The Nation states, and the facts prove, that Mr. Parnell's
mission to America is, as a political enterprise, a failure. The American people are quite willing to relieve Ireland, but not to interfere in her internal affairs. They think Irish- men must settle the land question ; they are not convinced that England intends oppression ; and their own Civil War has cured them of sympathy for revolution by arms. The Nation adds that Irish Home-rulers, in resorting to obstruction, which is physical force employed in Parliament, have alienated a country in which there are forty Parliaments ; while they are- seen to be isolated from the general Radical movement of the world, which is not Catholic, and which the Irish do not support. The Nation might have added that some of Mr. Parnell's sup- porters in America talk Communism, and that he himself, by boasting that he has taken five years' purchase off the selling price of land, irritates every freeholder in the country. Americans at heart think that if Irishmen are discontented at home, they would be better off in the Far West.
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