The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-13
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.


Pat on Parties.
No the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
It is said that burned child breads the fire.
Then how comes it that the Irish aud the Dutch
are found fooling around free tradef Talk about
burned children and burned cats, but look at
how the Dutch and Irish were singed, scorched
and Hayed alive by this internal frse-trade bust
ness.
From the death of Frederick the Great, IN
1856, up to 1919. Germany had the very KIND Oh
tariff which the Democratic party L. trying TO
condition OF the people during that period is de.
ecribed by many writers. l will take Samuei
Laiug's Notes of Traveller Here Is what ne
says:
the wealth of the trading class; and there being no
dnstrss thsv neither produced nor consumed the OBJ
iects Of civilized ife.-Lsings Notes, p 43.
Again. the great traveller says;
Beyond the Zuyder Zee the peasants were driven
10 their work like English eonvicts In Do1ahy pay.
Notes, p. 4S.
How comes q people thus scorched and heart
Bcalded by free trade to fool with IL here in
dread the fire. 1T is evident that cats and chill
dren have sense and wisdom than some
full-grown men. But listen again to our travel
or. "On the deserted streets OF Delft, Laden,
Harlem, etc, wild weeds are growing through
the seams OF brick pavemenrs; ragged petticoats
hutter in the wind out OF the drawing-room
former
wooden shoes echoing through empty saloons
tell of past magnifcenee and present poverty"
Past magnihcsncel Present poverty. What
built MP that msgnifcencel Protection to
the bowers and marble halls of Holland. and
filed them with the rich, the gay, the great.
Free trade.the free trade OF Voorhees,. Cleve-
land and Old Saddle aRs-turned those palaces
into rookeries, inhabited only by owls, bats and
beggars. Again l ask. why do German-Ameri-
cans fool with this free-trade fendq Let as fol-
In nr1r f~n al NJ into htOH Car md
what free trade did there. Listen: "All over
Prussia, Hanover Brunswick, Schleswig. Hol-
stein, ana all around Hamburg and Lubbock, the
people were in deplorable condition-badly fed,
badly clothed, badly housed and badly educated.
Their condition was similar to that of the negro
slaves on the West India plantatoDs before the
f04l One would think that q people with
such dear-bought experience would hesitate
before rushing into the ranks OF the frse-t trade
the scorched victims Of the Manchester system
across the Atlantic to make them the instru-
nents of their own destruction in their new
homes. After reviewing the social and political
degradation of the Germans during thirty-three
years of tariffs for revenue only he SAYS: mo
government should be SO ignorant of SQUAD prn-
fc1ples, SO blind to it's own interests, and SO i'm
apregnable to public opinion willfully to keep
back, discourage attempt to put down the
industry and civilization of its people" lLaing.
- 49, There is such a rascally governments. 1t
lis the government OF the United States as ad-
ministered by Grover Cleveland, Voorhees, Sad
dle-baes and the whole ras:ally gang Shame
on the German who has seen the b!ood-marks
left in his native land by this fend, yet sup
ports IL in his adopted home.
But look at that Irish Democrat over there!
just think of it: An 1rishman drumming up
the trade of America for England! An Irish
man the Don Quixote of English free trade An
Irishman cheek by -jowl with the Golden Club
scornl In England. Scotland and Wales we find
free trade Atrophos, cutting the thread of life
in Germany we find her Gree, turning men
Sw&- k.1f 70 Tx~t ~ hnr no~
turning whole nation into stone.
Mulhall's FIFTY Years of Progress" tells the
tale of free trade in Ireland. 1t is this: Two
million five hundred Thousand deaths from hun
ger and exposure; 3,668,000 evictions; 1900 600
Irish driven across the Atlantic; of these $1,000
died Of ship fever. This is not all that
& Co has done for the Island of
Saints. 1t has given her ffty-three coercion acts
IN eiehty-seven years, and under :he acts 10l
have been put to death and g. 600 others cast into
prisons and convict ships. A beautiful record,
indeed! No wonder Irish-Americans should be
found helping Cleveland, Voorhees,, and Saddle
bags in their free-trads fight. Here before me
Is correct copy of petition for q repeal of the
union between ireland and England. 1t was
drawn up by Daniel O'Connell in April, 1S43,
four years before the famine. Here is what my
free trade which Cleveland Voorhees, q Co. are
trying to force on my adopted home
1t annihilated all the Irish manufactures which
hourished at the union; it has nearly extinguished
all legitimate commerce.; it has made the exports
of Ireland consist of provisions and cattle and
her imports of goods for by foreign
ers; it has covered the land with poverty misery
destitution it has produced the astounding spectacle
of 1888 600 paupers, being than oneourth of
the population Of the most fruitful nation the
globe.
just look at the footprints of this Internal
free trade in England. Scotland, Wales. Ger
many and Ireland. and then look at the English,
Scotch. Welsh, Germans and Irish supporting
Cleveland. Voorhees, 81 Co. 1t is enough to
make a man sick. p. G. CARROLL.
LOUISVILLE, KY.
A Card from the State Veterfnarfan