Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-12-03
THE POLICY or THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY


| BURLINGTON, November p, 1856.
To the Editor of the Free Press:
Ex-Minister Lowell made the statement
some time since that he had always beer
! in favor of CLONE Rule for Ireland II
is interesting to know his reasons there
| for:
A correspondent in an Irish paper, the
Montreal DdilH Post, writes as follows
"a passage in II recent speech of Lord
Granville" Ghen think British Minister
for foreign affairs strongly empbasi-
zcs the view urged in these letters as to
the necessity of England securing the
| friendship of the Irish by conceding home
rule. 1t is a concession dictated by the
| highest craftsmanship for, as have al
ready shown. it is the only way by which
American friendship iriM the pOSSibilitU
Of Il tHtUTC uIidHcC can be secured. The
passage is as follows:
Mr.. Lowell recently wrote to me his con-
viCtou that the formidable strength or alb O.
lutte weakness ct the anti-English partv.in The
United States depended ON whether we freely
gave selt-Hovernment to IRELAND or refused
the boon. No one is better able to rive II sound
.pinion on this subject than the late Amcrl-
can minister to England.
Turn now to a speech of Lord Roseberv
Ga member of the same British ministry
before the British Trades Union Congress
reported in the Liverpool EchO:
"He kne " that IL great many working men
both here and in the colonies. took an tNen
larger view of that question 1mpCrlal Federal
tom than he indicated they hoped, not so
much tor bond of the British empire as for
Al league OF English speaking people all he
world over lapplauscl but we were practical
men; we had to deal with what was nearest
at hand he did not suppose that Great Brit
ain even if she entered that federation [ot
the Engl sh-spcaking people would he less
considered II she came at the head of great
empire than if she came with only Two is
lands, England and Ireland.
The above shows what the English dip
lumats are working at
When Lord Roseberry was made a
minister in the last Liberal British cab-
net his appointment was alone of all the
ministry approved by the Tory press. The
Nt1Hddfd said his appointment was par
tlcularly pleasing to the Queen, his intlu-
enCe III Il certain direction on account of
family connection with the Rothschilds
would be invaluable. The American
agent of the Rothschlds banking house
has been chairman of the national demo
cratic executive committee in the United
States for more than % years and he offer
ed to pay the most OF the last presidential
campaign expenses if the party would
nominate the present secretary of state,
Bayard, for president.
! Lord Rosebery was recently suddenly
converted into an ardent Irish home
ruler two years ago he used to refer to
the Irish as "Nihilists.n Is 1t possible
that Parnell has made another "klmain-
ham" treaty on broader groundS-h has he
agreed to favor the scheme to confederate
the United states with England which
the ROthSchlldS are so DESTROYS of effect
ing and has the member of their house in
| New York who has so long been at the
head OF the democratic party machine,
been preparing to MAKE confederation
with England one of the party planks in
the distaHt future
The following portion of a resolution of
the London Branch of the Irish National
League indicates that Mr.. Parnell may
| have made such bargain "ln that it
! (lrish Home Rule would revolutlonize
the political relations between England
and the United States. In that the Greater
| BRITAIN could thereby become reality,
through the English speaking races all
over the world being welded into one PEG
pie by the removal of Irish discontent,'
The principles of the democratic party
OF the future seem to have kindred sig
MITIGATION with "ConfederatlOu with Eng
! land Free trade aud states rights are in
line with that confederation rs they were
with the Southern cOnfederacy. Mr..
Thomas Macfarlane, f. X. c. 5. an able
advocate of imperial confederation, says
in his publication on that subject that
nothing has done so much to "nationalize'
the United States as its protective tariff
and he nfers that nothing can be done
practically to bring the United States into
the British federation until that nation al
izing policy Of protective tariff is done
away with.
state rights" and free trade" inevi
tably lead up to confederation with Eng
land and that will undoubtedly be the
policy of the democratic party if it re
mains under its present control.
Respectfully yours,
NEWTON |. HARTsHORN.