Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
PARNELl'S SPEECH.
Erin Must be Built Up by Irishmer


Parnell delivered IA speech ia Noting
ham few days ago. In reply 10 the address
of Lord Salisbury.
He declared that there had never been
"a movement OF such magnitude in the
country, which was so comparatively free
from crime, as the land league movemen /
The object OF the home rule movement, he
said, was 10 regenerate Ireland. especially
with regard TO her industrial condition.
Continuing, Mr.. Parnell said that manu-
features might be developed 10 such an
extent as TO take the strain off the land
and enable the people 10 look 10 other
means than farming for gaining living,
but the idea was not tenable that Ireland
could be governed by England promoting
her industries lrishmen themselves must
promote Irish industries, by building har
oors, cleaning out the channels of rivers
and reclaiming waste lands, not at the ex-
pense OF the English exchequer, but OF the
Irish exchequer, or, best OF all, through the
efforts of local and individual enterprise
aud with private capital. MIR. Bal
four's plan OF making railways through
impoverished districts was vain expendi-
ture of money. Home rule aimed at Ma
tional re generation, and this implied the
re generation OF industries and the indus
trial and commercial spirit of the people
III home rule were granted IL would not dis
courage the rich people OF England from
promoting industrial developments, but the
nOucN WOulu DC guulClOuslN anu advantage
ously employed instead Of being wasted, as
now, to maintain In power government of
fraud and trgkery Expenditure of that
sort would enable Ireland TO get and keep
her head above water and 10 so exercise
and develop the qualities OF her people
that she would be no longer an exhibition
for the wonder aud scorn OF the nations Of
the world.
Mr.. Parnell would not say that IL would
be impossible 10 govern Ireland by coer-
cion, but Balfour's mixture OF coercion and
cOnstitutionality would never succeed. Mr..
Balfour had made several mistakes among
them was that he had neglected TO provide
for the arrears OF rent and the restitution
of evicted tenants This had led 10 the
formation of new agrarian movement
which would sweep Balfour and his props
away as chat is swept before the whirl.
wind.
If the government had nothing TO be
ashamed of in its connection with the
Times doubtless 1t would crafty curiosity
by making known the truth about that mat
ter. The country wanted TO know how far
the government had gone in a
course so mean and so thoroughly con-
trary 10 the English spirit as TO attack
men from ambush and by the use of such
disreputable instruments. He knew the
letters were forgeries, but he would rather
have died than have accepted the vndica-
ton the government offered him. The Par
nell commission, instead Of trying the per-
sonal indictment had tried the Irish nation
and the movement OF the Irish party.
Mr.. Parnell declares that all talk about n
Protestant minority being animated by "A
spirit Of hostility 10 an Irish parliament and
opposing it, or Catholics depressing Protes-
tants is fallacious. He further declares
that the modified home rule, as proposed
by Mr.. Gladstone, is preferable TO Graf
tans scheme, which contained several ele-
ments of friction.