San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-20
IT'S THE wokKINoMANs FIGHT.

From the Irish World.
Our revolutionary fathers did much
to elevate humanity when they
launched the Declaration of Indepen-
dence before the eyes of an astonished
and admiring world. They rounded
out that magnificent utterance when
the first national congress passed its
first laws supplementing political iu-
dependence by industrial iudepen-
dence in the earliest tariff act, which
even i'm its preamble announced its
first object II be 1.-The encourage
ment and protection of manufactures"
Had the nation stopped there, al
though both documents might have
commanded the admiration of the fu-
ture as excellent examples of good in
entions, they would have been
branded as "glittering generalities"
and been consigned to the limbo
where other good things like Plato's
"Republicn and Chancellor More's
"TTtopian now repose.
But they did not stop there. From
the abstract they at once passed to the
concrete, from the ideal to the actual,
and their descendants step by step
have so materialiZed those theories
that today this nation, the residuary
legatee of the thirteen poor and weak
British colonies, now commands the
respect and admiration of the human
race as the strongest, the richest, and
most progressive of the earth's peo-
piles.
In their progress to this high prin-
ciple it is very remarkable that when,
and only when, the American pc ople
have followed the charts laid down
for them by their illustrious fathers,
prosperity and progress have been
the results; when, on the contrary,
they have varied from these well-de-
fined courses, want and woe have
always been their punishment.
But the object of the Irish World in
making this presen tatiOn is not to eu-
logize the ideal but to call atten ton ID
the great fact that the example OF
America, now lifted so high and so
gloriously coruscative as to be seen by
all peoples, is a beacon, "a city set up
on hill" showing by it's deeds more
than it's words, by its performances
rather than it's promises, the way to
the material salvation of all nations
and nationalities. For this republic
has, during the brief period of its ex-
istence, chalked out on the great
black board of history the solution of
the mighty problems of political
economy which have hitherto baffied
the studies and researches of great
statesmen economists, and philoso-
pliers of all ages since savagery sub
sided.
That example, while encouraging
the hopes of the good, is an object OF
treason to the bad, and that is one
great reason why the hordes of our
ancient enemy, England, uniting
with recreant American, as she did in
revolutionary days with American
tories, are straining every nerve to
blot out our industrial independence
as their prototypes endeavored to
crush our political independence.
The industrial independence which
is the soul and the safeguard of our
political independence is now men
aced by the advocates of policy
which would reduce our nation to the
level of British province. Working
men of America, this is your fight!
In the struggle, between free trade
and protection you and your families,
more even than Harrison and Morton,
will lose or win the day. We believe
you fully appreciate the situation.
The Irish World has confidence in
your common sense and patriotism.
The men of the Pine Tree sta,e have
shown by their action what they
think of the sophistries of Cleveland's
letter, issued the very day they wet
to the polls. Maine leads today; New
York and all the progressive and in
industrial states will follow in No
vember!