WHO AND WHAT IS MR. PARNELL?

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 5, 25 May 1883, Page 18

WHO AND WHAT IS MR.

* M .&2 AfaK < fi f «^^» in one of its leading articles, says :— a *^° ??? Pan>ell '" ■*■ the 7iS indignantly, that he should invite the House to censure faithful and honoured set IP&f * eState? ~ Mr. Parnell i 8i 8 the duly elected representative of the city of Cork, who in that capacity is entitled to mpve any censure he pleases subject, of course to the authority of i&Kpf l^ T* an J "T" 11 * 8 of the state ' no "»tter how %**£*,*&*, hhornh T om . ed * he y "ay be. He cannot be interfered with in discharging what he, rightly, or wrongly, regards as his duty to his constituents, without striking a blow at thl fundamental principle of Parliamentary institutions. Apart from what the Tmes describes as the "technical," but what in reality A^the legal and constitutional right of every member of the House ' Ml- 1 mons, it would not be amiss if people, both in the House hl' $T & it, would try to remember " who and what Mr. Parnell is.Cil?¥ar. neU l was elected simultaneously at the last general election o^ three of the largort constituencies in Ireland. At this moment there are hardly half a down constituencies in Ireland, outside Ulster, where even with the present restricted franchise, a candidate opposed to Mr° Parnell would have any chance of election. . If a plSScite were taken to-morrow of all the adult males in Ireland, Mr? ParneU would Sfli&'Sl 7 an nenorßaonsn enorßaons above aII the men who now sit m the House of Commons. Mr. Trevelyan has told us that the Irishmen who sympathise with crime are a small minority. The Irishman who sympathise with Mr. Parnell are unquestionably a large majority. This fact may be disheartening, it may be Slamitons; but that xt is a fact no one disputes. To demand, therefore, that Mr. Parnell should be gagged is to demand that the spokesman fSZISSS aL 1 "^ 181 8b * on i d - t gagged « and f rom tna * * * but a short step to the exclusion of Irish members altogether from the House of Cwnmons That also has been proposed in some quarters; and it would at least be more straightforward than to allow them to Jfif hfiiwS ? *k7k 7 them the exer ? i . 8e o£ their T[ S^- Fortunately, that blunder is one the me^ proposal in print of which is sufficient to deter any man from attempting to put it in practice