St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-24
BLAINE AND THE IRISH.

BLAINE AND THE IRISH.
A Celt, Who Understands His Know
Nothing Record, Heard From.
10 the Editor Of The World:
Your unsatisfactory answer in yesterdays
World to the inquiry ''What has Mr.. Blaine
ever done for the Irish race?" prompts me to
take my pen to reply to the ''conundrum.
Let me say that Mr. Blaine has literally
done nothing for the Irish in America.
have been Republican up to the day of his
nomination for the presidency, which was to
my mind the grossest insult ever offered the
Irish. Itwas James G.. Blaine who was in
strumental in securing the arch enemy Of
Irishmen, James Russell Lowell, as minister
to England. When the Irishmen in Am erica
were unanimous in rebuking him for his in
anity and potent sympathy with England,
when Irish-Americans were being thrust
into prison, James G.. Blaine was secretary
of state. Did he evince his love for the
Irish when asked to instruct Mr.. Lowell as to
certain measures? No! lie laughed at us
tators and Communists.
Again, when Mr.. Blaine was editor of the
Kennebec (Me.) Journal, he was violent and
offensive Know-Nothing &. Halter of Europ-
cans and Catholics In particularly Here is an
extract from an editorial that every Irishmen
should commit to memory and repeat when
Irish sop is doled OUT
eWe need stringent laws to regulate the Irish
immigration from Europe, r If the present
abuses are not corrected, and corrected speedily,
we shall become worse than Botany Bay, in fact
we are worse now, for more Irish reach here in a
single year than were ever transported to the
penal colonies in two years. And these convicts
and felons have hardly got our dust upon their
feet before they are allowed to vote and control
our elections.
"And yet, with these facts plain as the light,
demagogues will tell us that our European i'm
migration is nothing but benefit to us. We
hope, and we sincerely believe, the day is not far
distant that this whole subject will be Impair
TALLY reviewed by the lawmaking power, and
then the just and honorable pride Of being an
American citizen will suffer no blush from hav-
ing our paternal rights bestowed in full equality
upon those who are not of our household
James g. Blaine, the European's (?) friend,
wrote the above. Those that were unfit at
that time to breathe this free air are now
cajoled and fattered.
James G.. Blaine wrote the famous Multi
gan circular, calling upon Democratic Pro-
testants to knife him because he was Catho-
lie Irishman.
James G. Blaine was offered a commission
as Lieutenant Colonel in the Seventh Maine
Volunteers in 1862, and refused it because
the Colonel was an Irishman.
What has James e. Rlaine ever done for
the Irish race! CELTIC.
Mr.. DOnnely Stands by His Speech.
NININoER, Mimi, July %, 1884
To the Editor of the Globe.
1 find in your issue of yesterday a com
munication signed by my old friend Col D.
A. Robertson, in which he says:
The st. Paul Dispatch Of yesterday, July II
in its department headed Current Comment"
publishes without word of dissent the follow
ing paragraph:
'sIgnatius Donnely's speech at Ortonville,
Mimi: twenty-five years ago John 9. Pills
bury, when ] first knew him was selling nails
and hinges across the Counter of a second rate
hardware storc-you have better in your city
Now every year he builds five or six elevators
and a new mill. Where does it come from?
Stealage, stealage my friends. TApplause.''l
nope tndL the ABOVE paragraph mlSreDre-
sents any remarks made by Mr.. Donnelly, in his
Ortonville speech, and that In jnstice to himself
he will be able to so declare without delay
The above paragraph very fairly represents
what / did say.
John S. Pillsbury is one Of the leading
members of combination of Mill owners at
Minneapolis who have for years past taken
possession Of the wheat markets of the state
of Minnesota, driven out all competition,
farmed out to other rings 80 much of the
territory as they do not need, and created a
gigantic monopoly which has cheapened the
value of our productions, Impoverished our
farmers, embarrassed our merchants, and
enriched themselves. Their existence is the
one great crying evil of our day and section,
and unless prevented by legislation they
propose to hold their grip indefinitely.
If a man takes by force the property of an
other, against his will, and without compen-
sation, the law calls it larceny, robbery, theft,
and the men who do it we imprison as
thieves. And for my part l cannot
see the moral distinction between
these things and conspiracy of
wealthy and prominent men who by craft
COMPEL farmer to give them his wheat at
five, ten, twenty or thirty cents below what
its true value would be in an open market.
If it is rot taking the property of another
against his will, without compensation. what
is it! And if this be not theft larceny, rob-
berry, what is itl
Mr.. Pilsbury may be very nice man for a
tea party or Sunday school, but as be shares
in this Ubiquitous system, to transfer the
money OF men just as respectable, as intelli-
gent and as educated as himself into his own
pocket he deserves to be denounced from one
end of the state to the other. And for one.
propose to call spade spade, and stealage
stealage; my old friend Col. Robertson, or
any other man, to the contrary notwith-
standing.
What does the Declaration of Independence
amount 10, with its platitudes about liberty
and equality, if we are to be perpetually de-
priyed of freedom of market, the practical,
real base of all freedom; and our chances of
prosperity are TO depend upon how much a
score of knaves out of their charity or gener-
osity or sense Of policy, may see fit to give US
of the proceeds of our own industry!
Reform should begin. like charity, at home,
and the best politics is that which breaks the
jaws of the spoiier and drags the prey from
between his teeth Respectfully yours,
IGSATIU5 DoSSELY.
Virginia Democrats in Convention.
WHEELING II Va JuIy 23-The Demo-