Parnell has issued from Paris a manifesto to his country-
men. In it he declares that the "movement in America, which is capable of immense development," depends upon the stand. made in Ireland, and urges the farmers to remain firm, and not. to be intimidated by the first arrests. If they remain firm, he says, probably no more will be made. The places of all Land Leaguers arrested should be at once filled up, and the Irish people should exhibit a spectacle of passive endurance to the world.. Meanwhile, Mr. Parnell believes that Britain is governed by territorialism and shopacracy, and that the. British demo- cracY can be induced to unite with the Irish against both. The manifesto is much more temperate than Mr. Parnelre Irish speeches ; but he utterly misunderstands the temper of Britieli democracy. It is not in the least cosmopolitan. The lower classes do not intend to give up Ireland, do not approve the appeals to America, and will not tolerate Obstruction for one minute. They might have assisted Mr. Parnell to resist or modify Coercion, had not sympathy been killed by the Obstruc- tive policy. Whatever the wrongs of Ireland,—and they are many,—or the claim of Ireland to independence,—and that is arguable, though Home-rule is not,—she has no claim to administer curare, the paralysing drug, to Parliament. Obstruc- tion is that, and nothing else.
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