Mr. Parnell is making tactical blunders. He wants, he says,
to secure Home-rule and fixity of tenure for the Irish people by constitutional means. As he can secure them only with British consent—for he repudiates insurrection—his 'first task should be to show that fixity of tenure implies no attack on property, tid that Home-rule does not mean the dismemberment of the kingdom. Instead of this, he allows his audiences—as at Limerick, on Saturday—to threaten the landlords with "lead," "'more lead," "lots of lead ;" and he himself advocates a com- bined refusal to pay rent unless reductions are conceded. What is the use of advising resistance to the law which would insist on payment, unless resistance is ultimately to be backed by insurrec- tion P Then, although on his theory Ireland is still to be connected with England, he advises Irish Members to form a separate party —like the Polish party in Prussia—as if the nationalities were in conflict ; receives addresses in which he is described as the "bitterest enemy of England;" and does not indignantly deny u story—false, we believe—that his friends. rejected the toast of the Queen, though her Majesty, on any Rome-rule theory whatever, is to remain Queen of Ireland. The effect of all this is to create among Englishmen a sense that they are insulted Ruch as precludes discussion, and elicits outbursts of angry scorn such as have recently filled the Irish articles in the Pail Mall Gazette, and half the letters on Irish representation. Ireland will gain nothing, Mr. Parnell may rely on it, by bullying.
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