Show CHARLES STEWART PARNELL If it be true that the hand of death is even now being heavily laid upon Charles Stewart Parnell the great Irish leader the century will not have furnished fur-nished when the end is finally reached a more pitiful and deplorable giving up of life It is the surroundings which will constitute con-stitute the tragedy He is carrying his countrys banner He is just in the prime of his physical manhood if that is to be measured by years and just in the perfect possession of every intellectual faculty More united than they have ever been even under OConnell the Irish people are at his back He has already put forth so many almirable qualities leadership He has been so patient in adversity so calm in defeat so wise in counsel so brave in actual combat com-bat that to lose him now would be for Ireland in this mighty duel to the death for liberty like losing her sword arm at the shoulder A volume might be written upon the part that sudden or inopportune death has played in the history of nations When at Lussac bridge tho lancehead of a Breton squire sped truer to the heart of John Chandos than all the steel of the chivalry of France had done on the fifty foughten fields was it any wonder that the Black Prince worn by disease and bent under his harness exclaimed wearily wear-ily when the news was brought to him God help us then We have lost every thing on the thither side of the seas Or if Montcalm had lived what might finally have been the fate of Canada If Cresar had been spared while he might not have cared to save the ropub ItcOj would he not have made Nero and Caligula impossible What might not have happened also to Catholic Europe U i that old war wolf from the north Gus tavus Adolphus had not fallen at Lut I zen ankledeep in blood five balls in his body and a saber stroke which c1 = his skull Who can doubt for a mi that all the misery pillage and del tion which the South endured tin eight years of Grantism and recent tion would not have been saved heri I miserable assassin has stayed his IiI and permitted Abraham Lincoln to and carry out his policy We do not say that the Irish etrug would not go on even though Parri should die suddenly from the grieva sickness which is now said to have falll upon him but we do say that his loss I such a time would be almost irreparabl Kansas City Times |