St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-13
PARNELL.


contemporary history. No cause which
has ever enlisted the efforts OF men
strikes keener responsive chord in the
breasts of patriots of all nations than
Ireland's struggle for constitutional lib
erty. No battle ever appealed so COM
pletely to mems sense of right and JUS
tice, and no warfare was ever more
bravery and more wisely waged. When
EDMUND BURKE stood up alone In
King GEORGES parliament and raised
his voice on behalf of the Americans in
rebellion, he said with a power which
was unanswerable that no man could
deny the righteousness of the colonlsts'
cause without questioning the value OF
liberty itself. And we, if we believe
that self-government is worth the
blood our fathers shed to win it for us,
must wish the Irish godspeed in their
gallant fight.
Our own political institutions were
born in the midst of arms and carnage.
1t has been left to the Irish to assault
the enemy's citadel with tongue and
pen alone. When victory comes IN the
end, as it is sure to come, it will be
bloodless one. The world has never
seen grander vindication of the re-
sponsiveness and efficiency of the
Anglo-Saxon theory of government than
while contemplating the use the Irish
patriots have made of its principles and
opportunities for their own emanclpa-
ton. The English constitution is the
offspring of the brain and Drawn of all
endless line of men who defied kings
and laughed at stakes and prison walls,
when freedom was in the balance. To-
day, full-grown, it is the nurse OF
heroes. and the Irish sucking at its
breast have found the strength and the
sinew for their battle. They have made
no bugle blasts, no calling to arms, have
lighted no camp fires. They have simply
taken in their hands the weapons which
the English constitution held out to
them. Under the leadership of PAR
NELL. with no other ammunition than
the English parliamentary machinery
and methods, they have carried position
after position. The triumphant end
was just in sight when their leader fell.
PARNELL is the greatest of the Irish
patriots. No ordinary writing can tell
of his achievement. The blood of A mer-.
lean heroes is in his veins, and his work
adorns his ancestry. He looks book
ish, quiet, delicate man, undemonStra-
tive, cold in manner, soft i'll speech, not
at all like the typical Celt. Ben cath,
however, burns spirit tirelessly per-
sistent in effort, brave and defiant in
action, wakeful and crafty as q sava &c.
domineering and masterful as a king,
passionate and loyal as a man. The
strain and wearing turmoil OF his life
for fifteen years past have been almost
beyond human endurance. He mas
stood up against whole nation, has
created his own army, in lonesome iSola-
ton has mapped out the plan of his
campaign, in the day Of battle has al
ways been the foremost in action, guld-
inc and stimulating his soldiers, cheer
ing them in the hour Of disaster. re-
straining them in the moment of vic
tory. Year after year of silent thought,
year after year of crushing labor, with
the life of a nation depending on him,
with patriots fame as his goal and
great reward.
No one who knows men gauges the
depth of their feelings by their warmth
of manner. The turbulent waters Of
the soal break oftentimes without a
ripple on the countenance. Self-re-
straint, absorption, silence, are the out
ward masks of brightly burning fires
within. No man in the world ever car
ried the burden of great cause with
unfiinching eye and rigid muscle in the
presence Of men who did not gain
strength for the task by the relaxation of
his isolated hours. No man ever proud
ly braved disaster and contumely when
his fellows were looking at him, without
the consolation and qualification of yield
ing to his feelings when he was alone,
| or when no one except those who loved
| him was by. The limits of human
| strength are settled. Even the man
Christ, who set His face so steadfastly
TO Jerusalem, found courage to stand
before PLATE by weeping In the gar
den while the others slept. The human
heart is the same in all of US. We can
| not get away from it. No one of US can
stand in pride and point the finger at
| his fellow. We are all weak, and the
greater our strength the greater ouI
| weakness.
The world knows now how PARNELI
got his power to stand upright and finch
| not. His love for woman and q
woman's love for him sustained him.
Little qualifications and conventional
| pleasures afford food enough for good
many of us. There are happy mer
| whose souls never glow with passion
too deep for a small tea party of unin
terestings people to satisfy. The in
satiate longing to drink the cup of life
to the dregs which comes to others is al
endless mystery to them. Their hear
beats are regular, easy, calm. But such
are not the great. The man who lives
in the midst of carnage, about whom
are scenes of blood, who is part Of
great accomplishment, whostands great
perils, who does great deeds day after
day, finds the small delights of the sim
pie insipid. He needs deeper ant
broader experiences. He throws int
his pleasures and relaxations the same
violent. effective, achieving spirit which
he asserts in the serious things of life
Rules and conventionalities do not stant
in his way. They stimulate him. Ht
brushes them aside as he does barriers
in his careers advancement. He strikes
hard; he lives fully, completely; hi
knows what it is to have the heart throb
| When men of smaller caliber find it GU
they combine and take away his crown
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