The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-04
"Who shapes our ends,
Rough hew them as we may"-
we can safely and confidently trust.


allows-by insane and wicked egislation-that gold
to be swept almost clean out Of the country in payment
for the pauper-made manufactures of England? How
the taxation entailed upon by accused
be paid by the people of this country if English free
trade is allowed to reduce the wages Of working
men by at least one-half? How can that taxation be
met justly efectualy by taking it off the
shoulders Of suffering citizens and placing tin
the shape of highly protective tar-on those Of the
foreign English competitors, who not only coveters
of our cash. but consprators against liberties, and
enemies Of national power and prosperity
And to the rights Of citizens how much will they
be WORTH either to naturazed Or native if our people
to be reduced by English competition to such
state Of hopeless, hungry ragged servude as is the
sad lot of the toiling millions of white slaves, who
crowd the manufacturing districts" Of Yorkshire and
Lancashire? 1t is truly the mockery of hell to call
free, and to pirate about his rights citizen
or his power as one of the sovereign" people, and
then coolly consign him and his family to a living
death of hopeless bondage and perpetual starvation
And this just what your citizen lights will be worth if
you have not high protective prohibitive tariff
to guard your industry. And by what powerful
efficient lever the South be raised out of her
run-the ruin which the insane wckedness Of a
rampant slaveocracy wrought for her-than by intro
ducng to that section of the country the manufactures
which have done so much to render the North power
full and prosperous? But without such protective
tariff as Mr. Wadeindcates even the manufactures of the
North must acher Already has the country listened
to the sad and sorrowful tidings Of their decay. We
are told that furnaces are cold that machinery rusts in
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ming half time, and that wages everywhere reduced
some twenty thirty per cent. If we allow this to
continue-and we assert that English competition is
the grand cause of it from first to ast-how long will
be able to preserve in existence the declining in
dustry of the North without making attempt
introduce it into the wasted provinces Of the South
This is grave question: and one which demands from
our legislators Immediate positive, resolute answer
All honor to noble " old Ben Wade" It will be
of the proudest days of lives when him
seated in the Presidential chair at Washington The
man who honestly declared that he would strive to
take the burdens off industry and to SECURE TO OUR
LABoRING CLASSES RELIEF FROM FOREIGN COMPETE
TIoN that the present condition of the country
to make it important than to get the taxes off
domestic industry fast as can, and to clap them
on the foreign competitors such is worthy not
only of the confidence and VOTE but of the enthusiastic
support of every workingman from Maine to California
And once let the truth this vital matter be fully
known and shall be greatly disappointed if Benjamin
Wade will not be the most popular President that the
United States has yet seen.
The Democratic party and Tammany Hall, which is
their great wigwam, have hoisted English free trade"
their coors the distinguishing motto by which they
desire to be known. With one or two honorable ex-
ceptions-and there are not more-their journals in
every State in the Union advocate, persistenty and
continuously the same disastrous and dsgraceu measure
And we shall be obliged to anyone who can find
single specimen of regular Democratic politician who