The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-29
PARNELL AND HIS KITTY.
A Writer Who Thinks the Times Are
Out of Joint.

SEATTLE, June %, 1891.
To TIE EDITOR: The power OF the press for
good or evil was never more conspicuous or
more fagrantly prostituted for base purposes
than In Its recent expressions in relation TO the
divorce Hero Parnell and the virtuous Irish
patriot, Michael Davstt. The one represents
vice, duplicity, manipulation, and is violator
OF the most sacred conditions OF the domestic
hearth; the other is q virtuous Irish patriot,
second to none in his patriotic eforts., Davitts
World would have been running today, In the
interest OF domestic virtue on the one hand and
political morality on the other, only for Parneil
and his ilk The Irish cause is retarded, IL not
lost for several generations, through the iniquity
OF Parnell The public press at the present
time is run to make money, regardless OF virtue
or good morals. Its licentiousness Is disgusting
to the philosophic mind, for it panders to the
rabble, from which it receives its greatest sup
port; 1t publishes sermons on one page snd q
full account of disgusting divorces and prize
fights on the other; 1t publishes the sermons,
not because they are read, but to give the paper
q certain moral tone. In this respect 1t re-
sembles the patent medicine bottle, with false
tables on the outside, but poison or trash within
The papers inform the public that Davitt was
received coolly in this country, and one Par
nellite accuses Davitt of ingratitude towards
Parneu and informs the pubic that Davitt
would now be lingering in Jail only for Parnell.
By heavens, Mr.. Editor, il was that patriotic
sentiment, which Davitt himself had promui-
gated before his incarceration, lesson, senti-
ment, patriotic devotion, which Parnell and
his followers were forced to carry out, which
took Dayitt out of Jail. Intelligent Irishmen,
or Americans either, who have taken any inter-
est in this movement cannot be blinded by an
attempt to boom Parnell at the expense OF Dav-
lit. Michael Davitt returns to his home and
family in America. Parnell seeks America for
two reasons: First, because he is ostracised in
both England and Ireland; second, because he
thinks America affords him q greater field for
notoriety The American Duchess of Marlborough
ian American divorced womanl ought to act as
special escort to Parnell and Kitty. Upon their
arrival in America they should be received by a
divorce brigade Of both sexes, headed by the
most notorious divorces in America, and the
band should play, "See, the Divorce Hero
Comes" This ought to prove gratifying re-
ception to them, for it would be entirely in
keeping with both their morals and their am
bitions The virtuous men of America should
see to it that the United States law forbidding
the landing of criminal classes of for
eigners should be enforced against
this pair of criminals, for the
laudating and lionizing of Parnell, O'shea, ETC.,
will corrupt the public mind more and have q
more disasterous effect upon the morals OF
America than all the paupers that ever landed
in this country.
Neither Kitty's gold nor Kitty's petticoats can
charm virtuous, intelligent Irishmen, nor be-
guile their wives and daughters.
EDWARD CLAYsoN, sR.