St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-11
He Analyses the Evidence
That Has Been Introduced
in the Times Suit.
Subscriptions From America
Somewhat Smaller Than
They Used to Be.
Caring for Evicted Tenants
A Firm Resistance Of
Coercion.
Balfour an Ignominious Fail
ure--Randolph Churchill
Dissatisfied.

LONDON. Jan. 1O.-"Are the expenses
Of the irish movement great at the pres
ent moment, or have they been dimin-
lshed by the adoption of the home rule
principle 10y the Liberal party?'' said L.
P.O'Connor to Mr.. Parnel.
"They have increased" he said, 'for
various reasons. The adoption of our
principles by the great English party,
by changing the whole situation, has
considerably increased our labors and
= our expenditure. The demand for Irish
members to speak at English meetings
is universal; and the unanimous ac-
count get is that their speeches do
enormous service in advancing the
movement by dispelling ignorance and
prejudice. We pay the expenses
of our members in travelling about
the country out of our own funds.
Then there has been an equally large
demand for literature on the irish ques-
ton. We have had, accordingly, to
establish bureau for speakers and for
literature, which is known as the irish
press agency. The bureau provides the
members of the English meetings, and
ductiOn of pamphlets, leaflets, and even
placards. Recently the Tories have
taken to covering the dead walls, espe-
cially when there is an election, with
placards giving lurid and lying pictures
of some of the tragic incidents liz the
agitation, 1t has been found necessary
to counteract the influence OF such
things by giving pictorial representa-
tionS of eviction and other scenes in The
present regime. All this, too. costs
money. The Irish press agency costs
annually e3,500, rising, | am glad TO
say, to 95,000."
HOW EYlCTED TENANTS ARE CARED
FOR.
''What is the other great item of eX-
penditure?"
1.-The fund for the evicted tenants.
We have made it, as you know, a rule
of our movement that no tenant who
falls in q manful struggle against a bad
landlord shall be neglected. We build
him house. We supply him with
weekly allowance for food. We never
lose sight of him until he Is restored to his
holding. Where wholesale evictionS take
place, as on the Clanricarde property,
where whole district has been evicted.
this entails an enormous expense The
operations under the plan of campaign
udtG, Ol ~ tllO CA
pendture under this head. The eX-
pendture for the plan of campaign
does not come out of the funds of the
National league, for the league has
never taken any part in the plan; but
the funds, of course, do come from
money placed at the disposal of the
national cause. put down our annual
expenditure at the present moment on
evicted tenants at E25,0 900"
''What Is the next item?"
"The fund for the members of the
party; that comes to about 10000 a
year."
You spend good deal of money on
looking after the registration of
voters?''
Eyes: it is not easy, / fear, to make
co an American reader understand how
large d factor in our political struggles
registration plays, but an experienced
electioneer like you will be able to eX-
plain to them that most elections are
fought, not at the polls, but in the regis
tration courts, where voters are adj
mitted or rejected. In Ulster especially
we have had to spend money freely
under this head. There are several
seats there where the contests are very
close, and as people in England are
always thinking that Ulster is against
fight the seats in Ulster more vigor-
Dusly than any place else. Then, again,
we have spent money on registration in
England mean on the registration of
our own people-becauSe now every
English election is a matter OF vital
interest to the Irish cause. put the
expenditure under registration at be-
tween $4,000 and e4,000-say E3.500-a
year. Finally, you may put down g.,
600 annually for miscellaneous eX-
penseS."
WHAT IT ALL COSTS.
"This, then, is your budget?' said:
Evieted tenants go. .......... 925, 600
irish press agency. .:........ 5000
Irish parliamentary fund. ....... l Il. o
Registration OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $500
Miscellaneous. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 900
Total. .......................... .e45, 500
''That is aboutright,' he said, looking
over the figures.
Where have you received for the
last year the money necessary for this
enormous expenditures"
II got $4,000 from Mr.. Rhodes. a
South African merchant who is in SYM
pathy with the Irish cause, and | got
$1,000 from Mr.. Murrough, an Irish
man, a friend and partner of Mr..
Rhodes in the Kimberley mines. Some
IA d,
and our organization in Ireland brings
US in about s1e,0 600 annually.
''How does America stand?"
''That is a subject upon which lspeak
with some hesitation. We have been
treated with such extraordinary gener-
Osity by America that | am afraid to say
it, though it is true, that the subscrip-
lions 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 sums in the past
Where would we have been without the
assistance of American
''Where, indeed" [ answered, with a
sympathetic sigh of assent, and a remi-
hiscence of all the great benefactions
we have received in this hard struggle
from the generous hearts of the great
republic.
GAS we are on the question of finances,
Mr.. Parnell," | went on, perhaps may
recur to the trial with the Times. You
have not mentioned the expense of that
suit in the items of your expenditure"
Il understood yOu,' replied Mr.. Par
nell, Ito speak of permanent items of
expenditure, and not of an accidental
and transitory item like this. This suits
is, indeed, very costly. | cannot put it
down at less than e50,000 on our side,
while the case will cost the Times,
should say, e150,OOO. The amount they
have spent on witnesses is fabulous,
and, may even say, rotesQue-consid-
pring what little return they are getting
for their money"
'Do you think there is any truth in
the popular impression that the gov
ernment is paying portion of the ex-
penses of the Times?''
Il don't think it is making any grant
in mo ey to the Times, but it is giving