Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-11
|PARNELL Is ROASTED
By a Manifesto From the National
Federation of America.
FUNDS ARE ASKED FOR, AS USUAL.
The Ex-Leader Denounced for Withholding
the Paris Money.
PURPOSES OF THE NEW IRISH SOCIETY

NEW YoK, June 10.-Thomas Adds
Emmett, NJ. D., President of the National
Federation of America, has issued an ad-
dress under date of June ''to the friends
in America of home rule in Ireland" 1t
runs, in part, as follows:
From all in sympathy with the sufferings
of the Irish people, due to centuries of mis-
government, and all who advocate home
rule as the only remedy to better their con-
dition, we ask cooperation and assistance to
bring about a contamination. The time has
passed for inaction, and he who now hesi-
tates to take part in what, God grant, may
prove n final effort, is either blindly ignor-
ant and Indifferent to passing events or Sc
cretly sympathizes with those in opposition
In our generation the Irish people have
suffered and almost lost their cause when
success seemed within easy grasp. For
months past every effort has been paralyzed
through the acts of one man, most trusted
of all, who sinned and fell by his own hand.
He thus betrayed the welfare of his country
so blindly entrusted to his guidance, and
dragged the chaste name of Ireland into the
gutter with his own sullied reputation.
Parnell and the Relief Fund.
The necessity for assisting the suffering
appreciated in this country, and noble ef-
fort was made to effect the purpose. Mr..
Parnell was fully pledged to carry out this
object but he has betrayed his trust by his
duplicity his equivocation, and his utter
disingenuousness. His continuous selfish
subordination of. the welfare of the Irish
peasantry to his own personal ends in the
matter of. home rule is no less conspicuous.
Mr.. Parnell stands to-day responsible for
,AnI@ @4v. &c
of Ireland, so far as they might have been
mitigated by the use of the Paris fund, in
the application of which he has refused to
act with the other custodians. The fund
consists of over $500, 900, the greater portion
of which was raised in this country. This
he now holds, as he does his political posi-
tlon, by false pretences, and to forward his
own personal ends. The people Of this coun-
try are too sharp-wftted not to fully appre-
ciate his purpose. And the fact that he did
not dare carry out his own proposition when
the opportunity was given him to meet his
constituents at the polls, has shown to the
American mind how fully he himself realizes
his desperate fortunes.
One Party and One Faction.
He is yet claimed as leader by a small
portion of the Irish people. We raise no
issue with them, nor doubt their honesty,
but we impugn their judgment. They will
soon penetrate the glamor associated with
the past service of an overrated leader.
Those who are: worked and hoped for home
rule in Ireland have not divided into two
parties-there exists but one party, and
faction. MIR. Parnell was the first to advo-
cate that the majority should rule, and the
first to disregard the fact. The opinion held
by the large majority Of thinking men in
effect that Mr.. Parnell is now politically
dead, and can never be resuscitated to hold
a position of trust.
When the cause was betrayed and there
arose at first some difference of opinion as
to the culpability of the act, Irish-Americans
were unwilling to interfere, and wished the
difference settled by the Irish people them
selves. We at distance were better able to
Judge of the merits of the case, but our feel
ing Of deiicacy has been greatly misrepre-
sented by the minority. Notwithstanding
their representatives have canvassed this
country for months past in quest of aid and
surdly claimed by them the people of Amer
lea are in sympathy with their leader.
The Time to Speak Out Has Come.
Our silence and inaction can, therefore, do
good no longer, but, on the contrary, are
freely used to the detrfment of the cause we
advocate. The time has now assuredly ar
rived for us to announce our denunciation
on the one hand, and on the other hand our
fullest sympathy with those who represent
the true interests of Ireland.
The future guidance of Irish affairs, in the
bringing about of home rule, must be trusted
only to the majority of those elected to.rep-
resent ireland in the British Parliament
The friends of Ireland cannot stand by in
active and expect the Liberal party of Eng
land to bear the brunt nor more than their
proportion of the burden. Money is needed
and needed quickly and at no time has an ap-
peal been presented to the American people
for the support of a cause more in accord
with their appreciation and love of self gov
The Scope of the Organization.
The National Federation of America is
similar in organization to the one existing
in ireland, and is for the same purpose. In
addition to the officers, it will consist of
Central Board of Trustees for the purpose of
controlling and transmitting the funds to
the properly constituted authorities of the
National party in Ireland. The funds will
consist of donations and yearly subscrip-
tions made by individuals and by the
of the local branches of the FEEDER
alton and affiliated organizations, which
will be organized throughout the country,
and will be collected and forwarded to Erl-
gene Kelley, of New York, the Treasurer of
the -orga niZation. The Board of Trustees
WILL at an early day, issue in printed form
the constitution and an account in detail of
the organization.