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Show Halt Lks Citv. Dec. 19th. isao. F.niToiior Tits Timks; With due regard for your paier I beii to tender you my pity for thecuptlousness you display In Its columns reardtnit Mr. Parnell. Your slura and prejudice against that (rreat ami ood man are more worthy the lmrrate Healy, whom he raised from a kIutu Into prominence, than a pa)er whose many subscribers sub-scribers you are Insulting. Parnell will enter the next parliament with as strotiK and a more faithful band than ever, and will wring from the tories what the liberals liber-als will be powerless to grant. I rnttht dilute on this subject were I tn e I would not Intrude on your time. Sufficient to say that y. nr readers need not look across the ocean for "Kilkenny cat lights;" they can llnd plenty of them here In frt e America. And let me here exhort you. sir, to remember the words of the Master when he stood by Ma 'd;i-lene, 'd;i-lene, -Let him who is (utlltlesg cast the tirst stone." Respctfully. Thomas MoONir." The Times casts no slurs upon, and has no prejudice against Parnell. It simply insists as a consistent advocate of homo rule for Ireland that with the existing objections to his leadership Parnell might to retire. Does Mr. Mooney indict with "the ingrate Healy" the forty odd Irish nationalists who deserted rarnell, and the Catholio clergy with Archbishop Walsh at the head who pronounced against him? Docs ho believe that any man however great and good should stand in the wav of Ireland's freedom? Parnell's moral lapse would not bo so conspiouous were his leadership not so conspicuous. Ho has erred not only in betraying a woman, but also a friend, and after that it is perhaps too much to expect of him to show the resignation of a man aud do penance in private. |