Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-16
MISGUIDED HIBERNlANS.
The Men Harrison Said Fiji Our
Penitentiartes.

INDIANAPOLIS, September Is About
o'clock this afternoon train arrived
bringing three hundred members of the
Irish-American Club from Chicago.
They were met at the station by the
local Irish organizations and escorted to
the Dennison Hotel. On account of rain
the march to General Harrison's resi-.
dence was abandoned and the reception
took place in the hotel. AS
General Harrison appeared on the
stairway, escorted by local
company of the Irish club, he was
rendered an ovation which concluded
with the familiar response, Hes all
right" John F. Baggs acted as spokes.
man. After touching upon the political
issues, he concluded by saying: General
Harrison, by your noble utterances on
behalf of the down-trodden people of
Ireland, you have assisted much in
building up the strong public opinion
which exists to-day in America, and
which beyond doubt will in the near
future solve the question of the right OF
the Irish people to self-government, and
for this you are entitled to our most
grateful thanks.
General Harrison in response said:
MY friends of the Irish-American Re-
publican Club of Cook county, Illinois:
You are Americans, Irish-Americans, and
though you have given the concentrated
loyalty of your hearts to the flag of your
adopted country, you have not forgotten
to love and venerate the land of your
birth. What if the sprig of green was
found upon the bloody jacket of the Union
soldier who lay dead on Missionary Ridge
The flag he died for was his flag, and
the green was only the memory and in
spiration. We. native or Irish.born, join
with the Republican convention in the
hope that the cause of Irish home-rule,
progressing under the leadership of Glad
stone and Parnell, may yet secure for
Ireland that which as Americans we SO
much value, local home rule. 1 am sure
that you will not falter in this great civil
contest whichsyour spokesman has so
fittingly described. Who, if not the
Irish Americans, versed in the sad
story OF the commercial ruin of
the island they love, should be in
structed in the beneficent influence of a
protective tariff? Who, if not the Irish
Americans, should be able to appreciate
the friendly influence of the protective
system upon their individual and upon
their home lives? Which of you has
not realized that not the lot of man only,
but the lot of woman, has been made
softer and easier under it's influence.
Contrast the American mother and wife,
burdened only with the cares of
motherhood and of the household, with
the condition of the women in many of
the countries OF the old world where she
is loaded also with the drudgery of toll
in the field. 1 know that none more
than Irishmen, who are characterized
by their Difference for women and whose
women have SO finely illustrated that
which is pure in female character, value
this illustration of the good effects of our
American system upon human life.
There are nations across the sea who are
hungry for the American market. They
are waiting with eager expectation Tor
the adoption of the free trade policy by
the United states. The English manufac-
turer is persuaded that an increased
market for English goods in America is
good for him. But think it will be i'm
possible to persuade the American pro-
ducers or the American workmen that it
is good for them. 1 believe that social
order and national prosperity are bound
up in the preservation of our present
policy. l do not believe that Republic
can live and prosper whose wage earners
do not receive enough to make life
comfortable, who do not have some
upward avenues of hope open before
them. When the wage earners of the
land lose hope. when their star goes out
social order is impossible, and after tha
Anarchy or the Gar. gratefully &C