Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-09-01
HELP THE GOOD WORK.
Protection and a Decent Standard Of
 Living yers1s British Free Trade
PatricL Fond Proprietor IrisA World !

Patriek Ford Proprietor Irish WOrld.)
 Protection to American labor means good wages and higher standard of lIy- ing for the American workman. The
 millennium is not sttsinsble in this world,
 tut of sll countries the one that offers
 the best opportunities to the poor man
 is America, and the most prosperous
 asd progressive times the nstIon has
 ever known has been under the Protec-
 tive policy. The ado stion of British
 Free Trade, on the other hand, would
 mean reduced wages snd & lower stan
 dsrd of living. Common sense, history and experience teach those things. A situation of affairs is brought about
 when every American citizen must be
 practical on the question raised. The man .vho,believes ID Protection to Amer
 ican labor cannot consistently vote for Cleveland and Thurman. and the man
 who fsvors Freei Trade csnnot logically
 support the platform on which Harrison
 and Morton stand. There are surpris- ingly foolish things at times done in
 this world; but 70 me 1t does seem i'm possible that the American people, on an issue 80 sharply defined ss this tariff question is, to deliberately vote for their own ruin. Were 1t possible" writes
 James G. Blaine from abroad, "for every voter of the Republic to see for himself the condition Bnd recompense of labor in Europe the party of Free Trade inthe United States would not re- ceive the support of one wsge-wOrker be- tween the two oceans. IL may not be. di- reotly' in our power to elevate the Euro pesnlsborer, but It will be 8 lasting stig ms upon our ststesmsnshIp If We permit the American laborer Co be forced down 10 ihe European level"
 On true presentation or the ques- tion the wsge-workers of Americn will not vote to support ihe Free Trade party. But the presentation of ihe question neccessiates vork-educationsl work. Now the Irish World IS doing just this kind of work. l ask all who
 think and feel with me in the matter to cooperate with me, too, n this good
 work, Every vsge-vorker in America ought to have a copy of the Irish World
 put into his hands every week. l am
 doing what l caD in the way of free dis
 tribution and shall so continue to do &C.,
 cording to ruy ability to the close of the fight. You. reader, can do likewise.
 Purchase every week an extra cepy of
 the Irish World and present II to some friend who now perhaps reads only 6
 Fres-trsde newspaper. If you are not able to buy and give away sD eItrs copy every week, why cant you loan your owng Don't stop tO consider
 whether your neighbor Is able 10 buy ths paper or not; think only of the mis- sionsry work that needs to be done, and look upon yourself ss one that Is called
 npon to do your share. The issue that is involved in this PresIdedtisl cam
 paign concerns not politicians merely; II concerns the whole people, aud none more than thofe eho have to toil for
 living.
 In the spirit of these remarks and pro toundly impressed with She tremendou. significance of thc contest We are en- gagged in. take the liberty to mail grstuitously to names suggested to me copies of this weeks Irish World. I ask those new friends to do me the favor and themselves the justice to read COL sidsrstely whSt appears in It's pGges, es- pecially on the tsriff. l ask them to subdue party feeling and to put aside party prejudice. God knows l am not actuAted by any sense of party RlorIfics- tion. The question IS nOI whether the Democrats as such or the Republicans as such shall win. So tsr as mere names go care nothing. I view this entire question from the point of view of ci- tizen of the Republic. We gre mens- ced by great national calamity. and 1t | behooves all patriotic men, sinking for | the time being minor issues, to band themselves for the salvation of theIr country and their tellow-mep.