MR PARNELL AND THE IRISH VOTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2120, 9 February 1886, Page 4

MR PARNELL AND THE IRISH VOTE.

Tiik following manifesto to the lu~<h voters in (Ju\it Ikitaiu, after b^ing submitted to and appio\cd bj Mr l'anicll, was issued ; — "To our Coiiutiyincn in England and Scotland — "The Liberal paity ate makiug an appeal to the confidence of (lie doctors at the general c'ection ot lSi.i, as lit the general election of 1880, on false pte' tencci. In li>So the Liberal p.nty pio mised peace, and it afterwards in ide .in unjust war ; economy, and its Budget the Inchest point yt t attained; justice to aspunu 11 ilionahties. and it meieilessly ciuslicd the national movement of Kujjit iiiidt r Aialii Pallia, and nun dei ed thoiiaamU of Arabs 'rightly htiugt^ling to be fiee.' To Ireland, inoio than to any other countiy, it bound it r lf by most solemn pledges, and thtie it nost flagi.uitly violated It denou.'.ced loci don, and it practised a system of coeioion nioie bintal than that of any previous Adtninistiatioii, Libeial or Toiy Under this s>-tem juiies were packed with a shamelessii' ss unprecedented even in Libei il AdinmUtidtious, and innocent men were hung or bent to the living death of pi nil seivitudp ; 1:2,000 men were impii&oncd without tiial; ladies were convicted under an obsolete Act directed against the degraded of theii sex ; and fur a peuod every uttuiancc of the popular Press and of the popular meeting was as completely suppresoed as if Ireland were Poland and the Administration of England a Russian autocracy; the lepresentatives of Liberalism in Ii eland were men like Mr Forster and Lord Spencer, who have left more hateful incmoiies in Ireland than any statesmen of the century. The last declaiation of Mr Gladstone was that he intended to tenew the very worst clauses of the Coercion Act of 18S2 ; and if our long delayed triumph had not turned the Liberal GJoi ernment from office, Loid Spencer would at this hour be in Dublin Castle, coeicion would be triumphant in Iteland, and the landlords, instead of making the leasonable abatements demanded by thedeptession of agriculture and conceded by the landlord in England and Scotland, would he evicting wholesale, with the encourage ment of Lord Spencer and the backing of police, soldiery, coercion magistrates, and filled g.iols. The Liberals began by menacing the Established Church, and uuder the name of free schools made an insidious attempt to crush the ldigious education of the country, to establish a system of State tyranny and intoleiance, and to fetter the right of coiiocience, which is as sacied in the selection of the school as in the free selection of one's Church. The ciy of disestablishment has been dropped the cry of free schools has been explained away, and the two last cries left to the Libeial pirty aie the so called lefoim of pioccduie, and a demand to be independent of the Irish pai ty. Reform of procedure means a new gag and the application to all enemies of Radicalism iv the House of Commons of the despotic methods and the mean machinery of the [Birmingham caucus. The spee.ous demand for a liifijoiity against the liish party is an appeal for power to crush all anti-Radical members in Parliament — first, then, to propose to Ii eland some I scheme doompd to failure because of its unsuitabibty to the wants of the Irish people, and finally, to the foice down a! halting measure of self-government upon the Irish people by the same methods of wholesale imprisonment by w lucli durability was sought for the impiacticable Land Act of ISSI. Under such circumstances, we feel bound to advise our countrymen to place no confidence iv the Liberal or Radical Party, and, so far as in them lies, to pi event the Government of the E npire falling into the hands of a party so perfidious, treacheions, aud incompetent. Ii no case ought an Irish Nationalist to f {ive a vote, in our opinion, to a member of the Liberal or Radical part}", except in some few ca'-es in which courageous fealty to the lush cause in the laat Pailiament lids given a gu.uantee that the candidate will not beU/iig to the servile and cowardly and unpiineipled herd that would b:rak c\ciy pledge and violate evoiy principle in obedience to the call of the Whip and the mandate of the caucus The executive of the National League wdl communicate the names of the candidates whom they think should be eveeptcd from the teims of the manifesto. In eveiy other instance we earnestly advise our countrymen to vote against fie men who coerced Ii eland, deluged E<;ypt with blood, menace religious liberty in the school, the freedom of speech in Parliament, and piomisc to the countiy geneially a repetition of the crimes and follies of the last Liberal Administration. 1 '

A xew featuro of tho Get man public school system, which me^ts with trre.it fuvour, is t'uaL of bathing. The buiiro-ma-itOL" of Gottinjfen mvi that when bathing was first introduced in the schools of that town only a few pupils availed therr.selve-. ■ f tho piivileiro, wlim-eas now 500 out of 700 gl.i Uj tuke part in it &e\ oial times n week. The children .are bathed in sections from t-ix to nine, and a^ they immediately returned to the &choohoom and resumed their le-sons>, no lisk of catching cold is ever inclined ; while the refreshimr influence of tho bath shows itself in u sriPfitiT eagerness of study. The health of the childien is gieatly piomoted, especially those from the homes of the poor. The Boston* ComuKß svys:— "lt is much the fashion in America to throw the responsibility for all excesses, and consequent deiangements of the nervous system, upon the climate, and there is probably enough tiuth iv the ch.uges to heep the proposition alive ; but theie is really no moio justico in placing 1 the blame of mental intemperance upon the •weather than that of narcotic or alcoholic It may be in either case that our overbracing atmosphere invites to indulgence in the vice, but so loug as men aio recognised as being fiee moral agent*, facts of this port may be leceived m p\pl mation but not in extenuation. There has probably never beon a people so triven to this particular iorm of i-olf-indulgence as are Americnns. The prevalence of nervous exhaustion, delirium tremen", of nerve inebriety, is Millicient evidt r.ea of thr extent of the vice amonsrst us were any proof of the needed wheio it is openly and shameless'}' flaunted in oui facescvery day ThpSalv.ittnn Annyis one of tho means of giatif\ing the unnaturil longings of victims of this evil habit. What a new dram is to the diinkci .1 new excitement is to the in no debauchee. Sometimes the coveted stimulus is fuiind in politics, sometimes in s-u«.ii"e, very often in business with its stock g-imbling and opeoul'itious inuuniprable. Thcicaic a thousand fusliious of pampeiing to the vicious taste, and of them none is more common and more difficult of eiadieation than overwork. That nerve intoxication is a vice will hardly be denied by any candid and clear-minded person ; and no one who has given tho matter any attention can fail to realise how serious tho evil has become. The increase of all forms of nervous disea«e; the spiead of insanity; the constant tendency tuw.uds feverish conditions of life, are all grounds for the most serious disquiet and apprehension. We are fist becoming a race of inebriate«, whose inebriety is far more dangerous than any drunkenness with'spirit ordrusr, the subtle and destructive vice of nerve intoxication." Yes !It is certainly true. Ask any of your friends who have purchased there. Garlick and Cranw ell have numerous unasked for and very favourable rornrcKndattons from country customers on their excellent packing- of Furniture, Crockery, and Glass, Src. L idies any about to furnish should remember that Garlirk and Cranwell's is a Hi' Cheap Furnishing Warehouse o Auckland. Furniture to suit all classes : also Carpets, Flor Cloths and all House Necessaries. If your new house is nearly finished, or. you are tro'tiff to get married, visit Garlick and Cranwrll, Queen-street and Lonse-street, Auckland. Intendingpurchasers cat) have a catalogue t«n freo