St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-11

this is in accordance with the whole
policy of the government which has
been in the conspiracy of the Times to
crush us from the commencement"
FIRMNESS WILL CRUSH COERCION.
"And now about the situation in Ire
land: how do things look to you? Has
coercion succeeded?'
II am bound to say" replied Mr.. Par
nell, THAT the people have resisted CO.
ercion with firmness beyond all my
expectations. To this firmness l at
tribute the complete breakdown of cOer-
cion. You see," went on the Irish lead
er, "the coercion which was at the dis
posal of Mr.. Forster was much more
potent against such a movement as ours
than the coercion of Mr.. Balfour. Mr..
Forster had suspended his habeas cor
puS. He could sweep whole country
side, and thereby diSOrganize the Land
league wholesale. You remember, for
instance. that the whole staff of the
Land league in Dublin was arrested.
down to the lowest paid clerk in the
establishment. In the same way, when
the government desired to stop United
Ireland, all it had to do was to seize
everybody there, down to the compost
tors, which 1t did. Now, Mr.. Balfour
has no such power at his command. He
can attack districts, as he has done on
the Clanricarde estate. but he cannot
arrest wholesale. The utmost he can
do is to attempt the breakdown of iso-
lated branches of the league at certain
points,"
what, then, was the calculations OF
Mr.. Balfour?' | asked.
His calculation" replied Mr.. Par
nell, was that he would break down
the organization by fear. For this rea-
son he employed the prison brutalitles
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 that calculations" said, "haS
completely miscarried"'
BALFOUR's TYRANNY A FAILURE.
"Completely." answered Mr.. Parnef,
''and that's the reason say the people
have stood up against the coercion in
way | never expected. Indeed, coercion
is miserable failure. Nh. Balfour be-
gan by prosecuting editors for publish
ing reports of the league. He has
ceased these prosecutions. He prose-
cuted news vendors for selling the
papers that contained the reports. That
class of prosecution has ceased. He
suppressed by proclamation the league
league continue to meet in these coun-
ties as regularly as ever before. and
their membership has increased rather
than diminished. He began by reverS-
ing 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 evic-
tons, and that he was obliged to send
troops and police to help the worst land
lord in carrying out the most cruel evic-
tions. And now Lord Clanricarde and
other landlords are vainly asking for
troops and police. Mr.. 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
ANONYMOUSLY as any of his prede-
cessOrs."
ENGLAND READY FOR HOME RULE.
80 far with regard to Ireland. What
do you think of the prospect in En-
gland?"
"All we want" said Mr.. Parnell, sis
a general election. | don't think any
should have the same majority now as
the united Liberal party had in the par
lament of 1SS5. Then, if ] remember
the figures rightly, the Liberals had
majority of two over us and the Tories
combined. We were 86, which makes
the Liberal majority over the Tories
alone SO. Add our sc. think we shall
remain pretty much where we are, and
there would be majority of 174 for
home rule. That would be majority
quite sufficient to intimidate the house
of lords against rejecting the home rule
bill. Besides. as you know, smaller
majority would quite suffice"
''To sum up then, Mr.. Parnell, your
view of the future is hopeful?''
"Quite hopeful" SAID Mr.. Parnell.
"Our only obstacle is the sense of the
Tories. and still more of the unionists,
that the country is against them. and
that Mr.. Gladstone is very old man.
Their idea is to postpone general cleo
ton, accordingly. as long as possible"
"Have you formed any idea as to
when the general election will Gomez"
Politics, to use trite remark, is a chap
ter of accidents. All administrations
have a tendency towards disintergra-
ton. Then there are always some
things turning up in vast empire like
the British which cause trouble and
dissension, and which may any day land
the ministry in difficulty. The person
al element enters largely into the par
liamentary struggles in this country,
and we have reached the period when
the personal element may begin to work
prejudicially against the government"
"How?" asked.
"Well. by this time all the places
have been given away. and ambitious
men have nothing more to hope from
the government. That is making a
good many of them restive. Then 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. In short, there's no know
ing when the crash may come, and then
our hour will arrive"