Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-07
MIR. PARNELL TALKS FREELY.
His Health Restored-Views on the Com
mission, Coercion and Other Topics.

His Health Restored-views on the Com
mission, Coercion and Other Topics.
Mr.. Parnell has been interviewed for the New
York World by Mr.. T. P. O'Connor, NJ. p, pres
ident Of the land league Of Great Britain, and
one of the Irish leaders chief lieutenants. Mr..
OConnor notes the great improvement which
has taken place in Mr.. Parnells health, and
says:
This is the moment to confess what it would
have been improper to reveal at an earlier
period. The fact is, we thought a couple Of
years ago that Mr. Parnen had very bad
chance Of ever recovering. He used to come
down to the house with face heavily lined
and CHASTITY pale. His walk was feeble and his
eye had the glassiness of coming death.
Mr.. Parnell attributes his bad health to his
habits of eating too fast sometimes eating too
much, and sleeping too long, and his recovery
is due to the restricted regimen on which he
was placed by Sir Henry Thompson, his physi-
clan, and plenty of exercise. The only manner
in which he fails to note improvement is in his
weight. Though within half an inch Of six
feet in height he weighs only 154 pounds.
When asked what he thought of the proceed
ings Of the commission as far as they had gone,
Mr. Parnell said:
"You will judge Of that by the fact that have
ceased to attend the court. Up to the present
the Times has not got beyond a general de-
scription Of the disturbed state of Ireland.
Every attempt to connect not us personally
for there hasn't been even an attempt to do
that, except in the ridiculous story about Hn-
rington, told by an informer-but every at
tempt to connect our organization with crime
has completely broken down."
'Of course, you are not surprised at this?"
"Of course not. The Times has not sue
ceeded in finding anything, for the reason that
there was nothing to find"
THE FORGED LETTERS.
"And now about the forged letters?"
At this point Mr.. Parnslrs face assumed its
most sphinx-like expression. He said:
''On that point permit me to confne myself
strictly to the statement that we shall prove
our case to the hilt"
Mr.. Parnen talked freely of the financial
aspect OF the Irish movement. The annual ex-
penses are estimated at f45,OO0 (s225, 00O), Of
which E25, 900 go to evicted tenants, for whom
houses are built and to whom weekly allow
ances Of food are made; the disappointment
tary fund requires 10000; the Irish press
agency, which supplies Irish speakers to Eng
allure, costs 5,OOO registration of voters and
miscellaneous expenses call for $500 more.
Mr.. OConnor asked where the funds neces-
sary to meet this enormous expenditure had
been received from last year. MIR. Parnell
answered:
Il got 10000 from Mr.. Rhodes, South
African merchant, who is in sympathy with the
Irish cause, and got Ell ,0O0 from Mr.. MUIR
rough, an Irishman, friend and partner of
Mr.. Rhodes in the Kimberley Mines Some
money has also come from Australia, and our
organization in Ireland brings us in about
f10, 900 annually"
show does America stand2"
THAT is a subject upon which I speak with
some hesitation. We have been treated with
such extraordinary generosity by America that
am afraid to say it, though it is true, that the
subscriptions from there have rather fallen off
for the last year or two But then they have
been very busy with their own great political
struggles. Besides, they have sent us vast
without the assistance of America"
The defense of the Times charges is esti-
mated at not less than ESQ, 900, and the Times
expenses are put down at fl50,0O0. While
Mr.. Parnell does not believe that the govern
ment is aiding the Times financially, he SAYS
it is evident that the whole executive machin-
cry in Ireland has been placed at their dis
posal
Mr.. Parnell was next asked whether he
| thought coercion had succeeded, and replied:
Il am bound to say that the people have re-
sisted coercion with irmness beyond all my
expectations. To this frmness 1 attribute the
complete breakdown of coercion. You see, the
coercion which was at the disposal of Mr.. For
ster was much more potent against such
movement as ours than the coercion of Mr.. Bal
lOuT. CdlCuldtlOu WAS tnat ne
would break down the organization by fear.
For this reason he employed the prison bru-
talities which have been SO often exposed He
imagined that if he made Imprisonment severe
enough people would hesitate to run the risk
of it, and that thus the organization would
melt away"
And the calculation has completely mis-
carried?
Completely. Indeed coercion is a miser-
able failure. Mr.. Balfour began by prosecut-
o.. Al
He has ceased these prosecutions. He prose-
cuted newsvendors for selling the papers that
contained the reports. That class of prose-
cution has ceased. He suppressed by proclama-
ton the league in three counties. The branches
of the league continue to meet in these counties
as regularly as ever before, and the member
ship has increased rather than diminished. He
began by reversing the whole policy of Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach with regard to evictions,
claiming that he had nothing to do with the
justice or injustice of these evictions, and that
he was obliged to send troops and police to
help the worst landlord in carrying out the
most cruel evictions. And now Lord Clanri-
carde and other landlords are vainly asking for
troops and police. MIR. Balfour won't give
them. OF course there is still great deal of
cruelty and tyranny and wrong, but the back
of coercion is broken, and Mr.. Balfour has
failed as ignominiously as any of his prede-
cessors."
Mr.. Parnen expressed his complete conf
dence IN the easy triumph OF home rule at a
general election. When that might occur no one
| could prophesy, but he thought the personal
element which contributes greatly to parlia-
mentary battles was beginning to work preju-
dicially against the government. All the
places have been given away and ambitious
men have nothing more to hope from the gov
eminent. Lord Randolph Churchill is very
dissatisfied. and there's no knowing when he
may be able to trip them up, for he is very
clever man.
Foreign Taste in Jewelry.