through the efforts of local and individual
enterprise and with private capital
Mr.. Balfour's plan of making railways
through impoverished districts vain ex-
penditure of money. Home rule aimed at ma
tional regeneration and this implied the regen-
Grafton of the industries and the industrial and
commercial spirit of the people.
If home rule were granted it would not dis
courage the rich people of England from pro-
would be judciOusly and advantageously en-
ployed instead OF being wasted it now is to
maintain in power government of fraud and
trickery. Expenditure of that sort would en-
able Ireland to get and keep her head above
water and so exercise and develop the qualities
of her people that she would be no longer an
exhibition for the wonder and scorn of the
nations of the world.
IRELAND NOT APPRAISED.
Mr.. Parnell devoted the speech he made in
the evening to the tenants league. He said
this was by far the greatest and most powerful
peaceable movement ever organized in Ireland
or any other country. Although Ireland was
tranquil she was not appeased. She did not
submit. On the contrary, the peoples dislike
of the government was tenfold more intense
for the experiences of three years of coercion.
He would not say that it would be impossible
to govern Ireland by mere coercion. but Bal
tours mixture of coercion and constitutionalism
would never succeed. Mr.. Balfour had made
several mistakes. Among these was that he
had neglected to provide for arrears of rent
and for the restitution of evicted tenants This
had led to the formation of new agrarian
movement which would sweep Balfour and his
props away as chaff is swept before the whirl-
wind
1.-THE government had nothing to be ashamed
OF IN its connection with the Times doubtless
it would crafty curiosity by making known the
truth about that matter. The country wanted
to know how far the government had gone in q
course so mean and so thoroughly contrary to
the English spirit to attack men from am
bush and by the use of such disreputable in
struments.
He knew the letters were forgeres, but he
would rather have died than have accepted the
vlndication the government offered him.