Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-07-26


 generations they planted themselves detiantly upon the traditions of their line and ignored the complaints and wishes of the French industrial classes, with as great stupidity and contempt as their prototypes, the Democratic leaders, have been doing for nea- 7 a quarter of a century, and as they re- crntly, even II anything more out rageously, did at Chicago, when they forced upon their followers such a man as Cleveland, of New York, for their standard bearer. But the long pre- dicted day of retrIbution at length overlook the French Bourbons, and hurled them from the exalted position in which for centuries they tramped under their feet the liberties of the French people. A similar and by no means an unearned retribution seems to be near at hand for the Democratic party, or ct least for "a: Bourbon wing of 1t which lives upes. party traditions and claims the right tt mink and act automatically for the pemocratic in- dustrial masses of lhe country. Their late nominations at Chicago for generation at least politically kills and damns them. The great masses of the party, comprising its industrial bone and muscle, its labor unlons, its anti monopolists and it's greenback or paper money men, wanted a man such as Butler to represent them. and, as In the case of the man who asked for bread and was gwen a stone, instead, they, the wise ones of the convention, gave them his antithesis, Cleveland, who, by his vetoes, while governor of New York, has shown himself the crowned friend of corporate monopolists, and the equally crowned enemy of all who earn their bread in the sweat of their brow. He vetoed. in the interest of corporate wealth. the five cent fare bill on the elevated rsIl- Ways of New York city, and thus placed himself squsrely in opposition to the interest of the laboring classes, who now have to pay to the monopolists of these roads out of their hardly earned wages an excess of Sl.9O0,0OO per an- nun, an aggregate which no less an an- thorlty than General Butler lately stated Cleveland's veto of that bill wrings from the operatives, mechanics and artisans of the Empire city. In addition, he vetoed the bill limiting the
 
 railroads to twelve instead of the six teen hours they have been and are still working. But he reached the acme of his political meanness and bigoiry when he vetoed the bill placing Catholic priests on an equality with Protestant clergy men in the matter of having free and unrestricted admission to the State institutions supported by taxation. By this one act Cleveland placed himself without the pale of liberal thought, and DO Catholic in or out of New York can or ought to vote for man of such prel- udices, preiudiees worthier of the creed aud race hatred of early Puritan times than of the decline of the nineteenth century.
 And yet, in the face of the foregoing damning proofs of his mOnOpOlIstic sympathies, the Democratic press and rhe leaders of that party grIvu,V assert that he is the friend of labor and the avowed enemy of corporate monopoly. As we'll might they tell us that he Is the unanimous choice of his party, and that he does not subscribe to the free trade doctrines of the free traders who nOmi mated him and manufactured a plebald platform upon which to psace him, and winch they well knew he would accept, and particularly that singularly drafted tariff plank ID it, which can be con strued to mean anything or nothing, and which was in convention so vigorously attacked, though unsvailingly, by Gen eral Butler.
 Talleyrand 1t was, believe, who said that language was given to man to con- ceal his thoughts, fact which he abundantly verified in his own person by the way in which he used words and | phrases to suit his purpose and to con ceal his real thoughts f.om the clever | diplomats he had to deal with during | his long and brilliant career. In the | Democratic ranks, that Is among its | leaders. may be found his prototypes, | but 1t is doubtful whether even tine ' great Frenchman, were he lIviOg, could | have succeeded as admirably as the | Democrats did at Chicago Tn the matter If drafting their piebalc platform and | its measly tariff plank. However, they Y deceived nobody, not even their own blindest adherents, who still seem will ing to support the pro-British Governor of New York and place in power, If they could. Q party who would abolish the protective system inaugurated aud main tained under Republican rule, and thus opep the profits of the commonwealth to English raw and manufactured products, A thing which would III effect pauperise American labor and place 1t in cnmpeti- rinn with the bantalIzed. underpaid laboring millions.
 This is the purpose held in view by tbe directing minds of the Democratic hafnra tho ura r was and has been since and IS now pro British. Such IS sample or what they vonld do for tine industrial element Of this country, in the event of their reach ing power, which heaven forol1, as no greater or more enduring misfortune could well befsll 1t. Will the thinking lsboring men, and | particularly the Irish born citizens, of | the Republic, which their dead klnsmen helped to found and to which they | themselves owe SO much Of poiltical | and social distinction, support the nomi- nees of a party whose doctrines and principles are in almost every respect so diametricslly at variance with sound political wisdom, and opposed to almost everything which the Irish-born citlzens of the Republic hold dear and sacred | No: I cannot believe that the lsboring | element of the country will support the nominees of a party whose policy would practically condemn them to eompetl- lion with the pauper labor of England, and not only of England. but of sll Europe. Nor can believe that thought fuI Irish-Americsns will support them in the coming campaign, because to dc SO would be to give aid and encourage inert to their deadliest enemy, whose tyranny made them exiles, and whose atrocious crimes are still perpetrated on the weeping Naibe who nurtureC them. In my next I shall state the req sons why the latter should n"t supper them. and until then an revOir.