St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-12
The Dismissal Of Gladstone
Would Repel All Brit
ish Aid.
The Cause Must at Once Be
Rescued From Its Deadly
Peril.

every point of its policy in Ireland, and
discredited by a series of staggering
blows at elections III every quarter of
Great Britain. 1t was confessed on
both sides that general election must
bring home rule majority. MI. Par
nell, in his manifesto, discusses no other
danger except the danger of a Glad
stone majority at a general election be-
ing too large. The dissolution of parli-
ament could not be deferred beyond
two years. 1t would almost certainly
take place before twelve months. All
that was necessary to
Secure the Triumph
for which our people had waited so long
and made such incalculable sacrifices
was that we should raise the necessary
funds to preserve the evlcted tenants
from destruction and keep their Organi-
cation uncruShed, so as to force the CO..
ercion government TO face the general
elechonln the same condition of abject
and confessed failure in which the gal
lantry of the Irish tenantry had kept it
throughout five years of ineeSSant con-
tilct with coercion. Our position in this
matter is specially cruel one. We
have had to endure 1.-THE anguish of see
ing all the fruits of weary years of bat
tie with the enemies of Ireland SUDDENLY
and fatally imperilled in the very hour
or victory by crisis, for which we are
not in the smallest degree responsible.
and which our absence from Ireland
renders us perfectly powerless to con-
troll. Even it every private and public
utterance of our political lives had nOl
attested the sincerity of our allegiance
to Mr.. Parnell,
His Widest Partisan
will scarcely suspect us Of desire to
overthrow his leadership without some
terrific cause, at moment when few
months more of united action would
have brought us to victory, and when
any prolonged period of disSension in
Ireland must involve the certain loss of
the tremendous interests we had staked
upon the general election. Mr.. Par
nelPs present methods would drive
the English people into sullen dis
trust of the uses to which we
would put national Self-government and
cause rooted belief that the Irish peo-
pie were incapable Of exercising it. If
this be true statement Of the prospect
before us in case of Mr.. Parnel's con-
tinuance in his course-disaster at the
general election and blank hopeleSsness
after it's il necessary to justify
the majority of the Irish representatives
have felt themselves forced to take, at
the sacrifice of their own manifest de-
sire and i'll response to their passionate
personal promptingS. In comparison
with the awful issue at stake = the
freedom or the miserable subsection of
Ireland for the present generation
there is no advantage in Disgusting now
The Possible BiuHders
and misunderstanding Oil both sides
which maybe helped to bring us to this
calamitous pass. We are not inclined
to dwell upon Mr.. Parnell'S regretabIe
assaults upon the honor of colleagues
who were proud to bear the taunt of
servility in their answering fidelity to
his banner. With the Irish people
alone the determination must rest,
and a disaster even greater than a
mistaken verdict would be YER
dict which would not be prompt and
decisive OH one side or the other.
Having now discharged to the best of
our power the unenviable duty of plac-
ing the issue before our countrymen in
its simplicity and in all its magnitude,
il the Irish people deliberately make up
their minds to sacrifice the general cleo
ton, dismiss Mr.. Gladstone from public
life, repel the British people from our
q
fury of
Parliamentary Paralysis
and dreary attempts at instruction,
and to do all this Oh question of pune
tiliO as to the terms of retirement. the
the desirability of which Mr.. Parnell
himself half confeSses, then we will bow
to sentence which will release us from
political lives of ceaSeleSS anXietieS and
tolls. If, on the other hand, as we earn
eStly pray, for the sake of our long
suffering people, the overwhelming
mass of thinking Irishmen throughout
the world resolve that they shall not be
pushed over the brink of the abyss
which Is so fearfully close to them.
the present ordeal, horrible though it
is, will have been the means of giving
incalcuiable aid to the home rule cause.
as well as of saving the reputation of
our old leader from fatal stain. The
British people will be finally and ire
yocably won TO the cause of Irish free
dom by the spectacle of how temperate
ly. wisely and firmly the Irish people
can exercise The privilege of
Self-Government,
even in circumstances of unparalleled
national perpieXity and anguish They
will have received the best of all assur-
ance that they can confide in the eX-
pressions of deep and settled good will
toward the British people and gratitude
to their great leader which we have
yeEtured to tender in the name of Ire
lanu. Lord Salisbury and the Times
newspaper. and all the watchful train
of coerclonlsts, who are eXultlng in MIR.
ParnelFs unhappy work. will have sus-
tanned disappointment as crushing as
their overthrow at the Parnell commits
sion. Not merely Americans of Irish
blood, but Americans of every origin
and of every creed will joyfully cele-
brate the reunion of the Irish Nation
alist forces by subscribing what
ever funds may be necessary to
keep the gallant men who were
evicted in lreland's battle from the
vengeance of landlord syndicates and
coerclonists, in safety and comfort I'M
til the general election will sound their
delIverance. Whenever the home rule
bill comes to be framed, the Irish peo-
pie are guaranteed as to the satisfactory
nature of its provisions by their own
Quiet. Resolute Strength,
by the mistaken and unshakabie indie
pendence of an Irish party who are. at
this moment, giving the highest proof
of Independence that could be eXacted
from warm-hearted and devoted follow
ers of great leader, and by every mo-
tive of craftsmanship, as well as of
honor, that must determine Gladstone to
make the great browning achievement of
his life work OF complete and final re-
Cancellation between the two countries.
FINALLY, our cause once rescued from its
present deadly peril. our race may rest
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