The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-11-22

own city for a lecture AS a scholar
he is head and shoulders above the
Episcopalian divine.
THE PARNELL FAMILY ESTATE,
A special cable from Dublin, signed
John McIlvaine, appeared in last Sun
days issue Of the ST. Paul Globe, in
which the correspondent refers to the
controversy between John e. Red
mond, the parliamentary leader, and
Mrs. Dickinson, the married sister of
the late Charles Stewart Parnell,
over the funds collected in this coun-
try for the purchase of Avondale.
Before his return from the United
States to Ireland, Mr.. Redmond issued
the following answer to the criticism
Of Mrs. Dickinson regarding the man.
agement of the funds raised by the
Parnell Monument Committee:
''The funds collected by Lord Mayor
Talon and myself never at any time
passed through my hands. They went
to the Parnell Monument Committee
in Dublin, and have been invested in
government stocks for the treasurers
Of that committee by the most emil
nent stock broker in Dublin, Mr.. Jas.
Mccain. AS far as know, the only
actual expenditure has been in the
purchase of bronze bust of Parnell,
which was required by the sculptor
who is making the monument, and in
a purchase of portion of the Avon
dale Library. These funds were col
lected for the purpose of creating a
memorial to Parnell. This memorial
was to consist Of a monument in the
streets of Dublin, and, if possible, the
purchase of the Mansion House of
Avondale, to be held for the nation,
much as Washington's birthplace is
at Mount Vernon. At the sale of the
estate, two years ago, the committee
bid for the house, but were outbid by
Dublin butcher, who made one bid
for the whole estate, including the
house. 1t afterward TRANSFERRED that
he was acting in union with Mr.. John
Parnell, and that he paid the latter
$4,000, in addition to the $4,000 paid
as the price of the estate. It being no
longer possible to purchase the house,
the committee made a contract with
Augustin st. Gaudens to build the
monument. There has been some re-
grettable delay, but the model is now
complete, and Mr.. st. Gaudens is COM
ing here tomorrow to show it to me.
1 hope the work will now proceed
rapidly, and that the monument will
soon be in it's place. The funds at
hand are not enough to complete the
payment for the monument, but there
will be no difficulty in obtaining the
necessary balance when required"
Mrs. Dickinson, who is the wife of
an ex-officer in the English army, is
not satisfied with the foregoing ex
PLANTATION, if the Globe correspondent
is to be believed. She thinks it
good time while Dillon, Davitt and
Devlin are in the United States to
agitate the matter, and John Nc
Ilvaine ventilates it in the American
press. Who he is we do not know,
but he is apparently no friend of the
Irish cause, for he says:
people in Ireland are reminded by
this controversy Of the remarkable
fact that so-called national political
movements in Ireland have usually
passed into history with the pictur-
esque circumstances attached to them
of row over the funds. Upon the
extinction Of the old Land league in
1881 its financial records were hastily
removed to France, and it is not re-
membered that the books of that IA
nous and rich organization were ever
subjected to the ordeal of public
accounting. What will be the outcome
of the misunderstanding which has
now occurred between Parnells ia
vorite sister and Mr.. John E. Red
mond, remains to be seen. 1t cannot
be denied that general public interest
in Ireland is excited, to a. very mark
ed degree, over the failure of those
entrusted with the American subscrip-
tons to save the Parnell home. Be
the merits of the case what they may,
Mrs. Dickinson's determination to
brave the annoyances always INSOFAR
able from the position of party to
any public controversy, has won for
her throughout Ireland, irrespective Of
class or creed, feeling of admira-
ton"
Now the man who sent that news to
America at this time must be in the
pay of the British government. His
object is to injure the mission of the
Irish ENJOYS. What he says is untrue
to an exaggerated degree. In his re-