New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-30
uP pAByELTS MANIFESTO.

MR.. PARNELLS MAN1FESIO.
A.. nonroIps manifesto is inherently weak
because it does not take up the main quo'Ion
at issue. This is his own obDsauoh 10 ieS'eA
the leadership in consequence OF ,mmorsl IN
duct. which prejudices large oody oi Hheno"
and Scotch Liberals against the irish cause'
Ile is silent because he cannot SPEAK. - no
ooud have said anything in his own oeien0e' Nv
would have spoken in open court anu nov Lev
allowed Judgment to be entered against nih
nv default. BY appealing to the irish people
without making any reference to his own scah-
da,ons and treacherous intrigues he again CON.
fesses his guilt and displays the most cymcai
indifference to the political consequences Inc
chief achievement of his career has been the
conversion of Mr. Gladstone and the Enghsh
LIBERALS TO his policy of Home Rule. His prl-
,,o+o y;ces have nullified the results OF his po-
l;t,cal genius. MIR. Gladstone and the English
Liberals are on the point OF abandoning home
Rule but it is nothing to him. lie could avert
the catastrophe by taking himself out OF the
vay; but he will not do it. Self-sacrifice, self
effacement would endear him to irish hearts
and 90 far toward covering his offences against
morality but he is not penitent; he is defiant.
yectiye. veined with bitterness and treachery.
II is natural for disgraced political leader
reduced to desperate extremites to violate the
confidence reposed in him by MIR. Gladstone ana
Mr.. Morley. When year ago Mr.. Parneli
visited Hawarden and was informed OF the
precise nature of the concessions which the
Liberal leaders were prepared to make to Ire
land he did not consider it necessary to warn
the island against impending dangers. when
he conferred more recently with Mr. Morley re-
snectinp Land Purchase and the Plan of Cam
paign he did not take alarm and Withdraw from
an alliance which he now affects to CONSIDER
fatal to the aspirations OF the Irish people.
1t was not until his immortality had found nm
out, and his followers were revolving against
him and cooperating with Mr.. Gladstone and
the English Liberals in securing his deposition,
that he followed Mr. Balfour in a Parliamentary
division and appealed to the Irish people to
protect themselves against "wirepullers," who
were sappng and destroying the Home Rule
cause. Then he blurted out all the secrets OF
the Liberal councils at Hawarden in fantastic
attempt to convince his country that those with
whom he was well pleased to corporate so
long as his private life was not exposed to view
were treacherous allies and enemies in disguise
The first and most obvious inference to be
drawn from the manifesto is that Mr.. Parnell
suppressed these disclosures so long as his own
leadership was not imperilled, and only brought
them out when his authority over his colleagues
was impaired by the exposure OF his own secret
offences.
While reserving for another day comment
upon Mr. Gladstone's revised Home Rule pro-
gramme as revealed by Mr.. Parnell we cannot
refrain from pointing out one evil result OF
| this premature disclosure. 1t will convince
English statesmen that they expose themselves
to great risks in taking Nationalist leaders into
their confidence. 1t has been the well-founded
complaint of the Irish people that they are
governed without their own consent and with
out consultation with their representatives in
Parliament. Mr.. Gladstone and Mr. Morley, in
adapting their original programme to altered
conditions of English opinion, conferred frankly
with Mr.. ParneIl respecting the details of the
legislative scheme to be brought forward in
Parliament controlled by the Home Rule party.
Mr.. Morley even sounded him upon his willing
ness to take seat in the Ministry as Chief
Secretary for Ireland All these facts are now
| revealed in violation of confidence and in sheer
uCSpCidtiOu' HC painful Ooh'iSuoh VIII pS
forced upon English statesmen's minds that
their confidence is likely to be abused and
betrayed by Irish allies of the Parnell school
| from selfish motives. 1t is most unfortunate
| that this disclosure should have been made
| Home Rule, if it be ever accomplished must
| be compromise of some sort. A compromise
implies consultation and confidence. Who
| will ever again dare to put trust in Mr.. Par
| nell?
| Mr.. ParnelPs audaciOus manifesto will be
| deprived of much of its force by Mr.. Glad
| stones prompt reputation of the views at
trbuted to him. His denial is most emphatic
and is supported, as he asserts, by written
memoranda of the proposals made at Hawarden
to Mr.. Parnell. When question of veracity
| is raised between one who resents the betrayal
of confidence and another who has violated
every principle of honor and hospitality, it
does not take long for honest men to decide it.
Mr.. Parheil, after swearing to his innocence
| in the O'Shea divorce proceedings and then
confessing his guilt is not in position to ask
the world to believe him against Mr. Glad
stones word. He must be in desperate plight
when he follows up his confession OF base and
treacherous conduct toward his associate, Cap
tain O'Shea, with equally dishonorable be-
| travail of the confidence of his former ally, Mr.
| Gladstone.