Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-12
IN IEMORIAm.

| Orithca anu Appreciattve Estimate
 of Parnelrs Services te Ireland
 Brilliant Analysis of that Complex l and Delusive Character.
 Owing to miaconcept;on of the nature of MT. Towne's lecture last night at War ner hall the audience was small. Among the people present was Senator Fox, who entertained MT. Parnell on his visit to this city and who has corresponded with him up to short time before the death of that illustrious home ruler MT. Towne was resident of England during the early years of Parnelrs career. and during the year preceding his return to America was member of the eight hundred of Bir- mingham, the great Liberal caucus devised by MT. Chamberlain. He partly executed, while in England, a work entitled: 'sThe Case of Ireland Homestead Rights and Home Rule;" taking the first part of this title from MT. Gladstone's words, s'The case of Ireland, whose woeful history for centuries emboldened some of us to treat her as if she had but a limited share in the great | inheritance of human right, and none at all from the ordinary privilege of immun- " HUH SfosS dllu WuOieSale result. MT. Towne has special knowledge of the per sonal peculiarities of MT. Parnell, and was able to clear up some of the mystery of his recent career.
 He spoke as follows: sThe death of MT. Parnell concludes one of the most remarkable careers of our own, or of any modern times, and sweeps away, as by stroke of lightning, the greatest difficulties of the greatest problem of hatreds of which this great apostle of Irish rights was the object, whatever the moral reproduction which his personal conduct brought upon him, and whatever his breakdown with the leaders and the people of Ireland, MT. Parnell had made himself one of the great figures of political history, one of the consummate masters of parliamentary service in England, and a hero of the warm-hearted Irish people, whom they will remember with gratitude to the last hour of existence as 8 nation. His per sonal offense against social morals was in conduct which England is full of behind the scenes of publicity, and for which a man is severely dealt with, far less on account of the conduct itself than on ac- count of being found out and exposed by publication. But the sin has gone beyond human judgment, and the services the man rendered to his fellow-men rise on the horizon of history, stars of a fame which time will soon dim. Fac ing hopeless impossib;lity in the Brit ish parliament, as the unflinching radical advocate of attention to, and justice fer Ireland, MT. Parnel held to his task with bulldog tenacity, yet with high com mand of his temper, and little by little he compelled the most selfish, arrogant and obdurate legislature in the world to recon sider the indifference and to undo the un- justice of centuries, and permit the golden rule of Christian conduct to apply between England and Ireland. The work which he so grandly began, and which his private course had somewhat imperilled, gains by his death tremendous advantage by the recurrence of all mems minds from his sins to his services, and what he prepared the victory of right over wrong in the case of Ireland will go on to ompletion, carrying, as on a monument more endur ing than brass, his name and his titles to fame.
 Mir Towne then recited the case of Ire land in respect to the wrongs which she had suffered from England during more than seven centuries. Particularly he ar raigned England as having exercised e1- cessive cruelty in tha wsging of the con test bstwet the English and Irish in Ire
  reference of English landlord law with the traditional rites of the Irish peasants in their holdings of land. Homestead rites he described as the foundation of Irish interests and far more important to them than home rule. Mir. Parnell thor oughly understood this, as he showed at the first meeting of the Land league in Ireland by thls injunction to the Irish people; "Keep firm grip on your home steads."
 The case of the English in Ireland was particularly one of gross wrong and out rage through the planting of an English Protestant church amid & Catholic popula- tion and compelling the Irish to accept its services when these were extremely offen- siye to them. Their hunger for education was cheated and outraged by offering them the privileges of proselytism. They must either go without knowledge or take it from the English clergy along with Pro testant religious instruction. The hard case of Ireland entered like an iron into the soul of MT. Parnell. A good deal of the mystery of MT. Parnelrs character grows out of the fact that he was man of singularly deep sensibili ties. His sensibilities, moreover, were thoroughly refined and whatever he did in violation of social law must have been his own point of view not in the least an luuulSeuce ol vulgar pasSlOu, bub d eeeh- ing of companionship such as of all men, he specially needed. The testimonies of MT. Parnelrs marvellous capacity in poli- tics reveal a character almost unmatched in English history He was entirely the creation of the cause he espoused. When he first appeared on public platform, ex pecting to make a speech, he was unable to say word and for sometime his efforts were series of dismal failures. But as the master of great interest, which he knew thoroughly by heart, he compelled himself to become, not an orator, but one of the most suc- cessful speakers nevertheless of his time. His deliberate words were shot out with the intensity of blow pipe flame, and they | burned through cold indifference and icy malignity as neither MT. Gladstone's nor MT. Bright's had ever done. In the great day when England shall become demo- cratic in form as well as in fact and in English politics, every man shall have his weight as man, MT. Parnell's name will | stand on the highest line of recognition