Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-09-04

Over one thousand workmen are
employed in the Harlan s. Holdings
worth Company's works in this city.
OF these, more than one half of them are
Democrats, and large majority of
them are Irish-Americans. These
Irish-Americans come from Ireland.
Why did they come from Ireland :?
Because they were starved out by
British oppression and British free
trade.
Their manufactures, once the pride
of Ireland, were broken up by the ava
ricious entertainments of the lords and
mobiles of England, who wanted the
manufactures of Ireland removed TO
England, and who wanted Ireland to
divide into hunting parks. Put upon
starvation wages they bid the land of
their nativity adieu, and came to
America in quest Of work, wages and
happiness. Here they found all three.
Here they get double the wages they
got in Ireland. Here many of them
have become our business men, mer-
chants and legislators. But strange as
it may appear nine-tenths OF them join.
ed the Democratic party, because some
Democratic politicians who wanted
Office, told them it was the poor mans
party, and they listen to such appeals
still. The Democratic party has become
the ally of the free trade party of
England that schased them out OF Ire
land, and they feel like leaving the
party on that account, but the Demo
Gratis yell "stick to the grand old De-
mocratic party" and they stick. They
know very well that the strongest sup
port their candidate for President,
Cleveland, gets, is from the English
free trade and English free trade
papers, and they feel like boiling the
party, but Democratic politicians yell ::
" Stick TO your party" and they stick.
They know that If the Democratic
party succeeds the tariff WILDE reduced,
and wages Ia the Harlan * Holdings
worth works will be reduced to a level
with the starvation wages from which
they fled in Ireland, and they feel like
going over in body 10 the support of
Blaine and Logan and good wages, but
the political leaders blindly follow and
shout " Stick to your party" and they
stick.
1t makes no matter whether Ameri-
can manufactures close or not, and
wages are cut down fifty per cent, it is
a glorious thing 70 stick to grand old
Democratic party and there they have
stuck.
Irish Americans have been waking
up to the fact that they have been eyre
giously fooled, aud some of them who
have resolved to be fooled no longer, are
organizing Blaine and Logan clubs, and
are determined to try how voting for
men whom the free traders of England
oppose will go. They are met by Dem
ocratic political leaders with the cry,
stick 10 your party" but this kind
won't stick, and before the campaign is
over, many more will be found who
will not listen to the cry of Stick 10
your party" Do these Democratic la
borers in the Harlan 81 Hollingswcrth
Company intend to stick to the Demo
cratic party at the risk OF electing
Cleveland; at the risk of placing the
Democrats in possession of the gov
eminent; AT the risk of fastening free
trade upon the Nation; at the risk of a
fifty per cent. cut in wages? We hard
~ believe they will risk that much. If
| they do in the light which they have,
and in consequence have less work and
less wages, they cannot complain, for
they will have exactly what they voted
for.