The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-06-23

! Mr., IngersOn on the Nomination.
state Journal.
| Col. Robert G. Ingersoll is wide
awake observer of current events, and
having no aspirations of his own for
political preferment, is in good pos
ition to form an independent and I'M
prejudiced opinion rs to the present
outlook. He has lately been inter
viewed by an New York Press re-
porter as 10 Cleyeland's nomination.
He declares what was patent to every
body that the nomination was very
grateful to the neople of England
that the papers in particular regarded
it as excellent. "Every Englishman",
says the outspoken Colonel, "who
wants Ireland turned into peniten-
tiary and every Irishman treated as a
convict, is delighted with the action
of the St. Louis conyention.
England knows what she
wants. Her Fmarkets are growing
small A few years ago she furnished
manufactured articles to large por-
ton of the world. Millions Of her
customers have grown ingenious
enough to manufacture the things
they need, and the next thing Eng
land did was to sell them the machin-
cry. Now they are beginning to
make their own machinery. Conse-
quently English trade is falling off
She must have new customers. No
thing would so satisfy her as to have
100000 Americans buy her wares.
If she could see our factories still and
dead; if she could put out the fires of
our furnaces and TO, ges, there would
come to her the greatest prosperity
that she had eyer known. She would
fatten on our misfvrtunes-grow rich
and powerful and arrogant upon
our poverty. We would become her
servants. We would raise the raw
material with ignorant labor and al
low her children to reap all the pro-
fits by manufacture, and in the mean
time grow intelligent and cultured
while we grow poor and ignorant. !"
In the same vein this pungent and
able politician continues:
"Of course the English people ex-
pect all the Irish in the United States
to elect the president that they, the
English tories, desire, and while they
are prosecuting the Irish Catholics in
| Ireland, they inaugurate and carry
out an English policy IN the United
States. The greatest blow that can
be inflicted upon England is to keep
her manufactured goods out of the
United States. Sixty millions of
Americans buy and use more than
| five hundred millions of Asiatics =
| buy and use more than all China, all
of India and all of Africa. One civil
lied man has thousand times the
wants of a savage or a semi barbarian
Most of the customers Of England
want few yards Of calico, some cheap
jewelry, a little powder, few knives
and few gallons of orthodox rum.
! Today the United States is the
greatest market in the world. The
commerce between the states is almost
inconceivable in its immensely. In
order that you may have some idea of
the commerce of this country it is only
necessary to remember one fact. We
haYe railroads enough engaged in this
commerce to make line six times
around the globe. The addition one
million of Americans to our populat-
ion gives us better market than a
monopoly of ten million Asiatics
England, with her warehouses, her
labor that barely exists, wishes this
market, wishes to destroy the manu-
features of America, and she expects
Irish-Americans to assist them in this
patriotic business.