The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-30
a poWBRFUL ARGUMEEr.

TOPEKA KAN Sept. IL, 80 }
To the Irish Americans Of Kelsss;
The following letter was addressed 70
Hon. Ed Carroll, Chairman OF the Demo
cratic Stale Central Committee, In answer
to q request TO speak for The democratic
ticket in the campaign IN Kansas this tall.
The truths SO ably presented to Irish
Americans apply equally we'll TO all men
who depend upon toe work OF their hands
for their daily bread, whether they be
T. -mers, mechanics. or day laborers, na-
tives or foreign born
II. BRANDLEY, T. BoNEBR AXE.
Secretary. Chairmal.
COTTONWOOD FALLS, Kss, Sept IL /
1885. Hon. Ed Carroll, chairman state /
democratic central committee. LeaVen-
worth, Kansas: Ny Dear Sir-Your circu-
lar letter under date Of August IS request |
ing me to make some speeches curing |
the coming campaign, under tue auspices |
of the state democratic central committee, |
tor the state ticket, received, aud contents |
noted.
In reply would say, that this gives me |
an opportunity, az an Irish -AmerIcsn, OF |
expressing TO you my views on the present |
politics 81 situation. IL 10 needless to re-
mind an IrIshman that under all circum-
stances Irish should do all In their power
TO bring down uuder their feet, ia what
ever guise he may be found, the old tyrsnt
sud taskmaster of our race.
To this end, even. in American politics
an freshman has many opportunities pre-
sented 10 him which It is his Imperative
duty TO avail himself Of. OF course our
first duty as citizens 10 10 preserve and
maintain the welfare of our adopted coun-
try and to see we'll to IL that the same IN.
/ fuence that cursed US in our weakness at
home, and drove us into exile, shall never
acquire a foothold in our new home, nor
be able to scourge our children as their
fathers of old were seUurged. After that
lie done we have still another duty 70 per-
form, and that is TO use ous power and in
huence in the cultivation of en- Irish sent
iment among the American people to aid
those at home who are now in life and
death struggle 10 throw oil the accumu-
lated load OF centuries OF oppression.
Now the question which every Irish
| man must meet presents Itself: How
shall these duties be best performed
The democratic party wants free trade
with our ancient enemy the same Tree
| trade that has made iceland stand in rags
| at the door OF the nations. with pinched
| face of hunger, begging for Bread end
l driven her poor, famtshed children which
she had not nourIEhment enough in her
bosom to sustain, into shroudlese sud cof-
| hnless graves aud into eyeIR mBu's land
| poor, lone wanderers, driven out into the
world, their eyes covered by veil Of
| ignorance which the tyrsnt had pulled
Il
i among their new neighbors by British in
| flueuce. which had followed alter them.
On the other hand, the republican party
| is in favor OF protection of our industries.
i No people on the face of Gods earth need
/ projection from England as badly as we
l do. Protection Is a weapon in our hands;
aye, and q deadly one, too.
Now for few facts during Cleveland's
administration, for the perusal OF Irish
men. Is It edifying to witness the humil-
4 iation of our adopted country on the
1 fishery question at the hands Of the blust-
| ering old tyrsut and q weak secretary OF
state Shall this country be place where
Irishmen can be hunted down by England
1 and extrAdIted for what are fairly under
stood by jnTists to be political ofenses,
VIZ: Resistance to Eaglish expressions?
This was shrewdly contained in the Bay
ard-Phelps treaty, which so far republI-
cen senate refuses to entertain. Can
IrIshmen, who As rule belong to the la
boring, industrial aud producing classes,
| indorse the veto of the Morrison surplus
bill, which If 1t had been allowed to be-
come law, would have saved to the peo-
pie 81 100000 unnecessary tax every year?
Can Irlshmen belong to party whose
every victory brings joy to the English
breastP Can 1rishmen support q
platform which indorses the Cleveland
l administration, and thereby enrolling IN
its ranks that British influence which has
been the milestone around the necks of
Irishmen, aud which has ever been ct
work to destroy the social, political and
intellectual growth OF the Irish element
in the United States? That platform IN
its second resolution Is opposed to the
principles of constitutional prohibition.
The most degrading stigma ever applied
to the Irish citizens, IN the past, was to
charge them with being Whisky Irish. p"
| Then, / ask, is il right, to solicit the sui
Il fra nlnnNnra in ut q
principle which has cursed them with q
deep and bitter curse? The spirit of the
ssilted Father Mathew admonishes us to
be loyal to the holy lessons he taught
our kindred, and if temperance was good
enough then for 5000, 900 of our race to
take its pledges, it is good enough now
for US TO maintain its supremacy by our
sovereign ballot.
AS moral principle, from our infancy
, we have taught that TEMPERANCE was a
great virtue; then why should We take of.
tense because it has been adopted also as
political virtueg Recognizing it to
God, but denying it to man With such a
| grand mission before US as the elevation
and liberty Of our race, we should never be
found obstructing others in the same work
which we ourselves are engaged in.
3 The third resolution in the platform de-
D msuds for the working classes such re-
q Enumeration for their service as Will enable
them, with economy and sobriety, TO i'm
prove their social and financial cOndi.
e ton" This, shorn OF its mask By
D coupling 1t with the second resolution
means good wages and open saloons that
by legislation, temptation Is TO be place.
in the pathway of the laborer, so that TIT
open saloons may gather in the goot
r wages.
The Irish are the friends OF labor
They are In hearty sympathy with an,
movement that will better the condition o
d the man who tolls for his daily bread
a but they should never consent to cripple
his cause by linking 1t with piratcal
O measure which enriches the vicious and
:. deprsved at the expepse of honest toll aud
the sacred home circle.
!. search that platform IN vain for spl
9 word that would carry hope TO an Iris
A heart that the democratic party of Kansa
is Id sympathy with our cause in the OLE
land. Was the Irish vote so sure or on
cause so small as to require no mention
D, Was the convention afraid of offending 1t
|. British alliesf We chsritably conclud
! that 1t was considered question outside
of the range OF Kansas politics, and III
Irish vote was sure anyway.
e Yet the republican party, voicing tn
" sentiment OF q commonwealth, which haI
: Its birth in q life and-death struggle fol
the liberty of race, sent words of chez
3 and comfort to our kindred at home, anC
J, L 10 make ROOO tnGt EoSOlutlOu uOL1luhtcu al
v IrishmAn, Mccarthy of Lsrned, tor au
: ditor OF state.
This action Of the republican party MAJ
: be called "chaff," but In my judgment l
: is made OF better stun, as IL has the effect
IN its recognition of Ireland's demands Oh
England TO antagonize the British elemen
- In the party, and drive It from its rank
= into the democratic party that left the doc
q open to receive them.
vi Shall the Irish element stand shoulde
/ to shoulder with their ancient and heredi
a tarY foe, or 90 over like men of the oil
bloo1 and ell up the ranks of q part
which has declared itself their friend, AM
8 with their strength close knit, rout befor
4 them the enemy and his allies, even q
= their kindred did on the field Of Fonte
noy
4 Again, 1, a. the son of a humble Irlsl
! soldier who left behind all he held dear o.
IT earth to serve as . private in the ranks
n can never, at this time consent to give M
assistance 20 party which, in its platform
10 indorsed Cleveland and his veto of the sol