Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-09-25

| anu riga cCOuOinN, lucJ SCdiCcll
make both ends meet. = |
rarely see II new house, or an old
one repaired and painted, garden
lately enclosed, a new buggy and
harness, or a new fence. Indeed,
new things have passed away and
all things have become old. | sell
dom meet with fat horse OK or
COW. Few farms are being improv-
ed. Few marriages OCCUR
u sure index Of the state of the pub
lie veal. Thrifty young men are
neutrality-suspicious. i
One of the most prominent Irish
men of Buffalo, sends us commu-
nication directing attention to the
fact that some of the local Demo
cratic papers delight in assaulting
the good name and standing Of
Alexander Sullivan, ex- president of
the National League, aud his
worthy successor, Patrick Egan,
chiefly because they saw fit to sup
port the Republican ticket last fall.
/ The charge that "they attempted
to sell the whole Irish race to
Blaine,n he reScnts i'll strong terms.
:" How the d - did you secure so
many lrishmen last fall :" asked
Mr.. Barnum, chairman Of the Ma
! tiOnal Democratic Committee, not
long since of a member OF tue Re
publcans who were fighting for
| American ideas and American in
dustries as against the rest OF the
world and they stood by us AZ they
have when the institutions Of this
country have been imperiled.' Our
respected correspondent discusses
the subject so intelllgently and
forcibly that we give his own Ian
guage:
alt is now clear that the Irish
men who voted for Blaine were
right. The present business de-
preston, begotten of a Democratic
change confronts them and those
dep lent on their labor and
threatens them with pr0tractcd
idleness and its ultimate result
poverty. Irshmcn behold with
sorrow that the first victim of ma
tional prominence stricken down
by the free trade Democracy was
John Roach, IAN exile of Erin For
the first time in Is years the mas
sive iron works of Roach in New
York are idle and the silence Of
despair has entered the breasts Of
his employees. The wall Of 5000
men thrown out of employment by
the suspension of work in the yards
at New York and Chester has been
heard from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific; the throb Of the engine, the
roar Of the furnace, the steady fall
of the trip.hammer have all sue
cumbed to the bllghting influence
of Democratic rule. Honest John
Roach who never had law suit
and never had a strike, and whose
check was never dishonored until
he was crippled by the act of a
Democratic administration, Is an
Irishman and aprotectlonlst, whose
highest ambition was the raising Of
the starry flag upon American
ships built by American labor. The
man that has built ia iron ships,
representing a business OF over
$50, 900, 900, fled from the ven
geance of the CrOmwellian free
booter, earl of Kingston, whose IA
ther had doomed to life of serfage
the Reaches of Mitchelstown, coun-
ty of Cork. When Ireland was
afflicted with q famine in 1851 the
son of John Roach sent $4,000 to
the hungry men and women suffer
ing from the oppressive system that
drove the elder Roach to take ref
uge in a misunderstanding emil
grant ship. The odiouS English
laws that drove out of Ireland her
manufacturing industries thereby
/ forcing the people to rely solely on
agriculture deprived John Roach,
like the great majority of Irish en-
igrants, Of any technical skill.
Consequently he was forced into
the army of uneducated labor IN
his new home, aud saw the Demo
cratic party, advocating the very
British policy, to escape which he
had come to this country. lie also
saw the Democracy sympathlzing
with Kngland's Alabama builders
and the British Government in al
lowing pirates dying the English
dag toenter and leave British ports.
OF all American citizens, native or
adopted, Roach has been the Meme
sis of England's marine and the
greatest champion Of Americas
abilities in the direction Of ship
building. John Roach has been Il
shining Illustration of Irish energy, !
economy anu perseverance, ana as
such has been a conspicuous mark |
for the mendacious Democratic free
trade press and officials that have !
finally driven him into bankruptcy |
and destroyed the great industry |
he was so long in building up. But
the time when Irishmen can show
their manhood aud enter their pro-
test against the insults heaped upon
their distinguished fellow country |
men Is coming. At the approach
ing state election let them make |
the free trade, Britlsh.sympathizlng !
Democracy feel the weight Of their
influence Buffalo, N. Y. Com
mercial.