The Springdale news., 1888-08-24
The English press on the Situation.

Before the campaign had been form ally opened on either side. Republican journals had so thoroughly impregnat- ed the public mind withthe idea that the Democratic party was the advocate of free trade, that English papers were misled into the belief that tue policy so dear to them had an American expon- ent in no less parsonage than Grover Cleveland. On the strength of Repub- lican misreprest ntations these English papers published editorials identifying the Democracy with their own free trade ideas, and these editorials have since done continual service in appeal ing to the anti-Fnglish feeling and pre- ludfce of lrish-American citizens.
 English editors, with the text Of the Mills Bill and copy of the Presidents message before them, see their mistake and Ill their respective papers plainly intimate that their opinions had been iadtted Tn spirit of premature self qualification, into which they were led by the false reports of partisan journ- als and writers. These British ioarna- lists sing different song now, but the Republican press takes care that none ot the notes reach the ears of it's follow CTS to charm them away from the de- fusion they have been given to cherish.
 The truth is that the Democratic par ty mas taken the initiative in thc,Work tremoYiDg the inequalities of the tar itf in the interests of the Working man and women. This the Republican par ty has pledged itself to do time ahd agalit in It's national platforms, but the only time and the only place it remem- bers it's promise in election year and In its convention hall The Demo- crats mean to do what the Republicans have long promised but failed to per form, and the absurd cry of Free Trade isa vain invention of d aisap- polnte party, which sees with dismay how ffmiy the Democracy is,establish- Ing itself in the affections of the people by the enactment of just aud necessary laws.
 The fact Is that the Democratic par- " IS the party of protection. It's pol- Icy alms to protect the poor from the monopollstie corporations which build up trusts that control production. raise the price of lifa'Snecessities. and lower wages at their will. The Demo erals are protectionist5 in practice. not ln theory, as any one eau see from the report Of the Committee on Ways and Means with bll II. R., 905D. With untaxed raw materials says this re- port, we could keep our mills running on t'dt time and our operatives in con stant employment. If there should be no duty Oh any materials en- tefing into manufactures, many arti- cles now made abroad would be made at hone. This puts the matter in it's proper light, and proves that tue ambi- tlon of the Democratic party is to give the American laborer more work, re- duce the eosl of life's necessities, and place the Ameriean employer III a posi- tion to give higher wages to his help.
 The attempt to make Irish American citizens believe that by voting fer the Republican ticket they are votlng against England is an insult to their intelligence and islander on their de- votion to American institutions. It is ill conceived and poorly executed and win be rebuked next November by a, vote that once and forever will make 1t plain to the world that the ci | of Irish birth vote as Americans, first, last and all the time.-American Cath Olio News