Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1888-10-26

ranks as the "Popes party the ''Cath !
olic party, and SO ON.
Mr.. Ford. in his article in the maya
zine mentioned above, appeals to the
selfish side of the Irish people and
would trade upon what he assumes to
be their ignorance or misinfornation
ion the subject of the tariff, and their
ngrained and righteous hatred of
England and things assumed to be to
the liking of the English. To this
end and for this ignoble purpose he
distorts his torv, bellies ruth and out
RACES every principle of candid, ingen
uous, honorable discussion. He holds
up the mirror of the Industrial woes of
the Irish in Ireland before his country
men in the United States, and falsely
attributes all to English free trade.
No position coull be more false and
absurd. The rapid decadence of manu-.
featuring industries in ireland dates
from the "act Of union, which was
consummated in the year 1900. For
46 long years subsequent to that
act, England was ''high protection"
country. The sun of Irish industrial
hopes went down SO soon as England
laid the heavy hand of her authority
upon the internal pollty of that
doomed and unhappy Isle once the
Irlshman's own. Free trade had no
part nor lot in the destruction of Irish
industries. Industrial stagnation had
reached its worst while England yet ad-
hered to projection. Stealthily,
treacherously had England under
mined and dashed Irelands prosperity
before free trade had become more
than dream among English states
men.
Belfast, that nest Of vipers, where
orangemen annually parade in honor of
the anniversary of the success of the
arms of the bastatd prince, William of
Orange, at the battle of the Boyne,
has always been exempt from the ma
levolent hate of England, and hence is
now prosperous manufacturing CEN
ter, whose rapid upbullding, dltes from
the Inauguration of British free
trade" Patrick Ford cannot be igno-
rant Of this fact, and hence by his
wicked, deceltful perversions of history
and fact, makes himself pdrticeps
criminis with the unpatriotic gang of
torres at Belfast who are capable of the
unspeakable infamy of applaudlng the
barbarous exploits of foreign bucc.
aneer and pirate for having laid waste
with fire and sword their own fair land;
and every orangeman in America is a
blatant, aggressive Republican. And
this is the feast Mr.. Patrick Ford IN
vites his patriotic countiymen to par
take Of for the success and glory and
dominion of Benjamin Harrison, who,
for no other offense than that Irish
men were generally Democrats, de-
nounced them in a public speech at
Evansville, Indiana as gang of
drunken, ignorant loafers and Pope
serving vagabonds.
1t is lnconceivahIe that Irishmen
can forget that the tory party in Eng
land is their ancient and present enc
my; that the tory party in Eegland,
like its prototype the Republican
party in this countr,, is protection"
party for the bue}i. Ct the few at the
expense of he many; that the tory
party in England when Gladstone and
the Liberal party were agitating tariff
reform in the interest of down-trodden
labor i'll that country, boistcrously pro-
claimed that Gladstone's plan OF Tariff
reform would destroy every manu-
featuring industry In the land and re-
duce working people to paupers; that
the working people of England are
now receiving twlca the wages they
got under protection, and that all the
friends of Ireland in the United
Kingdom, and especially Gladstone,
Parnell, Dillon, and O'Brien are free
traders, and that the barharous, vim
dictive Balfour, now viceeerant in Ire
land of the tory party of England is a
tory and ''fair trader" which means a
: discriminating tariff in that country
against the products of Irish labor and
: allother., labor in this country.
Much more coull be said in vindi-
cation of the truth of history bearing
, upon this subject, but | deem this ref
utation of the stock argument of the
unions of monopoly and class legisla-
/ tion to win the Irish people from ale
| glance to their real friend, the Demo
: cratic party, sufficient, and l challenge
r contradiction of my position and thC
= history by which [ have sought t.
: fortify it. Neither can be successful,
e assailed. J, Fl. UPTON.
. Denmark, Oct. II.
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