THE TABLET. A Weekly N ew spaper a n d R ev iew .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F ro m the B r i e f o f H is H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t J u n e 18 70 .
Vol. 78. No. 2676. L ondon, A u gu st 22, 1891.
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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
C h ro n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :
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Mr. Parnell on Mr. Dillon—Mr. Parnell and the Plan of Campaign —Mr. Morley and Mr. Parnell— . The Fight for “ The Freeman ”— M. Ju les Ferry in the Vosges— Sensation and the Kaiser—The Emper.or William—The General Omnibus Company — The Corn Market—The Austrian Emperor —Disaster in the Tyrol—Accident at the Eisteddfod—The Crisis at Pekin—Sir C. Dilke and the Eight Hours’ Bill—Swiss Railway Accident—Mr. J . Russell Lowell— Chained Together — The Papal Zouaves in Canada—Wrecked on a Tenantless Island—Cyclone at Martinique . . . . . . . . 281 ^Le a d e r s :
Mr. Parnell and Mr. Dillon . . 285 Scientists in Session . . . . 286
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s (Continued) :
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Irish Education Endowment . . 287 Jam es Russell Lowell . . . . 287 Trêves and Argenteuil . . . . 288 N otes . . . . . . . . . . 289' R e v iew s :
A Half-Century o f Letters . . 291 History of the Modern Styles of
Architecture _ . . . . . . 292 Catholic Magazines . . . . 293 Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 294 C o r r e s po n d en c e :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . •• •• 297 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . •■ 298 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r .:
Cromer Est . . . - • • •. 3QI “ Our Lady of P ity ” . . . . 301
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L e t t e r s to t h e E d ito r (Con- ,
tinued) : Young Men’s Catholic Associa
tion .. . . .. . . . . 301 The Picture of St. Elizabeth . . 301 Burned Alive . . . . . . 301 The Holy Coat o f Treves.. . . 301 The League o f the Cross at Glas
gow .. . . . . . . . . 302 American Comment on the Ency
clical . . . . . . . . . . 302 Catholics Abroad . . . . . . 303 A Day with the Trappists . . . . 304 The Free Education Act .............. 305 I The Catholic Church in America . . 305 | j The Padroado in British India . . 306 j l An Oratorian Reply to Dr. Abbott 307 1
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F rom E v eryw h er e .......................... 308 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 308
SU P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e S chools :
English Reformatory and Indus
trial School Development . . 3 13 Royal University of Ireland . . 315 The Fee Grant . . . . 316 About Education . . . . . . 316 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster.. . . . . . . 3 17
Southwark . . .. . . ... 318 Birm ingham.. . . . . . . 318 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 318 Leeds . . . . . . . . 318 Newport and Menevia . . . . 318 Northampton . . . . . . 318 Nottingham .. . . . . . . 318 Salford . . .. . . . . 3 1 8 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 307 Aberdeen . . . . . . . . 308
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
MR. PARNELI.
ON MR. DILLON.
R . P A R N E L L continues his lonely struggle without pause or rest, and on Sunday showed himself, in spite o f all his efforts and worry, still in splendid fighting trim. H e had to face the fact that Mr. Dillon and Mr. O ’Brien, though they were neutral or silent when in prison six months ago, have now definitely sided with his enemies. They have declared against him, not because of the revelations in the Divorce Court, but because, in Mr. Gladstone’s present mood, Mr. Parnell seems to be an obstacle to Home Rule because unacceptable to the Nonconformists of Great Britain. Mr. Parnell at once accepted the situation, and lost no time in .getting to work. H e was glad to have enemies it was worth while to meet, and to be face to face with something better than Mr. Timothy Healy. H e laughed out at the charge that he wanted to drive poor Mr. Gladstone from public life. Why all the world had hitherto been under the impression that it was just the other way about, and that it was Mr. Gladstone who had been trying to drive him from public life. It was a wonderful and rather belated discovery this, that it was he who was trying to break up and destroy the Liberal party. A ll the w-orld knew that, on the contrary, the Liberal party had been very successful in smashing the Irish party. For his part he would draw no distinction between Liberals and Tories. “ They will all coerce you when they can, and they will all make concessions when they must.” Referring to the cables sent from America by Mr. Dillon and Mr. O’Brien, bidding the people stand by their old leader, and their recent explanations o f their reasons for now giving the opposite advice, Mr. Parnell said they tvere the most original and contradictory set of reasons ever given by mortal man in attempting to explain an impossible action. “ Mr. Dillon says he sent the cable in support of my leadership, not because he thought I ought to continue to be leader, but because he thought I ought not to continue to be leader.” Would it not have been better, asked Mr. Parnell, if Mr. Dillon had either spoken the truth or else held his peace ? Or was his present advice to retire really given because he hoped Mr. Parnell would not retire ? Mr. Parnell then gave his recollection o f what passed between him and Mr. Morley at an intcrview nine days before the trial. According to Mr. Parnell, Mr. Morley knew how the verdict would go, and counselled him in any case to stand by his guns and not retire from public life.
In the same speech Mr. Parnell definitely and F A N was^ed his hands o f all responsibility for the ok cam pa ign . I’ kin Campaign. H e regretted that Mr.
Dillon should use the bodies o f the poor victims o f the Plan as weapons to pelt at an opponent. It was idle to tell these people that they will be restored to their homes if Mr. Gladstone is returned to power at the next election. Neither Mr. Gladstone nor Mr. Morley can can do anything of the kind. I t w'ould be easier, said Mr. Parnell, for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Morley to restore a single evicted tenant o f his holding. And it was a shameful thing of Mr. Dillon to seek to continue the hopeless struggle at New Tipperary, to condemn men and their wives and little ones to lose everything they possessed, to lose their homes and their future— merely for the purpose o f getting another missile for an opponent. “ It is my duty to declare, as I do to-day, that those of the evicted tenants o f New Tipperary who desire to settle with their landlords should be allowed to settle.” This statement was received wTith “ cheers,” and is a queer commentary upon the sort of liberty which the victims o f the Plan o f Campaign, enjoy. Mr. Parnell then went on to carry the war directly home to Mr. Dillon, and asked why he was so slow to practise what he has preached so glibly. The New Tipperary shopkeepers who spent the savings of their lives in getting a little business together, and in building their shops and their houses, must give up their properties, and must allow their houses, their goods, and their furniture, to be sold without redemption because Mr. Dillon orders them to do it. How does Mr. Dillon himself act when in the presence of a like peril ? When the Crown sought to recover the surety he gave previous to his flight with Mr. O ’Brien to America, and threatened to seize his house and sell his furniture, his solicitor hurried to Mr. Parnell to ask him to sell out ¿ 1 , 0 0 0 of the Paris fund to save Mr. Dillon’s property. This was a fine opportunity for scorn, and Mr. Parnell did not hesitate to use it. On the other hand, it is fair to Mr. Dillon to say that he denies the truth of Mr. Parnell’s statement in every detail, and The N a t io n a l P r e s s conveniently sums up the situation by observing that Mr. Parnell is an abominable liar. In a letter to T h e F re em an, Mr. Parnell a second time accuses Mr. Dillon o f seeking to save his own property at the 1 expense o f the Paris Fund.
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