The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-11-03
TREE TRkbE MIA GARK.

of her broken heart Her days of anguish and
nights of pain, her nakedness and her poverty,
| her woeful desolation her utter wreck and
ruin, can all be traced straight to the accursed
rule and iron hand of England. rule and hand
| that struck her growing industries down
| sHenced her looms AMI spindie5, robbed her
| ft Ids of cattle, swine and sheep and covered
| the land with gloom deeper and durker than the
| shadows cast by the sable wings ofd 18th. Such
is the condition to which the nglish free trade
rule has brought the lund that gave my fat her
| birth and yet, my God, Just ink of it the
Democratic party are to-day asking Irishm n to
| vote for the adoption here of policy that has
| runel their own fair lands, ana eNled its sons
| and daughters to other lands where bread was
| plenty, and where life was worth the living |
am the son of an Irishman, and cannot under
| stand how any man born upon Irish soil or
any man who has drop of Irish blood i'll his
veins, can in this great contest cast his vote for
! the Democratic party. ballo. for Clevelan l
is ballot for free trade; bal OF for free trade
| is ballot that sets the bells tolling for the
| death of industry in this land.
That 1rishmIn who votes for Cleveland is
| simply voting appTo 1al of the policy England
| has pursued in Ireland since the hou shc pant
| ed her accursed foot upon its soil An Irish vote
| for Cleveland is Al Endorsement OF eyct:ons-a
| cheer for Q imprisonment of OBrieu and a
laueh at the thTotthnS OF farneu II the House
| of Commons. 1t is bjdlin5 tn priest of Go
refuse the Offices of his holy calm to any IN IN
| i'll Ireland who has the courage to plead for JUS
tice, and if need b strike Il b Ow for t le re-
| deeming of his land. 1t is a stab in the hack of
| the friends OF home rule in Ire and That
| Irishman who votes for Clevela I'd is simply
the lash kissing through the air down up IN the
| bare and bleeding shoulders of the mother that
bore him, ghtenins the clutch OF England :
brutal hand upon her fair throat, AMI sham
| ening the truel nails with which she te lrs and
| rends her quiyering flesh. 1t is an infamy of
| which no 1rishman hould be guilty. / am tho
| son of an Irishman. as ] have 10 You and
would soon cut off this good right hand of
mine, rs to use ii i'll casting ballos for John
Bull Cleveland and his English free trade policy
| If 1 were to cast vote in that direction
| should fear my gray-haired father would lear
| from the grave, stand at my bedside in the
silent watches of the night and curse me for the
crime | had committed / appeal to You men
of my fathers race, not to cast II ballot for the
Democratic party. Every drop of my blood and
| it is the same blood leaps in your veins
| pleads with You TO vote for Ben Harrison and SO
| help the land that gave you wide armed vel
| come when, fleeing from wrong and oppression
You sought home here. Listen to my voice. il
| is the voice of your mother land pleading
| through the lips of oIs of her children's chill
dir II. Cast your ballot for the Republican party
| so snail your conscience approve you so shall
| your children bless you in the DAYS to come
| when they lay your gray head under the sod o
| the land your ballot helped redeem from tn,
| power and dominion of the great enemy of voul
| race Sld country.