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Show . ... Pity for I'arnell. Father Phelau's Western Watchman. We aro sorry that one of the most honored names in Irish cotemporary history should be tarnished; its pure Irish gold changed to baso English dross. Parnoll is a political ruin. We say so, not that we would have it so, or that saying it wo might make it so. jit is so" by the flat of the Irish people. Many of the Irish members of Parliament Parlia-ment scout the Idea of Mr. Parnell's retiring from polities or even from tho leadership or the Home Ruler party. Many prominent Irishmen in this country coun-try declare that the Irish people at home and abroad will tako no notice of Mr. Parnell's private conduct and continue to trust him as their leader. The Irish envoys, Dillion, O'Brien ami Gill, laugh at any suggestion of Parnell's withdrawal from public life. The Frets-man's Frets-man's Journnl will not hear of Parnell's retirement from active leadership. This all proves how much loved the great leader was and how deeply his friends deplore his downfall. For downfall down-fall it is. If Parnell were an Englishman English-man and Ireland peopled with Englishmen English-men their hopes and prognostications might be verified. But he is an Irishman Irish-man aud his constituents are Irishmen. They will never employ him as their national representative again. The Irish clergy w ill drop him. Archbishop Walsh wiil drop him. Irishmen will cease to talk of him, and he will be I buried away in some green spot in their memory, but buried will ho be. The young men who represent Ireland 111 Parliament have lived so long in England that they are inclined to adopt ICnglish standards for gauging private conduct. Nelson, Wellington, Palmers-ton, Palmers-ton, or even Gladstone, may commit breaches of morality and bu acquitted of all dishonor; but it is different over in Ireland. Wo are sorry, but wo might as well submit to the inevitable. Parnell must pass to tho rear, and a cleaner, if not an abler, man must henceforward speak for the Irish people. |