The Archive · 1890

The Parnell Commission Report

12th March, We lean from the telegrams published this morning that the long expected report of the Parnell Commission, Judges Hannen, Day and Smith, has been issued, As expected, it is a half-and-half report, The main interest of the commission exhaled with Pigott's confession of his forgeries. As regards the remainder of the accusations of the Zémes, the Judges have come to the conclusion rected long ago by most impartial people, that the Parnellites are not 80 lack as the Times painted them, nor so white as they painted themselves, There was no conspiracy among them to establish the independence of Ireland, and some of them, at any rate, were sincere in their denunciation of crime; but they encouraged terrorism in order to drive the landlords out of Ireland, in fact, they have gloried in being leaders of co} this terrorism, although they the war on landlordism, and they en-

could not help knowing that it led to crime. They are, of course, acquitted entirely of any insincerity in their condemnation of the Phoenix Park murders, Indeed only a violent partisan could imagine that Mr. Parnell and his friends

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