The Irish standard., 1896-11-07
AT PARNELL'S old HOME
John Howard ParreIl Gets Into a
Reflective flood About His
Brother.
England VIII Never Be Conquered
Until the Irish Face Her
in Earnest.

They Thought They Gould Do
| Without .sMaster Charles
but rlade a Mistake.
| A recent iss;ie of the westminster Ga
zette" contains very Interesting article
On Avondale, and Of some conversations
which the writer had with Mr.. John
Howard Parnell, NJ. P, says the Irish
Weekly Independent.
A little Irish terrier, "Sport," accompa-
MED tbs in our walk. He was a quiet
Isnd little dog, who remained faithfully
and fondly near his master all the way
but who declined to make friends with
me. or indeed to condescend to take the
slightest notice of my attentions.
| AS we were passing through field
brigade Of COWS charged "Sport," who
was indeed very tiny little dog. I
thought Sport would fly off. But not
! o bit of it. Sport turned right around
and faced the enemy without linching;
and the COWS pulled UP with sudden
ness and look OF. wonder which was
very droll. "sport" never barked, never
! made the least noise, never stirred, but
steadily faced his foes.
| 1t was ludierous scene and amused
us. <sYou see,''. said Parnel, Sport,
knows what to- do He is very quiet He
does not make any noise. But he faces
the COWS and holds his ground. That
| is what we ought to do with the English.
But we don't. We make noise, but we
! don't face them, and we don't hold our
ground
This remark at once brought up the
subject Of unity and John plunged into
] it at once. I repeated my question:
What plan or policy would Charles be
likely to propose to- bring about unity 9,
i'sWell," said John, che would leave all
English parties alone Then, with a.
! touch of energy which was not at all
chara cteristic, he added, after a long
pause, ""You see, the English do not care
a d. for lis, and we ought mott care
| a. d--for them, "'You remind me-" {
said. ''of the story of the Snowman who
gave an account to a village audience Of
| Daniel in the lions desl, and wound up
| by saying, And Daniel did not care a
d for the l:on, and the lion did rot
care a d. for Dan. - eyes, = said
lJohn. with surprising readiness, S"and: .t
! Il 1sSas the reason Isa7ie! got o1ls GiA
mot care a d. - ffo,, the Lied wal kfsa
along chen for some fifteen minutes with
| |outi exchanging a word, and then 'John
JroEe in: I'VE will never have unity un-:
| til we have a fighting plan. You see, a
| fight with England would bring us all
! together at once. We have not a fight
! w:th En- gland, and we are fighting
among ourselves. @
then said: Perhaps you think the
best thing that could happen WOULD be
| for the Liberals to declare against Honle
Rule After awhile he said: sT11e Lib
erals won't say that they will drop home
Rule, But they. have really dropped t.
| 1t would be better for us if the Liberals
would say. that they had given UP Home
Ru]e. SO that We might fight them, than
! that they should give up Home Rule and
rot say it, and so keep up an alliance
which is no good. The Liberal alliance
! is killing Home Rule. It prevents a
fighting policy, and we cannot get Home
Rule without a lighting pc.-cy, Inat is.
we re asked to trust The English. Hg1l
see, we are sitting quiet ia Ia pause, thea
a sn,ile-tsexcept thai we are all Il ighfln&ss@
| each other. We ought all to- come TO-.
gether-all solid agaiast England. But,
YOU see, we are all thinking more ct al
| living ourselves with English parties
and OF using English parties aga lnats
ea ch other, than o. ali coming togethefS;ssYS.
| i should say again that this was not
| said in one continuous speech, 1t was
! all said after many panses much hesl-
Itation, and even many diversions caused
by reference to the scenery through
| which we passed, and other topics that
suddenly thrustAt themselves upon us. But
he never lost sight Of the subject. He
held on doggedly to It. He Kept 20 his
| own. l:ne. He jerked out al he mad to
say with a co1lvictionsa1ld tletermlnatlon
which produced more impression than
! the fluent utterances Of a practiced talk
or The struggle of5tha man to express
| the views which il was abundantly clear
! he had worked cut in his own mind was
in striking contrast to- the average flip
I.r,ant. politician who can talk by the yard,
| but who cannot think by the inch.
| Il know, !" said Charles Stewart Par
| nell. in private conversation in 1881, TO
| a Fenian leader who doubted his power
| to deal eifectuallv with English parties
| by parl. .an,entary actiOn---'l knew that
| / can bring English parties to their
knees over this Home Rule quest ion
without risking anything like an insnr--
l1rectiouary NOV ament.1 / cannot tell
YOU how / will do it.. Perhaps ! do not
| knew exactly myseif. But am con
yinead that T can and that Will Go q"
The wear 1856 came, and tbs H'enian
| leader then told me the story and said:
eyes. he has done it. He5not only brought
Gladstone round bit be- even shook
Salisbury. s@ ~ 1, Il.
| The evening was now failing in, and
we returned ovefSth field to A Ayondale.
we called on an Gid Wgnaan On the way.
I.who had been Ciaaress,, nurse. III and who
Ihad been his hoilsekeeper at Avondale
almost to the sda,, 5off his dea th. She had
| 3 nice, comfortahta little house On the
Parrlel estate, and was very pleased 20.
Igea Master Jean 4 as he entered The
door and took a. seat III the chimney
corner Around the room were photo
lgraphs Of Charles, and lieiEsn per pictures
81 many scenes, ineludin 6 5 committee
Isfroorn lis. q in which he sad ken part.
! TIE Old woman had much TO saN.S OF
/ Master Charlie as. al Boy5 and d man,
Land stiH fondly cherished his meruory
Eshe ana John tall ed a bo,lt. old da ss and
ltolG stories OF Charlie said
was. very foId Of pf fellow
Inc lead 81, !, but a. soi, beng
Ilea.d der. III ne hated ITO II at any
EthIng: III ilset cons slli1n
atA chess; and on II
Heat Char ulS Npaas tAe
and sho II es
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