Show PARNELLS BLUNDER Mr PAKXELL has concluded that he will not retire from politics He says he will continue to lead his party until his people tell him to retire and suggests that his private i pri-vate conduct and personal morals have nothing to do with him as a politician and the director of a great political movement There are just two courses for Mr Pit NELL to pursue at the present time and in I our opinion both will lead to the same point political oblivion One the shortest course and therefore thn best is immediate immedi-ate retirement from the public gaze This would give least offense and would show that the gentleman had some sort of sense of the situation in which he has placed himself The other is the course which he proposes to follow and is the one which we might expect a weak and desperate man to take Mr PAKNELL proposes to put on a bold face and brazenly bluff his course through We dont believe he will succeed We think he has not correctly estimated the character of the Irish people They may for a little while think that the loss of PARKELL would be equivalent to the loss of their cause but they will soon get over that and will discover that he is a detriment detri-ment to the nationalism for which they are struggling Whatever else may be said of the Irish it cannot be charged against thorn that they are low down in the scale of morals In this matter they rank higher han others who look down upon the Irish people In their desperation and distress they may try to overlook Mr PAKNELLS I fault but the virtue which is inherent in I the race will soon assort itself and then their leaders offense will appear to them in all its hideousness and he will be re nudiated as being both weak and unclean Mr PARNELL Is certainly making a mistake mis-take in not at once stepping down from he lofty pedestal on which he has so long stood and in not going into retirement where forgetfulness would come to his offending There is a case in point and ono which should furnish an example ex-ample for his guidance It is the case of Sir CHARLES DILKE Sir CHARLES was one of tho brainiest men in Great Britain He was a leader and was in the direct line t o the premiership All recognized his genius and power and it was a question of time only when ho would stand at the head of the great nation But ho was weak and sensual as PAUKELL has proven himself to be and when the exposure came ho saw that he could not stand up under the crushing crush-ing blow He was a good deal bigger man intellectually than Mr PARKELL and being wiser he took the tot better course He retired re-tired from public life He dropped out of sight as much as possible Ho even went abroad to live for a time and there did nothing to attract attention to himself His aim was to induce the people whose sense of decency ho had outraged to forget his offense of-fense and at the same time his attitudeof humility would convey the impression that he was repentant recognized the force of public sentiment BILGES probation is drawing to a close Ho is again com ing to the front Public feeling towards him is softening Ho occasionally writes J for the papers and the reviews and is read with interest One of these days he will be heard on the rostrum and in time he will again be an interesting and powerful character in British politics If he had taken the other course if he had been desperate des-perate brazen and defiant and had said it was none of the affair of the world what he didin private life he would simply have been crushed and all his great brain could not have extricated him from the oblivion to which public opinion would have consigned con-signed him Mr PR ELL is not to be compared with Sir CHARLES DILKK in intellectuality or in force of character and if the latter could not stand up and face the popular sentiment senti-ment which said that if the great ones could not be moral and clean they must at least hide their foulness the former will simply be demolished |