New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-16
1t is most unlikely that they will, thinks Mr.

At any rate he is pledged to bring in bill,
What he now SAYS shows how little it is likely 20
satisfy Home Rulers. The police will be still un-
der the control of the Imperial Government, and
without control of the police the party Of disorder
are helpless Mr.. Balfour is sanguine enough TO
hope that all sections will combine to make the
new plan workable. lie wants to bring classes
together, and to promote good feeling, order, and
prosperity. 1t is most laudable ambition.
The total receipts of the Irish National League
during the fortnight ending on Tuesday amount TO
S400. "For the first time since the inception of
the League said Mr.. Harrington, sadly, we
find ourselves unable to continue grants to evicted
tenants" The effect on the agrarian struggle or
on those who have taken part in it, is likely to
be serious The Plan of Campaign is pretty dead,
but the tenants whom it has ruined are still
living Many of them have held out
thus far in the belief that ultimately they would
he repaid in full for their sacrifices, if not rein
stated in the farms they abandoned at the dicta-
ton of Mr.. Dillon and Mr.. OBrien. Those two
men more than all others responsible for these
miseries. They have lost their great fight in Tip
perary, where their dupes are now left to starve.
Many of Mr.. Smith Barry's tenants, both in the
town and country, have accepted the landlords
liberal offer and have gone back to their farms
and shops. Those who refuse refuse for the
son above given They still think that money
must be found somewhere. When found, they are
to have it, and all their losses to be made good
Possibly Mr.. Harrington's melancholy statement
may open their eyes. Whether it does or not New
Tipperary, Mr. O'Briens Tipperary, which was to
astonish the world, which to show the uni
verse of what stuff Irish patriotism is made has
ceased TO exist
The Irish National Federation, like its older
rival, the Irish National League, has held fort
nightly meeting Mr.. Dillon presiding and of
speaking. His fiuency is inexhaustible. lie took
note of the confession of the other League that it
could no longer for want of money, support the
evicted tenants any Of them Why? queried
Mr.. Dillon. Because the country will no longer
give them money and that, cried the now leader,
triumphantly, is proof that the country no longer
trusts them Perhaps it is. But as Mr.. Har-
rington's League had got S40O, while Mr. Dillon's
League in the same time had received only $3.50,
it does rot seem as it, tried by this test the conf
dence of the country in Mr. Dillon himself were
overwhelming.
II is astonishing how many reasons Mr.. ParnelPs
opponents find for abandoning him. English Nom
conformiste turned him because the Divorce
Court found him guilty of adultery. Archbishop
Croke deserted him a mixture of political and
moral grounds Young Mr. Dwyer Gray forsook
Mr. Dillon explains that he is forced to renounce
Mr. Parnell because he cannot sacrifice the evictcd
tenants Of Ireland Mr. Dillon and Mr.. O'Brien
both spoke at Mallow on Sunday, favorite day
with Parneltes and Anti-Parnellites alike for the
practice of oratory. They made between them
dozen or more speeches. and said some remarkable
things Mr.. Dillon declared that Mr.. Parnell
wishes us to adopt independent opposition to poor
Mr.. Gladstone" What has Mr. Gladstone done
that he should be patronized and piticd by Nr.
Dillon?
1t is more to the purpose that the new leader, q
week out of Jail, announces himself opposed to the
new Irish Land act, which all parties supported
in the House of Commons lie told his audience,
which seems not 10 have been numerous, that the
Tory Ministers hate Ireland, hate the Irish peo-
pie, and their greatest desire is to depopulate
the country. He has gift of prophecy, and has
foretold that the time will come when the land
lord will go round hat in hand asking evicted
tenants to come back and take possession Of the
farms On their own terms, with bands and banners.
The struggle for liberty, he added, will last but
one short year more. Such is the language of the
new leader, if leader he he. This gathering at
Mallow seems 70 have been intended for the
public ratification of the compact by which the
priests put Mr. Dillon in Mr.. Parnell's place. Mr..
Dillon binds himself to do the bidding of the
priests. lie looks forward to renewed agitation
and the renewal of boycotting, now almost eX-
tinguiShed. About the Plan of Campaign he said
nothing. For what he says and for what he does
not say, he has specific instructions from his
masters, the Irish priests. The voice is the voice
of Dillon, but the hand that lies heavy on Ireland
is the hand Of Rome.
Lord BIamwell, who, beside being law lord,
is one of the coolest heads OF the Kingdom, has
| been discussing in his tersc way the proposal
| to release DAILY and other dynamiters. He sup
plies much-needed definition of the much-abused
| term, political prisoner. ~" He is man who is
| a prisoner because he has beea convicted of an
| offence committed with view TO procure some
| change in the laws and institutions of the
| country. To accomplish this he murders, wounds.
| assaults, robs, commits arson, mains cattle, In
| cites to the commission of such crimes and 10
riot and public disturbances, participates therein,
issues dynamite to destroy life and property, and
commits other crimes of like character" Such is
the political prisoner. There is TO novelty in the
definition. The novelty is in the application of
| It, Lord Bramwell gives in these two sentences
clear account Of political offences as understood
and practised in Ireland. Novel or not. it is
| needed In this country, where Mr. Gladstone has,
in marked degree, demOralzed the public con-
science by making light of such crimes. of
some of them, such as boycotting, Of the
most cruel OF ALL which he smoothly calls the
right Of combination
What Mr. Haldane said the other day in the
House of Commons shows how far this dcmoraliza-
ton has gone. Mr. lialdane spoke of DAILY
man known and respected in Fcnian circles, that
is. in dynamite circles. lie may says Lord
Bramwell, have gained Mr.. IIaldanes good opin-
ion as man who has received political proyoca-
ton and has resented it by crime and outrage as
means Of attracting attention to the grievances of
Ireland" This is what is said by of Her
Majesty's counsel 1t may seem STRANGE but if
Daily is respected by Fenians said Mr.. Haldane,
| think it an extra reason for keeping him DAILY
in Jail. Quite so, SAYS Lord Bramwell SO, l
apprehend, will most Americans saw OF would say,