New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-06
give Lord Salisbury notice to quit is long adj
vance on the attitude maintained hitherto.

give DOTu SauSDufy n0tlcc TO Quit is q long du-
vance on the attitude maintained hitherto.
1t is understood by some of his friends that
Mr. Parnell intends forthwith to set out for the
United States to sec what can be done toward
closing up the shattered ranks of his party on the
American side Of the Atlantic Money is sorely
needed since considerable proportion of the men,
berS Of the old party who stand by him have from
the first been accustomed to the receipt of those
regular subsidies which the late Mr.. Biggar judi
cously distributed. The need will become more
pressing If anything like fight is to he made at
the general elections Moreover, there is an i'm
mediate demand on the funds to start in Dublin
the daily paper Which is to crush the
renegade "Freemans Journal" That the Sc
ceders from Mr.. Parnell's leadership included the
moneyed man of the party was shown by the
promptitude and ease with which money to float
the National press was Forthcoming. Mr.. Parnell,
to whom possession of a daily paper is matter
of life and DEATH has not yet succeeded in raising
enough money to rent Office and purchase llachin-
cry for his proposed new paper. His wife. il
even she gets only a portion of the fortune left
her by her aunt, will be rich enough TO indulge
in the luxury of starting daily newspaper, but
Mr.. Parnell has never been prone to risk his pri-
vate belongings in the prosecution Of public pur-
poses, and whats Kitty's is now his" America
once the Eldorado of the cause represented by
him. is his only hope, and he talks boldly of
trying it, The result of the latest visit of his
emissaries was, however, not encouraging, and
Mr.. Parnell may find preteXt for indefinitely
postponing his excursion.
Toward the middle of the week it seemed prob
able that the long spell of bad weather that has
played havoc with the crops was broken, and
.1,o irb+ ho
but the burst of fine weather was only temporary.
Once more the rain descends, the foods have
come, and beating on the fields white for the
harvest, quench the last spark of hope. What
makes the trial harder to bear is that disaster has
followed fast on what promised to be an unusually
fine harvest. There was not only bountiful
CROP but. owing to the failure Of the harvest
on the Continent, prices rose and the British
farmer began to mediate serenely on the prospect
of six shillings a bushel for sound wheat But
that dream is over now, and the only question is
whether it will be worth while or even possible
TO harvest the beaten-down product Of
the flooded fields. The grain already
cut is sprouting few more days
such as we have lately had would render the crops
worthless for bread-makng purposes. 1t is not
only the rain but the wind, that has completed
the ruin of the farmers in Kent. Hops might
have stood up against the rain, continuous as it
was; but they have been ruthlesSly beaten down
by the prevalent storms, and whole gardens which
short time ago promised fair return are to-day
hopelessly battered Nor has fruitcuture escaped
the scourge, apples, pears and plums being swept
off the trees 1t is bitterly felt by British farmers
that England's adversely is Americas opportunity
and the reports which reach this country of mag
nifcent harveSts in the United States do not relieve
the despair with which the British farmer looks
on his own wasted land H. w. L.