The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-06-13
ANINTERES!INC INTERVIEW.
What the Archbishop Of Dublin Has
to Say Regarding Future Pros
poets of Ireland's Cause.
THE QUESTION or LEADERSHIP.
Dlscord and Disunlon Has Been the Out
come. SaVs His Grace, of Mir. Par
nel!'s Persistent Course.

come Sava His Grace, of MIR. Par
nell's Persistent Course.
A correspondent to the Boston Pilot,
of late date, writes as follows. con-
corning an interview with Archbishop
Walsh, of Dublin:
In answer to general question as to
the prospects of Parnellsm, His Grace
replied that he had little to add to what
he had already said or written on The
subject. ''Parnsllism," he said. els
breaking ND. You can see this for
yourself from the newspapers. But
even outeide all that appears III the
newspapers, thers is evidence of it in
abundance. Almost every post from
ireland brings sohe further proof that
Parneliism, as an effective national
force in Ireland. has all but run it's
course. Mr.. Parnell. of course, has
followers. Almost every where ne has
some few, and in some few places they
are fairly numerous. He can go on.
then, holding meetings. especially when
the attendance is helped out, as it usu-
ally is, by the introduction Of number
Of followers Of bis from miles and miles
around by well~organiZed service of
special trains from all the centers Of
population within manageable reach of
the place of meeting. But all this only
means that he has the power OF keeping
up discord and disunion III the country.
That is not p thing to boast of. 1t is
not thing that those who are helping
him in doing it will afterwards look
back upon with rnueh satisfaction
when the present turmoil is over.''
"Your Grace, think, has estimated
that four-dftIls of the constituencies
Will 30 against him at Che general cleo
tiOns2" ..
Yes; that would leave him one-fifth
or thereabolts. i made that estimate
some time ago. am told. however.
that / altogether estimated MT,
Parnell's strength. tt ! at all over
estimated his strength then. that esti'
mate would be altogether excessive
now."
''Does your Grace think that even in
that case he would continue to keen
to keep his flag Hying?"
Why not? AZ least believe tha.
he would, and that he would go on,
just az at present, il he haa not a dozen
Members Of Parliament to support him.
The boast of his Heutenants and cham.
pions in the press now Is, not that they
will sweep the country-they no longer
dream of claiming anything like that--
but that they will succeed in carrying
an election here and an election there,
in certain constituencies up and down
the country. They seem to think it
will be q thtngsto exult in If they can
succeed in weakening the national rep
resentaeion in Parliament by sending
over any dissentient element. no mat
ter how small. Their aim. then, Will
be to find some. few constituencies suf-
ficiently wanting in national sentiment
to send to parliament avoWed 0ppo-
nents of the policy which will have the
approval of the nation by an over
whelming majority Of its representa-
tlyes. They do not seem to realize the
sorrow and the shame 1t must bring to
Ireland to see Mr.. Parnell and small
knot Of Parnellite members in the
House of Commons, with no more au-
thority to speak for the Irish people
thaD Colonel Saunders0n, Mr.. T. w.
Russell, and their Unionist following
have had in the present parliament" !"
The conversation having turned on
the slowness of Mr.. Parnell and his fol
lowers to recognize the moral aspect of
the case. the Archbishop went on to sav
that he did not wonder at this. elf .
he said. ''they recognize the moral as
pect OF 1t, they should. Of course give
up at once.
.'Tha natural influence of prejudice
explains q good deal We must make
some allowance for that. But what
seems to me really strange. and indeed
unaccountable, Is that they fail to see
that there are only two possible princl-
pies by which the case can be decided
the moral principle and the democratic
principle. or. In other words, the vote
OF the electorate. In viewof the rete-
latil,ns III the divorce court, and OF the
$declarations OF the bishops, they very
naturally strive to keep clear Of the
moral question. But then they have
nothing else q fall back upon but the.
democratic principle. the votes of the.
electoral NoWl that can 40 longer be
pleaded In iusti ificataon of the confusion
they are eping mp fthro oughout the
country lreadY two test elections
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