And practically, no doubt, the issue depends on the view
taken of the situation by the American managers of the Irish- American subscriptions. Mr. O'Brien seems to be amongst the waverers, while Mr. Dillon's views were not known when we went to press. It is known, however, that the most anti- British of the American Irish adhere to Mr. Parnell, and they are likely to adhere to him all the more if they gather that the question is one of rivalry between Great Britain and Ireland for the control of the Home-rule policy. The quarrel is a very sharp one. And it is certainly a very grotesque situation when the first use made by the British Home-rulers of their numerical superiority over the Irish Home-rulers is to refuse the latter anything like Home-rule in the selection of a leader. We are disposed to expect, however, that more money will flow in from the United States for the support of Mr. Parnell against Mr. Gladstone's dictation, than for the authority of the Grand Old Man. The American Irish are not Gladstonians.
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