MR. PARNELL.

Kumara Times, Issue 1021, 9 January 1880, Page 2

MR. PARNELL.

♦ The following paragraph, about the gentleman whose name has been prominent of late in our English telerams, is from the European Mail: —Mr Parnell has addressed a sort of epistlegeneral to the " tribes which are scattered abroad," that is to say, to the Irish dispersion in different parts of the world, in England and in Scotland, in Canada, and in the United States, in Australia and New Zealand. Every Irishman who has money in his pocket must understand himself to be addressed J for Mr Parnell's encyclical is neither more of less' than a begging letter on & gigantic Scale.,- He appeals to the Irish race all over tho World to subscribe money to enable the Irish farmers to buy their holdings at a fair valuation from the Irish laridlords. Mr Parnell is, we are ready to believe, sincerely patriotic J but he shows very little respect for his country rtien at Home in exhibiting thenl as poor relations sponging on their kinsmen who may have thriven better in the world; ,There wholesale mendicancy. What the Irish need more than anything else is td be taught to rely upon themselves; The whole drift of Mr Parnell's teaching is to encourage them to depend on others. The economic objections to his proposal may be considered when anybody showstheslightest disposition to respond to it. It is difficult to suggest any rational explanation of Mr Parnell's scheme. It may be that Mr Parnell the Irish agitator,' has frightened Mr Parnell the Irish landlord. He is perhaps anxious, to sell his estates before they are simply and inexpensively conveyed to their present occupiers by a process of mere transfer. If he can get the Trish abi'oad to to give the pur-chase-money to the Irish at home, the bargain might not be a bad one for the Irish landlords. We do not say that this is the explanation of Mr Parnell's conduct, but it is what scientific call a working hypothesis. It accounts for "the facts so far as they are known.