The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-14
HIS REPLY.
Mr.KentTakes
Exceptions
TO GALVIN'S LETTER
Yet Another Chapter In the
Fountain Controversy.
To the Editor of The spx:-

the question at issue is too serious for
that-let me reply at once to Mr.. Gal
vim, that it was not mere "unholy
! spectre of divorce" that compelled Mr.
Panell to retire from public life, and
made it simply impossible for Mr. Glad
stone to publicly cooperate with him.
1t was the damning fact of adultery,
AS in the similar case of another great
and honored parliamentarian there was
not a government in England strong
enough to carry a man with that bur-
den of proved iniquity upon him. Mr..
Mccarthy himself insists that Mr.. Glad
stone never ceased regretting that Par
nells career, which he regarded as one
OF the greatest in modern times. should
have come to so tragic a close. But the
man who closed it in such pitiful trag-
edy was none other than James Stewart
Parnell, and millions of us, English as
well as Irish, grieve at it as sincerely
as did Mr.. Gladstone.
! call it worse than an Irish bull.
| call it sheer vindictivencss, if
Irishmen opposed a monument to
the grim necessity Parnelrs conduct
forced upon him as good and true
man had to do.
And that other reason Mr.. Calvin
gives for Dublin's refusal to receive
| a monument to Mr.. Gladstone: because
the duke of Westminster headed the
committee recommending it, and the
| duke of Westminster had once, in eff
gy at least, turned Mr.. Gladstone out
OF doorsi There we encounter the kind
OF reasoning that arrays itself against
the gift of our British Americans to
our good city.
II appears that his grace the duke of
Westminster has made a most amaz-
Ing and ungraceful fool of himself some
years before. 1t appears that by and
by he manfully attempts to make
amends by leading a movement to
honor Mr. Gladstone's memory. He
srdGeIuiiy eats humble pie. He offers
70 Dublin monument to the grand
old man whose very service to Ireland
had once lnfiamed his ducal ire.
And think of Dublin! Seeking VEN
geance on his grace the Duke of West
Minister by refusing alike a monument
70 MI. Gladstone and the most prac-
tical Kind of an amende honorable to
nian?
1 will not follow Mr.. Calvin to tho
conclusion of his letter, where he would
| faln fling dust into the air and so oh
scure the simple question now before
our clty TO decide. Let US have that
question decided on it's merits. No set
or Orangemen, no members Of an A.
+. A. but some thousands of men and
women who claim no better name than
cltlzens OF Worcester and amongst
Whon are to be counted a goodly num-
Der, both Catholic and Irish. have Of
tered to their fellow citizens a noble
gift.
In the open light of that better day
| of friendship and fellowship that has
! dawned upon the nations, they offer
this token of good win and mutual re-
spect. 1t is a token which, in the gen
erous spirit that has proffered it and
| in the gracious spirit that accepts it.
may be and ought to be among the first
| of thousand ties. which light as air
| but stronger than bands of steel, shall
! bind these mighty peoples in the bond
of brotherhood
| And this thing is opposed, and back
| of every specious argument rises the
'unholy spectre" of an undying hate
and bitterness, as the moving spirit of
that opposition. Nay, that feeling
leaps into furious fame from beneath
| the studied arguments of these oppon-
| ents. 1t breaks out in the savage
threat against our city fathers, that
these ones viii remember any stand
| they dare to take against them and
visit it in their future dealings with
them" We cry indignant shame upon
such malignant and uncalled for inter-
| ference with a matter where naught
| but kindness and good fellowship had
been in both the giving and accepting,
| heretofore. We ask these men why
| they, instead of crying down the bene-
fit that others would confer upon our
city, do not themselves bestow some
nobler gift upon it.
| The hindrances of hatred enrich
neither individuals nor cities. The
| seeking of revenge blesseS neither the
seeker nor the sufferer. Let the Irish
show their love for some one, some
how.
The British-Amerieans want to show
| their love for Worcester, and their hon
or for the woman who by the strength
of her pure womanhood lifted the court
of England from impurity to cleanness,
who by the wisdom of her self-control
and gentleness has helped. as no other
! English ruler ever did, the progress OF
| the English people from tribal savag-
| cry to national f-goVernment.
And against this deed of affection
and respect is raised the pitiful appeal
to ignorance and prejudice that it is
sought to make out monarchy perfect
and abiding thing
! AS if every student did not know
monarchy to be but a stepping stone in
the peoples march from primitive no
government to ultimate and splendid
| self government. Let the Irish do some
deed of love in Worcester and for the
old city that so well deserves it at their
hands Let them give to it gift that
shall benefit and bless their fellow
citizens and be, if they will, monu-
ment to their heroic and gifted leader,
James Stewart Parnell. God forbid that
any Briton should arise to enter the
protest so cruel, SO dastardly, that such
a memorial would be a monument to
the honor of adultery. l am utterly con-
WINGED, that let the Irish do what they
may against the gift now proffered to
the city, not one in all the thousands of
| the British Americans on this continent
would ever harbor the thought of such
retaliation.