St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-23
PARNELL'S POSITION.
He Will Adopt an Attitude OF
Armed Observation,

hC w III AoOpb I'LL AttlIuuC OA
Armed Observation.
DUBLIN, Feb. 22.-Mr. Parnell made
a number of short speeches on his way
to ROscommOn to-day. The general burr
den of his remarks was that not even
the Healyites dare say that Mr.. Glad-
stones assurances are satisfactory. Thel
men to whom Ireland had looked I'M
confidence had now sunk low enough to-
accept English gold in payment for
their subservience to the English pars
ties. Al RoScOmmOn Mr.. Parnell made
a speech, in the course of which he de,
clared that he would adopt an attitude
OF armed observation until he saw what
solution was offered on the police and
land questions. AT mass in the mOrnS
ing the Catholic curato appealed to his
fellow tOwnSmen to have regard for the
purity of domestic life and not to attend
the meeting to be addressed by Mr.
Parnell. q
In the afternoon. responding to calli
ing delegations, Parnell reviewed tha
circumstances of the dispute in theI
party. conveying the idea that he had
assumed his present position on finding
the destinies of the party confded td
Mr.. Mccarthy, "a gentleman OF
great amlability of character, bun
without practical acquaintance with
lreland'S wants." He dwelt at length
upon the unsatisfactory nature of the
GladStOnian assurances, and declared
that after so bungling the land question
for ninety-one years that One-half Of
the population was baniShed or starved
to death, and the remlnder-until
the league was fOunded-were unable
to hold up their heads In the
presence of the landlord or bailiff, the
imperial parliament would make an1
other pretended settlement ana declare
the Irish legislature unentitled TO any
power in the matter, and in the second
nlace the imperial parliament would
keep control long enough to renew the
fifteen-year tenantcieS, so that for
the first fifteen years of the
Irish parliament they would have a con-
stabulary with rifles, swords, bayOnets.
etc, collecting rack rents fixed by the
imperial parliament.
At3 O'clock, at mass meeting in the
square, Mr.. Parnell said, in part: ut is
now eleven years since | addressed you
here. We were then parting the ways
between whiggery and Irish .na-
tlonality. We have no need to
be ashamed of the decades record.
To-day we start another parting of the
ways. On the road leading to Inde-,
pendence you are threatened with
delay. l am sure there will be no delay
but if there is we shall have the,
proud consciousness that we have,
not allowed Irish nationality TO be
trading post for pettifogging law
yers Shouts of Down with Healy and
Cummins). men who would sell your
birthright for mess OF poCtage aud be-
come the kept slaves of an English
party. But they have reckoned without
you, and their plot has been spoiled.
IA voice: Down with them.'l We
don't want to down anybody: we want
to live aid let live"
Mr.. Parnell proceeded .t0 repeat the
references made by him in regard to
the police at the afternoon meeting. He
asserted that the best judges considered
that force OF 1000 men was sufficient
to preserve the peace in Ireland.l
Why. he asked, should $4,000 men
be kept to trample upon Irish
freedom and throttle Irish aspira-
ions? They.were kept because it was
intended to keep the land question
within the jurisdiction of the imperial
parliament. This was vital, and the
most vital, question for Ireland nOw.l
''Mr. GladSt0ne," concluded Mr. Par1.
nell. gave me twenty-fOur hoursli
notice to quit. l could not give the
meaneSt servant less. | have no,
alternative, sbut to take yOn into my,
confidence and offer to stand cheefullyl
by your decision and your Orders.p
Loud cheers.
Messers Redmond and O'Kelly also
addressed the meeting. Mr.. Parnell
will speak at Strokestown tomorrow,