The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-06
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
An IrIshman's search for Party.

An Irishman's Search for q Party.
To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journar
The Mother Club" or Democracy, the organ
ization that regulated the movements of the
whole party. met at its headquarters in Philadei-
mia, May 8, 1894 and passed the following reso-
1rtion:
Resolved, That taxation by excise has always been
Justly abhorred by freemen; that such tax tends to
the ruin of individuals; that it Is system always at
tended with numerous vexations, opens the door TO
fraud and the difficult to collect 1t Is highly
Objectionable by the number OF officers y nee
essarv and who are ever ready, in solid phaanx TO
Join the government in its unwsrrantaole measures
Here are the principles OF Jefferson. But
Cleveland and Fairchd tell us that the internal
revenue must not be repealed or cut down; that
sft is the most Just and the least burthensome
of ali taxes" And on the heels OF those out
ragecus assertions come the Democrats OF vari
ous States indorsing Cleveland ana Faircnlid.
Apostatesi Why not call themselves what they
really are--Juiians, not Jeffersonians 10 1874
Jefferson wrote TO Madison, saying; Internal
revenue taxes are Internal taxes to which
Americans will never submit" Fifteen years
before his wrote: THE exciseman shall never
enter an Americans house nor pry into his at
fairs" Now creatures calling themselves JEFF
fersonian Democrats. tell us that the internal
reveuu sn taxes must not be repealed, and that
the exf,seman must keep on harassing Americans
and seizing their property trum ped-up charges.
What apostacy! What Julans! In his first mes
sage, Jefferson says: WAR, indeed. may call
for expenses which import duties will not meet.
b ut sound policy will not permit us to tax the
Industry Of our own people" Now comes Gro
Ner Cleveland and Friday Fairchild. insisting
that the internal revenue taxes must remain.
And the Democratic conventions of all the States
indorse Cleveland and his man. What base
apostacy! What renegadesl The party of Jsffer-
son was organized for the sole and avowed pur-
pose of aiding the French revolutionists by
GLIDING English goods from the markets of
America The party of Cleveland has but
over almost to madness, viz: to lower the bars
and give England the control of the markets OF
America In plain language, the party of Cleve-
and hnfA hat Nhn r+U Of InHn Invn
and loves what Jefferson hated. Still the apos-
tates call themselves Jeffersonian Democrats.
On Oct. &C. l774 the fret American Congress
expressed it's hatred of internal revenue taxesin
the following words:
You have been subjected to excise the horror of
r free people thus wrestling your property from you
by the most odious of all and laying open to In
solent taxgatherers houses the abodes of domestic
peace and comfort called the castles of the English in
The books OF their law.
Who would dare write message to that fret
Congress insisting. like Cleveland, that Ameri-
Fans must remain subjected to the most obi
of all taxes, the horror of all free peoplel"
The Tories who thought took good care to
keep their tongues at rest But look at men
now in their apostacy. The Forty-ninth Con-
gress, influenced by Cleveland and led by Car
Isle, positively refused entertain motion
for the bare reduction of the excise And still
those renegades call themselves 'Jeffer-
Christian after his foul apostacy7 Did
Judas a continue TO s Be. .S an apostle
renegades are but renegades, say what they will.
The writings OF William Cobbett, from his ar
rival in America in 1892 TO his departure in
$500. make twelve large volumes. Here they
are each and every one of them filled with foul
abuse OF jefferson, Madison, Monroe. Washing
ton and every man of note of that period who
fav ored high tariff. Here, Also is Cobbett call
ing John Taylor OF Virginia, an avowed free
trader, 'illustrious and noble patriot" ''gener-
Gus and true citizen" Suppose Tory Cobbett
were alive now. upon whose heads would he
bpew his foul vomit-Repubca or Democrats,
which, Which party would be called ell
lustrious patriots" and which would he
deuounce "Eneland's arch enemes2p
BY all the goats in Kerry, these questions are
easily solved. Cobbett, who came here to write
down the party of Jefferson, turns upon the
ism. ''They and the goddess infidel," as he puts
ct. knew that the only way ruin England
Is to deprive her of market; they see that this
Is her only weak point and they have made it
their point of attack Cobbett is right. The
1rish-Americans of that period did not help to
drum up the trade Of the United States for En-
gland they did not make themselves the
Don Quixotes" of her free-trade; they
did not lend their aid to party
that would destroy American industries in the
interest of the rival industries of England The
Irish Americans of former DAYS not the
kind of men likely to make themselves the tools
OF Englands thieving traders. But the class of
I Irish Americans that were here then, and that
deserved the wrath of the English Tory, knew
by sad experience what English free-trade
meant Alas! they gone, and the principles
they cherished are gone with them and
quenehed in their graves. p. e. CARROLL.
523 East Green ST., Louisville, Ky.