, 1880-09-19

these which ought to appeal with irresisti-
| BILE force to lrishmen to cast their influence
| and their votes upon the side of the Repub-
licans. Inc H7shman comes 70 this country
to obtain the means Of livelihood and the
! right to enjoy his earnings, which he can
not have iq Ireland. under the brutal rule
OF the English landlord taskmasters. Who
give him work ana wages in this country?
In ninety cases out of 100 Republicans, be-
cause they embrace the great bulk of the
employing class. Four-ffths of the Irish
| men OF this country are working for and are
paid by Republicans, In railroad corpora
tons, in building, in manufactures, In stores,
and shops, and yet they vote against tha
very men who are finding them money to
buy bread. Who are the men that have come
to the relief of their suffering friends in Ire
land, and have neyer hesitated, though called
upon more than once, to lavishly contribute
to their relief? The Republicans of the
North. Who are the men who, every day,
month. and year, are contributing to help
Irish charities Of all kinds, and who never
refuse to assist the asylums and hospitals?
The Republicans. And yet they continue
voting against them. With blindness which
Irish have cast in their lot with party
which has never done anything for them,
and have voted against their real friends.
They have allowed Democratic demogogs to
throw dust In their eyes year after year, and
have blindly and recklesly followed their bad
aavice, though 1t was contrary to their in
terests. The Irishman is a Nationalist in
sentiment, although voting with the
State-supremacy and Secession party. We
do not believe it would be possible
to find a speech from any lrishman, Repub-
ilcan OF Democrat, in which State-sover-
eighty is advocated, and yet they vote with
party that makes the S tate superior to the
Nation and declares the right of secession at
any time. The Irishman, as a rule, is a
workingman. The North gives him work
and pays him we'll for It. It educates his
children by taxing the wealthy. 1t eleyates
and dignifes his labor In every way. and yet
he votes with section which will not give
him work, which burns down schooi-houses
and drives teachers away, which degrades
labor into slavery and the laborer into a
chattel. He votes with the old pro-slavery
aristocracy whicl, despises laborer, wheth~
er white or black, and which has not
only ground the negro down into the dust,
but has made the condition of the poor
whites worse than that of the blacks. The
1rtshman is protectionist rather than
free trader. He wants to keep English and |
all other foreign goods from Cutting AmerI-
can markets and to encourage our home |
manufactures, and yet he. votes with the |
South, which is not satisfied with tariff re- |
form, but wants free trade and direct taxa |
ton in order to break down Northern
manufactures altogether, His entire re-
iation to the Democratic party Is an absurdi-
ty and an inconsistency, but it is an en-
couraging sign of the times that Irishmen.
especially the young men, are beginning to
get their eyes open to where their interests
are, and to understand the tricks OF the
dcmagogs who have boen misleading them.
Large numbers of them haRe come over to
the Republicans, and that number will steadi-
" increase in the future