Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-12
DISAPPOINTED HOPES.
The Irish ENJOYS Issue a Long Mani
festO.

reached this country six weeks ago, the
Irish cause was marching to certain vic
tory. 1t was conceded on both sides
that the general election must bring a
home rule majority. The dissolution O.
parliament could not be deferred beyonC
two years, and would probably take
place within twelve months. All that
was necessary to secure triumph was
that the delegates should raise the
necessary funds to preserve the evicted
tenants from destruction, and keep theil
organization uncrushed, so as to
force the coercion government to face
a general election in the same condition
of abject failure which the galantry of
the Irish tenantry had been kept in
throughout five years of incessant con-
fict with coercion. In less than two
weeks they had secured nearly 800 900,
and it was certain that sufficient sum
would be subscribed to put an end to
the last hope of the coercionists.
The manifesto then refers to the
change in the situation, and speaking of
Parnells charges, says, in part: "Hints
OF treachery on the part OF British
statesmen have not lost their power
over people only too we'll accustomed
| to the tradition of British unfaithful-
| hOccj W biiCll unhappy LII lS
! easy to understand the influence upon
our warm-hearted colleagues and fellow
countrymen of appeals to the feelings.
such as these urged with all the author
! ity Of Parnells name, and with all the
dexterty and magnetic power of which
he is master. We, ourselves, though
far removed from the conflict, have had
to put our personal predictions to an
almost intolerable strain in endeavoring
to separate an attachment to an unriv-
allied Irish leader, from Cur absolute and
overwhelming conviction that to in
dulge our personal feelings to him one
moment longer would be to incur the
certain loss of the general election, and
make ourselves responsible for the ap-
palling legacy of disappointed hopes
| which the inevitable triumph of the CO.
ercionists at the polls would entail upon
our unhappy people,"
The signers say every private and public
utterance of their lives attests the sim
cerity of their allegiance to Parnell, and
the widest partisan cannot suspect them
OF desire to overthrow his leadership.
without terrific cause, at moment
when few months more of united
action would have brought them to a
victory, and when any prolonged period
Of dissension must involve the certain
loss OF tremendous interests of state on q
general election.
The signers seek to impress upon their
countrymen the deep conviction that
ParnelPs deplorable imputations of
mutiny on the part of his colleagues,
and treachery on the part of Gladstone,
are absolutely baseless, and unreal side
issues raised to divert the Judgment of
the impulsive Irishmen from the real
issue, which is: whether it is possible to
win the general election under Parnells
leadership, and if the loss of the general
election is the certain and undisputable
price OF retaining him.
"Can Parnell, himself, or any rational
human being, honestly face the future
and point to any ray of definite hope to
sustain the unhappy people, and this in
the face OF triumphant Tory majority
and helpless and divided Ireland, with
Gladstone gone, his party enstranged
from the Irish leader and the whole
British people angered by the deplor-
able insults to their leaders, and rem
dered suspicious by still more deplor-
able hints of the insincerity of all our
professions of friendship? The GER
tainty OF a disastrous general election
Parnell cannot dispute. The horrible
consequences that must ensue in Ire
land, he can only pretend to disguise by
vague speculations as to future parlia-
mentary strategy.
"With the Irish people alone the de-
termination must rest, and to disavow
even a greater than mistaken verdict
would be verdict not prompt and de-
cisive on one side or the other. ii the
Tr,1 ~, lnl, ,4,Ixx III,
minds to sacrifice the general election,
dismiss Gladstone from public life, repel
the British people from our side, face
another question of a century of parlia-
mentary paralysis and dreary attempts
at insurrection, and to do all this on the
question of punctilio as to the terms of
retirement, the desirability of which
Parnell himself half confesses, then we
will bow to the sentence which will re-
lease us from political lives of ceaseess
anxiety and toll. If on the other hand
an overwhelming mass of thinking Irish
men throughout the world resolve that
they shall not be passed over the brink
OF this abyss, the present ordeal will be
one means OF giving incalculable aid
to the home rule cause, as we'll
as OF saving the reputation of our old
leader from fatal stain. The British
people will be finally and irrevocably
won to the cause of Irish freedom by the
spectacle of how temperately, wisely and
firmly the Irish people can exercise the
privilege of self-government, even in
circumstances of unparalleled national
perplexity and anguish, and all the
watchful train of coercionists who are
not exhorting will sustain disappoint-
ment. Not merely Americans of Irish
blood, but Americans of every origin and
every creed will ioyfully celebrate the
reunion of the Irish Nationalist's forces
by subscribing whatever funds may be
necessary to keep the gallant men who
were evicted in Irelands battle from the
vengeance of the landlord syndicates and
coercionists, in safety and comfort until
a general election sounds their deliver
ance.
whenever home-rule bill comes to
be framed, and the Irish people are
guaranteed as to the satisfactory nature
of its provisions, by their own quiet, res
olute strength, and by every motive of
craftsmanship as well as honor, that
will determine Gladstone to make the
crowning achievement of his life work
complete and final reconciliation be-
tween the two countries.
Finally, our cause once rescued from
its present deadly peril, our race may
rest assured that nothing will be left un-