New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-15

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Copyright; 1891 BIZ The Tribune ASsoe'H"0"'
london. March l4.-Thc latest manifesto of the
Irish leader appears IN this morning" IoHdoh
papers-not in all, for d" The DAILY News sup
presses IT, rot caring, apparently, 10 prih1 the
news The good Gladeton!an is expected 10 re-
main in ignorance OF the fact that Mr.. IarheH
has once more addressed an appeal To the lrIsh
in America Only two kinds oi comment Oh lIil'
manifesto can he worth much. and they must
come from Irish OF American sources. FROM nv
land there Will come two dlscordant VOICES pu'
even Mr. PaIncls opponents Will c"nccdc pr
vately if not publicly that the DreVl'S' "7"iH
and tone of rightful authority which mark TINS
naner are in the best manner of tie uncro"hc"
King. 10 whom the whole Nationalist party mas
long welded obedience. He appeals. OF course
10 his fellow countTymen' encampcd IN Amcilc"
for money lie wants moLey TO make one inoic
last effort of the hard he calls CONSTITUTIONS u
win freedom for Ireland.
Let us see, then, how matters stand WIFI nun
and with the Home Rule movement III seiNi"''
The most ardent partisans OF Home huIc i'i
Ireland do not pretend that the cause has game"
during the last three or four months III ""'
not gaining at the time when Mr.. faihcil was
adiudeed guilty of adultery with Mrs. y ohe"'
II did not gain by that amazing demonstration III
England of what has now come 10 ne hno"h do
tho Nonconformist conscience. Its fortunes "eic
in no wise improved by Mr.. Gladstone """'
hut very djlatory and undoubtedly rcluc'aho
decision that. as between his Nonconfor'niS' sup,
nor,ers and Mr.. ParncI. he could better anoru
70 mart with Mr.. Parnell than with that great
bod,, of ENGLISH electors who mix Purltahlsm
with no,itics Neither Mr. Gladstone nor his
advisors forcsaw that singular series oil events
which followed upon this attempt OF all Eh@ISn
statesman 10 ostracisc the leader OF tie lrlsh
neonle No good GladstOnian doubted that MI
Parnell would mcckly submit to the Gladstohiah
decree. ,L
No man is over so completely deceived as he VINO
deceivcs himself, and upon this hrot HluSlon
boipg rudely diSpeled followed whole series vi
deceptions each more disastrous pollucaHS 'h"n
the others. That Mr.. Parnen would be uhahi-
mously d, posed from his Parliamentary leadership
that he would he rejected of the irish people, tl'''
the Kilkenny election would convince Nun ul"'
his chances of triumph were hopcleSs' 'n"V '"'
hostility of the priests, whom he had thrice sue
ccssfullv defed would bring him to his Knees
that stoppacc of supplies from America would
honlxrupt the Parneitc party, that the American
branch of the Nonconformist conscience would pun
unon Mr. Parnen the pressure which the modern
FngIisb Ronndhead has applied without fall-'hcse
ond many other cherished beliefs were broken III
nicces one after the other. Where MI McOa army
had failed, Mr.. Dillon and Mr.. OBnch were 10
succeed and the BOulogne conferences were ~
accomplish all that Committee Room No. 10 hau
toiled in vain to bring about; bnt Mr.. Parnell
cantured Mr. O'Brien and cOerced MI DlliOn, ana
that well-meaning pair of slightly sentlmeh'el
pa+riots found nothing better TO DO than TO mac
their modification in one of Mr. Balfours saos.
The Irish press was TO crush the Irish leader. lie
Of nit
official journal of the National party, while " The
Freemans Journal which is worth all the rest OF
the Irish press together, proclaimed itself MI
Parnells organ and has fought his fight with as
much skill courage.
Mr. Parnell himself half crippled at one moment
by illness. entered upon q campaign wmch Ills
opponents sadly confess has given them new
idea of his powers, his audacity, his re-
sources. his unfinching determination ana
his hold upon the people OF Ireland IN
their desperation they have turned from the peo-
ME 10 the priests. The Church of Rome worsted
in its former efforts to crush the Land League, TO
trade off Home Rule against diplomatic 1cco9h-
ton by England, TO put the inIqultous Ran oil
Campaign under a ban, now comes forward as inc
allv Of the men who were foremost in all these
schemes. The Church in Ireland has committed
itself to a life and death struggle with MI
day was a clerical conclavc. The four Arch
bisbops of Ireland sent each his blessing. Nearly
every Bishop Joined in the bcncdIction Of the
new National Federation and Mr. McCarthSs gray
hairs stood out against 4 background Of black
frocks in such array never before WAS seen
ON an Irish platform 1t i perfectly true To
say that this new National Federation is essen
italy the organization Of the Church for poAt-
cal purposes the formal and definite entry OF
the Irish priesthood upon a struggle tor the con-
troll of the National movement. If Mr. ParnclIS
leadership be impcrillcd, the peril comes from
the altar The strongest influence against him
is that kind Of religion which, as Webster salj
in politics makes men mad--thc religion OF cleri-
calsm McCarthyism is henceiorth to he. with
every devout Roman Catholic, an article of faith
ana Parnellism is to be anathcma.
The effect English Home Rulers, especially
on NonconfOrmists, when they have graSpcd this
fact. will be pleasing to observe But in Ireland
the struggle is only beginning Nj Pamcll has
with him all or nearly all, the cities and great
towns where Home Rule has heretofore been III
the ascendant. Where the bishops hope to win
is in the most ignorant and bucoc constituencies.
With Mr.. Dillon and Mr. O'Bricn in gaol, no
Law opponent of Mr. Parne remains for
midablc than Mr. Davitt, who seems less fornid-
able than of old Mr.. licaly. who has no great
position out Of Parliament and the law courts, or
the mid Mccarthy, who has 50 little sense of
humor as 10 speak Of his pits for Mr. Parncll,
or Mr. Sexton, whose strength lies in weak poetry.
The money for starting new paper for this
motley cOncoursc of political atoms was rasei
with difficulty If indeed 1t has been raised.
Money for other purposes is not to be had on
any terms
IL is not al all clear whether Mr.. Parnell or
the priests will win majority of the seats in
Ireland at the next general election. What is
clear is that the Home Rule party III Ireland
itself is split into bitterly hostile sections. To
make an alliance with both Is impossible to Mr.
Gladstone, and neither by Itself can give hih
votes enough 10 bring him back to power Hence
The w.lesnrrad dc cotton among GlAdstOnlan poll