The Irish standard., 1888-08-11
FRESHMEN AND AMERICAN POLITICS

70 the Editor OF tue Irish Standard
SIR: Ycu co me much honor by the
prominence you haye accorded my com
municatlon and the yigor Of your reply,
and it is incumbent on me to c}isclaim
al or any intelI1on Of being personal or
a1xogating 10 myself the position Of
censor. [ had supposed that the edi-
toriai we was g. sufficient; shield for
the personality OF the journalist aud (
know Of 10 rule in the ethics OF The pro,
fsssion, with which have had q limited
experience, that gives the journalist The
right to criSicise and abuse public and
fliyate individuals and denies the
reader the privilege to crjticise or con-
Gle1nn the utteraaces Of the journalist.
I2 tlse;e is such rule, all I have 10 say
is chat ( am very sorry for the profess
sion. The personality Of Yourself, Mr.,
Editor. and OF myself is Of very small
consequence compared to the impor~
tance Of the subject we are discussing,
so that [ will! pass over your illusions
to your correspondent in silence, for of
cue thing you may be assured he is no
better than he ought tobe and cofesses
the crime ct being a Republican. You
continue to refer to the Crom wellian
era but Let me say to you that you can
not harrow my soul" by this recital Of
profaue history, for as student OF Irish
history l am zoo familiar with ali the
details Of the horrible age to be lnt,t1~
enced in my opinion Or warped In my
judgment of American politics OF to. day
with which it has 10 connection. You
may work the racket Oh some Of your
readers, but permit me to again remark,
it is not very complimentary to their in
telligence. However, you seem willing
to give the Chinese and Cromwell 81 rest
and agree with you that they are too
foreign to the subject anyway.
AS q close to your reply you express
your opinion of the Chicago platform
and perhaps before the electi III you will
agree with me that the one great issue
is made up by chat platform protection
or free. trade, You hesitate to discuss
this issue but say the Democrats pro-
pose Ito welcome raw material from the
worlds market thus enabling Our manu-
facturers to compete for American trade
outside She United States.' Yes, Dem
ocrats propose to admit free foreign
raw materials, so called, though it re-
suit i'll the complete destruction Of
American industry which produces
nearly all the raw materials for every
thing we manufacture. The Mills Bill
puts wool on the free list and the wool
growers, The farmers, the f1ockmaster,
the herders, the washers and the shear
ers of American wool and the laborers
employed in transporting this raw ma
terial, SO called, to the market must go
out Of business, SO that the convict la
Dor wool from South America and
] Australia may come in tree and as you
say enable our manufacturers to COM
s pete for outside trade.
s Now is it not strange that our manu-
facturers don't see it that way? Our
*Woollen manufacturers are unanimous
and vigorous in opposition to free wool,
and they were refused a hearing before
#tlle Democratic committee that passed
tbs Mills bill. They say 1--WE wish to
encourage wool growing in the United
states, as wa Will then always have this.
the doors off our factor