National Republican., 1882-04-29
AN OPEN LETTER
To the American Republican Ma
tionaI Committee

Nnmtnhttfe.
BROTHERS: In assigning few reasons why Irish
! Americans should quit the crazy Cobdenit
crusaders viii be as brief az possible My roa
sons are as follows:
| First-Bccauso our "tariff for revenue only
made the United States, In their Independent
| capacity, more beneficial to England than thel
could have been as colonies.
| second-Becouse England must follow on tn,
wake Of Tyre, Alexandria and Holland when W,
cease to take her manufactures in exchange fl
| our produce.
| l am not hazardng these statements on frai
| authority. To prove them l will not quote the
enemies Of England. will simply record the un.
eTcepiionabe evidence Of her own statesmen.
| Alexander Barring, with the advantages Of n
| practical knowledge in American trade, tells
us that the profits OF her American
trade, more than anything else, enabled
England 70 c9rry on her continental ei WAT that
cont,ibuted e., ,bo bibesi degyeo ~ nos,Ihc ali tbs
! benefits which one nation could derive from the
existence of another or that mother country
/ could receive from the best regulated colony He
WIS surprised that Englishmtn should entertain
! q Jealousy OF the prosperity and wealth American
| Independence had produced, which only served TO
! circulntc and consume the fruits of EnElish in.
dusry. Mr.. Barring positively asserted that the
| United states IN neutrality-suspicious. capacity, were
more beneficial to the mother country than they
could have been colonies; that three. fourths Of
Hll the money proceeding from the consum ptlon
Of the produce OF The soil of tho United States In
hermanuIacturos. Zee North Ameifcdn Rcvfei0 1890
y. 360)
Behold the fruits of tariff for revenue onlyl"
II was, then, our g tariff for revenue only" which
enabled the old Vampire OF Nations to subsidze
all the despots in Europe, from the Russian Pan
censeS INV WI sGIy pey pt htge Mno was n aS
American commerce. A tariff for revenue only
gave Englishmen mortgages on our railroads, our
towns, our cities, our counties, and our States 10
pay for iron and steel while our own iron and coal
mines We're Theoretically sealed
, But, thank God John Bulls picnic is over. In
the last three years he paid us 81 ,3l2Sl662 for
our produce, while we paid him fb77 723 for his
manufactures, leaving II balance in our favor Of
s7S5 $4,000. During the last two years we have
imported Sl67 O6O,0il, in specie more than we ex-
ported Oh, how II gla0dens the pulse and the
blood Of an lrishman's heart TO see Johns mis-
fortunes Keep q duty Of "a per cent. on his man
uiactured cotton, so per cent on his iron. 10 per
cent on Steel and67 per cent on his woolen goods;
Inat L, VIII blew him up quicker than your nitro.
glyccrime. Remember that Great Britain has If
teen millions of people more than she eau feed
that SO per cent. Of her population depends upon
her manufactures and trade for living. You
know that when her manufacturer cannot find
market when her trade luCtuates, u bad feeling
between her workingmen and the upper
classes becomes very strong and the fabric OF civil
society is shaken to its very base Mrs. Gaskell,
native Of Manchester tells us how 1.-THE suffering
OF tho operatives Induced suspicion In the minds
OF many of them that their legislators, their en-
plOyers and even their ministers Of religion, were
IN general their oppreBsors and enemies and in
league for their prostration and enthrallment."
frencn suffering once turned itself into cry of
the poor against the rich" The cry raised
mob, the mob turned into an army, and priest
craft, kngcrnf aud aristicraft gave way 10 the
Goddess of Liberty.
viii Irish American suffrage be employed in Sc.
curing free market for the cotton manufactures
OF Lancashire, the woolens of Yorkshire the pot
lery OF Sthfiordshre, the iron Of birmingham and
shetheld2 Must Irish American votes prevent the
eight millions of hai-starVed operatives shut UP
in her twenty-five largest cities from dragging
her 10 the dust2
Finally, will the votes of Irish Americans be
used in giving new strength and vigor to the iron
hand now tightened on the throat of poor Ire
land2 lfit he so, well, theu-
Let their fate be mockword--et men ofnll lands
Laugh out with scorn that shall ring to the poles
I'll each vote for free trade let fall from their hands
shall turn into daggers to enter their souls,
Aud deep and more deep as the iron is driven,
Base slavesl lot the whct of their agony be
10 think as the doomed Oien think. Of that heaven
They had once within reach-that they might have
been free.
PATRICK C. CARROLL.
No. 200 FLOYD STREET, LOUISVILLE KY.