The Iola register., 1888-11-02
ADDRESS TO IRlsnMEN.

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| New YORK, Oct 26.-It was announced
| yesterday that James G. Blaine would
make this city his headquarters until after
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: ave 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 a
foreign element, as a loose phraseology
| might imply. 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
| anti-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 q 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
1ri birth, but not in relation to their copnec-
| tion with the British empire. 1 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
Irishman in America Is to be found in his ex-
perience in his native lapd-:he fa!rest land and
| 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-
| government-destinedp primarily to untold pri-
| walton because her power is not applied for her
own use and the advantage OF the poor people
for protection for which all Irishnen should
struggle in America. So great is the agricult-
ural wealth in Ireland that only forty
years ago she shipped 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-dayy She shares the fate of
all countries purely agricultural: she shares
the fate that would in larger degree overtake
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have his way and reduce US to an agricultural
people. tApp ause And yet tonight the fear
is that q majority OF the Irish voters of Amer
lea or the Irish-American voters will cast their
ballots on November o as tho present Govern
ment of England would desire them to cast it.
[Cries OF mo, no."l 1 wish you would make
that mo- large majority of the Irish vote of
the United States.
For the last fcnr 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-
feet Of English public opinion And just when
they had begun to make an 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
Igroansl urging the reelection OF Mr.. Cleve-
land. And you can never interpret letter un-
til you know the letter that called il forth. To
get the whole gist and meaning OF a correspond
ence you must have both sides of il, and this
letter from the British Minister was called
forth by letter from California, written by a
native of England.
Mr. Blaine then read the two letters and con-
tinued: Three Ministers of the United States
certainly two-have had their walking papers
for offenses less grave than that and tonight if
an American Minister at England should write
to an English voter advising HIM 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 was no harm: it was only private. Well,
suppose he sends private circuIar-sup-
pose he issues 10000 of them and
marks them private on the corner, and
there came discovery l suppose Secre-
tary Bayard would say: Not a particle
of harm, so long as you mark them private,
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have so much more beneficial effect when they
get into the public print" And so this has
done its perfect work. 1t written for
Grover Cleveland. lGroans. 1t was written
in aid of him to bring the whole naturalized
English voters to his support and Mr.. Cleve
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 wish to comment on particularly, for
l call it an insult to the Repub-
lcan party. 1 protest in the name OF that
party against Lord Sackville-West saying
that the rejection by the Republican Senate OF
an outrageous and miserable and aastardly
Fishery treaty was q mere political ruse for
this campaign. He has no right to say so. He
has never seen Senate heretofore in the his
tory of this Republic Democratic party, or
Whg, or Republican. or Federal that would for
one moment have entertained that Fishery |
treaty. Not one. And Lord Sackville-West |
has no night to say to the American people that |
the Senatorial representatives of that great |
party in looking after the National honor are |
merely committing 4 political ruse He will |
find a political ruse OF that kind will last so |
long as the honor of the American flag is to be |
preserved and the right of the hardy fishermen
of America to be protected. iCheersl
Another thing. my friends. We are in the |