The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-30
UNvt|L MONUMENT
TO FAMOUS LEADER
Thousands at Dublin, Ireland
to Attend Ceremony to
Charles Parnell.

DUBLIN, Sept. 3O-Dublin expects
her population to be almost doubled
tomorrow, for tens of thousands OF
visitors from all over the country
will be here to help the people OF the
Irish capital to make the unveiliI..
OF the st. Gaudens monument to !Chas.
Stewart Parnell an event of national
importance. One of the greatest Ma
tionalist demonstrations held in this
city In recent years is promised. John
t. Redmond, the intimate friend OF
Parnell and his successor as the lead
er Of the Irish party in parliament,
will be the chief figure at the unveil-
ing exercises. 1t is expected that Mr..
Redmond's Grafton will be one of the
greatest tributes yet paid to the
memory of his dead chief.
Special trains will bring delegations
of visitors from all over Ireland. Many
of the larger delegations will be head
ed by the mayors of their respective
cities. Avondale, the County Wicklow
town where Parnell first saw the light
of day, will send nearly its entire
population to the unwilling. The Irish
organizations in America, whose gem
erous contributions aided Parnell in
his campaigns, have arranged for spe-
cial representation.
The monument stands at the end
OF O'Connell street, one of the prin-
cipal streets of Dublin and said to be
the widest thoroughfare in all Eu-
rope. The site is close to Rutland
Square and near the historic Rotunda,
which was the scene of many great
Nationalist gatherings in the last cen.
fury.
The memorial is the last great work
undertaken by the American sculptor,
Augustus st. Gaudens. 1t Is most
elaborate affair, consisting OF bronze
statue of heroic size, set on a great
granite pedestal An obelisk rises
many feet in the rear of it and the
statue depicts Parnell wearing a light
overcoat carelessly thrown back from
his shoulders, while he is in an atti-
tude of addressing crowd. One hand
rests on table, on which is spread
out copy of the Irish land act. His
other hand is appraised and his left
foot placed forward as if in the act OF
giving great emphasis to his remarks.
The inscription on the pedestal, an
speeches, reads as follows: ITO
Charles Stewart Parnell. No man has
a right to fix boundary to the march
of a nation No man has right to
say to his country, Thus far thou shalt
60 and no farther We have never at
tempted to fix ne plus ultra to the
progress of Ireland's nationhood, and
we never shall"
Charles Stewart Parnell. the man
whose memory Is now to be honored
with q memorial in keeping with the
distinguished services which he rem
dered his country, ranks with Daniel
O'Connell as an agitator and leader,
and was even superior to O'Connell
as an organized. His influence in the
great that from the time he succeed
ed to the leadership of the Home Rule
party in 1880, until November, 1880,
when he was deposed, he was virtual
~ the dictator of the governing in
fluences of English politics.
In the spring of 1875 Parnell took
his first seat in parliament for Meath,
having previously been defeated in
County Dublin. Less than two years
later he began his celebrated policy OF
obstruction. Isaac Butt. who was the
recognized Irish leader at that time
could not see the sense of opposing
measures in which the Irish were not
directly concerned, but Parnell held
to this course and Butt was forced
from the leadership. In 1878 Parnell
was the acknowledged leader of the
Irish party.
Because of the failure of the potato
crop, 1879 was the worst year Ireland
had known since 1S4S, and Parnell be
came the president of the Irish lea
que in 1879, with It's famous watch
word, Keep firm grip on YOU
homesteads."
The next year Gladstone succeeded
Beaconsfield as prime minister, and
Parnell and other lrishmen were i'm
prisoned under the coercion act in
1882. Parnell was able to force the
issues which resulted in an alliance
with Gladstone.
In 1887 appeared the articles in the
London Times, "Parnellism and
Crime" and facsimile letter of Par
nell was produced, in which he ex