Mr. Parnell has issued an appeal to Irish-Americans for funds
with which to resist " the social war " which, he says, the rich Government of England has declared against the people of Ireland. The appeal is marked by an arti- ficial passion unusual with Mr. Parnell, whose forte is self- restraint, at least iu words. He declares that the British Government and the Irish landlords have "commenced a com- bined movement of extermination against the Irish tenant- farmers." He talks of those who wish " to assassinate our nation," and describes the murder of landlords as "the wild justice of revenge." At least, that is how Englishmen will in- terpret the statement that with money " you will also lessen and alleviate those feelings of despair in the minds of the evicted which have so often and so unhappily stimulated these victims to a recourse to the wild justice of revenge." The appeal is in the form of a letter to the President of the National League in America, but it is, of coarse, a manifesto telegraphed over the world. We have endeavoured elsewhere to explain Mr. Parnell's motives, but mast add here that every such appeal does his cause infinite harm in England. Debtors dislike creditors in this country too, but they do not consider the collection of debts a justification for "revenge," nor will they understand that it is not rent-taking but eviction which so irritates the Irish that they think Mr. Parnell's absurd exaggerations eloquent sense.
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