PARNELL ON THE FENIANS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 2

PARNEL L ON THE FENIANS.

•« Parnell hits written a letter; in which he a^y.B:;— t t4 ,T?he statements of Lord Harting ton ' that the Irish party and 'the National League are in union with Amen-. ,ca^i;Foni»ne; are untrwe. , ij know nothing whatever of any Fenian organisation V~tsland/ n dr' AmeWea' beyond what I Have learned from the newspapers. I have never ,had any, .communication with leaders of such organisations or., accepted any alliahcVwifcK them,' I'do^not even know ( who the 'leaders' are!/ No union of the National .League and the Fenians has ever been proposed. 'If such a proposal had ever been [made* I "should ; never have' consented. I hayp o always successfully .endeavoured to keep the National League within the strictest b^nds^bf* loyalty^ in °pite of the' un ; blushing" faiaehbbdß , which * have partially ! and. te^poranly^ frustrated the moderate aspirations ,* of Ireland.^ The' lrish people will continue' tot, rijaihtain' [a f peaceable ' and legal a'apectj declining to afford any pretext to, liord fltartirigton or his Tory allies to . resojrt to , the brutalities of l coercion . " ' Arnol4,ForBter, in a public reply toParneirs letter on the 13th inst. (denying Lord Haringto'n'e^ assertion that the Parnellites and the Fenians were in league, ' claims to hayeinhiis pi'oB^esBiop i 'o8^es8ion i |a co]py of a letter .written on Pafnell's' betialf by his secretary to;" De^r Mr^ordl!' giving in detail' the 4ate^ arid^^ems of ford's to. the Parnellite treasury. i( v '" , ' '" , „In. , a" Dublin despatch to, the "Irish Wor^d " ;Mlchael Davltfc' declares that obfj^rucjbionj ,"in , , Parliament by the t Home KlUlers would' be suicidal. He thinks that Ireland has\a splendid chance of winning a , better home-rule measure, than Gladstone's ,if t the 'party shows' .that iiT fighting for its rights, it, places' no limit; to the cause, of liberty:, r .; f ;:. f ; ; ,; „" ,' .Dillon s, speech yesterday t in Dublin indicates that f the \~ Parneliities cherish ,hoi3es|, th^t^the 'To.rieH"may yet 'Concede, hom,e* jrule, Tn an . a'qceptable form. * JSe re,marked that t]>e Irish would not reject any oonces^iori, but would thank Gladstone for itV no^jLbrd SJEftiBbury. if, oh the other hand, the'fori^s* attempt*, coercion, the Irish,^wiiljretort'by^fcesh war.on the land-. lo^de/.inclu'drDg a refuBa| to pay rents. ' s , -At a meeting of the'NationaX Leaguehefe" yeßterdayJoseph Biggar^ member of ,Par ;lia,nienjt, mad^ t a ; speech, in which he 'said ,there pwas . np r ,'rea.Bon to feel despondent over, any tning, the Conservatives "might attempt. The Parnellites, he said, had already unmado^two governmente,and it is not unlikely, that they would unmake the third. •He in, any case, they would never assist Chamberlain, whom he characterised as the most dishonest politician of the age.