The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-04-13
AS Viewed BY REOPA1'H.
Across the Atlantic the Irish
Leaders Too Often Criticised
by Their
IRISH AMERICAN SUPPORTERS.
Instead Of Being Critics They Should
Have Paid More Attention to Such
Men as LIE Uar0n.

Have Paid hlore Attention tc Such
Men as LIE Caro1.
James Redpath, in his letter from
Dublin, to the Baltimore Sun, Of Marcl
30th, takes up the question OF the ST
Oracles on this safe side OF the Atlantic
Who have been ilidulging in SO mucl
cheap gasconade in their selfsutiicien
criticisms Of the policy and programme
of the Irish leaders. He says;
"Ihe Irish leaders mere are otter
quite sharply criticised by the leaders
Of their Irish-Arnerican supporters
Consequently there is a good deal OF
quiet enjoyment here over the revela
tions Of LIE Caron, showing how
thoroughly he deceived and yet how
thoroughly he WAS trusted by Irish
American leaders, high, and deservedly
high, in the estimation Of their fellow
exiles. 1t is not spoken Of as discredit-
able to their intelligence that O. spy in
the pay Of the British Government
should have been entrusted with their
most dangerous secrets for over twenty
years, but 1t is quoted as q proof that
they had better attend to their own
business before they attempt to dictate
a policy or indulge in further criticism
OF the men i'm the gap -
a great deal Of this stuff found vent
in the editorial columns OF the New
Yo-k Tablet, that is while the issue of
the fight seemed 10 set dead against MIR.
Par,,ell. Since he has won, however,
the wind has changed and the bellicose
and windy patriots ere n ow being inter
view ri and WriJten-up on how they
saved Iarnell and disconcerted the
Tcrje. and the Times. Il made g. brief
of the Tablets POINTS," says MI.
Redpa; b, land added one or two move
that ! ad heard in friendly Irish circles
in New York. Here they are, and the
Dublin replies from one of che most
eminent of the leaders OF the Irish Par
liamentary Party:'
Charge 1.-Ihat The Irish National
lists have allowed their movement to be
used as a mere cats paw for the clad
stonian Liberals
Reply.-rhe Nationalists have done
nothing of The sort. Nh. Gladstone and
the Liberal leaders for many years
fought the Nationalist party and en-
deavored to put them down, and the
Nationalist have only become the
friends Ct the Gladstonjan party since
their policy and programmes were
adopted by Mr.. Gladstone; aud they
are now cutie as independent as ever
they were.
Charge 2.---That Irish Nationalism
concerns Itself i'll these days more with
English tt.an with Irish affairs, and
consults TIE wishes and whims OF the
English leader rather than the rights
and demands of Irishmen, and ap-
parently sets more stock OH the stability
of the British Empire than on the i'll
terests and welfare Of Ireland.
Reply-This charge is utterly pre
posterous, and nothing can prove its
falsity more than the speeches and at
tacks ty the Unionist party and the
Tories on tue Liberals, for their chief
staple Of their speeches is the charge
that the English Liberals, led by Mr..
Gladstone, have become the obseQuious
servants Of Mr. Parnell and his party,
and have sacrificed all English interests
to the wishes and whims of the Par
nellite Party, and have abandoned all
carefoi the greatness and unity Of the
British Empire in their eagerness to
please their Irish allies.
TIE PARLIAMENTARY POLICY.
Charge 3.-Ihat the Irish Americans,
while never pinnipg their faith in the
success of a mere parliamentary policy,
nevertheless gave the Parnellite move
nlent a generous support as long as the
leaders kept within the lines defined in
their original programme.
& Reply. The answer is that the Par
nellite party never believed in purely
Parliamentary policy. and from the out
set taught the Irish people that Par
liamentary policy would be frultless un.
less backed Up by q most vigorous and
determined agitation in Ireland. This
was their teaching at the beginning,
and it is their teaching and belief at the
present moment, and, SO far as their
present programme goes, it stands to-
day exactly as it stood in :79 and 80.
and they are quite ready to challenge
their critics to point out definitely in
what detail they have departed from it.
Charge 4.-That, with the abandon
ment Of an independent attitude toward
all English parties, a radical and fatal
departure was made from the old lines.
S2sG|I Ieply The Parne lite Party are as