Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-08-02
SATURDAY. AUGUST 2. 1884.

Democratic John Brennan. formerly
Sioux City's Irish orator has been con
verted. Tn a speech at a Blaine and
Logan rally in that place he said:
'The commercial and manufacturing
power Of the mother country asks for a
change. When | speak OF the mother
country l distinguish between the indi-
vidual and the military power that has
robbed half the world, the commercial
and manufacturing power that seeks to
s~trangle our industries. The English
government from colonial times until
o has waged war on American manu-
factures. In colonial times the Ameri-
can iron furnace was declared by En-
glish Law a common nuisance, and the.
making of bolts, pigs or bars of iron pr&
hibited. The purpose and spirit of the
English government has not changed
since, though the methods may have al
tered. English manufacturers clamor
for a change, and the democratic plat.
form demands a tariff for revenue pur-
poses exclusively. Free trade is an inn
possibility in Ii country. Taxes must
be levied. The republicans say that the
tariff, while it affords revenue. shall also
be so SHAPED as to protect American in
dustries. When twenty years ago /
came to America every article of cloth
Ing wore was of English make, because
England had destroyed the manufac-
tories of my native country. You say |
must not bring these foreign notions to
America. Have / not been told for
twenty years that / must vote the dom
ocratic ticket because I was Irish ?
lA~pplansel. Now for a change because
] ann Irish l will vote the republican
ticket. [Laughterl. The Irishman is
turned adrift in this country an unsi.ill-
ed laborer-unskilled because England
had strangled manufacturing ia Ireland.
And will we BY our votes bring the same
condition here as in the country we left
with tear in Our eyes and curses on u
iipsf Free trades means in England
$3.50 per week wages for men. They
tell us that because goods are cheap the
wages amount TO as much as they do
here. Clothing is about the only thing
cheaper in England. Food is as high,
and for some things higher, than here.
1t is true the wages Of workingmen here
60, but they go for things that the labor
ing men over the water would never
dream of buying. 1t goes to pay for a
home of their own But they say it is
the farmer who suffers by reason Of the
tariff. There can be no monopoly when
there is ample competition. The free
trade men are eloquent about the tariff
cotton goods. Cotton goods are not
made only in New England, but in the
south and Canada as well. The tariff
only says to England keep your cotton
goods at home, we can make our own.
American cottonsare sold in Manchester
and american cutlery in Birmingham.
At Correctionville, where / stated this,
a man asked: 'sThen why keep up the
/ answer, sir, the fence that
has protected your cornfield in June.
the crop was growing, ard in Oc-
tober, when 1t was ripening, would you
tear down this fence in November?
[Applause1. This protective policy,
which in twenty years has made this
country richer than any country in Eu.
rope. 10 a good policy to keep. Instead
Of this the free trade policy would make
this country a field for the raising of
beef And butter for British bodies, and
AXE cheap calico in pay. Less than 10
per cent Of the agricultural product Of
his country. tobacco and cotton except.
ID, 60 to'a foreign market. Over 90 per
,ent. thanks to a protective tariff, find a
home market,