The Dillon Tribune

PARNELL'S PLANS.

What the Great Agitator Says to the Irish People.

Parnell has issued a manifesto to the electors of Great Britain and Ireland saying: 'The Liberals are appealing to electors for support under false pretenses. The Liberals have flagrantly violated the solemn pledges made to Ireland, which should be denounced. The coercion practices resorted to under their regime were the most brutal of coercion measures. Juries were packed in an unprecedented number of cases with utter shamelessness, and innocent men were hung or sent to a living death of penal servitude. Twelve hundred persons were imprisoned without trial, and ladies were convicted under the absolute act which was directed against the degraded sex. The press and public meetings were suppressed as if Ireland were Poland and the administration in England were Russian autocracy. Representatives of liberalism in Ireland have been men like Mr. Forster and Earl Spencer, who have left more hateful memories in Ireland than any statesmen for the past century. If the long delayed triumph had not expelled the Liberals, Earl Spencer would still be at Dublin Castle and coercion would be triumphant in Ireland. Landlords instead of making a reasonable abatement in the rents which the depression in agriculture demanded and which every landlord in England and Scotland conceded would be evicting their tenants by wholesale, with Earl Spencer encouraging them and the police, and the soldiery and the coercion magistrates would have filled jails in assisting them. Under the name of free schools the Liberals are making an insidious attempt to crush religious education and establish a state of tyranny and intolerance to fetter the conscience, therefore, we feel bound to advise that no confidence be placed in the Liberal or Radical party, and as far as possible prevent the Government of the Empire from falling into the hands of a party so perfidious, treacherous and incompetent. The Irish Nationalists should not vote for a Liberal or Radical except in some few cases in which some courageous fealty to the Irish in the last Parliament had given a guaranty that the candidate did not belong to the servile, cowardly and unprincipled herd who would break every pledge and violate every principle in obedience to the call of the whip or the mandate of the caucus.'