The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-11-01
ADDRESS TO IRISHMEN.
Mr.. Blaine Addresses a Large Audience oi
Jrish-Amerioans In New YOrk-He Also
Gives His Opinion of the Remarkable
Letter of Minister West

Yesterday that James Il. Blaine would
make this city his headquarters until after
election, in the meantime speaking in the
neighboring States
1rishmen turned ont In full forcs last
hight to the mass meeting of the Irish pro-
tectiUnists at Hadiscr Square Garden,
1000 people being in the building ct eigbt
o'clock when Judge A. l.. Norris, Of Arl-
zona, read on behalf of Chairman Patrick
Ford, all address in which these passages
1ccurrpdf "We are here tonight not as
Irishmeu to eGhsult for the interests
of ireland, but as Americans 80 dis'
eues Nme%i,an affairs, with American
ends In tie;t. We are not a
foreign element, as a loose phTaseo'ogy
might imply. We refuse to so regard our
selves. The land is our home and in the
hrssent NATIONAL contest We see only the
Republic and are concerned 6p'- fnr her
welfare. For us party lines are obllt-
Grated. We know only Americans ana
anti-Americans. The man who fights un-
der The tiaS Of Englsh free trade, no mat
ter of what race he may be, whether he
knows it or not, is practical oily ct tbs
English ehemA, and ri tho Other hand the
nan who fights under the Bag OF proteei
tion to American labor, whether native or
foreign, thft man lee hail as comrade,
brother ana Americana"
Patrick Egan and David Healy spoke,
when MI Blaine commenced his address
as follows:
Nj Chairman: ] speak tonight to men Of
Iri.h birth but rot in telation 20 their FOnnec-
tion with the British empire. l speak to them
in relation TO their citizenship 10 the great
American Republic Applause and OF the duties
they owe, 10 the policies they should pursue
and gather that the strongest lesson for an
Irishnan in America is TO be found in his ex
perience in mis- native lanf-the ia.rcst land and
almost the richest portion OF oil Europe oes.
tined to poverty and to suffering and to the ex,
lie OF millions OF her children hhcanse Of mis-
government-dcstned primarily to 'intold PIT
walton because her power Is not applied for her
own use and the advantage Of the poor people
for protection for which all Irshmen should
struggle in America SO great is the agricult-
ural wealth IN ireland that only i0r'y
years ago she shipped a 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-day: She shares the fate oil
all countries purely agricultural; she shares
the fate that would IN a larger degree oyertake
the United States il the free trader should
have his way and reduce US to an agricultural
people. fApp ause And yet tonight the fear
is that majority of the Irish voters OF Amer
lea or the Irish-AmeriCan voters will cast thelI
ballots on November + as tho present Govern
ment OF England would desire them TO cast IT,
ICries of No, no" l wish you would make
that no a large majority Of the irish vote OF
the United States.
For the last four months the Democrats have
been denying and the Republicans have been
Affirming that the last and constant " 'sh Of
England is that Mr. CIeveland'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
Tgroansl 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 correspond
ence you must have both sides OF it, and this
letter from the British Minister was called
forth by d 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 oiIchses less grave than that and tonight II
an American Minister at England should write
TO an English voter advising HIM TO support
either side as the one favorable to the United
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 circular-sup-
pose he issues 10000 OF them and
marks them private on the corner, and
there came a discovery? l suppose Secre-
tary Bayard would say: Not d particle
of harm, long as you mark them private,
and as long as you mark them private they will
n when
get into the public print" And so this has
done its perfect work. 1t was written for
Grover Cleveland lGroans.l 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 a 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 il an insult to the Repub
hcan party l 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 dastardly
Fishery treaty was mere political ruse for
this campaign. lie has no right to say So He
has never seen n Senate heretofore in the his
tory of this Republic, Democratic party, or
Whig. or Republican, or Federal that would for
one moment have entertained that Fishery
treaty. Not one. And Lord SackvilleWest
has no right to say to the American people that
the Senatorial representatives OF that great
party in looking after the National honor are
merely committing a political ruse lie will
find polti al 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. lCheersl
Another thing. my friends We are in the
habit of discussing the tariff question very
1ar 7 hut Sol,d foa IL
worth a ton of theory. You may philosophize
trine of protection to the end and want now
TO give you solid fact. Up 10 this date, up to
October -, in the year OF our Lord, 1883, since
Grover Cleveland was inaugurated there has
beCn imported into this country OF iron and
steel and their products an amount equal to
the enormous sum of sl6l,0JO,O00, and they
say we have set too high tariff II
that iron and steel had been made here
IL would have meant good wages for q
whole year for 100000 laborers LapplauseI
and for the average size of q family
dependent upon him it would have meant ] 500
0OO persons to be fed and backs to be clothed
out of $4,000 600. lApplause.l That is what
call solid fact, and they say there is not
enough coming yet They want to lower the
tariff so that we can have more. Here in New
York we are always told that we must look out
for the commerce of the courtry-that the COM
merce is what built the country up. Take this
great metropolis and sister Brooklyn. They
have grown more since the protective tariff
than they ever grew before since this Govern
ment was founded, almost.
Colored Men and Liquor.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Oct. 25.-Atthe meet
ing of the American Missionary Society
last night Rev. J. r. Mclean, colored. of
De ,f- Tax Il 4. 4