ABSTRACT
Charles Stewart Parnell has few qualities which have hitherto been associated with the idea of a successful Irish leader. Mr. Parnell regards the lives of human beings as more sacred than even those of animals, and he is consistent in his hatred of oppression and cruelty wherever they may be found. Parnell is passionately fond of Ireland; is happier and healthier on its soil than in any other part of the world, and is almost bigoted in the intensity of his patriotism. Mr. Parnell was beaten, of course, by a huge majority; for in these days, though the majority of the people of County Dublin were, as they are now, energetic Nationalists, the franchise suffrage was so restricted that a small minority was able to always win the seat. Parnell saw very clearly that at that period the keeper of the conscience in the House of Commons on the Irish question was the division lobby.
