Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-02

legislation that has always supported
your rights. A double motive will urge
you on, not only your good citizenship,
but feeling of gratitude, and you
will fly to your arms because your
country has been brought into that war
by defending you. Beyond the noun
tains there is that party which has heard
your cry-Blaine has done good deal Of
talking on the matter, but Cleveland is
a man OF deeds, and every time he in
dulges in an act it is in the interest of his
country and his countrymen. We are
not the first people who have suffered
from an Asiatic invasion. At the dawn
of history one day there came sailing over
the seas mighty host of Medes and
Persians to strike down the Greeks be-
cause they had taken the republic
of Platea from the Persians.
Herodotus tells us of that lit
tie Greek army on the slopes
over the plains of Marathon and
the gittering hosts of Medea and Persia
who with all the pomp and magni6cence
of wealth were gathered to destroy
Greece. The Greeks with spears set
came charging down Mount Citheron,
but as they saw the mighty army they
had to meet, they halted and their hearts
thumped beneath their tunics. Sudden
ly they heard in the distance a hoarse
war cry, and over the crest of hill ap-
peared the Platnan army which had
come to pay its debt to Greece. Their
hearts stopped humping because they
knew that Athens had a friend
that day, and they won the
victory not SO much because of the Pla-
tean aid, but because of the knowledge
of their gratitude. That was a time
when the Asiatic hordes came up from
the sea and tried to destroy the Western
civilization that had it's stronghold in
Athens. They have come out of the sea
again, and when they landed on our
shores they assailed us as surely as the
Medes and Persians did the Greeks in
those days. They struck at the weakest
spot in our line, for that is always where
the laborer stands-the man whose daily
bread depends upon his toll On the
Pacific Coast we looked around anxiously
for help and at last it came
from beyond the mountains where led in
the Senate by Thurman in 1882, the
Democratic party came to your help. It
has stood your friend and defender ever
since, and under the leadership of Grover
Cleveland has efficiently this day de-
livered our fair country from the curse
which hung over it. The Democratic
party has come to you to-day and lifted
you from oppression, and the laboring
man can at last say, Thank God 1 am
an American citizen shielded by the law
of the land 1t has come to your rescue,
and one month and five days from
now when at the polls, two strongly
equipped political armies meet call
on you, men of California, in that
great struggle to think of your wives and
children, and have within your breasts
the gratitude of the Platoeans and come
to the rescue Of your friends. [ngrati-
tude is the worst feature that man can
have, and l call on you, fellow-citizens,
to stand by the party that has stood by
you. 1 care not what Mr.. Harrison says
he would do now look to his acts
when he was in q place of power, for
then he hurt and refused to help you.
| have seen the destruction of men
by Chinese cheap labor; l have seen
it's effects in the jails, the prisons
the asylums of this country, and 1 don't
been proud of my party, but l am
has set upon its head crown of glory
"hA LOS So Anoo PAdOOu uPoA uhO otoeueO
books an efficient law for the protection
of labor in California. When you 60 to
the polls, my friends, remember this"
Colonel Irish's speech was one of the
most successful orations ever delivered
in the city, and was frequently interrupt
ed by bursts of hearty and sponta-
neous applause. He received quite
an ovation on it's conclusion, whereupon
he retired to a seat on the platform and
listened to the next speaker. This was
MIR. F. Scofeld, who addressed himself
to the labor element in very eloquent
Grafton which lack of space prevents
giving here. When he had finished
there were loud demands for a song
from Major Arbuckle and that gentle-
man graciously complied with his
humorous ballad, "Hullah for Halli-
son." after which the meeting adjourned.