The Somerset Press

From The Chicago Sentinel.

PARNELL IN AMERICA.

Parnell, the agitator and reformer has arrived in New York. His visit to America is for the purpose of obtaining assistance, political and pecuniary, for Ireland. While here the old political parties will vie with each other in making political capital out of his mission to America. Democratic orators, who have never been known heretofore to have said a word, performed an act or contributed a cent to the cause of Irish emancipation will be loud in their professions for sympathy for down trodden Ireland. Republican orators who have never uttered a word against the oppression of English Landlords, will grow eloquent over the wrongs of the tenant farmer of Ireland. The New York Times, that only a few years ago advised American farmers to surrender the titles to their farms, and become tenant farmers, will sing their praise to Parnell and his mission. The New York World, that only a few years ago informed the working men of America that they might as well make up their minds first as last, to come down to the level of European workingmen, will throw up its hat and hurrah for Parnell and down trodden Ireland. The New York Tribune, that able organ of Jay Gould, who three years ago would have given a million dollars to see a military monarch in the White House, will laud Parnell and his cause to the skies. The Chicago Tribune, which only three years ago advised giving strychnine to tramps (America's evicted tenantry) will ring all the possible changes on the glorious work of Parnell, the agitator and reformer. The Chicago Times, that declares its preference to the English system of imprisonment for debt in place of the American method, will applaud Parnell and condemn the English landlord system.

Every Democratic and Republican newspaper in the country, that for years has been repeating and retrating the teachings of Money Oligarchs and Land Monopolists will take up the shout of the ring-leaders and go fantastic over Parnell and his great work in behalf of the Irish tenantry. Every small headed, narrow minded penny-souled, nincompoop politician in the land—men whose thoughts have never extended beyond the limits of a ward or township caucus—will put themselves to the front, chatter fulsome flattery of Parnell, and repeat parrot-like, a few sentences concerning the wrongs of Ireland! The great mass of people who have never before reached out their hands or uttered a word to aid Ireland in its struggle against the monstrous system of English land laws, will shout themselves hoarse when listening to Parnell's denunciation of the system! These are the men and the newspapers that will monopolize Parnell while he is in America. What for? In order to manufacture political capital. In order to win the Irish-American vote in the next election. For years these men have fostered, upheld and protected the American system of giving lands to railroads, interest bearing bonds to moneyed capitalists, special privileges to national banks, subsidies to monopolies, fat offices to political scoundrels and public plunderers, power to usurers, political preferment to unprincipled adventurers, legislative aid to the rich as against the poor, whereby the people of this country are fast drifting into the same condition which exists in Great Britain, where the many sow and the few reap, where the few absorb the earnings of the many, where the few live in luxury and splendor, while the many suffer for even bread and meat! The only men and only newspapers (chief among which is the Irish World) that have had the manhood and courage to denounce the English tenant system and extend aid and comfort to the Irish people in Ireland are the labor and finance reformers, found principally in the ranks of the Greenback party. The Greenback cause in America runs parallel with the Irish cause in Ireland. The Greenback fight against the Money Power in America, is the same as the Irish fight against the English landlords. The Greenback fight for the enfranchisement of American Labor is the same as the fight in Ireland for the emancipation of the Irish race. Opposition to the money oligarchs of America is the same as the opposition to the titled "aristocrats" of Great Britain. The war against the wrong in America is the same as the war against the wrong in Ireland. The great struggle for the Right in America is the same as the struggle for the Right in Ireland. The great struggle for Liberty, Fraternity and Equality is the same the world over—in Ireland, in Russia, in Germany, in Cuba and in America. To Parnell and to all his co-workers in the glorious cause of the emancipation of Ireland from the tyranny of British rule let Greenbackers throughout the United States extend a hearty greeting.