Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-08
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When our fathers reared the magnificent
struture of this republic they took care u
iay the foundation 30 broad and deep in tbs
principles of eternal justice that time, noi
change, nor principalities, nor powers, nor
thiHfss present nor things TO come, shall ever
be able to compass its obstruction
IL stands to-day as it shall ever stand, in
beauty and majesty, temple dedicated to
liberty. equality and protection, a refuge
for the oppressed of every land, the noblest
conception of human wisdom
tn builders drew their inspiration from
natures own armory of truth. and voiced
them in the immortal declaration. that al
men are created equal with certain inaliena-
BILE rights, and that in order to secure these
rights governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the eonse nj
of the governed.
Are the American people ready TO surren-
der in the interests of Great Britain these
rights? This temple, wherein are enshrined
the ,acred memories ef the past, the peace
and prosperity of the present. and burden
the future with cruel apprehensions OF ever
impending evil Are we such unworthy sons
of n,bie sires as TO meehy yield that for
which England has for more than century
schemed and striven and failed to conquer
and in defense of which the precious life
biooi of countless thousands of brave men
has been spilled.
The whole world knows that the establish
ment of this government was the direct re-
suit of an attempt on the part of Great Britain
to regulate the trade of the colonies, and
make this country tributary to England, and
FROM that day to this she has never relaxed
her Efforts in that direction.
True, her methods have changed from
time to time, her purposes never. Her
weaDons then were fire and sword, now they
are treachery and deceit. Her allies then
were 'Hessans," savage Indians and the
Tory party. Today they are solid South
the Golden Club, and the same Tory party.
Secure in the enjoyment of the priceless
blessings bequeathed by the patriots and
heroes of the revolution and perpetrated by
the Republican party, many of us have be-
come the support of ambitious and unserupu'
Ions politicians. We have subordinated our
reason and imperilled our liberties in the in
terest of party. Now, what shall we do to
be saved from the consequences of our folly
Let US repent and do work, mete for repen'
lance believe in the Declaration of lndepen-
dence, be baptized into the principles OF
home rule, vote for Harrison and protection
and relegate the pro-British Tory party with
Cleveland free trade, British red bandanna
and solid South TO the gloomy majesty OF
well merited infamy.
When the Republicans came into power
they found nation bankrupt; they made il
the richest on the earth
They found an empty Treasury they filled
it to overlooking.
They found system of finance as corrupt
and dishonest as were its originators; they
made it the admiration of the world.
They found the heresy of State sovereignty
undermining the foundation of our free in
stitutions they established national suprem
acy.
They found a full-fedged Tory rebellion
they taught it submission
The found 100000 of human chattels
they made them men.
They found the nations flag trailing in the
dust; they restored it to its pristine glory
without stripe obliterated or a single stal
obscured.
For free trade and want they gave us pro
lection and prosperity.
Our industries languished J. they revived
them.
Labor was idle; they gave it employment
can, policy.
For slavery they gave us freedom.
They gave us the Homestead act for the
Fugitive Slave law, and for the dread Scot
decision they gave us the Thirteenth, Four
teemth and Fifteenth amendments,
What a splendid record of devotion to lib
erty, what lofty examples of wise statesman
ship, what heroic conservation to duty arr
presented by the Republican party.
A party immortalized by its grand achieve
ments, gloritied with the names of Lincoln
Garfield, Grant, Logan and a legion o.
heroes; and inspired by such leaders as Har
rison and Morton, Blaine and Ingersoll
Sherman and Depew, Generals Sherman an,
Sheridan, bearing aloft the banner of protec
ton to American homes and American indus
triss supplemented by the solid Irish-Ameri
can vote, with their energies and devotion
to the cause.
The grand old party can and will success
fully Withstand the combined and desperat,
assaults of British free trade propaganda
and the oft changing principles of the pro
British Tory party.
p. II. MCNAMEE,
President Irish-American Ant-Free Trad
League.