St. Landry democrat., 1888-11-03
ADDRESS TO iRlsHMEN.

Letter of Minister West.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-It was announced
yesterday that James G: Blaine would
tnake this city his headquarters until after
election, In the meantime speaking in the
neighborng States.
1rishmen turned out in full force last
night to the mass meeting of the Irish pro-
tectionists at Madison Square Garden,
1000 people being in the building at eight
O'Clock when Judge A. L. Norris, OF Ari-
Zona, read on behalf of Chairman Patrick
Ford; an address in which these passages
occurred: "We are here tonight not rs
Irishmen to consult for the interests
of Ireland, but as Americans to dis
cuss American affairs, with American
ends In fiew. We are not
foreign element as q loose phraseoiosy
might imply. We refuse to so regard our
selves. The land is our home and in the
present National contest we see only the
Republic and are concerned only for her
welfare. For US party lines are oblit-
Grated. We know only Americans and
anti-Americans. The man who fights un-
der the flag of English free trade, no mat
ter of what race he may be, whether he
knows it or not, is d practical ally Of the
English enemy, and on the other hand the
man who fights under the flag of protec-
tion to American labor, whether native or
foreign, that man we. hail as comrade,
brother and American"
Patrick Egan and David Healy spoke,
when Mr. Blaine commenced his address
as follows:
Mr. Chairman: ] speak tonight to men OF
Iri,h birth, but not in relation to their connec-
tion with the British empire. speak to them
in relation to their citizenship to the great
American Republic lapplausel and OF the duties
they owe, to the policies they should pursue:
and gather that the strongest lesson for an
Irishman in America is to be found in his ex-
perience In tis natlts land fairest land and
almost the richest portion of all Europe. des-
tined to poverty and to suffering and to the ex-
lie Of millions Of her children because OF mis-
government-destined primarily to untold pri-
walton because her power is not applied for her
own Use md the adfantdge :Sf the boor people
for protection for which all 1rishmen snou-U
struggle in America. So great is the ngrlcult-
ural wealth in Ireland that only forty
years ago she shipped q greater amount OF
produce across the channel to England than the
United States exported to all countries
greater than the empire of Russia sent to the
other countries of Europe, and with all this,
where is Ireland to-day? She shares the fate of
all countries purely agricultural; she shares
the fate that would in O larger degree GvertaKe
the United States II the free trader sh0uld
have his way and reduce US to an agricultural
people fApp huse ! And yet tonight the fear
is that majority Or the Irish vbtets of Amer
lea or the 1rish-Amercan voters will cast their
ballots on November + as the present Govern
ment of England would desire them to cast it.
[Cries of NO no''l l wish you would make
that no. a large majority of the Irish vote of
the United States.
For the last four months the Democrats have
been denying and the Republicans have been
affirming that the Iast and constant wish Of
England is that Mr.. Cleveland's administration
should be sustained by the whole force and eff
feet of English public opinion. And just when
they had begun to make an expression and an
impression upon the American people that such
might not be the fact we have the letter of the
British Minister to Washington, himself
[groans urging the reelection of MIR. Cleve-
land. And you can never interpret letter un-
til you know the letter that called 1t forth To
get the whole gist and meaning of a correspond
ence you must have both sides Of it, and this
letter from the British Minister was called
forth by a letter from California, written by a
native of England.
Mr. Blaine then read the two letters and con-
tnued: Three Ministers of the United States
certainly two-have had their walking papers
for offeLses less grave than that and tonight if
an American Minister at England should write
to an English voter advising HIM to support
either side as the one favorable to the United
States, he would be politely invited to sail
home by the next steamer. And then what
does the Secretary of State do? Why, he says
it was no harm; it was only private. Well,
suppose he sends d private circular-sup-
pose he issues 10000 Of them and
marks them private on the corner, and
there came a discovery? I suppose Secre-
tary Bayard would say: mot particle
OF harm, so long as you mark them private,
and as long as you mark them private they will
have so much more beneficial effect when they
get into the public print And so this has
done it's perfect work. 1t was written for
Grover Cleveland. [Groans.1 It was written
in aid of him to bring the whole naturalized
English voters to his support and Mr. Cleve-
lands premier at the head of his Cabinet says
it is all right and We are to have British
Minister at Washington giving his opinion as to
what we should do in this country in our polit
ical and our domestic parties. One remark he
makes wish to comment on particularly, for
call it an insult to the Repub-
llcan party I protest in the name OF that
party against Lord Sackville-West saying
that the rejection by the Republican Senate of
an outrageous and miserable and daStardly
Fishery treaty was mere political ruse for
this campaign. He has no right to say so. He
has never seen Senate heretofore in the his
tory of this Republic, Democratic party, or
Wing, or Republican, or Federal that would for
one moment have entertained that Fishery
treaty. Not one. And Lord Sackville-W est
has no right to say to the American people that
the Senatorial representatives of that great
party in looking after the National honor are
merely committing a political ruse He will
find politi al ruse of that kind will last SO
long as the honor of the American flag is to be
preserved and the right of the hardy fishermen
of America to be protected. [Cheers.l
Another thing, my friends We are in the
habit of discussing the tariff question very
largely on theory. 1 think that solid fact is
worth a ton of theory. You may phlosophize
on the doctrine of free trade aud on the doc
trine of protection to the end and want now
to give you solid fact Up to this date, up to
October 25, in the year of our Lord, 1888 since
Grover Cleveland was inaugurated there has
been imported into this country of iron and
steel and their products an amount equal to
the enormous sum of $16o,00o,00o, and they
say we have set too high q tariff. II
that iron and steel had been made here
it would have meant good wages for a
whole year for 100000 laborers [applausel:
and for the average size of family
dependent upon him it would have meant 800,
0O0 persons to be fed and backs to be clothed
out Of $4,000 600. [Applause.l That is what
call solid fact, and they say there Is not
enough coming yet They want to lower the
tariff SO that we can have more. Here in New
York We are always told that we must look out
for the commerce Of the country-that the COM
merce is what built the country up. Take this
great metropolis and sister Brooklyn. They
have grown more since the protective tariff
than they ever grew before since this Govern
ment was founded, almost.
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CoIorad Men and Tiuuor.
PROVIDENCE r. l., Oct. 25.-Atthe meet
ing of the American Missionary Society
last night Rev. j. r. Mclean, colored, of
Paris, Tex, said: 1--WE do not drink as much
as the whites because we could not pay for
it, and we do not inherit, as do they. an
appetite for it. | think that one of the
at; af for