The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
ADDRESS TO IRIsHMEN.

Letter OF Minister west
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-It was announced
yesterday that James G.. Blaine would
make this city his headquarters until after
election, in the meantime speaking in the
neighboring States.
Irishmen turned out in full force last
night to the mass meeting of the Irish pro-
tectionists at Madison Square Garden,
1000 people being in the building at eight
O'Clock when Judge A. L. Norris, of Ari-
zOna, read on behalf of Chairman Patrick
Ford, an address in which these passages
occurred: "We are here tonight not as
Irishmen to consult for the interests
of Ireland, but as Americans to dis
cuss American affairs, with American
ends in view. We are not
foreign element as a loose phraseolOgy
might implys We refuse to so regard our
selves The land is our home and in the
present National contest we see only the
Republic and are concerned only for her
welfare. For US party lines are oblit-
Grated. We know only Americans and
Americans The man who fights un-
der the flag of English free trade, no mat
ter of what race he may be, whether he
knows it or not, is a practical ally of the
English enemy, and on the other hand the
man who fights under the flag of prOtec-
tiOn to American labor, whether native or
foreign, that man we hail as comrade,
brother and American"
Patrick Egan and David Healy spoke,
when Mr.. Blaine commenced his address
as follows:
Mr.. Chairman: I speak tonight to men of
Irish birth, but not in relation to their cOnnec-
/ tiOn with the British empire. I speak to them
in relation to their citizenship to the great
| American Republic lapplausel and OF the duties
they owe, to the policies they should pursue;
and gather that the strongest lesson for an
Irfshman in America is to be found in his
in n1frv land he
almost the richest portion of all Europe des-
tined to poverty and to suffering and to the ex-
| lie of millions Of her children because Of mis-
| goVemment-destined primarily to untold pri-
| vation because her power is not applied for her
/ own use and the advantage of the poor people
/ for protection for which all Irishmen should
| struggle in America. So great is the agricult-
ural wealth in Ireland that only forty
! years ago she shipped a greater amount OF
| produce across the channel to England than the
| United States exported to all countries
| greater than the empire Of Russia sent to the
! other countries of Europe, and with all this,
! where is Ireland to-day? She shares the fate OF
| all countries purely agricultural; she shares
! the fate that would in a larger degree overtake
! the United States if the free trader should
| have his way and reduce US to an agricultural
| people. [Appaus And yet tonight the fear
is that a majority of the Irish voters Of Amer
| lea or the uish-American voters will cast their
ballots on November as the present Govern
ment of England would desire them to cast it.
L
| that no. large majority of the Irish vote of
| the United States.
/ For the last four months the Democrats have
/ been denying and the Republicans have been
| affirming that the last and constant wish of
| England is that Mr. Cleveland's administration
| should be sustained by the whole force and ef-
1 feet of English public opinion. And just when
| they had begun to make expression and an
| impression upon the American people that such
| might not be the fact we have the letter of the
British Minister to Washington himself
/ [groans] urging the reelection of Mr. Cleve-
! land. And you can never interpret a letter un-
til you know the letter that called it forth. To
| get the whole gist and meaning of correspond
| eDce you must have both sides OF it, and this
/ letter from the British Minister was called
! forth by letter from California, written by
| native of England.
| Mr.. Blaine then read the two letters and con
/ ttnued: Three Ministers of the United States
/ certainly two-have had their walking papers
| for Ohenses less grave than that and tonight if
| an American Minister at England should write
| to an English voter advising hlm to support
| either side as the one favorable to the United
| States, he would be politely invited to sail
| home by the next steamer. And then what
| does the Secretary of State do? Why, he says
| it harm; il only private. Well
| suppose he sends q private circular-sup-
| pose he issues 10000 Of them and
| marks them private on the corner, and
| there came a discovery? 1 suppose Secre-
| tary Bayard would say: mot particle
| of HARM long you mark them private,
| and as long as you mark them private they will
| have so much more beneficial effect when they
! get into the public print And this has
| done its perfect work It written for
Grover Cleveland. lGroans. It was written
/ in aid of him to bring the whole naturahzed
| English voters to his support and Mr.. CIeve-
| lands premier at the head of his Cabinet says
| it is all right and we are to have British
Minister at Washington giving his opinion as to
what we should do in this country in our polit-
ical and our domestic parties. One remark he
makes I wish to comment particularly, for
| call it an insult to the Repub-
hcan party I protest in the name of that
party against Lord SaclSvil1e-West saying
that the rejection by the Republican Senate OF
an outrageous and miserable and uastardly
| Fishery treaty was mere political ruse for
this campaign. He has right to say He
has never seen a Senate heretofore in the his
tory of this Republic Democratic party, or
| Whig, or Republican, or Federal that would for
| one moment have entertained that Fishery
| treaty. Not one. And Lord Sackville-West
has right to say to the American people that
the Senatorial representatives of that great
party in looking after the National honor are
merely committing a political ruse He will
find pOliti al Tuse of that kind will last SC
long as the honor of the American flag is to be
preserved and the right of the hardy fishermen
Of America to be protected. [Cheers.l
Another thing my friends We in the
habit of discussing the tariff question very
largely on theory. think that solid fact is
worth ton of theory. You may philOsOphiZe
/ on the doctrine Oh Tree trade ana on the dOC
trine of protection to the end and want now
to give you solid fact. Up to this date, up tC
October 25, in the year Of our Lord, 1885, since
Grover Cleveland was inaugurated there has
been imported into this country of iron and
steel and their products amount equal tc
the enormous sum of $3.50 OOO, 900, and they
say we have too high i tariff. Il
that iron and steel had been made here
it would have meant good wages for
whole year for 100000 labOrers Iapplausel
and for the average size of family
dependent upon him it would have meant !, 500,
! OOO persons to be fed and backs to be clothed
out Of $4,000 900. [App'ause1 That is what
call a solid fact, and they say there is moi
enough coming yet They want to lower the
tariff so that we can have more. Here in New
York we are always told that we must look ou1
for the commerce of the country-that the com
merce is what built the country up. Take this
great metropolis and sister Brooklyn. They
have grown more since the protective taris
than they ever grew before since this Govern
ment founded, almost
ss -a-
COIOred Men and Liquor.
PROVIDENCE, r, l., Oct. 25.-Atthe meet
ing of the American Missionary Society
last night Few. J. r. Mclean, colored, oil
Paris, Tex, said: We do not drink as much
as the whites because we could not pay for
it, and we do not inherit as do they, an
appetite for it. I think that one of the
chief reasons for our race voting against
1 prohibition is that they consider the lib