St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-29

lutte inability or unwilingness of Mr..
Gladstone and his associates to advocate
for Ireland any but disappointing, UNI
satisfactory and worthless scheme of
self-government, did Mr.. Parnell
again and again, at Liverpool and
IN London. proclaim to the world
his grateful admiration of the
Liberal party and its leader, and his
firm and implicit confidence in the plan
of home rule they were deviSlng and
celebrating? :,
Assuredly there is in the Parnell who
speaks to Ireland and the world III the
manifesto just issued, and the Parnell
who addressed the parliamentary party
at Westminster on June 30 last past,
standardization most astounding.
That, the alliance existing between
the Irish Nationalist and the Liberal
party of Great Britain was looked upon
by Irishmen at home and abroad as the
only sure means, under Gods provl-
dence, of achieving such independence
as we all hoped for, no one had asserted
more solemnly and positively than Mr..
Parnell himself, and on the public oc-
casions adverted to within the last
twelve months. He calls it ''an honor
able alliance, honorable and hopeful
for our country, an alliance
which will last and bear permanent
fruit"
No change, in so far as the public
knows, had taken place in Mr.. ParnelfS
mind in this regard. up to the verdict OF
the divorce court, Mr.. Gladstone's letter
requesting the Irish leader to retire
from political life, and to tneprivate en-
treaties of Mr.. ParnelPs lieutenants to
the same effect.
This party of independent opposition
and the land league movement started
by Michael Davitt had carried the car or
Charles Stewart Parnell triumphantly
forward till the end of last November.
All the moral forces which stirred the
DEPTHS of nations soul and inspired
the hopes of all its past generations.
Mr.. Parnell welded as the electrician
uses the mighty elementary forces OF
nature. These great moral forces eX-
listed in the past in greater volume even
than at present. But Irish ateSmen or
politicians knew not how to store up
these resistlesS energies in unity. Lit
shall ever be
ParneII,s Glory
that he may he said to have created and
kept together an independent parlia-
mentary party UGH as Ireland never
had known till now. Supported by the
Catholic masses and by their religious
guides, and appealing to legal and con-
StitutionaI methods only, he forced the
Liberal party of Great Britain and its
leaders to confess that all the former
methods of government in Ireland had
been wrong, cruel, unjust and Cypress
i've. Justice alone must be tried and
coercion abandoned. And so the cause
of Ireland, represented by a COM
pact body of eighty-six Irish rep
resentatives in the imperial par
lament, advocated by Mr.. Glad
stone and the great Liberal party, sup
ported by a majority of the people OF
Great Britain and by the constantly in
creasing public opinion of the three
kingdoms and of the EnglisE-speaking
world-was morally certain of a great
legislative victory in the near future
when in last November came the O'Shea
verdict and Mr.. Parnell's manifesto.
But though the leader has fallen, the
cause is not lost. 1t is most just
cause; and justice is immortal and
eternal.
Mr.. Parnell was heard with attention
both in the British senate and all over
the civilized world; because his voice
was that of Ireland, too long misgoV-
erned and oppressed.
Is her cause SO absolutely identified
with Mr.. ParnelPs fortunes, that his dis
grace, or his retirement FROM political
life, or even his death, would so paralyze
her voice, so injure her claims, that the
people of Great Britain, so lately
awakening to the sense of her
cruel wrongs, would close their
ears, their minds, their hearts to
what justice, humanity and their own
inf in,
favor of the sister island?
And will IriShmen and the Irish race
consent to bury forever out of sight and
beneath the earth that cause of Ireland
so enthusiastically upheld but yester
day? God knows,we IriShmen are clan
nish enough; and this very clannish-
ness, the devotion to a name and man,
the narrow love of the tribe and the To-
cality in preference to the country and
the nation, has been too often our bane
in the past. 1t dashed all the hopes of
our people and rendered useless all the
slaughters and sacrifices made for re-
ligion and nationality for the past two
or three centuries.
That this clannishness is not thing
of the past, what has just happened in
Ireland, as well as in our own free
America, proves but too conclusively.
The name of the man. not that of the
cause or the country, is the spell our
speakers conjure with, the will-o'the
WiSp which leads our cOuntrymen
astray and lands our country's cause in
quagmires from which there seems no
escape.
We must learn to love Ireland for her
own sake, not for the sake of the men
who represent or misrepresent her. We
must be devoted to the cause through
good repute and evil repute, through
good and i'll fortune, because we be-
lieve it to be cause fated never to be
lost.
1t depends on US, on Irishmen in the
three Kingdoms. and on IriShmen here
and wherever the English language is
spoken, to prevent the
Cause of ireland
being lost cause. The man who shall
be chosen to succeed Mr.. Parnell will
be the lawful representative of the
cause, and bear the flag around which
all should rally who deserve the name
of Irishmen.
This is no time to listen to the utter
ances of the Troy press at home, or to
the correspondents of such of our great
journals as love to echo the sentiments
and prophecies of the enemies of Ire
land and home rule. And if we cease
to quarrel among ourselves in the
United States, and if we give our united
aid and sympathy to the men who are
fighting in the gap at home, and up
holding the cause and the flag, we shall