St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-08
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
Consolidate the Labor Vote.
the Editor. of the CLINE.

10 the Editor OF the GloOe:
AS the GLOBE IS a CONSTANT advocate
and friend to home rule for Ireland. the
writer would like to say a few words on the
subject, as the matter is now before the peo-
pie of England, Scotland and Wales. The
present accounts would indicate that the
Tories and their allies, the apostate Liberals.
will defeat the heroic efforts of Gladstone to
dojustice to the oppressed people of Ireland.
The Tories as the interchangeable enemies OF
liberty and progress, and their weil-known
stock in trade of prejudice and class hatred.
With their wel-knOwn powers of preyarica-
ton and misrepresentation they are likely to
succeed in throwing sectarian dust in the
eyes of the common people of England and
Scotland. The crown, wealth and the whole
power of the ariStocracy are with them. Now
Mr.. Gladstone and his supporters should go
to work and consolidate all the industrial class
by clear and distinct statement of the merits
of home rule for Ireland, not only justice for
Ireland, bare and Naked but showing the
English and Scotch workingmen that home
rule for Ireland meant prosperity for labor
ers in their country, thereby elevating the
condition Of the English and Scotch working
men by giving them more employment and
better wages. Preaching simple Justice to
ireland alone in England and Scotland, where
the camp-ires of classrrprejudice and religious
hatred have been burning fercely for so
many years, is to say the least pure nonsense.
The high and noble character Of MIR. Glad
stone for honest effort in favor of the indus
trial classes, his proposition to do justice to
Ireland by allowing them TO regulate their
own affairs in their own way, devel-
opiug the many and rich resources
of their country unrestricted by men
whose chief object had been to crush them,
and hereby perpetuate their enslavement
A statement of this kind claiming justice for
Ireland. and at the same time showing the
Englishand Scotch workingmen that home rule
for Ireland meant q prosperous Ireland Civ
ing plenty of employment to Ireland's own
laborers and many Others, thereby elevating
the conditions of the workmen of England
and Scotland by having plenty of employ
ment and wages, according to the decrease in
supply. Had this statement been made to
the electors, the common people of England
and Scotland Mr. Gladstone would have hum
dreds of speakers advocating home rule all
over the country-in every shop and mill
and in every mine and manufactory there
would be such a union of sentiment in favor
of Mr.. Gladstone and home rule for Ireland,
which would ut the same time remove many
of the hardShips of the English and Scotch
laborers at the present time. Why this
course was not adopted at the beginning of
the campaign at this distance cannot say.
But had it been done, as | have indicated the
combined efforts of the Tories and their
friends. with their presentations AMI mis-
representations their religious bigotry and
class hatrids. would find themselves in the
midst of a cyclone of popular indignation,
which would be ficult. for them as the
real enemies Of freedom and progress to OBJ
tain even a partial hearing for years to-
come, their defeat and humiliation would be
lasting, as the blessings of the victory would
begin to appear, and the prosperity OF the
workingmen of the three little countries
would be visible, and the party posing as
friends for centuries is proved to be nothing
but enemies of progress and freedom, count
ing their own wealth by millions while deny
ing the producers of wealth the commonest
necessaries of life. j. II. H.